DHAKA: The verdict in a case challenging legality of the 7th amendment to the constitution is likely to be given Thursday and it will decide whether former president general HM Ershad should face the court.Additional attorney-general MK Rahman Wednesday termed Ershad’s going to power

DHAKA: While announcing that the non-government teachers would get their salary and bonus before Eid-ul-Fitr, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Wednesday called for all concerned to keep away from corruption and build a clean image of the sector.     “We have taken necessary

DHAKA: A parliamentary panel Wednesday urged the government to formulate a jute policy and reopen 7 closed jute mills, as the sector holds fresh prospects for revival.The parliamentary standing committee on Textiles and Jute Ministry made the strong plea from a meeting which was informed

DHAKA: British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said his country supports in principle the trial of war crimes. He stated this at bilateral talks with visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London Tuesday. Regarding the ongoing

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong City Corporation is going to modernize the traffic system of the port city after long 21 years of some patchwork."To improve the traffic system automatic and modern signal lamps are being set up at cost of Tk 3.5 crore," a competent source said. The City Corporation

DHAKA: The Buriganga River, capital Dhaka’s endangered lifeline, is going to get a new life drawing in freshwater from the Jamuna under a government plan already fianalised. As the Buriganga is heavily polluted by reckless dumping of wastes, it is going to be veritable medical operation

DHAKA: Post and Telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju Wednesday said every upazila, union and village of the country would be connected with internet network by 2012, making a major advance on the government’s digitizing recipe. "The `third-generation service (3-G)’ would

BENAPOLE: A slain man was found floating in the frontier river Ichhamoti in the upazila`s Putkhali area on Wednesday morning.      Putkhali BDR camp-in-charge Emdad Hossain said the body was floating on the waters of the Indian part of the river. His identity could not be known

DHAKA: The High Court prohibited holding all kinds of programmes on the main altar of Shaheed Minar excepting February functions on the historic Language Movement.Besides, the court gave directives for posting three security personnel at the Central Shaheed Minar for round-the-clock watch

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to publish advertisement in the newspapers for commencing trial in absentia of the fugitive BDR mutineers on charge of mass murders in the Pilkhana carnage.Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan Talukder passed the order for

CHITTAGONG: Despite authority’s initiative to create public awareness against mob justice, another woman on Tuesday night fell victim of a kidnap hoax that is going around in the city for last few days.Aged around 30, the woman was beaten to death by a mob in Boubazar area under Bakolia

DHAKA: The government Wednesday issued an instruction that wearing religious dresses in educational institutions cannot be made compulsory, three days after a court order forbidding forced use of veil.A circular issued to this effect by the Education Ministry said, “None can be forced

DHAKA: At least seven people, including an engineer, sustained severe burn injures in a boiler explosion at a steel mill in the city’s Shyampur area on Wednesday.Witnesses said a boiler of Hasan Steel Mills exploded with a big sound at about 11am, leaving the seven injured. They were

DHAKA: Two officials of the US Embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday evening visited the office of banglanews24.com.bd, an online news portal and sister concern of East West Media group under Bashundhara Group. The two-member delegation led by US Embassy Political and Financial counselor Jon

DHAKA: Criminal Investigation Department (CID) interrogated Saiful Islam Duke, the nephew of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and son of former women and children affairs minister Khurshid Jahan Haque, over the 21st August grenade attack.ASP Adul Kahhar Akand, Investigation Officer

RAJSHAHI: A leader of an outlawed extremist group, Elahi Bax alias Mithu, 25, was killed in a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in Goalkandi area of Bagmara upazila early Wednesday. “Mithu was the regional commander of Chapainawabganj district Purba Banglar Communist

DHAKA: The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to Biman Bangladesh Airlines Chairman Air Vice-Marshal (retd) Jamal Uddin Ahmed for his recent comment carried in the media, taking a tug-of-war over contentious affairs of the national flag carrier to a

DHAKA: A number of officials of Deputy Secretary status have been given transfers and postings in a latest round of reshuffle in the administration.The Establishment Ministry issued separate notifications Tuesday to this effect.The notifications say Mohammad Waliur Rahman, Director of

DHAKA: Nearly 40,000 cases of smuggling, filed by BDR and Coast Guard forces, have been pending with different courts for lack of judges.      Court sources said the shortage of judges is the main cause of huge backlog of smuggling cases.According to a source in the Law Ministry, at

DHAKA: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council Tuesday approved five projects involving Tk 1,847 crore, including two big ones for giving new electricity connections in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet. Of the total project costs, the government will finance Tk 1,747 crore