A Union Parishad chairman at Natore’s Shingra has been shot and hacked to death by assailants. The 56-year old victim,...
Day: January 18, 2014
risingbd.com: At least 18 people were killed in a stampede that broke out on early Saturday near the Malabar Hill...
BSS, Dhaka :Boarder Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods worth about Taka 566.76 crore from January to December last year across the country. The recovered drugs included 5,32,141 bottles of phensidyl, 10,82,548 yaba tablets, 1,83,442 bottles of foreign wine, 64,87 litres of locally produced wine, 5,438 kilograms of ganja, 34.781 KG heroin and 49,646 drug injections. In the last year, members of BGB arrested 11,966 people on charges of illegal movement and smuggling, a press release of BGB said.Of the...
The government has sealed the press of the Bengali Daily Inqilab on Thursday night for publishing a highly controversial story thus virtually banning the publication of the daily rendering its newsmen and press workers out of jobs. The action came as a big shock only to see that yet another newspaper has been forced to go out of publication, in addition to three more TV stations stopped functioning under the tenure of the present Awami League government.We know that the...
PTI, New Delhi :The European Union on Friday termed Narendra Modi as a “person of great prominence” on India’s political landscape and said it respects the judicial verdict that has given clean chit to the Gujarat chief minister for 2002 riots, on which there were “enormous” concerns around the world.EU Ambassador to India Joao Cravinho said the views of the 28-member bloc on the Gujarat riots have been based on India’s judicial and political process and it engages with Modi...
PTI, New Delhi :Signalling that Congress is ready for the battle ahead in the Lok Sabha elections, party president Sonia Gandhi yesterday attacked the BJP saying its “divisive” ideology is the “biggest threat” while it puts up a “pretence” of moderation.Facing BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi as the main opponent, she said secularism was a matter of deep faith for the Congress and not a matter of political compulsion.In 20-minute speech, she also touched on the issue of corruption, a...
UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) on Friday condemned Thursday’s police raid on the Daily Inqilab office and the arrest of its journalists.Expressing resentment at the incident, BFUJ president Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul, its general secretary Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, and DUJ president Omar Faruk and its general secretary Shaban Mahmud, in a joint statement, demanded immediate release of the arrested journalists.They also urged the Inqilab authorities to follow responsible journalism and refrain from...
UNB, Dhaka :Though nearly a month has elapsed since the gruesome incident, there has been no headway in the investigation into the city’s Gopibagh six-murder case.The investigators who are sure it was a planned murder over a religious conflict said they are yet to get any clue to the identities of the murderers.Six people, including a local ‘saint’ along with his banker son, were slaughtered by miscreants at RK Mission Road, Gopibagh on December 21 last. The slain ‘saint’ had...
UNB, Dhaka :With a focus on delivering much more development outcomes, newly inducted Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has hinted at revisiting the existing plans of the government to ensure that those could fulfill more expectations of the country’s people.“I’ll have to review those plans, including the Perspective Plan and Sixth Five Year Plan. I’ll have to see whether those are fulfilling more expectations of the country’s people,” he said in an interview with UNB on his assumption of office...
BBC Online :India’s governing Congress Party has named Rahul Gandhi to lead its general election campaign this year.But it stopped...
Sagar Biswas :The ruling party Awami League [AL] will soon reorganize its units from city to grassroots level to counter the anti-government movement of BNP and is allies.The AL with the 14-party alliance partners and other like-minded parties will also make a coordinated move against the opposition movement when it is facing severe pressure from different quarters over January 5 election, insiders said.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also president of AL, has already asked the senior party leaders to...
UNB, Gazipur :BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman was released from Kashimpur jail on Friday morning as she secured bail on Thursday in a case filed under explosives act.Jail sources said, she came out from the women unit of the jail around 11:15 am. A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to Selima Rahman on Tk 20,000 bond. Plainclothes police arrested Selima Rahman from her Gulshan residence on January 7.On January 4, miscreants hurled several crude bombs targeting the office of Deputy...
