Dhaka: Courts Monday granted bail to 22 workers, including nine arrested during the river-transport strike, as fruitful negotiations between the government and their trade union broke a debilitating deadlock in countrywide waterway communications.Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Court

Dhaka: Foreign Minister Dipu Moni left Dhaka Sunday for Tajikistan to attend the 37th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting, at the first stop on her way to Moscow. The meeting will take place in the Tajik capital city of Dushanbe on May 18-19.  Foreign Ministry

Dhaka: As the red-earth Barind region burns under perennial droughts, residents of Rajshahi district Monday rallied in the capital to demand that the government immediately go for implementing the long-forsaken North Rajshahi Irrigation Project (NRIP) for saving the ecology and crops in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday made a strong plea at a UN agency meet for creating an open global trade regime that ensures effective access of products of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) to developed countries’ markets. She also called for adequate representation of

Dhaka: A fire broke out on Monday morning in a power sub-transmission room adjacent to the Finance Ministry building at Bangladesh Secretariat, in a close repeat of blaze in the precincts of government’s administrative headquarters.The fire occurred around 10:15am in the room on the 3rd

Dhaka: A fire gutted five storehouses of garment leftovers called jhut in the capital city’s Pallabi area early Monday. On information, eight units of fire service rushed in and brought the flames under control within two hours, sources said. It took up to 7 in the morning to completely

Dhaka:  Two factions of Chhatra League Monday clashed over distribution of food at a programme of Dhaka University Debating Society (DUDS), leaving three students injured, including a DUDS member. Campus sources said a group of BCL activists, led by Enamul Haque Prince, went to the TSC

Dinajpur: Boropukuria coalmine workers will go on strike from May 22 if their demand for regular appointment is not fulfilled by Tuesday, their union announced Monday, at the height of a series of demonstrations. Boropukuria Coalmine Labour-Workers Union issued the ultimatum, after

Chittagong: The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) moves to float a new professional forum following the footprint of the ruling Awami League to shore up their campaign for Chittagong City Corporation elections slated for June 17. A party source said the new platform would be

Chittagong: Ship owners and agents at Chittagong seaport claimed they had to count around Tk 35 crore in loss for the shipping deadlock caused by the vessel workers’ strike.The flagged and lighter ships were of no use during this eight-day-long holdup as no goods from the big ships

Dhaka: Nine unnatural deaths were reported in the capital in 24 hours to 9pm Saturday, causing some difficulties to the staffers of Mitford Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgues in doing so many postmortems.DMCH sources exclaimed “as if it were a procession of dead

Dhaka: The Law Minister Sunday said the two embroiled newly appointed additional judges of the High Court--Ruhul Kuddus Babu and Khashruzzaman--would take their oath soon as allegations against them were “not true”.“Their oath will be administered soon as allegations against them,

Dhaka: Bangladesh and Russia are ready to sign an initial agreement on setting up nuclear power plant in the South Asian country when Foreign Minister Dipu Moni goes to Moscow at the end of this month. “During her visit to Russia, the foreign minister-level agreement may be signed

Dhaka: A defamation suit was filed against 15 journalists of the private satellite channel NTV, including the Chief News Editor, the producer and the reporter, for a broadcast in the crime-based programme ‘Crime Watch’.Golam Ali Emam Bhuiyan, a resident of Gobindapur of Shonir-Akhra

Dhaka: Registered primary school teachers Sunday urged the government to nationalize their institutions ensuring all facilities.The call came from a press conference organized by the Registered Primary School Samity at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital. Aminul Islam, president of the

Dhaka: The High Court Sunday granted former Awami League lawmaker Mockbul Hossain bail hours after a special court sent him to jail in a corruption case.An HC bench of justice Shamsul Huda and Justice Abu Bakar Siddique issued the bail order.Mockbul was earlier convicted in the corruption

Dhaka: A man died falling off the roof of a Mosque in the city’s Jigatala area under Hazaribagh thana Sunday.The deceased was identified as Shahidul, 28, son of Abdul Kader, hailed from Masuakhali area of Gusaerhat under Shariatpur district. He was a residence of a mess at Gabtala

Mymensingh: Four people were killed and another was seriously injured in two road mishaps in Mymensingh Sunday, triggering an angry protest.Police said a fatal accident occurred as a Dhaka-bound bus and a tempo collided at 11:30am on the Dhaka–Mymensingh Highway at Meherabari in Bhaluka

Dhaka: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in the capital Sunday saw a sudden blaze amid a boom in a locked air-conditioned chamber of an official shortly after the office opened for the day after the weekend. Controversial claims kept the incident clouded as employees and

Dhaka: The High Court Sunday rejected a writ petition challenging the government action in shutting down Channel 1, a private satellite television station owned by people in the opposition BNP camp.An HC bench comprising Justice Mahmud Hossain and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the