Govt to clear stance in 48 hours
The government is expected to make a statement in next 48 hours on the latest developments over the stalled Padma Bridge project and the issue of its funding in a bid to prevent policymakers from... Full storySpeaker’s ruling on judge ineffective: HC
The High Court has observed that the speaker’s ruling, which requested the chief justice to take appropriate action against a High Court judge who had violated the Constitution, has no legal effect. Full storyBB asks fin min to dissolve Sonali’s board
The Bangladesh Bank on Monday suggested that the finance ministry should dissolve the board of Sonali Bank as it failed to ensure the security of the depositors’ money, said BB officials. Full storyPolice disperse protesters
Saudi firm to get two power projects
The government now prefers medium size power plants to big ones for obtaining results from the projects in a shorter period, officials said. The government has turned its focus on the medium... Full story17 beheaded at party in bloody Afghan day
Taliban Islamist insurgents beheaded 17 party-goers, 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody day across Afghanistan, officials said Monday. Full storyRally broader support for CG demand, allies ask BNP
Leaders of the Bangladesh nationalist party led ‘18-party’ alliance have suggested building up of a broader base of public opinion from the capital to grassroots level to realise their key demand for holding the next... Full storyACC finds involvement of 5 more companies
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found evidence of involvement of five more companies in the alleged misappropriation of around Tk 3,500 crore by Hallmark Group from the Sonali Bank branch at Ruposhi Bangla hotel. Full storyFine for smoking in public places doubled
The Cabinet on Monday endorsed the draft of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) (Amendment) Bill 2012, in which the fine for smoking in public places has been doubled. Full storyBNP meet zooms in on Joy, Ershad
The BNP standing committee meeting on Sunday night is learnt to have discussed the current activities of prime minister’s son Sajib Wazed Joy abroad. Sources in the meeting said it was... Full storycommunal unrest Myanmar jails 3 UN workers
A court in Myanmar has sentenced three local United Nations staff to prison for participating in recent sectarian unrest, a government official said on Monday. Two UN Refugee Agency workers were sentenced to six years and three... Full storyHC passes split order over MBBS, BDS admission system
A two-member High Court bench on Monday passed split orders on an application that sought a directive for immediately starting the process of admission tests for medical and dental colleges for 2012-13 academic session. Full storyMother kills two daughters, commits suicide
A mother in a fit of anger allegedly committed suicide after poisoning her two daughters over a family feud in the city’s north Ibrahimpur at Kafrul on Monday. The deceased were Jahanara Begum, 35, and her... Full storyBSF tortures Bangladeshi farmer
Bangladeshis living in the border areas are passing their days in extreme panic as the Indian Border Security Force continue to torture and kill them on lame excuses. Rights group Odhikar after a spot... Full storyPak PM wins time in legal wrangle over president
The Pakistani prime minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Monday won a few more weeks’ breathing space in a long-running legal wrangle over the reopening of graft cases against the president, Asif Ali Zardari. Full storyExpert team to submit report next month
The expert committee, one year inside its formation, is likely to submit a review report on the proposed national coal policy next month, marking two coal deposits at Phulbari and Barapukuria in Dinajpur to be tested for open-pit mining. Full storyWitness lost 21 relatives in mass killings by Quader
A freedom-fighter on Monday testified that he lost 21 of his relatives in the mass killings at Alubdi, a village at Pallabi in Dhaka, who were shot dead by the detained assistant secretary general of... Full storyPM hands over party ticket to Rimi
