Probe four cases against OC Pradeep

A court on Monday directed police to investigate four cases against Pradeep Kumar Das, suspended officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, and some others.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Water Development Board: Autonomy gone, efficiency too

As an executing authority managing the vast water resources of the riverine country, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has been handicapped ever since the government curtailed its autonomy.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Swedish support for UN membership

The river routes between India and Bangladesh will be reopened from tomorrow after a lapse of seven years.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

MP Bablu blames feminists for rape incidents

Independent MP Md Rezaul Karim Bablu yesterday in parliament said that feminists are to blame for the increase in rape incidents around the country, even resorting to comparing women to tamarinds in line with a religious cleric’s words in 2013.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Clarification

Romzan Ali, project director of Akhaura-Laksham Double Line Project of Bangladesh Railway, has sent a clarification to a report run by The Daily Star on October 22 under the headline “Akhaura-Laksham expansion: Rail project PD to be removed over graft”.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Turmoil in Ethiopia: ‘Full-scale’ humanitarian crisis unfolding

The UN yesterday said a full-blown humanitarian crisis was unfolding in northern Ethiopia, where thousands of people each day are fleeing the conflict in the Tigray region.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Man who threatened to kill Shakib arrested in Sylhet

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested the man who threatened to kill Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan during a Facebook live video on November 15.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Tk 1.4 crore compensation for death of air passenger

Parliament yesterday passed a bill titled “The Air Transport (Montreal Convention 1999) Bill 2020” to pave the way for compensating the heirs to an air passenger’s properties $160,000 (Tk 1.4 crore) in case of their death.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Rohingya Repatriation: Talks after formation of full Myanmar govt

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh would approach for resuming the Rohingya repatriation talks after the formation of a full new government in Myanmar.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Crisis-hit Peru names centrist lawmaker as third president in a week

Peru’s Congress on Monday chose legislator Francisco Sagasti as the Andean country’s caretaker president, in an attempt to defuse a sharp political crisis after angry protests and the departure of two presidents in the past week.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Solomon Islands prepares to ban Facebook after govt criticism

The Solomon Islands is planning to ban the use of Facebook for an indeterminate period after inflammatory critique of the government was aired on the social media platform, the Solomon Times reported.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Kathalbari ferry terminal being moved

Kathalbari Ferry Ghat in Madaripur is being shifted to Banglabazar, 500 metres upstream of the Padma, for facilitating construction of the Padma Bridge and protecting the river bank.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Marriott hotel construction in Bandarban against laws

Sixty-two eminent citizens yesterday issued a statement against the construction of the Marriott hotel and resort at Bandarban’s Chandrapahar, popularly known as Chimbuk.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Undocumented in Malaysia: Workers to get regularised, recruited

Undocumented Bangladeshis living in Peninsular Malaysia will get a chance to be regularised and recruited under a new programme.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Defence Industries: US spied on European allies: report

Seven years after the Edward Snowden scandal, new allegations that the US spied on close allies have emerged in Denmark, this time regarding the defence industry and a Danish fighter jet tender won by the US.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

SpaceX-Nasa launch first astronaut mission to ISS

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station, Nasa’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

JS body backs death penalty for rape

The parliamentary body on Women and Children Affairs yesterday placed its final report on the Women and Children Repression Prevention (amendment) Bill 2020 before the House keeping the provision of death penalty for rape.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Moderna vaccine gives more hope

Moderna Inc’s experimental vaccine was 94.5 percent effective in preventing Covid-19 based on interim data from a late-stage trial, the company said yesterday, becoming the second US drugmaker to report results that far exceed expectations.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

New pay scales on December 16

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is expected to announce the new pay scales of the government on Victory Day, to be
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Amphan, Flood Damage: Govt to spend Tk 5,905cr to repair roads

The government is going to take up a Tk 5,905-crore project to repair rural roads and fix infrastructure damaged by Cyclone Amphan, floods and heavy rains this year.
16 November 2020, 18:00 PM