DHAKA: The High Court Monday issued a rule upon the government to show cause as to why the decision on Tk 15 crore block allocation for each Member of Parliament is not “illegal”. In the show-cause rule the government has been given four weeks to reply to an HC bench comprising

Sirajganj: The district Motor Workers Union has gone for a strike since Monday morning in demand to stop Shallow engine human hauler movement - Nasiman-Kariman and Bhotbhoti. Local sources informed banglanews24.com.bd that the Motor Workers Union leaders took position in different parts

MEHERPUR: A top leader of an outlawed extremist group was kidnapped and killed in Gangni upazila by his rivals. Police on Monday morning recovered the body from a road at Baniapukur in the upazila. The deceased, Atiar Rahman, 40, was a top leader of the banned underground outfit

KHULNA: Armed assailants shot dead a UP chairman in Fultala upazila headquarters Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Abu Sayed Badal, chairman of No 2 Damudar union in Fultala upazila. Badal was the brother of Fultala BNP president and upazila chairman Alauddin Mithu.Kazi Abu

MADARIPUR: While the flooding season is yet to be over, the ferry movement on the Kawrakandi-Mawa route was disrupted for hours on Sunday night and Monday after two ferries ran aground for an early loss of navigability in the mighty river Padma.     Playing ferries on this alternative

CHITTAGONG: Khulshi Thana police rescued six children from abductors in Tulatoli rail gate area of Nasirabad here on Sunday.The children were identified as -Sazzad Hossain, 12, Mohammad Solaiman, 7, Saddam, 7, Shuvo alias Rabbi, 6, Zakir Hossain, 7 and Noor Mohammad, 8.Police suspects

DHAKA: The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has vetoed appointment of two arbitrators for international arbitration on behalf of the Roads and Highways Department at a cost that amounts to a king’s ransom. Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister

CHITTAGONG: An explosion took place in a scrap ship at a ship-breaking yard at Madam Bibir Hat in Sitakunda Sunday, leaving seven workers badly burnt. Police said the explosion took place at about 1:30pm while the workers of ZN Enterprise were cutting an oil tank of a scrap ship.The

TUNGIPARA: As the nation Sunday mourned for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the country’s founding father sacrificed his life for the sake of economic emancipation of the have-nots.“We are now working to attain economic solvency of the people by

SHARIATPUR: Transport workers Sunday went on indefinite strike in the district following a clash with the students of Shariatpur Govt. College.A triangular clash Saturday following a brawl over bus fare left some 60 people wounded, including six policemen.The district Sarak Paribahan

DHAKA: At last, the National Press Club lowered the national flag at half-mast and hoisted black flag to mourn for country’s slain independence leader Sunday, under binding legal compulsion though.The national flag is hoisted at half-mast at the Press Club on other national days of

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni Sunday said the government has sent letters to different foreign governments asking their support for return of the “condemned killers” of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman“We have sent formal letters to the governments of the countries wherein

SYLHET: Power-hungry people of Lamabazar and Konapara in the city on Saturday night blockaded Bandar-Rikabi Bazar road to demand installation of a transformer as the old one blasted. Hundreds of residents of the areas took to the street at about 8pm and put up barricades on the road,

TUNGIPARA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday paid a rich tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of National Mourning Day by placing wreaths at the grave of the great architect of the Nation. Hasina was flown to Tungipara in the morning where Bangabandhu was laid

DHAKA: A man, who was stabbed by his wife, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday in the capital, police and medical sources said. Police said Abdur Rahman, 40, a resident of Ulan area in Rampura of the capital and son of Rawshan Ali, was severely injured as his wife Nasrin Akhter stabbed

DHAKA: The nation mourned the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sunday, amid louder calls for executing the court verdict on his fugitive killers and realizing the leader’s dream of a prosperous and progressive Bangladesh. With the government leaders reaffirming their

DHAKA: Detained labour leaders Babul Akhter and Kalpona Akter were Saturday remanded for four days on charge of ransacking garment industries amid chaos and arson attacks on July 30. Magistrates of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court Dr Abdul Majid and Kamrunnahar Rumi passed the

DHAKA: Six years gone by after the expiry of the agreement, Ocean Bangladesh Corporation (OBC), a sister concern of the US-based Ocean Energy, has again applied for extending its contract on exploration in Block 22 in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.The OBC sent its application to the Prime

KOLKATA: Initiatives have been taken to mark the National Mourning Day on the 35th death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the West Bengal State capital of India. The Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata will observe the day with rich tribute, said Kazi Mustak

DHAKA: Special security measures have been heightened for the mourning-day programmes as the nation mourns the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sunday.DMP commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque Saturday said, “More police will be deployed at sensitive points of the capital.