No justice yet for Rana Plaza tragedy
No trial of collapsed Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana took place in six years since the disaster killed 1,138 people, mostly female apparel workers, and injured over 2,400 at Savar on April 24, 2013.
BUS DRIVER KILLED Ctg transport workers call 48-hour strike
The transport workers of Chattogram on Tuesday called a 48-hour transport strike, for two 24-hour periods, on 68 district and 19 local routes from 6:00am today with a break on Friday and Saturday in protest against the killing of a bus driver.
Sheikh Selim’s son-in-law in ICU
Ruling Awami League presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim on Tuesday said that his injured son-in-law Moshiul Haque Chowdhury was improving in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Sri Lanka.
College admission process starts on May 12
Admission process in Class XI at all government and non-government colleges and equivalent institutions will start on May 12 while the classes will begin on July 1, said guideline of education ministry.
Swajan, BRTC equally liable, says HC
The High Court Division on Tuesday held Swajan Paribahan Limited and Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation equally liable for the death of government Titumir College student Rajib Hossain in a road crash near the Karwan Bazar crossing on April 3, 2018.
PM proposes new regional forum
Bangladesh on Monday proposed formation of a regional economic forum involving five Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states of South and Southeast Asian region.
Bangladeshi origin Australian woman murdered
A 49-year old Bangladeshi origin man in Australia’s Sydney has confessed to the police that he had killed his wife at their home in Sydney’s south-west on Sunday morning, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.
HC declines to declare English as 2nd official language
A public interest litigation writ petition seeking a directive to the government to declare English as the 2nd official language of the country was on Sunday dropped from the day’s cause list by the High Court Division.
COLOMBO BLASTS Sheikh Selim’s grandson killed, son-in-law injured
Awami League presidium member and former health minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson was killed and son-in-law injured in the terror attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lankan capital Colombo.
HC refuses to declare English as 2nd official language
The High Court on Sunday refused to declare English as the second official language of the state after a Supreme Court lawyer pleaded it in a writ petition.
