Hasina calls for good relations between workers, employers

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday put emphasis on maintaining good relations between the employers and workers to boost
2 May 2016

Khandker Mahbub urges rehearing

Prominent lawyer and BNP leader Khandker Mahbub Hossain yesterday urged Chief Justice (CJ) Surendra Kumar Sinha to arrange a rehearing
2 May 2016

Home boss seeks early US intel

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday urged the US to share advance intelligence about activities of militant outfits, if there were
2 May 2016

Verdict on 5 Kishoreganj suspects today

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 is set to deliver the verdict today in a case filed against five Kishoreganj men for allegedly committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
2 May 2016

Refund deposit with interest to workers not going to Libya

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the recruitment agencies concerned to refund the money with 10 percent interest deposited by 74
2 May 2016

Saudi Arabia donates dates for underprivileged students

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) of Saudi Arabia donated 792 tonnes of dates for poor students of some disaster-prone districts in Bangladesh.
2 May 2016

Public university teachers strike in protest

Public university teachers yesterday wore black ribbons while observing a countrywide three-hour work abstention from 10:00am and a
2 May 2016

Youth arrested with 8,000 SIM cards, VoIP equipment in Tongi

Police arrested a young man with 8,000 SIM cards of different operators, a computer, and VoIP equipment in Madhya Arichpur area of Tongi on Sunday night.
2 May 2016

MIST robotics competition held

The daylong Inter University Robotics Competition 2016, organised by Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) Robotics Club,
2 May 2016

Two tonnes of jatka seized in Ctg

A mobile court of Chittagong district administration siezed around two tonnes of immature hilsa (jatka) from a cold storage in Kanraphuli area of Chittagong city on Sunday.
2 May 2016

Slovenia consulate opens in Dhaka

Republic of Slovenia has opened its consulate in the capital on Thursday, inaugurated by Commerce Minister Tofael Ahmed.
2 May 2016

Gas, continuous electricity supply to Sylhet BSCIC demanded

Industrialists of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Sylhet yesterday demanded continuous electricity supply to their factories and gas connection to new factories.
2 May 2016

Freshers' orientation held at NSU

The orientation ceremony of Summer-2016 session of newly enrolled undergraduate students of North South University (NSU) was held on
2 May 2016

Man hacked to death in broad daylight in Sylhet

A man was hacked to death in broad daylight in Shamimabad residential area of Sylhet on Sunday afternoon.
2 May 2016

“Drug peddler” found dead in Savar pond

Locals of Aminbazar of Savar yesterday found the body of an alleged drug peddler in a pond behind his house, where he jumped trying to
2 May 2016

C&F staff demand security in Ctg port

Employees of clearing and forwarding (C&F) agents yesterday demanded security inside the Chittagong port yards, otherwise threatened to go on work abstention, following attacks on two employees on April 27-28.
2 May 2016

Errant clinic, blood bank fined, sealed off in capital

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion yesterday fined Tk 2 lakh and sealed off Modern Health Care at the capital's Bakshibazar for
2 May 2016

Minorities helpless in country

The state, administration, political parties and civil society do not stand for protecting the rights of minorities, Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council claimed yesterday.
2 May 2016

Journos again demand 9th wage board

Journalist leaders yesterday demanded that the government immediately announce the ninth wage board for journalists and press
2 May 2016

Respect for media freedom declining

World Press Freedom Day will be observed in Bangladesh and elsewhere today, at a time when the climate of fear results in a growing aversion to debate and pluralism around the world, according to a 2016 World Press Freedom Index published on April 20.
2 May 2016