Hearing on charge framing against Khaleda, others in Niko graft case deferred
A Special Judges’s Court in Monday deferred to February 17 the hearing on framing charges against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and 10 others in a graft case filed during the military-backed caretaker government in 2007 involving a Canadian resources company.
Special drives after municipal polls: HM
Home affairs minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Sunday that law enforcement agencies would launch special drives exclusively in militancy-prone areas after the December 30 municipal polls across the country.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS : Electioneering ends tonight
Electioneering in the municipal polls scheduled for Wednesday would end midnight today and Border Guard Bangladesh members were deployed for four days from this morning, while pre-polls violence reported from several municipal areas on Sunday.
Khaleda urges voter to go to cast votes
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday urged voters to go to the polling stations and cast their vote in the election to the 234 municipal councils slated for Wednesday.
Public univ teachers fume at new pay
Teachers at several public universities in the country, including Rajshahi University and Jahangirnagar University, began protesting at the new national pay scale for being ‘discriminatory’.
3 JMB men held
The detective police on Sunday said they, in a continued raid, arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in Chittagong and seized a US-made sniper rifle with ammunition, explosives and Bangladesh Army’s combat uniform.
SHIA MOSQUE ATTACK : No headway in probe
There is almost no headway in probe in one month after the gun-attack at a Shia mosque in Bogra that killed one and injured three on November 26.
Rickshaws in limbo in city streets
Sixteen years since the authorities stopped issuing licences to rickshaws, there are about 10 lakh unregistered rickshaws on the streets and a third about all trips are still covered by rickshaws. In the absence of government authorisation, many rickshaws now receive patronage from unions.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS : Attacks, cases browbeat opposition
With only three days left for the election to 234 municipalities, ruling Awami League men seem to be on a spree of filing cases against their rival candidates since Wednesday night in a bid to scare them off electioneering while attacks on rivals continued unabated.
CJ demands twice as many subordinate judges
Chief Justice SK Sinha on Saturday requested the government to raise the number of subordinate court judges by at least two times.
