DUCSU, hall unions take charge amid protests
Newly elected members of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union and hall students’ unions on Saturday took charges amidst protests against irregularities and vote rigging in the March 11 polls which was boycotted by majority of the contestants.
Railway makes little efforts to recover occupied lands
Bangladesh Railway’s efforts to recover its grabbed and use unused lands across the country have been insignificant in the absence of a land use master plan.
PBI fails to complete investigation into RAB shooting at Lemon
The Police Bureau of Investigation is yet to complete fresh investigation into the shooting at Jhalakati college student Lemon Hossain in the left leg by the Rapid Action Battalion on March 23, 2011 causing amputation of the leg.
JP co-chairman GM Quader relieved of post
Jatiya Party co-chairman Ghulam Mohammad Quader was relieved of the position on Friday.
BNP leaders for expanding JOF
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders think that a greater effective political alliance should be formed expanding the Jatiya Oikya Front as the opposition alliance apparently failed to yield any tangible political mileage centring the 11th parliamentary polls.
Students’ protests for road safety spread
Students’ protests for road safety flared up across the capital and many districts on the second consecutive day on Wednesday following the death of a Bangladesh University of Professionals student as a speeding bus ran him over on Tuesday.
Govt seeks stay on HC’s stay on probes against Shahidul Alam
The government on Wednesday sought the Appellate Division’s permission to appeal against the High Court Division’s stay on the Detective Branch’s probes against social activist and acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam in a case under the repealed draconian Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act.
RESCHEDULING DEFAULTED LOANS WITH TK 1CR DOWN PAYMENT Misuse of scope feared
Economists and banking experts oppose the government move to allow restructuring large defaulted loans by making down payment up to Tk 1 crore.
Protests over BUP student’s death continue
Students of different private universities continued their blockade on Wednesday on Pragati Sarani in front of Jamuna Future Park at Bashundhara in the capital protesting at the death of a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals and demanding safe road.
Student’s death in road accident sparks protests
Students of different private universities on Tuesday blocked Pragati Sarani in front of Jamuna Future Park at Bashundhara in the capital for about 12 hours protesting the death of a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals and demanding safe road.