River route workers agree to join work after daylong strike
Bangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation on early Wednesday postponed for 45 days work abstention of waterway workers that caused sufferings to hundreds of passengers and business people and hampered export and import through sea ports on Tuesday.
Eminent citizens ask govt to bring ex-OC Moazzem to book
Eminent citizens of the country have demanded immediate government actions against former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi police station Moazzem Hossain of Feni for his alleged breach of job rules and committing criminal offences over the case on sexual assault and fire attack on the deceased madrassah girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi.
BNP trashes reports on Khaleda’s release on parole
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday termed ‘baseless’ different media reports on their chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release on parole saying that there had been no decision yet in this regard.
Actor Ferdous to return to Bangladesh as India revokes visa
Bangladeshi film actor Ferdous Ahmed’s visa has been revoked by the Indian authorities allegedly for campaigning for the Trinamool Congress for the upcoming Loko Shabha election, scheduled on April 18.
ACC begins probe into forged release of imports
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday initiated an inquiry into the release of some 30 containers under 22 import consignments from the Chattogram Customs House, which was
Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
‘ABOUT suffering they were never wrong’, wrote WH Auden in the poem ‘Musée Des Beaux Arts.’ These lines occurred to me last week when all eyes were focused on the brutal British seizure of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
It’s up to Khaleda, her family to seek parole: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that it was up to their chairperson Khaleda Zia and her family whether she will apply for parole.
Govt jute mills workers begin fresh agitation
The state-owned jute mills workers on Monday began a four-day fresh agitation programme, including strike, road and railway blockade, to press home their nine-point demands, including payment of all arrears and implementation of the National Wage and Productivity Commission Award 2015.
Nusrat’s killers won’t be spared: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reiterated that killers of Sonagazi madrassah student Nusrat Jahan Rafi would not be spared.
Ex-OC of Sonagazi sued under ICT act
Former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi police station Moazzem Hossain was charged with the crime of spreading Feni madrassah girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s video statement on youtube under Digital Security Act.
