City in holiday hangover as rain continues
The city suffers a festival hangover, on the first day of opening, as the weather remained rainy in most part of the country.
BNP enforces Hartal in Habiganj as former mayor attacked in jail
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party enforced a half-day general strike in Habiganj on Sunday protesting as suspended Habiganj municipal mayor GK Gaus was injured in an attack in Habiganj jail on Saturday.
JCD president, 5 others arrested in Patuakhali
Police arrested the central president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed student organisation, Rajib Ahsan and his five associates in Dumki of Patuakhali on Sunday night.
Tarana vows to wipe out corruption
Vowing to eradicate corruption from her ministry, state minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim on Thursday said there is no way for her ministry to favour corrupt people, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Fakhrul goes home from hospital
The acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, went to his house at Uttara in the city leaving a city hospital on Thursday.
People in frenzy to reach home
People streamed out of the capital on Thursday to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones living in outlying districts on overloaded buses, trains and launches.
WAR CRIMES: Forkan given death penalty
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal -2 on Thursday unanimously sentenced Md Forkan Mallick to death for the war crimes he had committed in Mirzaganj thana of the then Patuakhali sub-division during the country’s Liberation War.
65pc of selected shops yet to install ECR, POS in six years
The National Board of Revenue has made very little success in persuading the shopkeepers from 11 categories to install electronic cash registers or point of sales at their shops in half a decade of the introduction of the system.
AL men, law enforcers on extortion spree: BNP
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday alleged that ruling Awami League men and law enforcers were now celebrating ‘grand festivals of extortion’ everywhere centring Eid-ul-Fitr. At a briefing at the BNP central office, BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon said that tyranny of extortionists had been increased everywhere and the government failed to stop it.
RIVER LINKING: India plans to go ahead ignoring promise
India on Monday unilaterally announced its decision to implement the controversial plan to interlink Manas, Sankosh, Teesta and Ganges, four trans-boundary rivers, oblivious of the promises it made to Bangladesh.
