CIVIL AVIATION BILL Death penalty proposed
The cabinet on Monday endorsed the draft of the Civil Aviation Bill 2017 incorporating death penalty as the maximum punishment for creating any obstructions to air navigation.
ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOLS Owners to pay VAT, not students: SC
The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division on Monday in a landmark decision directed the National Board of Revenue to collect value-added tax from the owners of English medium schools and not from the students.
Yet another road crash kills 13
At least 13 people were killed while 30 others got wounded in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Darikandi under Belabo in Narsingdi, Sunday morning.
Death toll in highway accidents jumps
Death toll in highway accidents has increased all on a sudden, with the authorities and experts blaming reckless driving and lack surveillance for this.
Look forward to 2041
Political affairs adviser to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, HT Imam on Sunday called upon senior military and civil bureaucrats to look forward into implementing ruling Awami League’s plan-2041.
MPs flay WB, Yunus
Lawmakers from treasury and opposition benches on Sunday sought apology from the World Bank to the nation and prime minister Sheikh Hasina for bringing false allegation of conspiracy of corruption in the Padma Bridge Project in a bid to malign the government.
Action against pvt univs that fail to move to own campuses: Nahid
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday said that action would be taken against private universities which had failed to move to their permanent campuses.
11 killed in Narsingdi road accident
At least 11 people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus at Belabo upazila in Narsingdi on Sunday morning.
pre-trial detentions in jail Over 400 languish for years
Scores of accused have been detained in jails for years as the cases against them could not be disposed of mainly due to failure of the prosecution to produce witnesses.
Factional clash kills BCL activist
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student associate of the ruling Awami League, was stabbed to death and two others were injured in a clash between two factions of the organisation at Reazuddin Bazar in Chittagong on Saturday afternoon over establishing supremacy.
