DHAKA: A court here Wednesday declared a long adjournment till November 14 the hearing on charge framing against ex-PM and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her elder son Tarique Rahman and four others in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.Judge Muzammel Hossain of the Special Judge Court-3

DHAKA: The draft National Child Policy-2010 has been unveiled with the maximum age of the child raised to 18 from the previously defined 14 years, restricting certain works up to the two stages of childhood. As per the new policy, a child under 14 cannot be hired for any full-time job And

DHAKA: Government authorities cancelled the work order awarded to a Chinese firm for repairing the cracks on the Bangabandhu Bridge as the company is blacklisted for jerrybuilding an important link road.The Cabinet Purchase Committee also decided to invite fresh tender for the repairs to

SHERPUR: All Sherpur incidents of ‘crime against humanity’ during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war took place following direction from Kamaruzzaman, said Mohan Munshi, a self-declared `rajakar’, as a belated state-level investigation was now on steam. Kamaruzzaman, Assistant

DHAKA: Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, the sole government body to promote country’s much-neglected potential tourism sector, urged the government to pay sponsor money to the International Cricket Council as the BPC has been elected ICC’s local partner in staging the upcoming global

SHERPUR: The war-crime investigation team, on the second consecutive day of revisiting the 1971 carnage spots in Sherpur, walked around different areas of the frontier town talking to local people about the wartime happenings in sombre scenarios.Beginning at 9:00 in the morning, the

DHAKA: The government has invited bids from four short-listed investment companies for the construction of Dhaka Elevated Expressway, as preparation for building the motorway over the jammed capital city advanced steadily.According to a competent source the government sent ‘Request for

DHAKA: Unidentified assailants slaughtered a taxicab driver in the city`s Sheorapara area early Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Rabiul Islam, 35, son of Iliyas Uddin at Jahuribagh Moholla in Mirpur.Mirpur Model Thana SI Jalaluddin said four miscreants, in the guise of passengers,

SHERPUR: All crimes against humanity during 1971 liberation war occurred in Sherpur following direction of Kamaruzzaman, Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, says Mohon Munshi, a self-declared `rajakar’ of the area. Mohon, who was the closest aide to Kamaruzzaman was

DHAKA: At least four people were killed and 75 others injured in separate road accidents in Manikganj and Savar Wednesday. A correspondent from Manikganj reports: One woman was killed and 40 others injured when a passenger bus fell into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Muljan

CHITTAGONG: At least three people were killed and 15 injured as a picnic bus from Rajshahi to Cox`sbazar bay resort turned over on the 3rd Karnaphuli Bridge in Chittagong on Tuesday night.“The deceased could not be identified immediately,” said OC Aminul of Karnaphuli thana to

SYLHET: Two condemned convicts are going to be executed in Sylhet central jail on Wednesday night for committing two separate murders, official sources said.The convicts are Sabul Mia of Surma thana area in Sylhet and Alauddin Swapan of Baralekha in Moulvibazar.According to the case

DHAKA: A cross-border car rally through four countries, including Bangladesh, is being arranged to set the long-disputed Asian Highway route. The track of the car caravan has already been selected, competent sources said about the latest development.Vehicles in the long-haul traffic will

PABNA: A speeding truck rammed into a microbus in Ishwardi on Tuesday night, killing at least five people, including a union parishad chairman. The deceased are KM Akhter Hossain, UP chairman of Ataikula, Rajab Ali, Tipu Hossain, Ali and Shamim Hossain.Samiul Islam, Officer-in-Charge of

DHAKA: The government is going to buy new vehicles for use by the deputy commissioners of all the 64 districts at a cost of Tk 26 crore, official sources said.Sources in the Establishment Ministry said the vehicles would be bought for use in VIP protocol in the districts alongside use by

RAJSHAHI: Amid a flurry of fearsome foreboding about earthquake, triggered by a recent chain of tremors in different parts of the country, another quake was now felt in some areas of the metropolitan city Tuesday. The trembler, a milder one though in the current spell, was felt at around

DHAKA: Floods in riverside districts took a turn for the worse as 11 of the country’s rivers, including the major ones, remained in spate, flowing above the danger levels in the last 24 hours to 6pm Tuesday. The sudden swelling of waters in the rivers deteriorated the situation of late

DHAKA: A number of officials of senior assistant and deputy secretaries level have been given transfers and postings in a latest round of reshuffle in the administration.The establishment ministry Tuesday issued two separate notifications on the changes.According to the notifications,

DHAKA: The government has decided in principle to form a separate job commission styled Public Service Commission-Education, according a differential treatment to the teaching community. Sources in the ministry of establishment said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already given the go to

KOLKATA: The left-front government of Tripura has taken a number of initiatives to commemorate the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, as the eastern Indian state was a citadel for the freedom fighters.A 52-foot-tall liberation memorial would be built at Bilionia Chottakhola which can be