DHAKA: The High Court Monday asked the government to form a committee to investigate custodial deaths, as a recent HC warning apparently went unheeded. In the court order the Home Secretary has been given a week to form the committee.  The HC order came from the bench of justice AHM

BARISAL: Two suspected robbers and extremist leaders were killed in a ‘crossfire’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Nayakandi village in Muladi upazila early Monday.The deseased were identified as Majnu Khan, 45, a cadre of Sarbahara group, and Kalam Sarder alias

DHAKA: Additional Secretary (OSD) of Establishment Ministry Dilip Kumar Basak was transferred to Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology for the same post, said an official circular Monday.Thee other bureaucrats of Deputy Secretary level were transferred in another

BENAPOLE: Trans-border trading through Benapole-Petrapole Land Port halted Monday for a strike enforced in India in protest against price hike of essentials, including fuels.   Land-port sources said hundreds of strike-supporters hoisted red flag atop the main gateway to Petrapole

DHAKA:  Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate on Monday assured the BNP lawmakers of government permission for sending lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee abroad for better treatment.The speaker gave the assurance while an 18-member parliamentary delegation of BNP led by opposition Chief whip

Chittagong: The police authority withdrew Additional Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Abdul Jalil Mandal to the headquarters in Dhaka Monday. “The order was issued over a fax message signed by the Deputy Inspector-General (DIG-admin) at about 11 am,” an official

DHAKA: The European Union (EU) has expressed concern over the labour unrest in readymade garment industries.A team led by European Commission Delegation to Bangladesh Ambassador Dr. Stefan Frowein met Labour and Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain at his Secretariat

DHAKA: Before giving consent to sellout of gas to a third party by the exploring multinational company Cairn, the government wants to be sure of sufficient use of the fuel in the country instead of rushing for export. The Energy Ministry in a letter on June 30 directed Petrobangla to

DHAKA:  Dhaka Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka and 12 others sued of late in a graft case by the Anti-Corruption Commission Monday secured anticipatory bail from the High Court. A division bench, comprising Justice Afzal Hossain Ahmed and Justice Mohammad Abdul Hafiz, set them at large on

    * 23500 crore bad loans in 31 commercial banks    * Loan disbursed violating central bank’s instruction.    * Central bank’s “early warning” in the offing.DHAKA: The amount of bad loan in country’s commercial banks has reached in a risky point and this risk is

NARAYANGANJ: At least 20 people still remained missing till Monday afternoon after a trawler with over a hundred passengers capsized in the Sitalakhya River on Sunday night, police and local sources said. Setting out from Tanbazar Gudara Ghat in Narayanganj, the mechanized ferryboat sank

BENAPOLE: A locally crowned ‘top terror’ was killed in an attack by his opponents at Shourdah Bazaar in Sharsha upazila on Sunday midnight. The deceased was identified as Arab Ali, son of Rakam Ali of village Laxmanpur in Sharsha upazila. He was wanted in a dozen cases, including

DHAKA: In the wake of student unrest, authorities on Monday deferred the MA final examinations of 2007-08 sesssion for a month. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the academic committee. The students later unlocked the rooms of the department which were locked on Sunday by

One RMG factory declared closed, nearby ones vacated under unsolicited ‘leave’ SAVAR: A garment factory was declared closed in the industrial hub of Ashulia on Monday morning amid a repeat of labour unrest on a wide scale, after a lull following a recent turmoil. Local sources said

MANIKGANJ: A speeding truck hit a motorcycle on Dhaka-Aricha highway under Saturia of the district Sunday night leaving a bike rider killed and another critically injured.The deceased was identified as Tulshi Rani Sarker, 25 of Umedpur village under Sadar upazila who was riding on the

CHUADANGA: A police patrol team came under bomb attack allegedly by a group of extremists at Utholi of Jibonnagar upazila in the district on Sunday. The attackers fled as police opened fire on them. No casualty was reported.Jeebanagar thana Officer-in-Charge Munshi Asaduzzaman told

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Monday urges the manpower employing countries to consider hand written urgent passport besides Machine Readable Passport (MRP) in issuing visas to its people.   “We requested the foreign envoys in Dhaka to recognize both the machine-readable and hand written

DHAKA: Barrister Rafique-ul-Haque Sunday came up with a reminder that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had sued politicians en masse to implement the ‘minus-two formula’ during the caretaker regime following the 1/11 changeover.The veteran lawyer made the comment after the

DHAKA: Rita’s husband Rashedul Kabir and his second wife Razia Sultana Smriti were remanded for two more days in a case of provoking Rita into committing suicide along with her two kids in their Jurain residence.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Syeda Minhaz-um-Munira remanded them passed

DHAKA: Bangladesh is all set to start a major climate change mitigation project. But government authorities do not know for sure when the pledged money will be coming into the account of ‘Climate Change Resilience Fund’.“We are almost ready to start the project to tackle the adverse