PRINTING, DISTRIBUTING TEXTBOOKS NCTB officials engaged in irregularities: TIB

National Curriculum and Text Board officials are involved in irregularities in publishing and distributing free textbooks, shows a Transparency International Bangladesh study revealed on Monday.

No polls under Hasina: Khaleda

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday asked the Election Commission to take steps for holding the next general election under a non-party neutral government, deploying army with magistracy and without using electronic voting machine.

Rohingya crisis: 22 per cent lost both parents

Twenty-two per cent of Rohingya orphans have lost both of their parents and are now struggling to survive with the humanitarian assistance they are getting at Cox’s Bazar shelter centres.

People left to suffer as buses go off roads

Thousands of people suffered throughout Sunday as most of buses and other transports in Dhaka city and adjacent districts were taken off the roads ahead of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s rally in the capital.

Judiciary freed of burden: AG

‘The judiciary is now free from a burden’, attorney general Mahbubey Alam said Sunday when reporters asked for his reaction about Chief Justice SK Sinha’s resignation from abroad.

CJ Sinha resigns

Chief Justice SK Sinha, now in Canada, resigned on Friday at the end of his 39-day leave. His resignation letter, sent through the Bangladesh High Commissioner in Singapore, an hour before flying to Toronto, reached the President Saturday, a senior foreign ministry official told New Age.

Space crunch slows shifting Rohingyas to mega camp

About 46 per cent Rohingyas are yet to be shifted to the government-designated mega camp for them inside two months of its launch because of inadequate space and continued arrival of Myanmar ethnic minorities.

RANGPUR CLASH, ARSON 2,000 sued in two cases

Police on Saturday filed two cases against around 2,000 people, including 73 named, for Friday’s arson and vandalism of houses and temples of Hindus in village Thakurpara under Rangpur Sadar. In the cases, filed with Kotwali and Gangachara police stations, 48 people, mostly local leaders and activists of Jamaat, were arrested for their suspected involvement in the attacks.

Khulna-Kolkata Bandhan Express starts journey Nov 9

‘Bandhan Express’, the new passenger train service between Khulna and Kolkata, has been scheduled to be inaugurated on November 9 in a bid to ease communication between two neighbouring countries

Shannon meets Khaleda

US under secretary of state for political affairs Thomas A Shannon at a meeting with BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia discussed the country’s latest political situation, next general election and Rohingya issue on Monday morning