CHITTAGONG: Police arrested an activist of the opposition BNP early Monday for distributing leaflets containing smear campaign against ruling Awami League party-backed mayoral candidate ABM Mahiuddin Chowdhury.Zillur Rahman, 24, was held in the port city’s Bondortila area while

Savar: Three apparel factories of the top leader of the sector, BGMEA president Salam Murshedi, were shut down Monday amid two days of raging labour unrest over a longstanding demand for pay hike. Sources said the police-worker rioting Sunday and Monday in Ashulia area left a total of 75

DHAKA: Jatiya Party, a major component of the ruling grand alliance, demanded immediate implementation of the national coal policy and building coal-fired power plants to address the power crunch in the country.“It is high time for the government to lay emphasis on coal-based power

DHAKA: Thousands swore a pledge to punish stalkers and ensure girl students’ safety as a government-sponsored special education day was observed Sunday across the country.The Education Minister administered the oath to hundreds of students at a central rally on the premises of the

DHAKA: The government Sunday decided to arrange an investment conference here on July 3 for attracting local and foreign investors in the power and energy sector. The decision came from a preparatory meeting of the Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry with State Minister Enamul

DHAKA: Two gangs of goons fought gunfight in broad daylight in the capital’s Jatrabari area Sunday, leaving one dead and two wounded.The deceased was identified as Rinku, 26, and the injured as Swapan and Faysal. They are residents of Hatkhola area.Jatrabari police said the gunfight

DHAKA: Chinese Vice President Xi Jingping arrives here tomorrow (Monday) morning on a two-day official visit, with expansion of the bilteral economic coopertaiion on top of his agenda. Officials here said an agreement on economic cooperation is expected to be signed between the two

Savar: A clash between garment workers and police Sunday injured at least 50 people, including police, at Jamgarai in Ashulia area—a repeat of perennial troubles in the ill-managed export industry.   Sources said the rioting erupted at around 9:00am when thousands of workers of Envoy,

DHAKA: Eight South Asian countries are likely to decide on doubling the number of SAARC visa-exemption stickers for the business category, as recommended earlier by the business and trade associations.  “SAARC member-states are going to take decision to increase the bundle. The matter

RAJSHAHI: A group of lawyers Sunday stopped all the activities of Rajshahi court following the demise of a fellow advocate.The sudden standstill of the law practitioners resulted enormous miseries for the justice seekers came from remote areas of the division. Court sources said the

DHAKA: Most of the women vice-chairmen of the country’s upazila parishads do not get due cooperation from the respective UZ and UP chairmen although they are oath-bound to assist their female colleagues for an effective run of the freshly introduced local-government body.The women

DHAKA: Another multistory building in the jerrybuilt capital city tilted at Jabbar Housing Society colony at Mirpur on Sunday morning. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) gave notice to the residents to leave the vulnerable building within the day. RAJUK sources said the water and

DHAKA: Speakers at a human-chain demonstration here Sunday urged the government to increase manpower in the railway sector and reopen the closed rail-stations at the soonest to breathe dynamism into the country’s communications system as well as the economy. Save the Environment

Dhaka: Government’s petroleum corporation, Petrobangla, is going to invite international tender by December for onshore gas exploration, in a bid to remedy the energy crunch facing the country.“Drafting the production-sharing contract is underway,” chairman the Bangladesh Oil, Gas

DHAKA: The government will go for amending the country’s existing labour law soon for ensuring rights of the working boys and girls, as the existing one is being deemed outdated.“As the existing Labour Act-2006 is not fit for the time, it will be amended in next parliamentary

DHAKA: The national budget is losing its capitalistic character and evolving slowly as a social-welfare one, Unnayan Samunnay, a think tank, said Saturday in an antithesis of all that is being said by all other traditional analysts.Samannay theorists differed with similar other

DHAKA: Building ship with a bright potential for Bangladesh can offer US$ 5 billion in the next five years, a prospect now plagued by various problems like lack of government support. “A 10 percent cash incentive for the sector from the government may return US$ 5 billion in the next

Chuadanga: Police authority Saturday suspended the officer-in-charge of Alamdanga Thana, Elias Fakir, on charges of neglect of duty and nepotism.      Khulna Divisional Police Headquarters issued him the marching order and he handed over charge of the Thana to Sub-Inspector

DHAKA: The country will observe Eve teasing Prevention Day on Sunday with a fresh vow to prevent the menace that took lives of 16 girls.In observance of the day, the Education Ministry will bring out a procession from Muktangan that will march up to Central Shahid Minar at 8 am. A rally

Saver: The workers of two garment factories clashed at Savar on Saturday morning, leaving at least 25 wounded.One of the workers, Motahar, said a number of workers switched sides from Apparel Village into Mozart Knitwear recently, as they used to be tortured and denied wages. “Since