The government on Tuesday instructed all concerned in the readymade garment factories to ensure that workers get their due wages and festival allowances before Eid-ul-Fitr next month.Full story
Celebrated writer Humayun Ahmed was laid to rest under a litchi tree at Nuhash Palli in Gazipur on Tuesday with thousands of mourners watching the funeral in tears in heavy rain.
Amid prayer hymns, Humayun’s body was lowered into the grave at around 2:00pm, after the third namaz-e-janaza...Full story
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday admitted that former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain had to resign from the cabinet because of the World Bank’s condition to release...Full story
The Power Development Board has revised downward its proposal to raise the bulk rate of electricity from 50 per cent to 35 per cent with effect from July 1, said officials.
They said that the PDB increased...Full story
The state minister for science and technology, Yeafesh Osman, on Tuesday was given the charge of the information and communication technology ministry in addition to his present responsibilities.Full story
Syria’s rebels accused strongman Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of moving chemical weapons to the country’s borders, a day after his beleaguered regime said it would use its stockpiles if attacked.Full story
The president, Zillur Rahman, also chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, on
Tuesday appointed Anwar Hossain the vice-chancellor of the university from among the three elected to the vice-chancellor’s panel on July 20.
Anwar was on May 17...Full story
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday asked the government to immediately give up power because of corruption in the Padma Bridge project and to arrange elections under a caretaker government.Full story
Authorities on Tuesday closed Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College in Bogra for an indefinite period on Tuesday in the wake of clashes between activists of the ruling party-backed Chhatra League...Full story
The government has constituted a 13-member jury board with additional
secretary of the ministry
of information as president and vice-chairman of Bangladesh Film Censor...Full story
Two persons were killed and three others injured in clashes over damaging paddy field by ducks at village Kalika in Dhubaura upazila of Mymensingh Tuesday.
The deceased were Mofazzal Hossain, 25, son...Full story