Cabinet okays draft bill to ensure quality of higher education
The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘The accreditation council bill, 2016’, aiming to ensure the quality of tertiary education, particularly the university one, in Bangladesh.
PM inquires about ‘spent fuel management’
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday inquired about the modalities of the ‘spent fuel management’ of the $12.65 billion Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project being implemented with the technical and financial supports from Russia.
Capital offers no facilities to physically challenged people
The capital provides no facilities to people with disabilities.Rights groups said that the government took no interest to create disabled friendly facilities in the capital.
Two JMB men get 20 yrs jail in Narayanganj
Special Tribunal Court-7 of on Monday convicted two members of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh and sentenced them to 20 years jail in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
Police release photos of seven extremists
Police on Sunday night released the photos of seven alleged extremists who were killed during Saturday’s raid at a den in Patartek area of Gazipur.
SC to hear Khaleda's plea in Niko case Oct 31
Chamber judge of the Appellate Division on Sunday sent a leave to appeal petition of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in connection with Niko graft case to the regular bench for hearing.
Police verifying identities of 10 of 12 killed ‘extremists’
Law enforcing authorities said on Sunday that they were examining the identities of 10 of the 12 suspected extremists killed in Gazipur, Tangail and Ashulia in Dhaka on Saturday.
HC declines bail for AL MP Amanur
The High Court on Sunday declined bail to ruling Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Rana to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case for killing freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed in 2013.
Nine Myanmar policemen killed near Bangladesh border
Nine police officers were killed during coordinated ambushes in Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine state on Sunday with authorities saying the attackers hailed from the Muslim Rohingya community, a persecuted minority.
Four including JMB donor held in Ashulia
Rapid Action Battalion men in a drive arrested four extremists, including prime donor of outlawed Jama'atul-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Abdur Rahman, from a five-storey building at Baipal of Ashulia in the outskirts of the capital on Saturday evening.
