Case filed over Chittagong stampede in post-funeral feast
A case has been filed in connection with the death of 10 people in a stampede during the post-funeral feast for late former Chittagong City Corporation mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury.
Government to fast-track projects for Rohingyas
The government would put projects and programme taken for forcibly displaced Rohingyas on the fast track for expediting the repatriation of the ethnic minority Muslims to their homeland Myanmar, a Buddhist majority nation
People won’t support war criminals’ patrons: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that people would not allow the patrons of war criminals to assume office anymore.‘People will never allow the patrons of war criminals to assume office as they will not vote the war criminals and miscreants who have burned people to death,’ Hasina said at a discussion in Dhaka.
Fisheries minister Sayedul Hoque laid to rest
Fisheries and livestock minister and veteran Awami League leader Muhammed Sayedul Hoque, who breathed his last on Saturday, was laid to eternal rest at his family graveyard at his ancestral home at village Purbabhag under Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria Sunday evening
Walton’s founding chairman Nazrul Islam dies
SM Nazrul Islam, the founding chairman of country’s leading company Walton Group, died on Sunday. He was 93.Nazrul breathed his last at the Apollo Hospitals Dhaka in the city around 9:40pm.
BNP stages ‘V Day Rally’ in city
Vowing afresh to forge a national unity for the restoration of democracy, BNP held a ‘Victory Day Rally’ and brought out a colourful procession in Dhaka on Sunday, marking the 47th Victory Day.
DNCC by-polls in Feb last week: EC
Election Commission acting secretary Helaluddin Ahmed on Sunday said that the by-polls for the Dhaka North City Corporation mayor’s office would be held in the last week of February
PM urges youths to build them as worthy citizen
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the youths of the country to build them as the worthy citizens of the country so that the fame that the country has earned during the regime of this government will be continued forever.
Nation celebrates Victory Day
The nation on Saturday celebrated the 47th Victory Day paying tribute to the freedom fighters who made the supreme sacrifice in the War for Independence to free the nation from marauding Pakistani forces fighting successfully a nine-month war in 1971.
Onion price stings more — Tk 140 a kg
The price of local variety of onions increased further to Tk 140 a kilogram in the city’s kitchen markets over the week ending Friday.
