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  • Artworks tinted with natural colours on display
  • Equal maternity leave for all working women called for
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  • UN mission boosted as another 23 die in Syria
  • Abbas warns of ‘national disaster’
  • Govt’s waste management project falters
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  • NBR moves against tax evasion thru transfer pricing
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  • 4 killed, 5 injured in lightning strikes in Jamalpur
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  • Ghulam Azam indicted
  • Violence in Ctg as BNP stages demo
  • Suranjit gets ‘clean chit’
  • RMG workers on rampage
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Ghulam Azam indicted

Ghulam Azam
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday indicted detained former Jamaat amir Ghulam Azam on 61 charges of crimes against humanity including murder, torture, conspiracy, planning, incitement and complicity in atrocities committed during 1971 war of independence. Full story

Violence in Ctg as BNP stages demo

An overturned car is in flames, left, during a clash between the BNP-led opposition activists and the police, right, in Chittagong 
on Sunday. — New Age photo
More than 150 people, including cops and journalists, were injured at Chittagong and elsewhere in clashes between police and activists of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 18-Party Alliance during its nationwide demonstrations on Sunday. Full story

Suranjit gets ‘clean chit’

The inquiry committee formed to probe the railway cash scam submitted its report on Sunday without taking statement of Ali Azam, the driver of the APS to ex-railways minister Suranjit Sengupta. Full story

RMG workers on rampage

Rapid Action Battalion personnel patrol the area of Banglabazar at Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday after clashes between apparel workers and the police in the area. — New Age photo
At least 100 people were injured and more than 300 apparel factories were closed for the day as garment workers fought pitched battles with the police at Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital for the second consecutive day on Sunday. Full story

Politicisation in admin worries Muhith

The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Sunday said politicisation in the administration, especially in the police department, was ‘a matter of concern’. He expressed his concern at a pre-budget parley... Full story

Journalists plan protest at govt failure

Senior journalists of the print and electronic media on Sunday urged government action against agencies that have failed to trace and arrest the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi. Full story

Hearing on HC PIL rule against accidents stalled

The High Court is yet to dispose of three rules it issued earlier regarding traffic accidents while such accidents continued killing at least nine people in a day. ‘The bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice... Full story

Top Afghan peace negotiator killed

Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, the police said, dealing a massive blow to the country’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with Taliban insurgents. Full story

Warrant issued for arrest of RCC mayor

A labour court in Rajshahi on Sunday issued warrant for the arrest of city mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, also an Awami League leader, and three officers of the city corporation on charge of contempt of court. Full story

BGMEA decides to keep factories open from today

Having been assured by the home minister of taking necessary security steps, apparel manufacturers on Sunday decided to keep their factories open in the troubled Ashulia area from today... Full story

Bus driver remanded in custody

A policeman takes Mofizul Islam, the driver of the bus that killed journalist Bibhas Chandra Saha, to the Detective Branch for interrogation in Dhaka on Sunday. — Ali Hossain Mintu
The chief metropolitan magistrate’s court in Dhaka on Sunday allowed the driver of the bus that on Friday killed journalist Bibhas Chandra Saha to be remanded in police custody for three days for interrogation in a case filed on charge of culpable homicide. Full story

Fakhrul, others given 3 days to surrender

A third bench of the High Court on Sunday gave 32 opposition alliance leaders including, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, three days to surrender in the magistrate’s court... Full story

Bangladeshi found dead in Thai hotel

A Bangladeshi Rotarian was found dead and two others were lying unconscious in a Pattaya hotel room in Thailand on Friday, reports online news agency pattayanews.com. Full story

Muhith bins second WB graft allegation

The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Sunday again dismissed charges of corruption in the bidding process of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project saying the second allegation by the World Bank was... Full story

FM seeks help from Int’l community

International community can play a role in creating favourable conditions for repatriation of Rohingyas to their homes in Myanmar in dignity and freedom, foreign minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday. Full story

NATO a step closer to getting out of Afghan war

NATO took a step closer to getting out of the Afghan war on Sunday as the Kabul government announced local forces would take over control of security in a large new slice of the country. Full story

Fire in gas pipe line at Jatrabari

Fire fighters hose down a fire that broke out from a leaked gas pipe in the construction site of the Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover at Jatrabari in Dhaka early Sunday.— Sanaul Haque
A gas pipe line caught fire at Jatrabari while it licked by a drill machine used for construction of a flyover early on Sunday. The fire broke out at about 1:15am while flyover construction... Full story

Highway blocked for power supply in Faridpur

People of Modhukhali upazila town blocked the Dhaka-Khulna highway from 10-30am to 11am on Sunday protesting load-shedding and demanding uninterrupted power supply. Full story

Police raid Sangram office

The police Sunday searched the city’s Moghbazar office of a Bengali daily Sangram to arrest the Ramna thana amir of the Jamaat-e-Islam, Rezaul Karim, in connection with a case relating... Full story

JL leader killed in Gopalganj bomb attack

A local Juba League leader was killed in an explosion when suspected miscreants hurled bombs at his house at Arpara village in Sadar upazila of Gopalganj early Sunday. The dead is Rezaul Karim S Full story

JL leader hacked to death

Tawhid Sheikh, 35, Dighalia upazila unit Juba League leader, was hacked to death by identified miscreants at Gazirhat in the upazila on Saturday evening. Locals said Tawhid along with his... Full story


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