Regular India transit around the corner
The government has initiated a move to facilitate ‘inter-state transport and communication system’ by allowing use of river ports, seaports, land ports, roads and railway under the Bangladesh-India... Full storyGDP growth set to be 6.32pc
The country’s gross domestic product in the current financial year is set to grow at around 6.32 per cent, well below the target of 7 per cent as projected by the government in the current budget. Full storyFamily links raise further questions about tender
A key member of the small US company that won in contentious circumstances a $10 million consultancy contract to assist the government in the launch of the Bangladesh satellite... Full storyDeaths of 2 RMG workers spark protests
Garment workers blocked highways and vandalised factories in Gazipur and Narayanganj after two of their fellows died in separate incidents. A female worker was knocked down and... Full storyTwo traders shot at, robbed of Tk 25.70 lakh
Two traders were shot at by muggers that ran off with their Tk 25.70 lakh at the capital’s Armanitola Tuesday afternoon. The victims, Rafikul Islam, 35, owner of Badhan... Full storyUnregistered allies of AL, BNP won’t be able to contest next polls: EC
Most of the parties in the AL-led ruling coalition and seven in the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance would not be able to contest in the next parliamentary elections unless they get registered... Full storyIndia to begin work this year
Work on the rail connectivity project linking Akhaura in Bangladesh with Agartala, capital of the Indian northeastern state of Tripura, is expected to start this year, according to a report carried by Dainik... Full storyHasnabad Power Plant catches fire
Muzaffer Ahmad dies
Witness asks counsel of SQC not to make fun of his illness
Prosecution witness Mohamamd Salim Ullah, still haunted by the memories of persecution he had suffered in 1971 at Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s house in Chittagong, ‘Goods Hill,’ on... Full storyHC orders probe into allotment of plots to Shafiq Rehman, others
The High Court on Tuesday asked the cabinet secretary to form a three-member committee, headed by the LGRD secretary, to investigate whether there were any irregularities in the allotment of... Full story200 lawyers sued
BNP accuses govt of influencing judiciary
The opposition chief whip, Zainul Abdin Farroque, has accused the government of influencing the courts involving the cases against the leaders of the 18-party opposition alliance. Full storyFake drugs threaten gains made in war on malaria
Low-quality and fake anti-malarial drugs flooding into markets in Asia and Africa are driving drug resistance and threatening gains made in the fight against the disease in the past... Full storyACC admits lax probes let graft suspects go scot-free
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday said it had found some of its investigators negligent in carrying out probes which often made room for an accused to go scot-free. Full storyKhairul Kabir remanded for 4 days
The BNP education affairs secretary, Khairul Kabir Khokon, was taken on a four-day police remand on Tuesday in a case filed over violence during April 29 countrywide shutdown. Full story25 killed in Indian train collision
At least 25 people were killed and 45 injured early on Tuesday when a passenger train slammed into a stationary goods train in southern India, rail officials said. The sleeper train... Full storyWorld’s tallest tower opens in Tokyo
