PM flays Muhith for praising Yunus
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday censured finance minister AMA Muhith presumably for praising the contribution of Nobel laureate and former Grameen Bank managing director Muhammad Yunus to the country’s poverty reduction through micro-credit.
PM urges mothers to be best friends of children
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the parents, particularly mothers, to build up friendly relations with their children to prevent them from going astray or bending to extremism, terrorism and drug.
Protests flare as BCL men loot shop in Rangpur city
Several hundred local people took to the streets after Bangladesh Chhatra League activists of Begum Rokeya University unit on Saturday ransacked a fast food shop and looted valuables in Rangpur city after failing to extort money.
Visiting UK minister calls on Khaleda
Visiting United Kingdom’s minister for Asia and the Pacific Alok Sharma on Saturday told Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia that the UK wants to see a free and fair election in Bangladesh.
Interns of six govt medical college hospitals go on strike
Interns at government’s medical college hospitals on Saturday began an indefinite strike in protest against suspension of four fellow colleagues of Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital in Bogra.
Prescriptions still illegible
Doctors across continue writing prescription illegibly as the Directorate General of Health Services and Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council seem to be indifferent to fully implement High Court directives for ensuring that doctors prescribe in capital letters in a legible manner.
Two Bangladeshi youths shortlisted for Commonwealth Awards
Two Bangladesh nationals — Towfique Ahmad Khan and Ukhengching Marma — are among 17 finalists drawn from 13 countries for the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Awards, according to a statement issued by the Commonwealth.
BNP goes by ‘wait and see’ policy
Bangladesh Nationalist Party seems to go by ‘wait and see’ strategy as to if it will take part in the next parliamentary elections under the party in power or forge street agitation for an inclusive and credible election under a neutral government.
Constitution to determine BNP’s joining election-time government, says Quader
Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said that the constitution would determine whether BNP would be able to be in the election time government.
GULSHAN CAFÉ ATTACK Investigation to be closed by this year
Dhaka Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism and transnational crime unit chief Monirul Islam said on Friday that the investigation into the extremist attack on a Gulshan café on July 1, 2016 would be completed by this year.
