DHAKA: Veteran leader of the ruling Awami League Suranjit Sengupta MP stood against the government decisions on closing car-refueling stations, mill-factories and educational institutions during the month of Ramadan as remedies for gas crunch and traffic tailback.“The government should

DHAKA: A group of young professionals on Friday demanded the government to stop oppression on garments workers.They also demanded immediate release of garment workers arrested during the recent unrest in the garment industries and fix the minimum wage at Tk 5000 for workers.Without any

GAZIPUR: A mobile court led by an executive magistrate conducted raids in Gazipur Thursday and  fined 11 offenders, including hospitals and clinics, to pay Tk 2.9 lakh  and arrested two persons on different allegations.The mobile court led by executive magistrate of Gazipur District,

CHITTAGONG: The government Friday suspended gas supply to Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO), the last fertilizer-manufacturing factory to lie down under a gas-rationing plan prepared to gear up power plants to tackle electricity shortages in the country.With this, officials said,

BOGRA: Eight people including a ward councilor have been sued here in BNP leader Shahin Ali murder case.Dulal Hossain, brother of slain BNP leader Shahin Ali, filed the case with Sadar thana on Thursday midnight against pourashava ward councilor and Jubo Dal leader Delwar Hossain Poshari

DHAKA: Paribortan Foundation (PF) Friday demanded trial of militant Moulana Tajuddin and his so-called mentor Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman for allegedly planning the grenade attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while she was in the opposition on August 21, 2004.The PF leaders formed

KUSHTIA: A contractor was shot at Sheikhpara Bazar near Islami University on Thursday night as he refused to pay toll.Victim Raju Ahmed, 45, of Sheikhpara village in Jhenidah district, was admitted to Kushtia Genaral Hospital in a critical condition.Kushtia Islami University thana OC

DHAKA: Armed assailants shot a man to death and wounded another at Nayatola in city’s Moghbazar area Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Swapan Talukder, 35, a brick and sand trader.Victim’s family members said Sawpan left home for a pharmacy to buy medicine at

DHAKA: Planning Ramadan vacation for educational institutions across the country laid bare a lack of coordination between ministries with the holiday beginning next week on different dates. The Ministery of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education lacked the coordination

NATORE: Two farmers were killed and three others injured in Singra area of Natore-Bogra highway Thursday when a passenger bus and a truck collided head on, police said.The deceased were identified as Belal, 47, and Shardul, 25.The injured were Shahidul, another farmer, and two passengers

DHAKA: The honking gaggles of cars in the capital have to drive in low gear amid Ramadan rush, as the government opted for shutdown of gas stations at peak hour of the day.  Under the rationing recipe to make do with the limited output of the fuel, the CNG refueling stations in and

CHITTAGONG: The government is going to stop gas supply to Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO) anytime now, days after suspending the fuel supply to another fertilizer factory, for running power plants in full gear to tackle troubling electricity shortages in the country. Petrobangla and

DHAKA: Some 13,500 officials and employees of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) have been left in the lurch to count days in the dark to know their future.The members of the staff of the now-defunct Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) were absorbed in the

DHAKA: The High Court Thursday issued a rule asking the government to explain why not it be directed to establish a separate Ministry and make sufficient budgetary allocation for population control.An HC bench comprising Justices Syed Mahmud Hossain and Gobinda Chandra Thakur passed the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Thursday summoned Deputy Commissioner of Metropolitan Detective Branch in a case that was filed for providing ‘false and untrue’ information from a press conference.Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hassan Talukdar asked Deputy Commissioner Md. Monirul Islam to

DHAKA: The government-appointed expert committee suggested further analysis before finalizing the route of the much-awaited Dhaka Elevated Expressway, meant for smooth channeling of the capital’s chaotic traffic.“We asked the consulting agency to analyse more various factors related

BOGRA: Four people--one woman and three children—went missing as a boat capsized in the Jamuna River in Sonatala upazila on Wednesday night.Police said the boat was heading towards Sonatali from Jamalpur at about 5pm. But, in the midstream, it sank in the river in Charmohanpur area of

DHAKA: A number of senior police officers who exposed their partisan role through various wrongdoings have now gone “missing”, says a confidential report by the Police Headquarters to the Home Ministry. The report listed six cops as missing, including the much-talked-about police

DHAKA: A total of 11 workers including four Bangladeshis were killed when a perfume factory caught fire in Dubai on Tuesday, sources said.Of them six were Indian and one was Pakistani citizen.The incident occurred when fire gutted the Afnan Perfume Factory in Dubai’s Kuj industrial

DHAKA:  New York based body Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday requested the government to “immediately stop its serious and continued harassment” of trade union leaders, labor rights activists, and workers in the ready-made garment (RMG) industry. In a letter to Prime Minister