POWER PRICE HIKE Left parties’ hartal today
The Communist Party of Bangladesh, the Socialist Party of Bangladesh and Democratic Left Alliance will enforce nationwide eight-hour hartal from 6:00am to 2:00pm today in protest against recent power price hike.
Pope due today
Pope Francis is due here this afternoon on a three-day state visit carrying message of harmony, peace, reconciliation and forgiveness when he eschewed even using the word ‘Rohingya’ in the address he delivered in Myanmar on Tuesday
Tamim upholds spirit of game in Comilla win
Spirit of the game overshadowed on-field actions as Comilla Victorians defeated Dhaka Dynamites by 12 runs to return to the top of the table in the Bangladesh Premier League in Chittagong on Wednesday.
Dhaka back in BPL summit
Evin Lewis exploded to score 75 runs off 31 balls as holders Dhaka Dynamites romped to a seven-wicket win over Chittagong Vikings to return to the summit in the Bangladesh Premier League points-table on Monday
3 ‘extremists’ killed in RAB raid
Three suspected extremists were found dead on Tuesday at a house in remote Madhya Char area under Chapainawabganj Sadar where Rapid Action Battalion members conducted a raid since early hours of the day.
Officers need to give up colonial mindset: HC
The jawans and the officers need to change their colonial mindsets, said Justice Md Shawkat Hossain, presiding judge of a three-judge special bench of the High Court Division, in the observations relating to the unanimous verdict in the death references and appeals of BDR men convicted for slaying their commanders during the February 2009 mutiny at Peelkhana.
BDR CARNAGE Fair probe needed to resolve many questions: Fakhrul
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said that why the intelligence agency failed to inform about soldiers mutiny in the then Bangladesh Rifles
Annisul on life support
Dhaka North city mayor Annisul Huq, who has been undergoing treatment in London for cerebral vasculitis, is now on life support in a hospital there.
BDR CARNAGE 139 to die, 185 to be jailed for life: HC
Death sentences of 139 BDR soldiers for slaying 57 commanders on deputation from the army during the February 2009 mutiny were on Monday upheld by the High Court Division. Death sentences of seven other BDR solders and Md Zakir Hossain, then a local Awami League leader were reduced to life terms
Struggle of vulnerable Rohingyas continues
Vulnerable Rohingyas, including aged people, pregnant and lactating women, orphan children and people with disabilities, entering Bangladesh to flee ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State of Myanmar continue struggling for survival in absence of relief work focused on them.
