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UP chair, 2 others killed in Kushtia

Assailants on Tuesday killed Ambaria union council chairman Nurul Islam and two of his associates in the River Padma at Kumarkhali in Kushtia when there were returning from Pabna in a trawler along with more... Full story

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Protesters run riot as DU student killed in road accident

Several hundred Dhaka University students took to the streets, damaging and torching vehicles at Shahbagh and in the areas adjacent to the campus after the death of a fellow student under the wheels of a bus in the capital Tuesday. The city traffic remained stuck in... Full story

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Muhith snubs central bank

Finance minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday blasted the Bangladesh Bank’s officials for lapses, saying that they have failed to perform their duty of monitoring the commercial banks. Full story

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Two people made CGA

The finance ministry and the Comptroller and Auditor General have given two different people the charge of the Controller General of Accounts, said CAG sources. The CAG office on Tuesday made Abul Kashem the... Full story

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ACC grills 4 MDs of Hallmark companies

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday quizzed four managing directors of the Hallmark Group on allegation of misappropriating about Tk 3,500 crore from the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch... Full story

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New bodies to speed up dev programmes in unions

The government on Tuesday decided to reconstitute union development coordination committees and introduce the system in lower-tier local bodies for speedy execution of development programmes... Full story

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Yunus Centre responds to critics

The Yunus Centre on Tuesday dismissed outright the notion that Muhammad Yunus himself or through his friend Hillary Clinton has influenced the World Bank in its cancelling the committed loans for the Padma bridge. Full story

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Sanctions, UN reform top on agenda

Condemnation of ‘unilateral’ actions — particularly sanctions on Iran and other nations — and a demand for greater say in UN decision-making dominated talks in Tehran on Tuesday preparing for a Non-Aligned summit later this week. Full story

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PM leaves for Tehran today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here for Tehran this morning to attend the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in the Iranian capital on August 30-31. United Nations secretary general... Full story

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Ershad urges Mashiur to resign

Jatiya Party’s chairman, Hussein Muhammad Ershad, on Tuesday demanded that the prime minister’s economic affairs adviser, Mashiur Rahman, should resign immediately to pave the way... Full story

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AL never takes short cut to power: PM

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said her party did not believe in short cut to power and was ready to test its popularity. ‘We never look for alternative ways; we always take a straight... Full story

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665 BDR rebels jailed

A special court of the Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, on Tuesday jailed 665 members of the 44 Rifles Battalion and its attached units for varying terms ranging from four months... Full story

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PDB, NTPC finalise PPA without fixing price of electricity

Bangladesh Power Development Board and Indian National Thermal Power Corporation have finalised a draft power purchase agreement without fixing the price at which PDB will buy electricity from... Full story

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Prince Talal upset by govt decision: Yunus Centre

The Yunus Centre on Tuesday said that the Saudi Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud could not host the annual award ceremony of his foundation, the Arab Gulf Fund, in Dhaka three year ago in honour of Nobel... Full story

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SQC was involved in massacres in Chittagong: witnesses

A freedom-fighter and a man who had sheltered freedom-fighters on Tuesday testified that the detained BNP lawmaker, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, was involved in massacres in Chittagong during the 1971... Full story

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BNP, allies announce anti-govt programme

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance has announced a six-week long countrywide programme beginning on September 6 to involve people in a ‘bigger way’ to mount pressure on the government to... Full story

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BRTA to launch drive against unfit vehicles from August 1

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority is going to take legal action against owners and operators of unfit public vehicles in Dhaka city from 1 August, said officials. The bus and truck owners complained... Full story

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HRW urges govt to drop ‘spurious’ case

The New York-based Human Rights Watch has urged Bangladesh authorities to drop ‘spurious’ murder charges against Limon Hossain and halt the campaign of persecution against him. Full story

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Govt to ask ADB to further extend loan agreement

The government is likely to ask the Asian Development Bank to extend the loan agreement on the Padma Bridge project again to keep alive the negotiation process with the World Bank, officials said. Full story

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Speaker declines comments on HC ruling

The speaker, Abdul Hamid, on Tuesday kept his comments reserved on the High Court judgment terming ‘illegal, ineffective and unconstitutional’ his ruling on a High Court judge. Full story

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‘Shady’ tender process delays NCT commissioning at Ctg port

Controversies have surfaced over a ‘shady’ tender process for awarding the contract to operate the new mooring container terminal (NCT) at Chittagong port, forcing the major container handling project to face uncertainty, port and other sources said. Full story

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ICT judge resigns

AKM Zahir Ahmed on Tuesday resigned as a judge of the International Crimes Triubunal-1, also known as war crimes tribunal instituted for trial of the 1971 war criminals. Zahir Ahmed, who was... Full story

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Car blast rocks Damascus funeral, rebel areas pounded

A car exploded during a funeral in a Damascus on Tuesday killing several people, Syrian state television reported, as a watchdog said regime forces shelled rebel bastions in the capital, the commercial... Full story

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College student killed

A college student was killed in Mohammadpur upazila of Magura by miscreants allegedly at the behest of the parents of a schoolgirl with whom he had a love affair. The dead is Mehdi Hasan Pavel, 19, a student of Jhenaidah... Full story

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20 hurt as suspected pirates clash in Meghna

At least 20 suspected pirates were injured and one had his eyes gouged out in a clash between two groups apparently in a war of supremacy in the River Meghna in Charfashion of Bhola on Tuesday. Full story

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BSF kills Bangladeshi

The Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader at Khiar Mohammadpur frontier, under Birampur upzila in Dinajpur on Sunday night, BGB officials said on Tuesday. Full story

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