30 arrested in anti-militancy drive
At least 30 people, many of them leaders and activists of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chattra Shibir, were arrested in Dhaka and other districts in anti-militant drives on Tuesday.
Japan, Belgium become $1-billion export markets, US $6-billion
Bangladesh got Japan and Belgium as its two new billion-dollar export markets in the just concluded financial year 2015-16, riding on a moderate growth in the readymade garment export.
Thousands marooned by flood
Thousands of people living in different chars and low-lying areas in the country’s northern districts were marooned by floods caused by the on-rush of water from India.
Operation Irene begins at Ctg Port
Customs Intelligence launched a two-day special drive titled ‘Operation Irene’ at Chittagong Port on Monday.
Drop Ramal thermal power plant project
Leaders of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resource, Power and Ports on Monday called on the government to drop the proposed coal-based thermal power plant at Rampal in Bagerhat to save the Sunderbans, the biggest mangrove forest in the world.
Jamalpur war crimes: 3 Al-Badr men sentenced to death, 5 jailed for life
Three absconding Al-Badr men Md Ashraf Hossain, 64, Md Abdul Mannan, 66, and Md Abdul Bari, 62 were on Monday handed death sentences and five others to jail terms until death for the war crimes they committed in the then Jamalpur sub-division during the Liberation War.
City tanners’ daily fine cut to Tk 10,000
The Appellate Division on Monday reduced daily fines to Tk 10,000 from Tk 50,000 the High Court earlier imposed on each of the 154 errant tannery owners until they shifted their factories from Hazaribagh to tannery park at Savar.
Death in Rana Plaza collapse: Rana, 40 others indicted
The Dhaka District and Sessions Judge’s Court on Monday charged Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana and 40 others with murder of 1,137 people in the collapse of the nine-storey building, which housed five apparel factories, at Savar on April 24, 2013.
Country’s image tainted by extremist attacks: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said on Sunday that the country’s image was tainted by the recent extremist attacks.
Authorities call on pvt univs to build resistance to extremism
Most extremists and militants in recent times are students of colleges and universities indicating to a failure of educational institutions to guide their students in the right direction, said discussants at a meet between government authorities and private university officials on Sunday.
