DHAKA: The government is minutely monitoring the recent BSF-Khasia attacks on Bangladeshis on Jaintapur border in Sylhet, the home ministry stated Monday, after the Indian envoy in Dhaka explained the situation.     Rajeet Mitter, Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh, was called in

DHAKA: More than 23 Lakh students will sit for this year’s primary terminal examinations to be held in October. Abu Alam Muhammad Shaheed Khan, Secretary of Primary and Mass Education Ministry told banglanews24.com.bd Monday, “The Primary Terminal Exam will be held in late October

BAGERHAT: Mongla Port Municipality mayor and BNP leader Molla Abdul Jalil has been suspended following the submission of charge sheets in three graft cases filed against him by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).  Local Government Ministry in a circular Monday issued the suspension

CHUADANGA: Transport owners and workers of the district called off indefinite strike on all inter-district routes Monday on assurance of fulfilling their demands.District Transport Owners’ and Workers’ Oikya Parishad took the decision after a fruitful meeting with Chuadanga Deputy

DHAKA: Professionals of different sectors Monday floated a new platform styled ‘Forum for Physical Development in Bangladesh (FPD)’ to assist government in doing infrastructure development.The forum will also uphold specialized opinions before the government.A seven-member committee

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on Sunday night arrested two suspected killers of businessman Saiful from a restaurant at Uttara.The suspects are Mohammad Iqubal and Nur Alam.RAB officials, addressing a press conference at the RAB headquarters Monday, said Iqbal and his

DHAKA: The High Court Monday asked the government to form a committee to investigate custodial deaths, as a recent HC warning apparently went unheeded. In the court order the Home Secretary has been given a week to form the committee.  The HC order came from the bench of justice AHM

BARISAL: Two suspected robbers and extremist leaders were killed in a ‘crossfire’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Nayakandi village in Muladi upazila early Monday.The deseased were identified as Majnu Khan, 45, a cadre of Sarbahara group, and Kalam Sarder alias

DHAKA: Additional Secretary (OSD) of Establishment Ministry Dilip Kumar Basak was transferred to Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology for the same post, said an official circular Monday.Thee other bureaucrats of Deputy Secretary level were transferred in another

BENAPOLE: Trans-border trading through Benapole-Petrapole Land Port halted Monday for a strike enforced in India in protest against price hike of essentials, including fuels.   Land-port sources said hundreds of strike-supporters hoisted red flag atop the main gateway to Petrapole

DHAKA:  Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate on Monday assured the BNP lawmakers of government permission for sending lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee abroad for better treatment.The speaker gave the assurance while an 18-member parliamentary delegation of BNP led by opposition Chief whip

Chittagong: The police authority withdrew Additional Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Abdul Jalil Mandal to the headquarters in Dhaka Monday. “The order was issued over a fax message signed by the Deputy Inspector-General (DIG-admin) at about 11 am,” an official

DHAKA: The European Union (EU) has expressed concern over the labour unrest in readymade garment industries.A team led by European Commission Delegation to Bangladesh Ambassador Dr. Stefan Frowein met Labour and Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain at his Secretariat

DHAKA: Before giving consent to sellout of gas to a third party by the exploring multinational company Cairn, the government wants to be sure of sufficient use of the fuel in the country instead of rushing for export. The Energy Ministry in a letter on June 30 directed Petrobangla to

DHAKA:  Dhaka Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka and 12 others sued of late in a graft case by the Anti-Corruption Commission Monday secured anticipatory bail from the High Court. A division bench, comprising Justice Afzal Hossain Ahmed and Justice Mohammad Abdul Hafiz, set them at large on

    * 23500 crore bad loans in 31 commercial banks    * Loan disbursed violating central bank’s instruction.    * Central bank’s “early warning” in the offing.DHAKA: The amount of bad loan in country’s commercial banks has reached in a risky point and this risk is

NARAYANGANJ: At least 20 people still remained missing till Monday afternoon after a trawler with over a hundred passengers capsized in the Sitalakhya River on Sunday night, police and local sources said. Setting out from Tanbazar Gudara Ghat in Narayanganj, the mechanized ferryboat sank

BENAPOLE: A locally crowned ‘top terror’ was killed in an attack by his opponents at Shourdah Bazaar in Sharsha upazila on Sunday midnight. The deceased was identified as Arab Ali, son of Rakam Ali of village Laxmanpur in Sharsha upazila. He was wanted in a dozen cases, including

DHAKA: In the wake of student unrest, authorities on Monday deferred the MA final examinations of 2007-08 sesssion for a month. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the academic committee. The students later unlocked the rooms of the department which were locked on Sunday by

One RMG factory declared closed, nearby ones vacated under unsolicited ‘leave’ SAVAR: A garment factory was declared closed in the industrial hub of Ashulia on Monday morning amid a repeat of labour unrest on a wide scale, after a lull following a recent turmoil. Local sources said