Rohingyas get fair treatment
Says Razzaque
Food Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday said Bangladesh is not mistreating Rohingya refugees as is being published in some international media.
Print EditionThe government is considering immediate implementation of the National Education Policy as its duty of the day.
Print EditionThe High Court (HC) yesterday deferred for a week the hearing on the petitions filed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for quashing the proceedings of four corruption cases against her.
Print EditionA Habiganj court yesterday recorded statement of a Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami operative accused in SAMS Kibria killing case.
Print EditionBidisha Siddique, former wife of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, yesterday filed a Tk 60 crore defamation suit against him, mentioning that she was tortured by him and suffered inhuman torture in police custody in connection with false cases filed by him between 2005 and 2007.
Print EditionThe army headquarters yesterday issued a clarification on a news item on army chief's visit to India.
Print EditionThe pro-BNP and pro-Jamaat teachers of Dhaka University yesterday formed a human chain on the campus protesting "torture" of female students at two girls' colleges in the city and "criminal activities" by BCL activists at other institutions.
Print EditionA high level 10-member delegation of Boy Scouts of America arrived in Dhaka yesterday on a three-day visit.
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Fire gutted shops, a garage, CNG-run auto-rickshaws, dwelling houses and huge properties yesterday in Chittagong's Sadarghat area.
Print EditionA Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against a woman along with eight others for killing her husband and a domestic help in the city's Gulshan area in April 2008.
Print EditionUnited People's Democratic Front (UPDF) yesterday demanded formulation of a law recognising traditional rights of hilly people to land before beginning the process of resolving land dispute in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) area.
Print EditionRights activists at a media workshop yesterday called on the government to hold open discussions in parliament and at academic levels before signing any international agreements.
Print EditionTwo brothers have been shown arrested on charges of killing their parents at their home in KPS labour colony in Khulna on Tuesday midnight.
Print EditionFour people were killed and six others injured in separate road accidents in Rangpur and Pabna yesterday.
Print EditionSome 1.40 lakh metric tons of quality seeds of paddy, wheat and maize will be distributed among farmers to boost production in the next four years.
Print EditionA Dhaka court yesterday asked former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker Golam Faruq Ovi to appear before the court on March 24 in connection with model Syeda Tania Mahbub Tinni murder case.
Print EditionBNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's petition challenging a government notice that asked her to vacate the cantonment house was sent to the chief justice as Khaleda expressed "no-confidence" in a High Court bench.
Print EditionAngry relatives of a patient and local people vandalised a hospital in Tongi following death of a young man due to alleged wrong treatment.
Print EditionThe police arrested 1,903 people on various charges in separate drives across the country in the last 24 hours as of 6:00am yesterday.
Print EditionThe country's judicial system is still under the influence of politicians and executives, though the judiciary was separated from the executive branch of the government in papers, Neeti Gobeshana Kendra (NGK) said yesterday.
Print EditionThe Australian government will support 19 Bangladeshi professionals to participate in short courses over the coming year in Australia, says a press release.
Print EditionThe Daily Star today awards the outstanding achievers of O and A level examinations at a grand award ceremony expected to be attended by some 5000 students, parents, teachers and principals.
Print EditionAt least 1,500 victims of a devastating fire, which broke out in a slum at Mohammadpur in the city on Wednesday night, are now living under open sky.
Print EditionA parliamentary body yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over the bureaucratic tangle for which around 1,100 people await release from jail even after they completed serving their prison term.
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