Hasina, family will have to face trial at home, abroad: Khaleda
PM blames BNP for 1/11 episode
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has alleged that the previous caretaker government had captured power through the much-talked-about 1/11 episode in the wake of vote rigging plot by the BNP. Full storyTeachers’ part-time job hampers public univ education: UGC
Public university teachers taking up part-time teaching in private universities and consultancy job in organisations in an uncontrolled manner largely hampers academic... Full storyPetrobangla to extract oil from 2 old fields
Petrobangla—the Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation—has finally decided to extract oil from the country’s first two oil fields at Haripur and Kailashtila in Sylhet discovered more than two decades ago. Full storyDamascus rocked by clashes
A rocket-propelled grenade exploded near a team of UN observers in a Damascus suburb on Sunday, the military said, as clashes between regime troops and armed rebels raged in and around the Syrian capital. Full story11 PCP activists hurt in bomb attack
At least 11 activists of Pahari Chhatra Parishad, the student wing of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, were injured in a bomb attack at Kalyanpur in the Rangamati town on Sunday. Full storyFaruque occupies Proshika head office
Former Proshika chairman Qazi Faruque Ahmed occupied the head office of the non-governmental organsiation on Sunday morning. Three years after had been removed as chairman of the... Full storyDU elects new syndicate, academic council, finance committee today
Dhaka University goes to polls today to elect a new syndicate, academic council and finance committee. The polls would be held at the university’s Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate... Full storyMyanmar workers embrace power to strike
Silenced for decades under military rule, Myanmar’s workers are now daring to speak out to demand better pay and conditions after a new law gave them the right to strike. Full storyKamaruzzaman’s indictment proposed
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Sunday set June 4 for framing the war crimes charges against detained Jamaat assistant secretary general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman. Full storySlain Nutan Chandra declined to leave Kundeshwari: Anisuzzaman
Prosecution witness Anisuzzaman on Sunday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that slain Nutan Chandra Singh, the founder of Kundeshwari Oushadhalaya, had declined to leave his... Full story24-week maternity leave for RMG workers will increase birth rate: BGMEA
Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association has said that introduction of 24-week maternity leave, instead of 16 weeks, will encourage higher birth rate negating population... Full storyOverseas job seekers to be protected from middlemen: minister
The government has decided to engage local administrations across the country to ‘save overseas job seekers from exploitation and cheating by middlemen,’ expatriates’ welfare... Full storyInjured Juba Dal activist dies
Humaiun Kabir, an activist belonging to the Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, who was injured in clashes with police on May 13, died in hospital on Saturday night. Sources said the JD activist had been... Full storyPainter Safiuddin Ahmed dies
