Tanners to pay wholesalers in three phases
Tannery owners on Thursday promised to pay their dues to the wholesale rawhide merchants across the country in three phases but the dates for the payment were yet to be determined.
Two more die of dengue
Two more people died of dengue in the capital and Barishal on Thursday. With these two deaths, at least 122 people died of the aedes mosquito-caused infection, according to unofficial reports, but the government figure puts the death toll at 47.
No Rohingya shows up for return to Myanmar
None of the 295 Rohingya families the authorities interviewed so far for repatriation showed up on Thursday for going back to Rakhine in Myanmar they left nearly two years ago amid state-sponsored atrocities.
DEEP SEA DISPUTES WITH INDIA, MYANMAR FM’s stance likely to hamper Bangladesh interests
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen’s position for withdrawing objections lodged with the United Nations on the disputes with India and Myanmar involving Bangladesh’s claim in deep sea is likely to compromise the country’s interests, according to diplomats in New York.
AUG 21 GRENADE ATTACK Khaleda can’t avoid liability, says PM
Accusing the past BNP-Jamaat government and Begum Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman of perpetrating the August 21, 2004 gruesome grenade attack on an Awami League rally
JS panel suggests monitoring of classroom activities
The parliamentary standing committee on education on Wednesday asked education ministry to strictly monitor classroom activities of the schools and colleges across the country.
DENGUE MENACE Two more die in capital
The government on Wednesday increased dengue death toll to 47 from 40 on August 11.
ROHINGYA RETURN Assessment of voluntariness continues amid tight security
The UNHCR and the government jointly continued assessing voluntariness for return of the Rohingya people for the second day on Wednesday with 235 families participating in the process so far.
KILLING OF ARRESTED PEOPLE IN ‘CROSSFIRE’ HC wants to know who will give explanation
‘Who will give explanation for killing arrested people in police custody in cross-fire,’ the High Court Division wanted to know from human right lawyers at a hearing on Tuesday.
AUGUST 21 GRENADE ATTACK Death reference, appeals pending since November
The death reference and the convicts’ appeals against the trial court verdict in the cases of August 21, 2004 grenade attack on Awami League rally at the capital’s Bangabandhu Avenue await
