Bangladesh

Unemployed nurses would begin a fast-unto-death programme in front of the National Press Club from April 10 if their demand of being recruited on the basis of academic seniority and merit is not met by April 9. Nurses under the banner of Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses’ Society (BBGNS) and Bangladesh Diploma Bekar Nurses’ Association are already holding a sit-in programme ...

“Octane, petrol, diesel, kerosene prices could be cut by Tk 15-20 per litre in 3 phases” The government is planning to reduce prices of octane, petrol, diesel and kerosene in two or three phases. State minister for power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, made this disclosure while talking to journalists at his Secretariat office on Monday. He told reporters ...

Judges must sign verdicts within 6 months The Supreme Court (SC) in a full verdict has dissolved a long-pending issue by giving judges six months to put their signature on the copies of a verdict from the date of its delivery in the open court. Besides this, the apex court has also issued 40 directives for judges, describing how they ...

The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) will recommend the government, if necessary, to extend the deadline by seven days for shifting tanneries to Savar Tannery Industrial Estate, reports UNB. The government, earlier, urged the owners of tanneries to move to Savar by March 31 warning them of blocking their entry to Hazaribagh. BSCIC Chairman Md Hazrat Ali yesterday ...

Protests continued across the country on Monday for justice for the murder of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu while her first autopsy found no evidence of rape and specific cause of her death. Comilla Medical College Hospital forensic medicine department head Kamoda Prosad Saha disclosed the first autopsy report to reporters on Monday after 15 days of the killing ...

Four people, including two brothers, were killed in ‘police firing’ at Gandamara village in Banshkhali upazila of Chitagong on Monday afternoon during a demonstration against the construction of a coal-based power plant there, reports UNB. Twenty people, including 10 cops, were also injured as the villagers clashed with the police during the demonstration. Ferdous Ahmed, ward-1 member of Gandamara Union ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : 1 April, 2016 Awami League-nominated chairman candidates won in 132 union parishads (UPs) while BNP-supported contestants came out victorious in 20 unions in the 2nd phase UP elections held on Thursday. According to the results reaching the UNB news desk till 9:30 am, in Gazipur, six AL candidates were elected unofficially and an independent (AL rebel) ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: 30 March, 2016 Twelve industrial units on Wednesday received the first-ever ‘President’s Award for Industrial Develeopment-2014’ for their significant contributions to the national economy, reports UNB. President Abdul Hamid handed over the awards to the recipients in five categories at a function held at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city. The five categories are large industry, ...

Bangla Mirror Desk 30 March, 2016 The 10th parliament will go into its 10th session on April 24, after a 54-day recess, reports UNB. President Abdul Hamid has convened the session. The House will go into session at 5pm on the day, said a Parliament Secretariat handout on Wednesday. Before the House goes into session at 5pm, the business advisory ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: 30 March, 2016 The United Nations has invited Bangladesh’s National Advisory Committee on Autism chairperson Saima Wazed Hossain to present the keynote paper at a seminar at its headquarters in New York on the occasion of the World Autism Awareness Day on April 1. Quoting Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary Ashraful Alam Khokan, BSS reports that the ...