Stocks continue to fall on minister’s remarks
Dhaka stocks, passing through worst ever spell of losses, plunged further on Monday following the latest comments of finance minister Mustafa Kamal that the government had no control over the capital market.
Two killed in RAB raid on extremists’ den in Dhaka
At least two people allegedly linked to an extremist group were killed on Monday due to an explosion and firings during an overnight raid by Rapid Action Battalion at a tin-shed structure in close proximity of the RAB camp at the periphery of the capital’s Basila.
BU VC granted leave until tenure expires
Barishal University vice-chancellor SM Imamul Haque has been granted 46-day leave with effect from April 11 to May 26, the last day of his tenure, in the wake of month-long student agitation demanding his removal.
Economic theories become ineffective in society without rules, ethics
Economist Wahiduddin Mahmud on Monday said economic theories could not bring any good to a society where rules and minimum ethics did not apply properly.
Two ‘extremists’ killed in Basila raid
At least two suspected extremists were killed in an explosion after members of Rapid Action Battalion cordoned off a corrugated sheet roofed house at Basila in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka on early Monday.
BRI: a historic opportunity
CHINA’S president Xi Jinping hosted the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 26–27 — 125 countries and 40 international organisations have joined the Belt and Road Initiative.
SRI LANKA BLASTS Terrorism targets another Chinese ally
Sri Lanka’s violence is an artificial construct carried out by a tiny minority of extremists on either side of an equally artificial ethnoreligious divide. The nation and the region must unite in purpose.
‘Extremist den’ cordoned off in Dhaka
Members of Rapid Action Battalion cordoned off a corrugated sheet roofed house at Basila in Mohammadpur area of the capital on early Monday, suspecting it to be an extrimist den.
BNP asks MPs-elect not to take oath
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee sat in a meeting with party lawmakers-elect at the jailed BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office in Dhaka Sunday evening.
FATHER'S PROPERTY Find way, let girls not be deprived
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed the authorities concerned to make sure that trial procedures would not be delayed since many people were behind bars without knowing their faults.
