Government’s dealings with ethnic people generate sectarian politics: speakers
The deteriorating conditions of ethnic minorities show a rise in sectarian politics in the country, speakers told a discussion Tuesday. Speaking at a discussion on ‘Landslides, Adivasi eviction and Human Rights,’ they alleged that the government was treating ethnic minorities from a sectarian perspective.
Cabinet okays proposal to open seven new missions abroad
The cabinet on Monday endorsed a proposal to open seven new Bangladesh missions abroad and gave retrospective approval to establishment of 17 missions already established in different countries.
DRAFT GAS SECTOR MASTER PLAN 26pc demand unmet, more crisis ahead
Gas crisis in the country would be acute in near future with at least 26 per cent of the demand remaining unmet now, according to a draft report on Gas Sector Master Plan 2017 submitted on Monday.
PROBE REPORT ON POLICE EXCESSES AT SHAHBAGH Action against seven cops recommended
A three-member committee formed over police excesses at Shahbagh that damaged college student Siddiqur Rahman’s eyes submitted its probe report on Monday recommending departmental action against seven cops and claiming that it failed to identify the cop who shot tear-gas shell at Siddiqur from close range
KILLING OF FIVE OF A FAMILY Lone accused Mahfuz to die
A Narayanganj court on Monday sentenced a youth, Mahfuzur Rahman, to death for killing five members of a family at Baburail in Narayanganj city in January 2016. Narayanganj district and sessions judge Hosne Ara Akter gave the verdict. Mahful was also fined Tk 5,000
RMG workers block road, clash with cop
Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory at Mirpur-1 in the capital on Monday blocked the road in front of Sony Cinema Hall of the area and clashed with police over their demands including reinstatement of fellow workers and payment of dues.
Keep 4 rivers surrounding capital free from pollution: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to strengthen their efforts to keep the four rivers surrounding the capital free from pollution. ‘These four rivers will die if those are not freed from wastes and pollution,’ she said while speaking at the 4th meeting of the National Committee on Environment held at the prime minister’s office on Sunday.
Muhith’s comments on 16th amendment personal: OQ
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, also general secretary of the ruling Awami League, said on Sunday that the finance minister’s comments about the verdict on the 16th amendment were his personal opinion.
BISWAJIT MURDER Deaths of 2 BCL activists upheld
The High Court Division on Sunday upheld deaths of two Chhatra League activists for the sensational murder of 24-year old tailor Biswajit Das, four others’ death sentences were reduced to life terms and acquitted four convicts, two from deaths and two from life terms.
BOGRA RAPE Court orders Tufan, Rumki to be interrogated at jail gate
A Bogra court on Sunday ordered investigators to interrogate Bogra town unit Awami Shramik League suspended convener Tufan Sarkar and Bogra municipality ward councillor Marzia Hasan Rumki at jail gate over the rape of a college girl and torturing the girl and her mother.
