INT’L DAY FOR ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN : ‘Only real democracy can give women full rights’
Rights activists and different sections of people on Wednesday said only real democracy could eliminate violence against women.
VIQARUNNISA SCHOOL RAPE : Parimal jailed for life-term
Sacked Viqarunnisa Noon School and College teacher Parimal Joydhar was jailed for life term on Wednesday for raping girl of the school in the city four years ago.
Menacing increase in driving on wrong side of capital’s roads
Rampant driving on wrong side of the capital’s roads is causing aggravated traffic congestions. Even posh cars carrying ministers, MPs, senior bureaucrats as well as police officials are found taking the wrong side of roads.
MP Liton gets interim bail in boy shooting case
A court here on Tuesday granted interim bail until December 8 to Manjurul Islam Liton, Awami League MP from Gaibandha-1 constituency, in a case filed for shooting a minor boy.
No IS in Bangladesh
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday reiterated that there is no existence of militant organisation Islamic State in Bangladesh.
Religious forum leader hacked
Assailants wielding machetes attacked the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council’s Faridpur district secretary general Aalak Sen in front his house Tuesday afternoon. The religious minority leader was admitted to the Faridpur Medical College Hospital with injuries on hands and legs.
PM for reopening roads thru frontier with India
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Bangladesh wants to reopen the frontier roads connecting India which remained closed since 1965 India-Pakistan war, aiming to further strengthen connectivity.
234 municipalities to go to polls on Dec 30
Out of the country’s 323 municipalities 234 would go to polls on December 30, chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad announced Tuesday. He announced the schedule for the civic polls at a news briefing at the Election Commission’s media centre.
SQC, MOJAHEED EXECUTION : PM criticises media coverage of families’ reactions
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday criticised the way some private television channels and newspapers covered reactions of the families of hanged war crimes convicts Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
50 orgs hold bulk of BASIC’s Tk 4,146cr defaulted loans
The top 50 defaulters of BASIC Bank hold 83.99 per cent, or Tk 3,482.58 crore, of the bank’s defaulted loans as the management of the state-owned bank did not take adequate measures to recover the non-performing loans.
