DHAKA: Militants are getting prepared to attack top leaders of the ruling party and on important establishments of the country, police Tuesday quoted the just-captured chief of a dreaded militant outfit as saying.The new chief of the banned Islamist outfit jama’atul Mujahideen

Dhaka: Rights campaigners Tuesday made a strong plea for allocating necessary money in the coming budget, support and appropriate guidelines from the next fiscal year protecting the rights of farmers, workers, the tribal and the disabled.  The call came from a press conference on

Dhaka: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad got 35 more days to make submission in writing in a Tk 60-crore defamation suit filed against him for torturing his estranged wife Bidisha Siddique.A Dhaka court Tuesday fixed June 30 as the latest date for submitting the statement. Judge Imrul Kayes

Dinajpur: On the third day of their strike, the striking casual workers of Madhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd went berserk and kept confined at least 35 officials and employees, including the managing director, inside the MGMCL residential complex since Monday night.The executives and

CHITTAGONG: Two terrors were beaten to death in a poetic justice after they along with their cohorts killed a young man at Halishahar in the port city early Tuesday.Police said the “terrorists” stabbed Nurunnabai to death over previous enmity at Badir Colony in Badsha Hazi Brickfield

DHAKA: The War Crime Facts Finding Committee handed over a list of 19 top war criminals to the International War Crimes Tribunal formed to try those who were involved in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.Among those on the list are BNP leaders Salahuddin Qader

DHAKA: The War Crime Facts Finding Committee handed over a list of 19 top war criminals to the International War Crimes Tribunal formed to try those who were involved in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.Among those on the list are BNP leaders Salahuddin Qader

DHAKA: As a High Court order prohibiting police from taking free ride on private vehicles went unheeded to, the HC Tuesday issued a suo moto rule asking the Government to explain why ‘car requisition’ took place again. An HC bench comprising justices HM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and

DHAKA: The 111th anniversary of birth of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was celebrated across the country Tuesday, paying high tributes to the revolutionary in real life and literature and culture. Nazrul, a poet, lyricist, composer, dramatist, short story writer, revolutionary thinker,

DHAKA: A coalition of human rights campaigners Tuesday condemned the ‘Vested Property Act’ as contradictory to the UN Human Rights Charter and the national constitution and demanded of the government to introduce the proposed amended law in the next parliament session.The demand came

Dhaka: A two-day Bangladesh Food Security Conference begins here tomorrow (Wednesday) to work out a coordinated investment plan for food security and increased investments for agricultural development.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the conference, organized by an investment

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday again deferred the date for framing charge against detained former State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar in a tax-evasion case, a fallout from the anti-corruption hunt kicked off by the past interim government.Judge Md. Nasir Uddin Mahmud of the

Dhaka: No general diary or case has yet been filed on the fight between a special police squad and Harkat-UL-Jihad (HUJI) militants in the capital’s Jurain area, two days after the nighttime clash. “Neither a case nor a GD was filed till Monday night,” said the investigation officer

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday framed charge against Jahanara Begum, former Primary and Mass Education Adviser to then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, in a graft case that stemmed from the massive anti-graft drive conducted under the past interim regime. After the indictment, judge Nasir Uddin

COMILLA: A sawmill owner was stabbed to death by some motor mechanics at Kalirbazar in sadar upazila on Monday night following a fracas over the repairing of a motorcycle.The dead was identified as Sohel, 20, of Kalirbar area.Associates of the mechanics also attacked a police vehicle and

DHAKA: Clean-city campaigners Monday urged the government to finalize the ‘Detailed Area Plan (DAP)’ and implement it immediately for building the capital the city in a planned way, as critics call Dhaka a concrete jungle.They also demanded intervention of the Prime Minister in this

DHAKA: Assailants killed a pathway trader in front of the western gate of Baitulmakarram in the city in broad daylight Monday, two days after an arbitration meet for realizing his money from a borrower.   The deceased, Humayun Kabir, 40, from Kutubkhali Nayanagar under Jatrabari Thana

Dhaka: Three state-owned organizations are set to sign an accord for the supply of fuel oils to government, non-governmental and rental power plants, as part of an orchestrated drive to tackle severe electricity crisis in the country.  A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed

DHAKA: Bangladesh won’t skid off the global information superhighway during the repairing of the international submarine cable, experts said to dispel doubts.   Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company authorities Monday gave the assurance, as some national dailies reported that the

Savar: The workers of two garment factories in the Ashulia hub of the export industry Monday went on work stoppage to press home their demands, mainly pay hike.Police said the agitated workers of ‘Setara group’ began the work abstention at noon to realise their 12-point demands,