BB profit halved in FY15

The net profit of Bangladesh Bank decreased by 49.04 per cent to Tk 1,038 crore in the financial year 2014-2015 compared with that of Tk 2,037 crore in the FY 2013-2014 due to a dull situation in local and international business.

ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE : Khaleda wants UN-supervised probe

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday demanded international investigation under the supervision of the United Nations into the incidents of enforced disappearance in the country.

I can’t imagine it: Zafar Iqbal

Writer and computer scientist Muhammad Zafar Iqbal on Sunday said that he had never imagined that students could beat up their teachers.

10 injured as BCL men attack SUST teachers

At least 10 teachers were injured as Bangladesh Chhatra League attacked teachers at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology who were staging protests for the removal of the university vice-chancellor on Sunday.

BNP, JP want cancellation of power, gas price hike

Different political parties and groups, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Jatiya Party, on Saturday demanded cancellation the latest hike of gas and electricity prices terming it unjustifiable.

MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZE IN LIBYA : Death toll includes 24 Bangladeshis

The death toll of Bangladeshi migrants in the tragedy of Thursday late night’s boats capsizes off the Libyan coast en route to Italy reached at 24, a Bangladeshi official confirmed on Saturday late evening.

AL-backed panel bags 10 posts in bar council poll

Ruling Awami League-backed Sammilita Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad panel bagged 10 posts out of 14, in the election to the Bangladesh Bar Council, the lawyers’ regulatory body in the country.

Many BNP leaders hold more than one post

Many leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s 386-member national executive committee, 19-member national standing committee and 36-member party chairperson’s advisory council are holding posts in different tiers and fronts of the party.

Kazi Zafar’s 1st janaza held in Tongi

The first namaz-e-janaza of Jatiya Party faction chairman and former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmad was held at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi on Friday morning, United News of Bangladesh reports.

EXTRAJUDICIAL MURDERS: Law minister for judicial inquiry

Law minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said allegations of extra-judicial killing by law enforcement agencies should be investigated properly, as stipulated in the law.