Ferdousi Priyabhashini receives death threat
The police launched an inquiry after anonymous caller on Saturday threatened sculptor Ferdousi Priyabhashini with ‘dire consequences’ within 48 hours.
Blogger murder triggers outcry home, abroad
Major political parties including BNP, local and international organisations including United Nations and many countries condemned the murder of blogger-writer Niladri Chatterjee and urged the government to bring the killers to justice at the earliest.
Students elect their first-ever cabinets
Students of over 1,040 secondary schools and madrassahs cast their votes amid festival mood to elect their first-ever cabinets on Saturday.
Cruelty to children won’t be spared: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that the culprits behind the recent violence against children will not be spared and that the criminals will get exemplary punishment. ‘We’ll have to ensure exemplary punishment to show people that no one is spared if one commits crimes,’ she said, reports United News of Bangladesh.
CHT Land Commission resolves no dispute in 16 years
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Land Dispute Resolution Commission remains ineffective as it has failed to resolve any dispute in 16 years, while the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will be observed today in Bangladesh as elsewhere across the world.
ATTACK ON BLOGGERS: Slow progress in probe gives impetus to attackers
Investigation into cases relating to attacks and killings of bloggers have barely seen progress, although such killings have continued since 2013. Delayed investigation and trials are encouraging the assailants to continue with their crimes, said fellow activists of the bloggers.
Another blogger killed in city Police refused to record GD earlier
Another blogger and online activist was hacked to death by a gang of armed assailants inside his house in the capital’s East Goran area on Friday afternoon, barely three months after another blogger was killed in Sylhet.
Bangladesh, India would be growth centre of Asia: Amu
The minister for industries, Amir Hossain Amu, on Thursday said immense possibility was there to turn Bangladesh and India into a growth centre of Asia through reaping the trade and connectivity facilities existing between both the countries.
Auto-rickshaws get 2 hours to use highways for refuelling
The road transport and bridges minister, Obaidul Quader, on Thursday said that CNG-run auto-rickshaws would be allowed to use highways for two hours, between 6:00am and 8:00am, every day for refuelling from highway-side gas stations.
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN PERIL: China throws up controversial clause of payment upfront
Implementation of nearly a dozen large infrastructure projects (commercial contracts on four have already been signed between Dhaka and Beijing) faces fresh difficulty after Chinese authorities tagged a controversial condition on the loans.
