Staff Reporter :Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has vowed to take to the streets braving all kinds of repressions unleashed by the ruling party Awami League on the protests movement.“Terror like attacks, killing and arrest cannot suppress our movement. BNP cannot be removed from the streets. We will carry on our movement to topple the government,” BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a press conference in the city’s party office in Gulshan.Criticising the attacks on BNP workers in...
Day: September 17, 2022
News Desk :A man has been run over and killed by a train in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar.The victim was identified as 60-year-old Brajendra Chandra Mondol, a businessman in the lumber trade, police said, reports bdnews24.comBrajendra was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday afternoon and doctors declared him dead, said Inspector Md Bachchu Miah of the hospital’s police outpost. He was a native of Munshiganj.Brajendra was struck by the train and critically injured in the Kolapatti area of Christianpara,...
UNB :A Swechchashebak League activist was hacked to death allegedly by assailants in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga on Friday.The deceased was identified as Imran Hossain, a resident of the municipality. He was the general secretary of the Alamdanga municipal unit of the League.The assailants killed Imran over past enmity while he was heading for work at 11am, said Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Alamdanga police station.Later, he was rushed to Kushtia General Hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival, he...
Reuters :Russian President Vladimir Putin told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit that he wanted to end the conflict in Ukraine “as soon as possible” and understood that India had “concerns” about the fighting.“I know your position on the conflict in Ukraine, your concerns…. We will do our best to end this as soon as possible,” Putin was reported as telling Modi during the bilateral talks.Later on...
Huge heaps of garbage, composed of polyethene and fabric scraps from nearby factories, were dumped on the 13-kilometer-long Subhadda canal at Keraniganj. In many places, the canal has been filled with water hyacinths. In some areas, the polyethene layer is so thick that people can walk through the canal without getting their feet wet. Besides local grabbers, the Zila Parishad had also built a market by grabbing the canal’s land in the Aganagar area, the starting point of the canal.One...
PTI Experimental Schools: Put an end to recruitment complications Although three and a half years have passed since the publication of the notification, no progress has been seen in the appointment of PTI Experimental Schools. Now the educational program of the pilot school is being conducted by the primary school teachers. As a result, due to the lack of teachers, the educational program of the PTI Experimental Schools is being disrupted at the field level. Experimental Schools attached to PTI...
Prof Dr Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder :World Cleanup Day is one of the largest but the youngest civic movements. For the...
Dr. Syed Nesar Ahmad Rumy :Recent decision of election commission of introducing EVM to the 150 seats of forthcoming parliamentary...
City Desk :Outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami has said Bangladesh-India relationship is a “train” that must keep moving to do more great things together.“That energy needs to be carried through,” he said, adding that there are many great things that the two countries have achieved together in the past decade which should be celebrated, reports UNB.Speaking at a reception at the High Commission of India in Dhaka last (September 15, 2022) evening, Doraiswami said people of...
City Desk :Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in several anti-drug raids arrested a total of 38 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am on Friday.The DB in association with local police carried out the drives simultaneously at different parts of the metropolis from 6am of September 15, according to a DMP release. In separate anti-drug raids, police seized huge drugs from their possessions, reports BSS....