NAP president Muzaffar dies
The last surviving member of the advisory council of Bangladesh’s government in exile during the war of independence in 1971, Muzaffar Ahmed, died at a Dhaka hospital on Friday. He was 97.
DEEP SEA DISPUTES WITH INDIA FM for amicable solution
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday said Bangladesh and India agreed to withdraw their objections lodged with the United Nations on the disputes involving claims to the deep sea floor as the issue would be resolved amicably.
Rohingya camp attacked, road blocked as JL leader shot dead
Local people took to the streets and attacked a Rohingya camp on Friday after a Juba League leader was shot dead allegedly by Rohingya thugs at Jadimura area under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night.
Incomplete Savar tannery park pollute environment
The authorities failed to complete the Tannery Industrial Park at Savar even over two years after the tanneries were shifted there from Hazaribagh in the capital, adversely affecting leather exports and causing fresh pollutions around the new industrial site.
ALLEGATION OF MISCONDUCT Three HC judges kept out of court
Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury, Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque of Rokanuddin Mahmud submitted at the Appellate Division’s hearing that the HC bench had
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
