SUHRAWARDY HOSPITAL FIRE Limited services resume
Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital at Sher-e-Banglanagar in the capital resumed limited services Friday morning, 14 hours after a fire broke out at the hospital, one of the major health facilities in the capital, Thursday evening.
UN seeks $920 million to tackle Rohingya crisis
The United Nations aid agencies and NGO partners on Friday said that this year they would need $920 million to tackle Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh where more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees fled to escape violence in Myanmar.
Poet Al Mahmud dies
Celebrated poet Al Mahmud died in the intensive care unit of Ibn Sina Hospital in Dhaka. He was 82.
HC calls for lists of loan defaulters, money launderers
The High Court on Wednesday asked the Bangladesh Bank governor to collect from different banks the names and addresses of people who defaulted on loans of above Tk 1 crore in the past 20 years and to submit the list to the court.
BNP hails PM’s retirement plan
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said it is good news that prime minister Sheikh Hasina has planned to go on retirement, saying that people are waiting ‘for that day’.
Skipping parliament a wrong political decision: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the elected lawmakers of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-dominated Jatiya Oikya Front to refrain from taking a ‘wrong political decision’ of not joining the Parliament.
Govt backtracks on high-powered body
The government has backtracked on appointing a high-powered committee on the country’s ailing banking sector as it will constitute a review committee to deal with the growing bad loans in the state-owned banking sector.
Probe body formed over Thakurgaon BGB firing
The local administration in Thakurgaon has formed a three-member probe committee to investigate into the Tuesday’s clash between villagers and members of Border Guard Bangladesh that left three people killed and several injured.
Bangladesh PM plans to stay in village after retirement
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that she would live at her village in Tungipara after retirement from politics.
49 woman candidates set to be elected unopposed
The Election Commission is going to declare 49 candidates elected unopposed for the parliamentary seats reserved for women as the commission’s scrutiny on Tuesday found all of them valid.
