DHAKA: The government is formulating a defense policy with provision for keeping all but national secrets open for public perusal. The policy change is aimed at reducing the gap between the armed forces and the people. A drafting committee, comprising senior officials of the Home,

CHITTAGONG: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun Sunday said the government wouldn’t tolerate police administration’s laxity towards those who are letting loose anarchy to foil war crimes trial.“The law enforcers have been directed to remain alert to face any attempt to foil the

ASHUGANJ: Work on the planned transshipment center here will start in November to facilitate transportation of Indian goods to their landlocked northeastern states. Upon inauguration of the center Bangladesh government can earn Tk 20,000 crore in revenue from the transshipment haulage

DHAKA: Speakers at a seminar called upon the young people to play proactive role for peace and prosperity in the ‘crisis ridden’ South Asia. They also underscored empowerment of SAARC for playing significant role in solving inter-countries conflicts. Academics, journalists and

DHAKA: Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) was Sunday hailed as ‘land-grabber’ by the landowners who lost their lands in the Uttara 3rd-phase project.The trouble now occurred close to home as the protestors staged a human chain in front of the RAJUK building in the city to press

RAJSHAHI: The Central Committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League slapped a moratorium on its Rajshahi University unit on Sunday evening following a bloody factional clash Saturday that left at least 10 students wounded.“All activities of the Rajshahi University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL), despite a public limited company since its inception, has been governed by a board of directors with majority of them bureaucrats. BTCL came into being from now-defunct Bangladesh Telephone and Telegraph Board (BTTB) on June 30

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni Sunday revealed that Bangladesh will provide transit facilities to India for transporting goods and products to their landlocked northeastern states, known as seven sisters. She said Bangladesh will also allow Nepal and Bhutan to use Chittagong and

SAVAR: Police arrested seven garment workers in a case of looting arms and wireless from law enforces during the agitation for minimum wages at Tk 5000 in Ashulia area. They are Biplob, 20, Masud, 24, Raju, 22, Amir Hossain, 24, Anisur Rahman Anis, 26, Mossharaf Hossain, 25, and Kamrul

DHAKA: Bangladesh Private College Honours Teachers’ Association (BPCHTA) Sunday threatened to go on fast unto death if the teachers appointed under honours and Masters quota are not included in the MPO list.  The threat came from a press conference held at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity

GOPALGANJ: A court here on Sunday granted a seven-day remand for Harkatul Jihad (HuJi) leader Mufti Hannan and three-day remand for his associate Arif Hasan Suman for quizzing them in Baniarchar bomb explosion case. Gopalganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Molla Saiful Islam passed the order

DHAKA: BNP took exception as Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee did not meet with opposition leader Khaleda Zia during his groundbreaking trip to Dhaka Saturday.The main opposition party’s Vice-Chairman Shamser Mobin Chowdhury, also ex-foreign secretary, raised the point of

DHAKA: The special committee on constitutional amendment Sunday resumed its meeting that was adjourned on July 29, discussing the highly important matter of rewriting the country’s constitution for a regime change. With committee chair and deputy leader of the House Syeda Sajeda

DHAKA: The High Court forbade the Public Service Commission from publishing results of the 30th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination until further order, as some candidates alleged the exam was marred by flaws.An HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik

DHAKA: Worried over the existing gas crisis, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during a stocktaking meeting Sunday blasted the previous BNP government’s boastful claim that the country is floating on gas.      “Why it was stated that the country was floating on gas?” she questioned,

DHAKA: New Delhi has agreed to allow trucks from Nepal to enter Bangladesh through the land customs station at Banglabandha, apparently reciprocating the transit facility India seeks from Dhaka. “India is fully ready now,” Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said at a joint press

BRAHMANBARIA: Export-import trade through A Akhaura land port bordering India’s landlocked northeast would resume Sunday, after suspension Saturday over the death of an Indian worker run over by a bus.    General Secretary M Monir Hossain Babul of C&F Association of the land port

RAJSHAHI: At least 10 students were injured in a fierce factional clash of Chhatra League at Rajshahi University on Saturday afternoon in a sequel to rivalries for establishing supremacy over the campus, witnesses said. Local administration imposed restrictions on the campus following the

DHAKA: In a suspected move to halt the war crimes trial, huge amounts of firearms and foreign currencies are being brought into the country through at least 10 routes, according to intelligence sources.The smugglers of firearms managed to escape the eyes of the law-enforcing agencies,

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League`s Advisory Council Member Suranjit Sengupta Saturday said the war-crime trial could also be held under the Collaborators Act now as the cancellation of the constitutional 5th amendment by the Supreme Court revived the law. "Trial of crimes against humanity