Dhaka: The sluggish privatization programme is going to gain pace again as the present government is finalizing an amended industrial policy that will remove the roadblocks to transfer of the losing or laid-off enterprises to private owners. A meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office

DHAKA: A suspected bandit was killed by bullet as police on Sunday morning fired on an armed gang of muggers in front of Govt. Bangla College in the city’s Mirpur area, according to an official account of the shootout.Police and witnesses said police opened fire as the mugger was

Jhenidah: Two people were found dead and dumped in fields in sadar and Kaliganj upazilas of the district on Sunday morning.Police recovered the bodies in the morning and said both the victims were strangled to death. One of the deceased, Biplob, 22, was lying dead in Kawsar’s brickfield

Comilla: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in separate midnight raids on Saturday night held three suspected drug peddlers with some 35,000 narcotic Yaba tablets worth about Tk 1.75 crore in the district.A team of the crime-prevention company-2 of RAB-11 raided the

Dhaka: Three people were shot and chopped with knives by roving armed extortionists at Senpara Parbata of Kafrul in the city on Saturday morning, amid a latest spurt in the incidence of crime. Witnesses said a gang of 3 miscreants was looking for the contractor of an under-construction

DHAKA: A two-day Asia Conference of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) begins at a city hotel tomorrow (Sunday), in the wake of growing worry of the host country about the adverse impacts of climate change caused by global warming. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would inaugurate the

Dhaka: Elder brother Mostafizur Rahman allegedly killed his younger Maksudur Rahman Bhuiyan, 45, following family feuds at Uttara in the city on Friday midnight. Police recovered and sent the body to DMCH morgue. Police couldn’t arrest the killer yet.Police sources said Maksud lived at

DHAKA: State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Qamrul Islam once again said slain President Ziaur Rahman was an undercover “spy” of Pakistan, both during and after the liberation war.  “Being a freedom fighter, he was also a Pakistani spy. He

MOULVIBAZAR: A triangular clash among the activists of Chhatra League, Chhatra Dal and Shibir on Moulvibazar Government College campus Saturday left 15 people injured. Police, however, arrested a journalist and six Shibir activists from the campus after the clash that ensued in the

Kushtia: Police Saturday arrested a Habilder of the district detective police and two Ansar men for allegedly committing robbery at a house here. The arrested are Abul Kalam Azad, in-charge of the permanent police camp of Khustia Housing estate, and Ansar members Jahangir Ali and Safar

Jamalpur: Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira Saturday disclosed that the government has decided to return the vested property and the acquired lands lying abandoned to the real owners or their successors. He also said his ministry would try its level best to reclaim some 2.5 lakh acres of

Dhaka: Police on Friday night arrested another young man on charge of setting fire to the body of a teenage girl named Aleya Akhter in the city’s Pallabi area.Police picked up Belal from Shah Ali thana area at about 11pm Friday, acting on the statement given by main accused Khokon, who

DHAKA: Most invited leaders of different political parties at a regional meet arranged by the Election Commission Saturday felt “embarrassed” finding seated beside them top Jamaat leaders accused of crimes against humanity during the 1971 War of Liberation.  Jamaat Ameer Matiur

Chandpur: Rail communications on the Chtittagong-Laksham section of the railways snapped as an oil-laden train derailed in Kalibari area on Saturday morning in an accident fraught with dangers.Railway sources said four of the 25 containers of the “Tank Special” train from Chittagong

DHAKA: The World Cup soccer which kicks off on June 11 will dedicate its first goal to the noble global cause of education for all, a UN-designated recipe that largely failed to catch up with the target time.    Organizers say the plan is to draw world leaders’ attention to the

Sirajganj: Police in a raid arrested an elderly man and his two sons as suspected outlaws along with firearms from a remote village in Belkuchi upazila on Saturday morning.A police team raided Masum village on the charland of the River Jamuna at about 6:30am and picked up Azizul Haq, 60,

DHAKA: Economists and women rights campaigners suggested the government to place a gender-responsive budget and ensure its effective implementation for the development of country’s womenfolk.  They also demanded bringing women into the mainstream giving special privileges and

DHAKA: Finance Adviser to the Prime Minister Mashiur Rahman Friday said Bangladesh would be benefited by allowing India to use Mongla Port.“Awami League as well as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina promised that Mongla port will be a regional port in this part of South Asia,” he said while

Dhaka: Detectives now arrested a man who had allegedly tried to impersonate a protocol officer to the Prime Minister to get his clients police jobs. Official sources said Biswajit Basu, a college teacher of Satkhira, was run in from the capital’s Goalnagar area under old Dhaka at around

Bagerhat: A boy was killed and his father injured as a bus rammed a passenger-service motorcycle they were riding on Bagerhat-Rupsha highway in Rahimababad area on Friday morning.Police said a Dhaka-bound tourist bus smashed the rented motorcycle, carrying the father and the son, in the