ATTACK ON STUDENT DU to expel 7 BCL leaders
The disciplinary committee of the Dhaka University on Monday recommended expulsion of seven Bangladesh Chhatra League unit leaders for torturing disaster management and science second-year student Ehsan Rafiq damaging hi eye for seeking his calculator to be returned.
Janaza of Rangpur city ex-mayor Jhantu held
The namaz-e-janaza of former mayor of Rangpur City Corporation Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu was held at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad in Dhaka on Monday morning. A guard of honour was given to the late freedom fighter and also a former lawmaker from Rangpur-1 constituency.
KHALEDA’S BAIL HEARING HC keeps order pending
The High Court on Sunday concluded the hearing in jailed Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s petition for bail but kept its order pending until getting the records of the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case from the trial court.
SSC QUESTION LEAKS Govt probe body finds questions leaked
The government committee has found that several leaked multiple choice questions of one or two subjects matched those given to the examinees at exam hall during this year’s Secondary School Certificate examinations.
LOAN SCAMS IN STATE-OWNED BANKS Directors go scot free, bank officials chased
Lower and mid-level bankers are facing prosecution for loan scams while boards of directors get off scot-free and even some of them have been promoted although they have failed to prevent misappropriation of billions of taka from the state-owned banks in the past nine years.
Rohingyas struggling to meet basic needs
Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar are struggling to meet their basic needs despite massive relief efforts as their camps are severely overcrowded which is obstructing efforts to maintain sustainable water, sanitation and health services, aid workers have said.
Negligence to Bangla at univs irks PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed her dissatisfaction with public and private universities ignoring Bangla in their curriculums.
NINE YEARS OF BDR REBELLION No suggested probe done to identify plotters, plot
The reason, plot and plotters of the massacre during soldiers’ rebellion at the headquarters of Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, in Dhaka and elsewhere in February 25-26, 2009 are yet to be identified even nine years after the rebellion
SSC QUESTION LEAK Probe body to submit report in a day or two
The written part of this year’s Secondary School Certificate examinations, which witnessed the largest ever spate of question leaks in the history of country’s public exams, concludes today.
SIX MONTHS OF INFLUX Rohingyas continue entering Bangladesh
No end to Rohingyas entering Bangladesh to flee persecution in Myanmar is in sight as the ethnic minority people continue to seek safety in Cox’s Bazar even six months inside the beginning of the influx on August 25, 2017.
