TRYING RAPE CASES: Cancellation of ‘evidence act’ urged
Legal experts and rights activists on Sunday stressed for the need to cancel a section of the ‘evidence act’ that allows Bangladesh’s legal system to label a rape victim ‘characterless’ and help a rapist get exonerated.
4 killed in violence
The first-ever partisan elections to union parishads, marred by violence, widespread vote rigging and intimidation mostly by ruling Awami League activists, concluded on Saturday with the polling in its sixth phase amidst violence that killed at least four people.
PAYRA DEEP SEA PORT: Dhaka-Delhi talks on: Indian minister
Talks are going on between Bangladesh and India for the construction of the proposed deep sea port at Payra in Patukhali.
WP demands price control during Ramadan
Leaders of Workers Party of Bangladesh, a partner of the Awami League-led alliance, at a protest rally in the capital on Saturday called on the government to take immediate steps to check price hike of essential commodities during Ramadan.
Traders blame extortion by law enforcers, goons for price hike
Continuing extortion by a section of law enforcers and musclemen backed by political parties are causing increase in prices of essential commodities ahead of Ramadan, traders alleged in Dhaka on Saturday.
PROFESSOR KILLING: Movement resumes at RU
Teachers and students of Rajshahi University on Saturday resumed their movement over the murder of Professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee after the 20-day summer vacation.
Proposed budget for FY17: Trade bodies slate money whitening
Different trade bodies on Friday expressed their concerns over the scope for whitening of black money by paying tax maintained in the proposed national budget for the next fiscal year saying that the scope would frustrate the honest taxpayers.
Proposed budget frustrates FBCCI
Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry president Abdul Matlub Ahmad on Friday termed the proposed budget for the fiscal 2016-17 a complex one which did not address any of the demands of the apex chamber.
BNP asks OSs to prepare organisational reports
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday asked its new organising secretaries to prepare reports on the latest organisational position underlining the role of grassroots leaders in the first-ever partisan elections to union parishads.
Sadeq Khan worked for the cause of countrymen’
Language movement hero, freedom fighter and journalist Sadeq Khan worked throughout his life for the cause of people, discussants at a citizens’ commemorative meeting in memory of the journalist said on Friday.
