Floods force closure of 1,130 schools in 8 dists
Severe flooding forced the closure of at least 1130 primary and secondary schools in six northern and two north eastern districts until Tuesday. Education officers said that it was possible that more schools had to go on unscheduled holidays due to widespread flooding.
North Korean defector: Kim Jong Un's days are numbered
He's a fairly young man, wearing an ill-fitting suit. His thin neck is pronounced, giving way to an equally thin face and frame. We're meeting over a meal of sushi, something he specifically requested because it's rare for those trapped in North Korea.
Official: 10 dead in Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon plane crashes
Three small airplanes crashed this long Labor Day weekend from North Carolina to Oregon, leaving 10 people dead and pressing questions about what happened in each case, a government official said Monday.
Kerry: Russia could escalate Syrian conflict
Kremlin officials have dismissed allegations of a major Russian military deployment to Syria, after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the issue with his Russian counterpart.
Bangkok bomb suspect 'confesses to explosives charge,' Thai police say
Thai police say one of the suspects apprehended as part of the investigation into last month's deadly bomb attack at a popular shrine in Bangkok has confessed to possessing banned explosives.
Cabinet approves new pay structure
The cabinet on Monday approved the new pay structure for the government employees fixing the maximum monthly salary at Tk 86,000, up from Tk 45,000 and the minimum basic pay at Tk 8,250,up from Tk 4,100.
August boom keeps RMG export earnings afloat in 2 months
Country’s export earnings from readymade garment products in two months of the financial year 2015-16 grew by 5.98 per cent to $4.48 billion from $4.23 billion in the same period of the FY 2014-15 as the export of the RMG products boomed in August, the second month of the current financial year.
FAILURE IN DEMONSTRATION : Field-level leaders, activists blame senior leaders
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party blamed ‘fascist attitude of the government for its failure to stage scheduled demonstrations in Dhaka on Sunday, although no senior leaders was seen in the field to join or lead the countrywide demonstrations. Field-level leaders, organisers and activists, however, blamed senior leaders and organisational weakness for the failure.
Jamaat’s nayeb-e-amir, ASG, 11 other leaders arrested
Thirteen leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami including two top leaders were arrested from the capital’s Pallabi area on Monday.
Flood in north persists
The flood situation in the north and central part of the country did not improve on Monday while farmers expressed their worries as the croplands and fisheries farms and ponds remained under water for over the past two weeks.
