Seven top BNP leaders get anticipatory bail
The High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bails to seven top Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed with Hatirjheel police station.
No quota for Class I, Class II govt jobs
The cabinet on Wednesday approved the government committee proposal for abolishing quota system in recruitment of Class I and Class II employees in public service.
Delhi police use teargas, water cannon to break up farmers’ protest
Indian police on Tuesday fired tear gas and water cannons to halt and scatter a march by thousands of protesting farmers heading for the capital, New Delhi, to demand better prices for their produce.
Sinha to be brought back: Law Minister
Claiming that former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has no allegiance towards the country, law minister Anisul Huq on Tuesday said he will be brought back home through a legal process.
Govt to spend Tk 4,371cr on navigability dev, reclamation of four rivers
The executive committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday approved 15 projects involving Tk 13,218.31 crore, including the Tk 4,371 crore 'Navigability development and reclamation of Old Brahmaputra, Dharla, Tulai and Punarbhaba Rivers' project.
Two killed in blast at National Fan factory
At least two workers were killed and 15 others injured in a blast at the heat chamber of National Fan Factory at Tongi in Gazipur on Tuesday.
Washington holds its breath as the FBI investigates Kavanaugh
In a week that began mired in uncertainty -- for President Donald Trump, for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, for congressional Republicans, for the FBI -- the GOP still had the stolid steadiness of Mitch McConnell to lean on.
Macron under fire for Caribbean photograph
French President Emmanuel Macron has come under attack from far-right leader Marine Le Pen over a photograph taken during his visit to the Caribbean last week.
AL election pledges on independence of judiciary left unfulfilled
The Awami League-led government did not keep its election promises that ‘genuine independence and impartiality of the judiciary will be ensured’ and the Supreme Court would be given ‘the responsibility of controlling and supervising the lower judiciary.’
Fresh case filed against Fakhrul, Moudud, Abbas, others
A fresh case was filed under the Special Powers Act against main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general and standing committee members and others while about 150 BNP leaders and activists were remanded in police custody in Dhaka on Monday.
