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.
AUGUST 21 GRENADE ATTACK : Victims, families still cry for justice
Victims of the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally and the victim families still cry for justice as two cases for the attack are still pending with a tribunal while the plotters are yet to be identified.
Kazi Zafar passes away
Former prime minister and chairman of a faction of Jatiya Party Kazi Zafar Ahmed died on Thursday morning. He was 76. Zafar’s personal staff Quamruzzman Rony told newsmen that the veteran politician breathed last at around 6:45am at Untied Hospital in Dhaka. He was suffering from multiple ailments.
Conspirators plan every day to attack PM, says Ashraf
Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Wednesday said a vested quarter is planning every day to attack Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through adopting various strategies.
Nazrul’s death anniv today
The day’s programme will begin with placing wreaths at the poet’s tomb on Dhaka University Central Mosque premises in the morning. Different socio-cultural organisations have planned elaborate programmes marking the poet’s death anniversary. Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Nazrul Institute have jointly organised a programme at the academy featuring discussion, Nazrul Padak distribution ceremony and cultural programmes. Bangla Academy observed the day on Wednesday when Nazrul Academy will observe the poet’s death anniversary tomorrow.
Utilise land of closed public industries: PM
The prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday underscored the need for the proper utilisation of the lands of closed down state-run industries saying that no public industry would be privatised in the future.
