Non-govt teachers start six-day strike
About five lakh teachers and employees of 28,000 non-government educational institutions all over the country on Saturday began their six-day strike to press home their 17-point charter of demands. Full storyDomestic help killed businessman: DB
A domestic help in his statement in Detective Branch custody said that he had killed his employer, Fazlul Haque, a businessman, in the capital on July 29, a DB official said on Saturday. Fazlul Haque, 72, was found dead... Full storyAbdush Shahid remembered, govt yet to fulfil commitment
10 wounded as Shibir, police clash in Sylhet
At least 10 people, including four policemen, were wounded as the Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir activists clashed with the law enforcers in the Sylhet city on Saturday. Police charged batons and fired... Full storyBKMEA polls on Sept 15
Hectic campaigns by candidates of two panels warmed up atmosphere in Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association as its 652 voters are set to elect its new leaders on September 15. Full storyMissing boy found drowned in Barisal
The police found a boy who went missing on Friday dead in a pond at TB Hospital in Barisal on Saturday. The Kawnia police officer-in-charge, Rafikul Islam, said that they had found Tanu Halder, 16, of Bhatikhana Road... Full storyChina mulls over industry relocation to Bangladesh
Entrepreneurs of Fujian province of China are considering relocation of labour-intensive industries to Bangladesh and will offer scholarships to Bangladeshi students to study agriculture in the province. Full storyBCL foils protests in DU against quota system
The ruling Awami League-backed Chhatra League on Saturday foiled a human chain Dhaka University students earlier planned to hold on the campus in protest at the quota system in public service recruitment. Full storyGovt-opposition dialogue needed: seminar
Speakers at a discussion said on Saturday that no fair and acceptable parliamentary election could be held under an interim government led by the incumbent prime minister as her government has been campaigning for. Full storyExperts urge citizens to ensure continuation of Constitution
Constitution experts Kamal Hossain and Amirul Islam on Saturday urged citizens to try to ensure that the Constitution’s continuation is not interrupted in any form or on any excuse. Full storyLandless Christian families protest at eviction in Barisal
A group of men led by a local Awami League leader allegedly evicted 44 landless families of the Baptist Christian community from the land of a church in the Barisal city on Saturday. The evicted people said they did... Full storyHill bodies protest at attacks, rapes
Three organisations of the ethnic minorities held a rally on the Dhaka University campus on Saturday, protesting against the recent attacks on their people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and other regions. Full storyJP will be decisive factor in forming next govt: Ershad
Jatiya Party, the key ally of the Awami League, is preparing to take part independently in the next general elections. JP’s chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad on Saturday, at a reception in his Banani office, said... Full storyLegislative-judiciary row to be settled: Quamrul
The state minister for law, Mohammad Quamrul Islam, on Saturday expressed his hope that the current difference of opinion between the legislative and the judiciary would be resolved by directives from the highest court. Full storyACC to sue suspended rly official Mridha, 2 others
The Anti-Corruption Commission is set to lodge six separate graft cases against suspended general manager of east zone of Bangladesh Railway, Yusuf Ali Mridha, and two others. Full storyInternational Literacy Day observed
