Sanders laying off hundreds of campaign staffers
Bernie Sanders' campaign is laying off more than 200 workers, campaign manager Jeff Weaver said Wednesday.
Telcos seek time extension for biometric registration of SIMs
The mobile phone companies requested the government to extend the April 30 deadline for biometric re-registration of the SIMs as almost half of the connections were still unregistered with only three days left.
Govt, EC responsible for holding bad UP polls: speakers
A group of local government experts, election observers and academicians on Wednesday termed recently held local government elections ‘unfair and farcical’ which have frustrated people, escalated violence and lost voters’ confidence in the entire electoral system.
RU teacher killing: Police still in dark about motive, protests on
Police still grope for the motive behind the murder of Rajshahi University teacher AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee even after five days of the killing that sparked raging protests on the campus.
Killers getting away in Bangladesh: US envoy
US ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat said on Wednesday that killers in Bangladesh were getting away with murder.
B’desh can accelerate growth using youth bulge: UNDP report
Bangladesh is now a home to 10.56 crore of working-age people, creating an excellent opportunity for the country to accelerate its growth by properly utilising the demographic dividend.
Defaulted industrial loans post 17.77pc rise in H1
The total amount of defaulted loans in the industrial sector in the July-December period was Tk 2,980.03 crore higher than that in the same period of the previous fiscal year, 2014-15, due to a dull business environment and a lack of effective loan recovery measures by the scheduled banks and the non-bank financial institutions.
Chhatra Union’s 64th founding anniv observed
Bangladesh Chhatra Union on Tuesday observed its’ 64th founding anniversary on Dhaka University campus.
RU professor murder: Madrassah teacher, imam held
Police arrested the imam of a mosque and a madrassah teacher in connection with the murder of Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee from the slain teacher’s village home at Baghmara on Tuesday.
LGBT magazine editor killing: No arrest yet
Two cases were field for the killing of Xulhaz Mannan, one of the editors of the country’s first LGBT magazine Roopban, and his friend Khandaker Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in Xulhaz’s Kalabagan apartment in Dhaka on Monday, but none was arrested.
