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33 top opposition leaders sent to jail

Police-protesters clash rocks court area (Countrywide hartal today)

16 May 2012

Dhaka:BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal for today (Thursday) in protest as a lower-court order sent 33 prominent opposition leaders to jail after rejecting their bail petitions in an arson case.

The announcement came hours after 33 leaders of the 18-party alliance, including BNP acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, were sent to jail Wednesday.
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The court ordered them all into jail in connection with a case filed on charge of torching a ...more

BNP-Jamaat clash with cops in Ctg: 150 hurt

Ctg city turns into battlefield

12 May 2012

Chittagong: At least 150 people, including policemen and journalists, were injured as BNP and Jamaat activists fought a pitched battle with law enforcers in the port city on Sunday afternoon.

The clash erupted around 3:30pm after police intercepted processions of BNP and Jamaat heading for a protest rally organised by BNP’s Chittagong city unit in front of the party office at Kazir ...more

Record success rate in SSC examinations

86.32 pc pass this year against 82.15 pc last year

07 May 2012

Dhaka: A record success rate (86.32 per cent) in this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams, under eight general education boards, has given students, their parents and teachers something to cheer about. Last year, it was 82.16 per cent. The number of students scoring the Grade Point Average (GPA) 5 has also increased significantly this year. The combined pass rate of all 10 ...more

200 dead and missing as Guwahati, India ferry sinks

01-05-2012

GUWAHATI, INDIA: An overcrowded river ferry broke in two and sank in northeast India during a severe storm on Monday, leaving at least 105 people dead and almost as many missing, police said.

As rescuers struggled in heavy rain to find survivors weeping relatives lined the shores of the fast-flowing Brahmaputra river in Assam state, desperate for news of family ...more

Khaleda Zia's deadline hits dead end today

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip may change political scenario

28 Apr 2012

DHAKA - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Bangladesh may change the country’s latest torrid political scenario, including a possible street confrontation in the aftermath of opposition BNP’s four-day ultimatum for the government to trace its disappeared leader Ilyas Ali.

“As Hillary Clinton will visit Bangladesh on May 5-6, it wouldn’t be wise for us to place before the world community a trouble-torn country,” a highly placed source in the main opposition party told ...more

9.26 lakh appear at HSC examinations today

31 Mar 2012

DHAKA - The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations begin on Sunday simultaneously under the ten education boards across the country.

Bangla first paper exam will be held today. Some 9.26 lakh examinees have registered to sit for the examinations. This is for the first time the examinees facing creative type questions in Bangla first paper. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will visit the Dhaka College exam centre on the first day. The ...more

Bus Crashes into Madaripur Ditch17 killed, 30 injured

24 Fev 2012

Barishal: Seventeen people were reported killed and around 30 injured as a bus swerved off the Dhaka-Barisal highway into a ditch in Madaripur district on Friday morning in a fatal road accident. Five of the deceased were identified as Sobhan Mia, 40, of Dud Khali village in Madarpur Sadar, Sirajul Islam Khandakar, 50, of Mostofapur village in Madarpur Sadar, Goni Kha, 50, of Rajoir village of Rajoir upazila, Monir, 22, of Jajira upazila in Shariatpur and Javed Mattabor, 50, of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur ...more

16 killed, 65 injured in road accidents

19 Feb 2012
Dhaka: At least 16 people, including two policemen and two female schoolteachers, were killed and 65 injured in fatal road accidents in the capital, Rajbari, Tangail, Narail and Kushtia.

In Dhaka, three people, including a truck driver and his two helpers, were killed as a rice-laden covered van crashed into their stone-laden truck from the back at about 4.30am, ...more

No security of life: Khaleda

12 Feb 2012

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia says common people have no security of life as law-and-order situation in the country has deteriorated gravely.

The opposition leader made the observation in a condolence message following the horrendous killing of a journalist couple — Maasranga TV news editor Sagar Sarwar and ATN Bangla’s senior reporter Mehrun Runi — at their West Rajabazar rented house on Friday night.

The former prime minister and leader of the opposition in parliament expressed deep ...more

Charges against Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam returned

26 Dec 2011

Dhaka: The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday returned the charges brought against former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam regarding his involvement in crimes against humanity, saying the prosecution did not follow proper way in submitting the charges.

The court neither held any hearing on the 52 charges brought against Ghulam Azam nor on the petition that sought issuing an ...more

97.26pc pass in primary terminal exams

26 Dec 2011

Dhaka: Female primary students outshone male as about 9 per cent more female students passed in this year`s primary terminal examinations, results of which were published on Monday morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received a hard copy and a CD containing both the primary and ebtedayee terminal exams results which were held across the country last month.

The exams were held in grading system this year with the percentage of pass in primary terminal exams 97.26 % while 91.28 % ebtedayee examinees have come out ...more

2 killed in bomb blasts, arson in Dhaka, Sylhet

18 Dec 2011

Dhaka: BNP programme foiled; at least 9 vehicles torched; about 300 arrested
Bomb blasts and bus arsons left two people dead and scores of others injured in the capital city of Dhaka and Sylhet Sunday, in a latest spell of outbreaks in the political arena.

