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Women farmers deserve recognition: economists

Economists and academics on Monday demanded introduction of separate cards for the growing number of women farmers to recognize the contribution to the economy and ensure their rights. Full story

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EC working for nat’l polls based on EVM

Despite opposition parties objecting to the use of electronic voting machines, the Election Commission is making preparations for EVM-based national elections. Full story

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BGMEA signs MoU for DMCH burn unit

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association signed a memorandum of understanding with Dhaka Medical College Hospital to expand its facilities and raise awareness of burn injury safety at BGMEA building in Dhaka Monday. Full story

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Cabinet okays draft of proposed amendment to civil code

The government on Monday approved draft of the proposed Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2012, having a provision of out of court settlement of cases by the litigant parties, officials said. Full story

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EU-SAARC cooperation is a new global challenge: speakers at discussion

Former caretaker government’s chief advisor Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman on Monday said foreigners cannot resolve the local political crises and the nation needs to resolve its problems by itself. Full story

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HC summons Ershadul Bari, BOU registrar

The High Court on Monday summoned Bangladesh Open University’s former vice-chancellor professor Ershadul Bari and its incumbent registrar over distortion of the history of the liberation war in the university’s two textbooks. Full story

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China keen to provide support to build deep seaport: envoy

China is keen to provide technical and financial support to build a deep seaport at Sonadia in Chittagong, newly appointed Chinese ambassador said on Monday. Full story

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BGB pushes back 6 Rohingya intruders

Six citizens of Myanmar were pushed back by the Border Guard Bangladesh on Sunday night through Nikhyanchari upazila border in Bandarban. Full story

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FS recovering

The foreign secretary, Mijarul Quayes, now receiving treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, is improving, a foreign ministry source said Monday. Full story

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Court points out limitation of ‘judiciary system’

A Dhaka court trying the BDR carnage case on Monday said that several hundred accused have already languished in the jail for three years due to limitation of the ‘judiciary system.’ Full story

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President asks Air Force to keep reputation in UN missions

The president, Zillur Rahman, has urged the members of the Bangladesh Air Force to keep up their reputation in UN peacekeeping missions showing higher level of professionalism. Full story

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2 of a family among 3 killed in road mishap

Three people, including a man and his daughter, were killed and another was injured when a truck crashed into a rickshaw-van at Kulpoddi Chowrasta of the district town Monday morning. Full story

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Flats for SC judges by 2013

The government will construct a high-rise apartment building for residential purposes of the Supreme Court’s judges in one year time. Full story

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3 workers diagnosed with bird flu in capital

Detection of three new human infections with the deadly H5NI strain of bird flu in a week has set alarm bells ringing as scientists have found evidence of the virus in the live-bird market in crowded Dhaka. Full story

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Udichi remembers bombing victims today

Udichi Shilpi Goshthi will observe today the 13th anniversary of the terror attack on its convention in Jessore which had left 10 people killed and scores injured. Full story

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Journos’ killers will be identified, hopes UK envoy

The British high commissioner in Dhaka, Robert Winnington Gibson, is hopeful that the killers of the journalist couple would be identified after proper investigation. Full story

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Charge framing against Tarique now Mar 18

A special tribunal in Dhaka on Monday deferred until March 18 the hearing of framing charges against the BNP senior vice-chairman, Tarique Rahman, and other new accused in twin cases filed over the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004. Full story

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Ali Aksad’s death anniv today

The 3rd anniversary of death of former Bangladesh Peace Council president Ali Aksad, also a journalist, will be observed today. Full story

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