DHAKA: Paribortan Foundation (PF) Friday demanded trial of militant Moulana Tajuddin and his so-called mentor Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman for allegedly planning the grenade attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while she was in the opposition on August 21, 2004.The PF leaders formed

KUSHTIA: A contractor was shot at Sheikhpara Bazar near Islami University on Thursday night as he refused to pay toll.Victim Raju Ahmed, 45, of Sheikhpara village in Jhenidah district, was admitted to Kushtia Genaral Hospital in a critical condition.Kushtia Islami University thana OC

DHAKA: Armed assailants shot a man to death and wounded another at Nayatola in city’s Moghbazar area Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Swapan Talukder, 35, a brick and sand trader.Victim’s family members said Sawpan left home for a pharmacy to buy medicine at

DHAKA: Planning Ramadan vacation for educational institutions across the country laid bare a lack of coordination between ministries with the holiday beginning next week on different dates. The Ministery of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education lacked the coordination

NATORE: Two farmers were killed and three others injured in Singra area of Natore-Bogra highway Thursday when a passenger bus and a truck collided head on, police said.The deceased were identified as Belal, 47, and Shardul, 25.The injured were Shahidul, another farmer, and two passengers

DHAKA: The honking gaggles of cars in the capital have to drive in low gear amid Ramadan rush, as the government opted for shutdown of gas stations at peak hour of the day.  Under the rationing recipe to make do with the limited output of the fuel, the CNG refueling stations in and

CHITTAGONG: The government is going to stop gas supply to Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO) anytime now, days after suspending the fuel supply to another fertilizer factory, for running power plants in full gear to tackle troubling electricity shortages in the country. Petrobangla and

DHAKA: Some 13,500 officials and employees of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) have been left in the lurch to count days in the dark to know their future.The members of the staff of the now-defunct Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) were absorbed in the

DHAKA: The High Court Thursday issued a rule asking the government to explain why not it be directed to establish a separate Ministry and make sufficient budgetary allocation for population control.An HC bench comprising Justices Syed Mahmud Hossain and Gobinda Chandra Thakur passed the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Thursday summoned Deputy Commissioner of Metropolitan Detective Branch in a case that was filed for providing ‘false and untrue’ information from a press conference.Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hassan Talukdar asked Deputy Commissioner Md. Monirul Islam to

DHAKA: The government-appointed expert committee suggested further analysis before finalizing the route of the much-awaited Dhaka Elevated Expressway, meant for smooth channeling of the capital’s chaotic traffic.“We asked the consulting agency to analyse more various factors related

BOGRA: Four people--one woman and three children—went missing as a boat capsized in the Jamuna River in Sonatala upazila on Wednesday night.Police said the boat was heading towards Sonatali from Jamalpur at about 5pm. But, in the midstream, it sank in the river in Charmohanpur area of

DHAKA: A number of senior police officers who exposed their partisan role through various wrongdoings have now gone “missing”, says a confidential report by the Police Headquarters to the Home Ministry. The report listed six cops as missing, including the much-talked-about police

DHAKA: A total of 11 workers including four Bangladeshis were killed when a perfume factory caught fire in Dubai on Tuesday, sources said.Of them six were Indian and one was Pakistani citizen.The incident occurred when fire gutted the Afnan Perfume Factory in Dubai’s Kuj industrial

DHAKA:  New York based body Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday requested the government to “immediately stop its serious and continued harassment” of trade union leaders, labor rights activists, and workers in the ready-made garment (RMG) industry. In a letter to Prime Minister

DHAKA: A new Environment Act and Environment Court Act to pave the way for tough punitive actions against polluters will be placed in the next session of the Parliament, State minister for environment and forest Dr. Hasan Mahmud said on Wednesday.  He said Department of Environment (DoE)

DHAKA: Agitated people at places across the country Wednesday enforced hartal, blocked roads and highways and attacked local power offices to press for electricity supply, as outages reportedly disrupted normal life and business. Naranyanganj: At least 22 people, including six police

DHAKA: Archer K. Blood American Center Library and the Educational Advising Center of the U.S. Embassy have announced fresh business hours for the month of Ramadan. A statement from US Embassy said, from August 15 to September 15, the library and educational advising center will be open

DHAKA: The anti-adulteration cleansing drive backed up by mobile court to prevent product faking and control prices of essentials got a major blow as two cabinet ministers faced off out of “ego”, top officials of both the ministries said. According to them, Industries Minister Dilip

DHAKA: Month-long daytime fasting and abstinence by Muslims begins Thursday as the Islamic month of Ramadan began with the sighting of moon on Wednesday evening. “The Ramadan moon was sighted in the country this evening,” announced the national moon-sighting committee after reviewing