Hajj agencies fear flight crisis
Hajj agencies on Wednesday demanded that Biman Bangladesh Airlines should take additional preparations to avoid a ‘possible crisis’ in flying its Hajj sorties from Dhaka to Jeddah set to begin on September 17. Full story16 more Destiny officials get bail
A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted bail to 16 Destiny Group officials, including, Faraha Diba, the wife of its managing director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin. Metropolitan magistrate Harun-or-Rashid granted them bail... Full storyNon-MPO teachers’ protest continues
Miscreants torch room door of SSMC professor
Unidentified miscreants burnt the door of an office of a teacher at Sir Salimullah Medical College on Wednesday. The door of the office of the forensic department’s chief assistant Professor Mohammad Belayet Hossain... Full storyKamal opposes MPs’ demand to revive power of impeaching judges
Jurist Kamal Hossain on Wednesday opposed the lawmakers’ demand for restoration of the constitutional provision for impeachment of Supreme Court judges by parliament for misconduct or incapability. Full storySection 144 imposed in Dhanut in Bogra
Local administration imposed section 144 at Dhanut municipality area on Wednesday between 1:00pm and 8:00pm to foil a BNP-backed Jubo Dal and Awami League-backed Chhatra League workers meeting at Adarsha High School. Full storyExperts stress mutual cooperation in sharing water resources of GBM basin
Experts at a regional conference on Wednesday stressed the need to strengthen mutual co-operation among the countries that share the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River water to ensure an equitable share of resources. Full storyMirza Fakhrul demands Muhith must step down
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has asked Finance Minister AMA Muhith to resign forthwith by shouldering all liabilities of his failures. Full storyUrbanisation, decentralisation of the govt biggest challenges to become middle-income country, says Muhith
Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Wednesday listed urbanisation, decentralisation of administration and development works, industrialization and power and energy supply as the biggest... Full storyFF testifies against Quader Molla
A freedom fighter on Monday told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that the Pakistani occupation army fired cannon shells from Jandi rudder camp at Mirpur towards village Alubdi under Pallabi in Dhaka on April 24, 1971. Full storyNone can bring back unelected govt: Suranjit
Awami League advisory council member and minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta MP on Wednesday said the unelected or caretaker system government will never be brought back in the country. Full storyRoad to be named after Humayun if proposal made
The government will consider proposals to name a road in the capital after writer Humayun Ahmed, local government and rural development and cooperatives minister Syed Ashraful Islam told parliament on Wednesday. Full storyNepal team proposes duty-free agri product import facility
The Nepalese business delegation, now visiting Dhaka for exploring business potentials, has proposed Bangladesh of duty-free import facility of agricultural products from Nepal. The Nepalese entrepreneurs have... Full storyWHO regional meet to discuss autism
The World Health Organisation's regional committee meeting began in Indonesia on Wednesday where Bangladesh health minister's proposal to incorporate autism in non-communicable disease and mental... Full storyThreat of country-wide transport strike from September 20
Transport leaders are threatening a country-wide transport strike from 20 September if the Sirajganj administration or law-enforcers do not arrest the killers of union leader Nasir Uddin. Full storyNafiz Reza dies in USA
AIUB founder Anwarul Abedin dies
