Bangladesh

The government has undertaken a project to set up 156 fire stations in different upazilas and important upazila sadar locations across the country. Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan told this in the Jatiya Sangsad today while replying to a question from treasury bench member Ashek Ullah Rafique, BSS reports. The government has approved the project in line with instructions ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) held three operatives of the Islamist militant Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) over the killings of bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das from the city’s Fakirapool area early today. The arrestees are: incumbent ABT chief Md Abul Bashar, its media wing members Julhash Biswas and Zafran Al Hasan, reports BSS. “We arrested the trio from Fakirapool ...

Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma arrives here on Friday night on a three-day visit, said a senior Foreign Ministry official. He will discuss with the government the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in Malta between November 27-29 November and the fourteenth Meeting of Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers (CFAMM) to be held in New York on September 24 during ...

Demanding a separate pay scale, teachers of 37 public universities across the country will observe full day work abstention on September 13 and 17. However, exams will remain out of purview of the protest programme. Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association (FBUTA) on Thursday announced the programme after holding a meeting at provost’s office of Dhaka University’s Surya Sen Hall ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday upheld the High Court order that had granted six months interim bail to BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in two violence cases. Rejecting a leave to appeal by the government, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, passed the order. Adv ...

At least three people were killed and 20 others injured in a road accident on Bogra-Nararbari highway under Salonga upazila in Sirajganj district on Thursdday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Abdullah, 28, son of Shukur Ali, Asadul, 32 and Rafiqul Islam, 45. Sources said the accident took place when a speeding bus rammed a rickshaw van, leaving three people ...

Trashing the demand of private university students withdrawing VAT, Finance Minister AMA Muhit on Thursday said that the VAT will be paid by the university authorities, not student. Not only that, he also warned the private university authorities not to increase tuition fees either. The Minister came up with these instructions in a press briefing arranged at Sylhet circuit House ...

The Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff, General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq, called on the Indian Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, here today. Speaking on this occasion, Rajnath Singh said that the age-old strong relations between India and Bangladesh are based on mutual understanding and confidence, BSS reports. Rajnath Singh said that the two countries are able to resolve ...

A bill titled ‘Public Servants (Marriage with Foreign Nationals) Bill, 2015’ was placed in Parliament to scrap the Public Servants (Marriage With Foreign Nationals) Ordinance which was promulgated in 1976 during the martial law regime. Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam placed the Bill in the House and it was sent to the respective Parliamentary Standing Committee for further scrutiny. ...

Expressing her firm resolve to hold the trial of war criminals and culprits of August 15 massacre, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the trial is going on and it will continue come what may. “During the war crimes trial, many stalwarts phoned me pursuing for not executing the war crimes verdicts. I got their phone calls and talked ...