China keen on road, rail links
August 30, 2010
China is keen to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Bangladesh on road and rail communications between the two countries.
Visiting Governor of Yunnan province Qin Guangrong expressed his government’s desire when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the PM’s Office yesterday morning.
Khaleda’s nephew Duke shown arrested in Aug 21 case
August 26, 2010
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s nephew Saiful Islam Duke was shown arrested Wednesday night in connection with the August 21 grenade attack case.
Elevated expressway gets cabinet nod
August 23, 2010
The Cabinet on Monday approved the long-expected Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE) route.
Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad informed this to reporters after a regular cabinet meeting held at the secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasian in the chair.
Severe water crisis within next two decades, say experts
August 22, 2010
Bangladesh will face severe water crisis within next couple of decades due to random contamination of surface and ground water, absence of comprehensive water sharing with neighbouring countries and mismanagement in preserving rain water.
Bangla Bhai’s aide held in Naogaon
August 19, 2010
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) early Thursday arrested a close associate of executed JMB second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai at Atrai upazila in Naogaon.
HC scraps Nazmul Huda’s jail term
August 18, 2010
The High Court on Wednesday scrapped 12 years’ jail sentence of former BNP communications minister Nazmul Huda in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Provide security to Gulshan sisters: HC
August 17, 2010
A High Court bench on Tuesday directed the police to provide security to the daughters of Sadequr Rahman and Romana Nargis who were killed by miscreants in March at Gulshan in the capital.
The division bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain asked the officers in charge of Gulshan and Badda police stations to give security to Sumaiya Yasmin Bithi and Nilufar Yasmin Iti, with immediate effect.
2 outlaws killed in Rajbari factional ‘gunfight’
August 3, 2010
Two regional leaders of the outlawed organisation Biplabi Communist Party (BCP) were killed in a factional ‘gunfight’ in Pangsha upazila of Rajbari early Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as Abdul Aziz, 38, and Dip Kumar Biswas, 30, of Kashba Majail area of the upazila. Aziz was accused in two murder cases, police said.
PM warns against garment anarchy, sabotage
July 31, 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday warned against any attempt to destabilise the garments sector as a section of workers took to the streets despite the announcement of the new wage structure raising the pay by 80 percent at a time.
“No anarchy and sabotage in this sector will be tolerated,” she said in a teleconference from her Ganobhaban official residence, marking the launching of Bangabandhu Poverty Reduction Complex of BGMEA at Tungipara of Gopalganj.
4 Jamaat leaders to appear in tribunal Aug 2
July 29, 2010
The International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday issued a production warrant to the prisons authorities to produce the four top detained Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders before the tribunal on August 2.
The four Jamaat men are party Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and two senior assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah.