DHAKA: With a view to helping out hapless children in the country’s disaster-prone areas, two non-government organsisations initiated a scheme for providing them with education and mental supports.  Under a combined project, Plan Bangladesh and South Asian Partnership (SAP)-Bangladesh

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Sunday rejected bail appeal of Mahmudur Rahman, the detained acting editor of the recently closed Amar Desh, in a case filed against him for obstructing police from discharging their duties during the Bengali daily’s closure.Acting Judge Mohammad Ismail Hossain of

Panchagarh: Opposition Chief Whip Jainul Abdin Farroque Sunday secured bail in a defamation suit filed against him with a court in this northern-most district of the country.Chief Judicial Magistrate Md. Jafrul Hasan granted the bail when he stood in the dock at noon and prayed for bail

NATORE: At least 25 people, including former state minister Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu and a journalist, were injured when police charged baton on a protest procession of BNP in the district town Sunday.Nine BNP activists were also held from the scene as they pelted the law enforcers with

Satkhira: A BDR personnel was killed and another member of the border force injured in a road accident on hot chase against smugglers at Langoljhora in Kolaroa thana on Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 48. Witnesses said BDR colleagues Saiful Islam and Abdur

CHUADANGA: At least seven local leaders and activists of BNP were injured as police charged baton to break their scheduled demonstration in the district Sunday under the opposition party’s nationwide programme. The BNP men brought out a protest procession from Mozzammal –Dudu group

DHAKA: The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been denied pretext to launch their much-vaunted ‘oust-government movement’ threatened by top leaders of the party over anticipated manipulation of the Chittagong polls, political observers said.They said the election was so

DHAKA: A special court opened hearing on depositions for framing charges against 668 suspected mutineers of 24 Rifles Battalion at the BDR headquarters on Sunday morning.The Special Court-5, led by newly appointed Director-General of Bangladesh Rifles Maj Gen Rafiqul Islam, started the

DHAKA: Food Minister Abdur Razzak Sunday asserted that the country would not see Monga anymore during the rule of the incumbent government.“The proposed budget was formulated giving priority to addressing the seasonal vulnerability like Monga,” the minister said at a discussion as the

CHITTAGONG: Fair ballot is possible even under a political government if the Election Commission intends, said opposition BNP stalwart Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury MP, citing the just-held Chittagong City Corporation election as a glaring example.The powerful politician from the port city,

DHAKA: A fire broke out at a garment factory and two electronics shops in city’s Tejgaon industrial area on Saturday midnight, burning off huge valuables and commodities.Fire Brigade sources said the fire broke out at Hong Kong Fashion, housed on the 2nd floor of the three-storey

Narayanganj: Vexed by long-running gas shortages, people by the thousand blockaded the Dhaka-Narayanganj Highway on Sunday morning to demand uninterrupted gas supply in the district, an industrial heartland.Witnesses said thousands of agitated people took to street at about 8am and put up

CHITTAGONG: Three people, including two siblings, were electrocuted and two others sustained injuries in Baluchar area under Bayzid Bostami thana in the port city on Saturday night.  The deceased were identified as Mithun Mohajan, 25, a student of Chittagong Government College, his

DHAKA: Six people, including two medical professors, were killed and five other doctors injured in separate road accidents in Dinajpur and Sirajganj districts Saturday due mainly to rash driving, sources said.In Dinajpur, two physicians of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital and their micro

DHAKA: Leaders of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) Saturday said the proposed budget for 2010-2011 FY is positive and it would generate hope for a prosperous future of the people.    “Agriculture, power, energy and communications sectors have been given priority in the proposed

DHAKA: The government has decided to form an independent Human Rights Commission within this month. “The Commission will comprise six members, including a chairman,” said law minister barrister Shafique Ahmed at a seminar Saturday.Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), a

DHAKA: Counting votes began as the election to the country’s apex trade body Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBBCI) ended Saturday amid an air of festivity.Voting for the biennial elections started at 9am and continued till 5pm in the city`s Motijheel

DHAKA: In a bid to avert possible clashes among students over the craze-packed FIFA World Cup soccer, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) was Saturday closed for an indefinite period.   Male students were asked to vacate dormitories by 8:30 pm Saturday while the

SAVAR: More than 100 people, including 10 cops, were injured in running battles between garment workers and law-enforcers in Ashulia industrial belt Saturday, as a standoff over a recommended pay hike took a turn for a new crisis in the export industry. Hordes of workers ran riot

DHAKA: The government Saturday started distributing compact florescent lamp (CFL) bulbs to house owners for free under a countrywide operation as a measure for healing a nagging power crisis.To start with, the government set a target of handing out some 55 lakh of the energy-saving bulbs