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Contempt Rule for Skipping SC Directives
3 secys apologise, one seeks exoneration
Three of the four top bureaucrats facing contempt rule for non-compliance with the Supreme Court's (SC) 12-point directive on separation of the judiciary yesterday apologised to the apex court for their
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Fuel Price Adjustment
IMF asks Dhaka for report on loss, remedy
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the government to quantify its loss in energy subsidies for not adjusting fuel, power and gas prices with the international market.
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Butenis on Bangladesh Politics
US has no 'recipe' for ending discord
US Ambassador in Dhaka Patricia A Butenis yesterday said her country has no remedy for the political discord in Bangladesh, rather the government and the opposition will have to work things out through
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Fair polls, or Dhaka to miss a decade's dev
Says British envoy
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury cautioned that if the next election does not turn out free, fair and acceptable, the country will lose a decade in development.
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Nagorik Committee sets strategy
The Nagorik Committee 2006 will meet key officials of the Election Commission, Anti-Corruption Commission and National Board of Revenue, keeping in view the issue of creating public awareness about competent
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44 killed so far but 50pc cases remain clueless
Inquiry committees formed by the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) headquarters failed to unearth reasons behind half of the deaths in BAF plane crashes due to lack of adequate evidence while yesterday's crash
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Commerce minister Altaf loses portfolio
Adviser Bulu transferred
The government last night removed Commerce Minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury from his current post following his failure to control prices of essentials and for failure to deal with some key international
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Kansat, police action may dominate next JS session
The next session of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) scheduled for April 27 is expected to generate heat around various issues that include Kansat killings, police atrocities on journalists and opposition activists,
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Slum dwellers besiege police station in Ctg
25 hurt as cops club them
Over two hundred landless people who came from their Sitkakunda slums by two buses and several human haulers laid siege to and attacked Panchlaish Police Station (PS) yesterday noon to free their leader
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Cabinet approves new pay scale for govt workers
The cabinet yesterday approved a new pay scale for the workers of state-owned industries, raising their basic salaries by maximum 85 percent.Prime Minister Khaleda Zia presided over the cabinetmeeting.
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Ex-BD Foods staff on 7-day remand
Nazmul Haider, former employee of BD Foods, was shown arrested in a fresh case filled against him while a Dhaka court placed him on a seven-day remand yesterday.
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Shazneen case
Testimonies of 7 PWs placed before HC
Testimonies of seven prosecution witnesses were presented before the High Court (HC) yesterday during death reference and appeal hearing in the sensational Shazneen murder case.
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Nasreen Huq meets a tragic death
Prominent social activist and the country director of Action Aid Bangladesh, Nasreen Pervin Huq, died yesterday following an accident yesterday at the car park of her residence in Dhanmondi.
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Deputy secy commits 'suicide'
A deputy secretary of Ministry of Finance apparently committed suicide by hanging himself in the bedroom of his Dhanmondi home yesterday.
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Student strike observed
Countrywide student strike enforced by the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of the main opposition Awami League (AL), was observed yesterday at most of the educational institutions.
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JS body to probe Tk 100cr graft in CDA
A parliamentary body yesterday decided to investigate alleged irregularities involving Tk 100 crore in different development projects of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) under the housing and public
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BSF kills 1 in Dinajpur
Border Security Force (BSF) of India gunned down a Bangladeshi farmer on Atapara border under Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur district on Sunday night.
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Accused in Rab killing dies in 'crossfire'
A gang leader, who was also accused of killing Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) constable Delwar Hossain in Tongi, was killed in an 'encounter' with Rab members early yesterday.
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Five drown as boat capsizes in Jamuna
Five people, four of a family, drowned and two remained missing as an engine boat with 30 passengers aboard capsized in the Jamuna near Kodaldhoa of Ismapur upazila yesterday.
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Nepali king agrees to restore parliament
US embassy asks diplomats' families, citizens to leave as violence goes on
Nepal's King Gyanendra agreed in a televised address last night agreed to reinstate the parliament that was dissolved in 2002 after 19 days of violent protests on the streets of the capital.
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Iran rejects UN demand, threatens to quit NPT
Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday rejected a UN Security Council demand to halt sensitive nuclear work and warned that the Islamic republic could quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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