BB profits drop by 25pc in FY16
The net operating profit of Bangladesh Bank decreased by 25.63 per cent to Tk 772.51 crore in the financial year 2015-16 although the central bank had avoided keeping provision against IS$ 81 million stolen from its reserve.
BNP to try perpetrators of enforced disappearance
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday cautioned that those who are involved in staging crimes of enforced disappearances of the party’s leaders and activists will one day be tried.
Death for war crimes: Quasem loses legal battle
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Mir Quasem Ali’s petition seeking review of its verdict upholding his death sentence for war crimes.
Suspected killer Obaidul detained over Risha murder
Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday said they detained the suspected killer, Obaidul Khan, in the case of murdering Suraiya Akhter Risha, Class VIII student of Willes Little Flower School and College.
Willes Little Flower students continues protest over Risha murder
The students of Willes Little Flower School and College and their guardians on Tuesday launched a fresh demonstration blocking the Kakrail intersection near the school premises demanding justice for murder of their fellow Suraiya Akter Risha.
SC upholds death sentence for Mir Quasem
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the review appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader and war criminal Mir Quasem Ali over an earlier verdict that upheld his death penalty for crimes against humanity in 1971 Liberation war.
Dhaka wants market access, return of Mujib killers
The United States would consider Bangladesh’s request for duty-free and quota-free access for Bangladeshi products to the US market, US secretary of state John Kerry said in Dhaka on Monday.
Democracy to be restored thru US co-op
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday called on the visiting US secretary of state John Kerry and expressed her hope that economic development would take place and democracy would be restored in Bangladesh through US cooperation.
Demo for dorm: BCL activists attack again agitating students
Ruling Awami League-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists once again on Monday launched attacks on Jagannath University students on movement in demand of residential halls.
Rampal power plant: oil-gas body rules out alliance with BNP, PM’s arguments
National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port on Monday ruled out any possibility of an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the movement against the coal-fired Rampal power plant project near the Sunderbans.
