Dhaka, Beijing agree on speedy Rohingya solution
Dhaka and Beijing on Friday agreed on speedy solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as Chinese president Xi Jinping and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks in Beijing.
2,329 killed in 2,159 road accidents over 6 months
At least 2,329 people, including 291 women and 381 children, were killed and 4,361 others injured in 2,159 road accidents across the country in the first half of the current year, said a new report.
Doctors to decide if Khaleda needs to stay at hospital: Quader
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said a medical board would decide whether BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia should stay at hospital as she is now being treated at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital.
China to persuade Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis: Li
Chinese premier Li Keqiang on Thursday assured that China will persuade Myanmar to resolve the Rohinya crisis through bilateral discussions agreeing that the return of the forcibly displaced people to their homeland is a solution to the problem.
Ershad on life support now
Jatiya Party chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad was put on life support at 4:15pm on Thursday as his health condition deteriorated further at the Dhaka Combined Military Hospital, JP secretary-general Mashiur Rahman Ranga told New Age.
Bangladesh, China ink nine agreements
Bangladesh and China on Thursday signed nine instruments for further strengthening cooperation on power, water resources, culture and tourism sectors as well as providing 2,500 metric tonnes of rice for the displaced Rohingyas.
Pabna man killed in gunfight
A suspected robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Jorda in Bera upazila of Pabna early Thursday.
Quader now says no room for war-criminal family members in AL
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said no one of the family members of war criminals and anti-liberation forces will be inducted in Awami League.
1994 HASINA TRAIN ATTACK Nine BNP leaders to die
The Pabna Special Tribunal 3 on Wednesday sentenced nine Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists to death and 25 others to life on charge of attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina, now the prime minister, in 1994.
Fakhrul dubs verdict as cruel, dictated
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said a ‘dictated and ‘cruel’ verdict was given by a Pabna court sentencing nine of its activists to death and jailing 25 others for life on a ‘fabricated’ charge of attacking a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in 1994.
