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Free footpaths of motorbikes for pedestrians: HC

The High Court on Monday asked the authorities to stop motorcycles on the city’s sidewalks to ensure free movement of the pedestrians. A bench of Justice Mohammad Bazlur Rahman and Justice Md. Habibul Gani issued the directives after hearing two public interest litigation writ petitions. Full story

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CNG stations closure for two more hours

The government has decided to suspend dispensation of gas in CNG filling stations by two more hours and keep shut two state-run fertiliser factories to divert more gas to power generation. Full story

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Upazila chairmen’s pay to double

The government is set to double monthly remuneration of upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen ignoring objections from the finance ministry, officials told New Age on Monday. They said that a chairman would get Tk 20,500 a month up from Tk 10,500 and a vice chairman would get Tk 14,500 up from Tk 7,500, a month after the raise. Full story

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Voters’ roll update could be delayed

Uncertainty looms over whether the Election Commission will be able to begin door-to-door visits on March 10 for update of the electoral roll. Failing to update the electoral rolls, the previous panel of election commissioners had left behind a roadmap for the task fixing tentatively March 10 to begin the update work. Full story

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PM’s advisers are India’s men: Ershad

The Jatiya Party chairman, HM Ershad, has castigated the prime minister’s advisers for ‘their advocacy for India’, saying they were ‘India’s men’. Full story

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BSF tortures six in Dinajpur border

India’s Border Security Force picked up a Bangladeshi and tortured five others in the Daudpur-Bhaigarh border at Birampur in Dinajpur early Monday. The victim, Abdul Jalil, 40, of Mahmudpur in the upazila, was picked by the Indian guards while five others — Golap, 24, Sumon, 18, Mirajul, 32, Nuruzzaman, 45, and Erfan, 18 — were admitted in hospital after being tortured, local sources said. Full story

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Hasina alerts AL activists to possible ‘sabotage’ on March 12

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday asked her cabinet colleagues and Dhaka city lawmakers of the Awami League to alert the ruling party activists in their respective areas to possible acts of ‘sabotage’ by the opposition in the capital on March 12. Full story

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Govt fears ‘grand rally for its political bankruptcy: Fakhrul

The BNP acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has said the government fears the opposition’s March 12 ‘grand rally’ as it has become ‘politically bankrupt’. Full story

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‘Al-Qaeda fighters’ kill 27 cops in west Iraq

Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen, some wearing army uniforms, raged through a western Iraq city Monday in a pre-dawn shooting spree that killed 27 policemen, including two officers killed execution-style. Full story

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Ministers, MPs to stay on roads Mar 12: Minister

A senior minister on Monday told the parliament that the government would not allow opposition parties to jeopardise public safety and peace in the name of their march towards Dhaka on March 12 demanding reinstatement of the non-party, election-time government. Full story

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House witnesses brazen personal attacks

Awami League lawmakers on Monday launched brazen personal attacks on the opposition leader Khaleda Zia and former lawmaker Abdul Kader Siddiqui while speaking on the thanksgiving motion on the president’s address to the house. Full story

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Hearing in SQC charges ends

The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday posted for March 13 the pronouncement of its order on all applications filed by the detained Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. Full story

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ICT order on Ghulam Azam’s plea for home-made food today

The International Crimes Tribunal is scheduled for today to pass its order whether to allow the detained former Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami amir Ghulam Azam to get home-made food in the prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital. Full story

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Farmers fear boro failures

Boro farmers around the country, particularly those in the northern districts, are worried that their crops might die unless they receive more electricity to power their irrigation pumps or there is rain in the next couple of weeks. Full story

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6 die in separate incidents in Dhaka

Six people died in separate incidents and an unnamed woman was found dead in places in the capital city on Monday. At Sutrapur, the torso of a man, aged about 20, was found in Harishchandra Bose Lane in the afternoon. Full story

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Mar 7, 1971 installed parallel govt: Pak media

As the government is set to recall Sheikh Mujib’s historic March 7, 1971 speech tomorrow, Pakistani media and their former military officials acknowledged the address to have marked the end of Pakistan 41 years ago. Full story

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Schoolgirl killed in Keraniganj

A schoolgirl was killed by assailants at Mandanail under Keraniganj Model Police Station on Monday afternoon. The dead is Lamia Aktar, 14, Class VIII student of Kalindi Girls High School and daughter of Nantu Sarkar of Jurain Sarkar Bari in capital’s Jurain. She was staying at her grandmother’s house in Keraniganj upazila on the outskirts of the capital. Full story

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4m living in Dhaka slums: Ashraf

The local government minister, Syed Ashraful Islam, informed parliament on Monday that about four million people are living in 4,720 slums across capital Dhaka. He disclosed the information replying to a question from ruling Awami League MP Sanzida Khanam from Dhaka-4 constituency. Full story

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GD filed against Fakhrul, Khoka

A general diary has been filed with Ramna police station on Monday against the BNP acting general secretary, Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and convenor of Dhaka City BNP Sadeque Hossain Khoka. Full story

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Sri Lankan dies ‘trying to set buried alive record’

A 24-year-old Sri Lankan paramilitary trooper died while attempting to set what he believed was the world record for the longest time to be buried alive, the police said Monday. Full story

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