Razzaq quits Jamaat
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Abdur Razzaq, also a top defence lawyer for Jamaat leaders in war crimes trial, resigned from the party on Friday citing its failure to apologise to the nation for its ‘role in opposing the historic struggle for liberation in 1971.’
BNP, JOF took part in polls with evil intention: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party had an evil intention from the very beginning to render the last general election questionable despite their participation in the polls.
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.
