The 27th anniversary of the death of Majeda Begum, wife of Tofazzol Hossain Manik Mia and former chairman board of...
Day: January 16, 2014
Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Saran will meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday.The meeting will be held at Khaleda’s Gulshan...
A rise in the incidents of killing, hijacking, robbery, theft and crimes of other types including sexual assault and gang rape is adding tension in the country in recent time. Four persons of a family at Burungamari upazila in Kurigram were killed at their home yesterday and nobody knew who committed the gruesome murders. In Jessore a Jubo League leader was similarly shot at and killed and the killer escaped undetected. The number of daily incidents is hefty and hardly...
Bangladesh’s has achieved remarkable growth on clothing exports to the Eurozone and US markets during the first half of the current fiscal defying all negative things including intermittent hartals and blockades hitting hard production and shipment, official sources said. The country’s apparel exports to the EU and US rose by 21.10 per cent and 13.25 per cent respectively during the July-December period of the current fiscal as against the same period of the previous fiscal, according to a data compiled...
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia again called for fresh dialogue with the government, with request to take initiative in order...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that half of Syria’s population now “urgently need humanitarian aid”.He was speaking at a donor conference in Kuwait to raise funds for the worsening humanitarian crisis.The UN is asking for $6.5bn (£4bn) over the coming year for Syria, its biggest ever request for a single crisis.Meanwhile, Syria’s deputy foreign minister has said Western intelligence agencies have visited Damascus to discuss combating radical Islamists.“Half of the total population of Syrian people, nearly 9.3 million individuals,...
AP, BangkokThailand’s prime minister said Wednesday that elections due in less than three weeks will go ahead despite intense pressure by her opponents to postpone the vote. The statement came after an overnight shooting attack on anti-government protesters in Bangkok wounded two people and ratcheted up tensions in the country’s deepening political crisis.Yingluck Shinawatra had offered to meet with rivals Wednesday to discuss an Election Commission proposal to delay the Feb. 2 ballot. But protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban and the...
The European Parliament (EP) is scheduled to see a debate on recent Bangladesh elections at its debate chamber in Strasbourg, France on Thursday. The debate will focus on fundamental freedoms, human rights and democracy in general in Bangladesh, according to the EP.The EP included debate on Bangladesh in its agenda following a request from a number of its members.They are Cristian Dan Preda, Bernd Posselt, Filip Kaczmarek, Ivo Belet, Tunne Kelam, Elena Basescu, Monica Luisa Macovei, Mariya Gabriel, Philippe Boulland,...
Staff Reporter : Two suspected killers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Halishahar in Chittagong city on Wednesday when police tried to arrest the accused in a cop killing case. Three police personnel, including Sub-Inspector Pritom, sustained bullet injuries during the encounter, said Kazi Matiur Islam, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Double Mooring Police Station.The deceased have been identified, as Nasif, 25, resident of Halishahar and Rajib, 25, resident of the port city’s Double Mooring area . The encounter occurred...
UNB, Dhaka : The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly denied the authenticity of two documents allegedly leaked from its system and posted online containing sensational revelations about possible deployment of Indian troops in the besieged border district of Satkhira.A pair of leaked documents – one fax and one email – seemingly containing correspondence between high officials of MOFA based in Dhaka and the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi were submitted anonymously online on Tuesday, and quickly went viral over...
