DHAKA: The much-talked-about meeting of the National Productivity Council (NPC) took place Wednesday with the presence of only two government secretaries out of nine—and ended up without transacting any productive business. The meeting was held after a dead pause for five years that saw

DHAKA: The whereabouts of opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia during the BDR mutiny is under probe, said Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, in a latest significant development on the country’s baroque political front. “The probe findings will be

DHAKA: British Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan MP Wednesday said the trial of war crimes committed during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 should be conducted upholding the rule of law, as the government kick-started the prosecution process.He noted

DHAKA: Ramna thana OC Shibli Noman and SI Altaf Hossain along with five others were Wednesday sued on a murder charge in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, amid a row over ‘custodial deaths’.  Nasima Akhter Shubho, a resident of 327/A, Maghbazar, filed the case with the CMM

DHAKA: The whereabouts of opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia during the BDR mutiny is under probe, said Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, in a latest significant development on the country’s baroque political front. “The probe findings will be

DHAKA: Ministry of Communication, Bangladesh Road Transportation Authority (BRTA) and Traffic Division of DMP are going to start a drive to exile illegal and old vehicles from Thursday to reduce traffic jams and frequent road accidents in the city. The drive will continue until August 31

 DHAKA: Health condition of eminent politician and former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan remained unchanged on Wednesday, doctors said. Bhuiyan has been on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital for a week. ICU chief of the hospital Dr Mirza Nazim

Dhaka: A Bangladesh Rifles junior officer died on Wednesday morning after a fatal fall in a bathroom of the BDR Headquarters at Pilkhana in the city, police said.The deceased was Naik Hiron Mia, 57, hailed from Sonapur village in Sadar thana of Feni district. New Market thana Duty Officer

  CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation (BRTF) has called for a 36-hour transport strike in the district from July 18. The BRTF sponsored the strike announced from a press conference to press home their 15-point demand including reclaiming its Fatikchhari branch

NARAYANGANJ: Two persons were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Araihazar upazila Wednesday.Police and eyewitnesses said the Dhaka-bound microbus collided head on with the goods-laden truck at Purinda at

DHAKA: The government is going to formulate ‘Health Policy-2010’ soon that will ensure access to health services for all, Health Minister AFM Ruhul Haque announced Wednesday. Addressing a meeting of the National Review Committee on Health Policy 2010 at the ministry, the minister said

DHAKA: Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 15. The chairmen of the Education Boards will hand over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at 9:30 am led by the Education Minister. The Education Ministry will

DHAKA: A Court on Wednesday sent BNP Vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury to jail after a day in remand for torching vehicles during the June 27 hartal. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ali Hossain passed the order when police produced him before the court. The court

NATORE: Police detained five leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organissation Chhatra Shibir, including Ameer of Sadar Municipality Unit Atiqul Islam Russell, from a hospital here on Wednesday morning.Other arrested are Jamaat activists Mehedi Hasan, Jalal Uddin, Nur

BOGRA: A court here Wednesday sent the arrested organizing chief of the banned Islamist outfit JMB, Anwar Alam Khoka alias Bhagne Shahid alias Nazmul, on five days’ remand for police interrogation over their mission.Chief Judicial Magistrate court’s Judge Hasanuzzaman granted the

DHAKA: Detained Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah were Wednesday taken on five days’ remand for interrogation in a belated case of war crimes.   Metropolitan Magistrate Roksana Begum Happy passed order granting the remand

BOGRA: A court here Wednesday sent the arrested organizing chief of the banned Islamist outfit JMB, Anwar Alam Khoka alias Bhagne Shahid alias Nazmul, on five days’ remand for police interrogation over their mission.Chief Judicial Magistrate court’s Judge Hasanuzzaman granted the

RAJSHAHI: A Rajshahi court Wednesday fixed September 21 for the next hearing in the sedition case filed against 93 BDR members in the city for their part in last year’s mass mutiny. District Judge Abdus Samad fixed the schedule as police produced the detained border guards before the

DHAKA: Mahanayak of Bangladeshi film industry actor Bulbul Ahmed passed away at about 11:30 Wednesday night. He died at the age of 70.  Bulbul was taken to Square Hospital Wednesday night as he had chest pain, family sources said. The duty-doctors declared him dead at the hospital.  His

RAJSHAHI: A Rajshahi court Wednesday fixed September 21 for the next hearing in the sedition case filed against 93 BDR members in the city for their part in last year’s mass mutiny. District Judge Abdus Samad fixed the schedule as police produced the detained border guards before the