In the capital, a youth was killed and another received severe burn injuries in a cocktail explosion in Motijheel commercial area at about 9:30 am.

In Sylhet a bus passenger was burnt to death as agitated BNP men set the bus on fire protesting police action on ...more

Fire in Kolkata's AMRI hospital: 90 killed

09 Dec 2011

KOLKATA, In a tragedy of monumental proportions, nearly 90 persons, including a Bangladesh national died after inhaling smoke caused by a fire at a multi-speciality, centrally air conditioned, seven-storey private hospital in the metropolis early Friday.

The hapless persons died at the 190-bed AMRI hospital in south Kolkata, Joint Commissioner of Police Shivaji Ghosh said. "Most of the deaths were caused by suffocation," Fire Service and Disaster Management Minister Javed Khan told reporters in Kolkata.
Gauranga Mandal, a Bangladeshi killed in the massive fire at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata, is from Sirajdikhan ...more

Virender Sehwag scores highest in an ODI innings

08 Dec 2011

It took nearly four decades for a batsman to score the first double-century in one-day international cricket but less than two years for the second. Virender Sehwag, the batsman most touted to break Sachin Tendulkar's record for the highest individual ODI score, didn't merely break it - he shattered it and raised the bar so high that it's hard to imagine anyone, apart from Sehwag himself, raising it higher. Unlike Tendulkar in Gwalior, ...more

BNP calls hartal in city for Sunday

30 Nov 2011

Dhaka: The main opposition BNP last night called a dawn-to-dusk hartal for Sunday in the capital in protest against splitting the Dhaka City Corporation into two.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir informed newsmen about the party's decision at its chairperson's Gulshan office.

The decision came from a meeting of the national standing committee of BNP, with its Chairperson ...more

If we had money, we’d divide DCC into four: PM

30 Nov 2011

Dhaka: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said had her government enough money the Dhaka City Corporation would have been divided into four parts instead of two for the betterment of the city dwellers.

"I wonder how such a big area like Dhaka is run by only one mayor. There were eight parliamentary seats in Dhaka in the past, but now the number has reached 15. Dhaka was not divided because of that. Only Allah knows why some people are shouting so loud against the split of Dhaka. It was done only to ensure services to ...more

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) finally Sliced

30 Nov 2011

Dhaka: Parliament on Tuesday passed the city corporation amendment bill, sounding the death knell of the integrated Dhaka City Corporation which was born in 1990.

The House passed the Local Government (City Corporation) (Amendment) Bill-2011 by voice vote in absence of the main opposition and its key allies.
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam ...more

PM Hasina seeks India’s explanation

23 Nov 2011
Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asserted that Bangladesh will not accept any unilateral move by India to implement the Tipaimukh barrage project.

Dhaka will soon send an emissary to New Delhi to learn details on the Tipaimukh project, she told parliament on Wednesday.
It is widely believed that the proposed Tipaimukh project will have devastating impacts on Bangladesh.
“No country will be allowed to unilaterally conduct anything on Tipaimukh project that might harm the interests ...more

PM, ministers to pay tax on salaries

17 Nov 2011
Dhaka: The cabinet on Thursday approved two bills with provisions to levy tax on the remunerations of the prime minister, ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers.

The weekly meeting of the cabinet approved the bills seeking amendments to the Prime Minister’s (Remunerations and Privileges) Act 1975 and the Ministers, Ministers of the State and Deputy Ministers (Remunerations and Privileges) Act 1973...more

Charge framed against former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and 9 others

15 Nov 2011
Chittagong: A court here on Tuesday framed charges against the 11 additional accused, including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, in the two sensational 10-truck arms haul cases.

Judge SM Mozibur Rahman of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 fixed 29 November for taking depositions in the cases with which the trial of the much-talked-about cases will ...more

Bangladesh Government raises fuel prices
by 5 Tk. Per litre...

10 Nov 2011.
Dhaka - The government has raised the prices of octane, diesel, petrol, kerosene and furnace oil by Tk 5 per litre.

According to a government circular, the prices will become effective from Thursday midnight. Following the raise, the price of diesel will be Tk 56, kerosene Tk 56, octane Tk 89, petrol Tk 86 and furnace oil Tk 55. The last price hike of Sep 18 saw price of furnace oil go up by Tk 8 per litre. It was Tk 5 for other kinds of fuel — kerosene, diesel, petrol and octane. This time however ...more

8 fall from Train roof top to death

06 Nov 2011
DHAKA: Going home to celebrate Eid with kith and kin has turned into a nightmare due to long gridlock on highways, disarray in the train schedule and overcrowded launches. At least eight people died after falling off the roofs of two trains in Joypurhat, Naogaon and Tangail early Saturday and Friday night. The victims were going home to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, with their near and dear ones. The Eid will be celebrated in the country on...more