PM for steps against those trying to go abroad illegally
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said steps needed to be taken against those trying to go abroad illegally risking their lives and the middlemen as they were tarnishing the country’s image abroad.
JU expels 5 BCL men for sexual harassment.
The Jahangirnagar University authorities on Saturday expelled five activists of the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League on charge of sexually harassing a female student during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on the campus..
Shillong court asks for police report on Salah Uddin by May 29.
A Shillong lower court has asked local police to submit by May 29 a report on Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salah Uddin Ahmed, arrested on charge of intruding into the Indian territory without valid documents.
RESCUED BOATPEOPLE Bangladesh verifying nationality
The government has initiated measures to identity the nationality of over 1,100 migrants rescued at sea by Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar to bring Bangladesh nationals back home.
Bad loans surge to Tk 42,159cr in Q1
Account for 77.13pc of total defaulted loans
AL leaders seek land on Turag to build FF rehabilitation centre
A group of people who hold positions at different front organisations of the ruling party, Bangladesh Awami League, have illegally occupied a portion of Turag and its flood flow zone to install a rehabilitation centre for destitute people and freedom fighters.
False promises lure them into risky sea journeys
Promise of overseas job without advance payment, poverty, unemployment and shrinking labour markets in the Middle East were forcing many fortune seekers into risky sea journey for destinations in Southeast Asia.
MOBILE TOWER BUSINESS BTRC plans to auction 2 licences.
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decided to go for an open auction to award two licenses which will allow new independent companies to build and manage mobile network towers.
Salah Uddin moved to another hospital for better treatment.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salah Uddin Ahmed was shifted to North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences in Shillong on Wednesday from Shillong Civil Hospital,
Mahid, Chutu to die in jail for war crimes
The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal -2 on Wednesday unanimously sentenced Md Mahidur Rahman and Md Afsar Hossain Chutu to imprisonment until death finding them guilty of war crimes in several villages in Chapainawabganj in 1971.
