Staff Reporter :The High Court on Wednesday upheld death sentences of four members of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in a case filed in connection with the murder of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi in 2015. The convicts are— Rangpur region military commander of the JMB Masud Rana Mamun, Liton Mia Rafiq, Shakhawat Hossain, and Ahsanullah Ansari Biplob.However, the court acquitted other JMB member Ishaque Ali who also got death sentence in the trial court. The HC bench...
Day: September 22, 2022
Staff Reporter :The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will support an innovative new programme from the Centre for Child Rights and Business (The Centre) to create decent work for young in the apparel industry. BGMEA President Faruque Hassan made the announcement in a meeting with Ines Kaempfer, CEO of The Centre at the BGMEA Complex in Dhaka on Wednesday.The Centre’s innovative Youth Development Programme combines activities to help out-of-work or disadvantaged youth in Bangladesh to access decent work...
Reza Mahmud :Important labour market Libya has opened its window for Bangladeshi manpower after eight years, sources said. Stakeholders said that about 15 recruiting agencies from Bangladesh got primary approval from the oil rich country to send manpower there. They said that the long time closed Libyan labour market is opening on account of the utmost efforts of Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmed.Manpower exporters said, if everything is okay, workers sending will be started from October. They said Libya is...
Staff Reporter :The international voices on the alleged incidents of the enforced disappearance in the country are becoming louder and the government of Bangladesh has been urged to investigate it by an independent mechanism. The issue took the centre stage during a dialogue on the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance during the 51st regular session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 20 September. The meeting called upon the government of Bangladesh to implement the recommendations...
Staff Reporter :The High Court-appointed five-member Board of Directors (BoD) of the controversial e-commerce platform Evaly Limited headed by Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik has resigned. They have already submitted an application regarding the issue to the High Court on Wednesday, said their lawyer Barrister Morshed Ahmed Khan. Meanwhile, a new five-member Board of Directors has already been formed to run the company. The new board included former Chairman of the Evaly Shamima Nasrin, Shamima’s mother Farida Talukder Lily and her...
News Desk :The German government on Wednesday announced that it was taking over Uniper, previously the country’s largest importer of Russian gas, to ensure the supply of energy to homes and businesses.The German state will spend 8 billion euros ($7.9 billion) to acquire shares in Uniper it does not already own, giving it a 99 percent stake. It is buying shares from Fortum, a Finnish energy company, which will sell its large stake in Uniper to the German government for...
Staff Reporter :Killing incidents, drug dealings and human trafficking which have been taking place in the Rohingya camps in different times are breaching the internal security issues since their arrival in Bangladesh in 2017. It is reported that a Rohingya volunteer was killed by the miscreants in the dead of night in the Ukhiya camp on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Zafor Alam, Armed Battalion spokesperson Faruk Ahmed of the camp No. 18 confirmed it. He said that the...
Court Correspondent :A Dhaka Court yesterday fixed October 13 for the submission of investigation report in a case lodged against Bangladesh National Cricket Team’s pacer Al-Amin Hossain in connection with allegation of domestic violence.As the Investigation Officer of the case could not submit the report on Wednesday, Metropolitan Magistrate Afnan Sumi of Dhaka CMM Court set the date afresh.According to the case statement, Ishrat Jahan, wife of the national team pacer (pace-bowler), filed a complaint with Mirpur Model Police Statioon...
News Desk :President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, in a speech on Wednesday that was a reminder of how easily the war in Ukraine could spread, doubled down on his nuclear threat, accused the West of seeking to “destroy” his country, and suggested that Ukrainians are mere pawns of the “military machine of the collective West.”In a videotaped address to the nation, he effectively conceded that the war he started on Feb. 24 has not gone as he wished. By...
Staff Reporter :At least 90 people including police personnel were injured, with three in critical condition as police tried to...
News Desk :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday reiterated her call to the international community and the United Nations (UN) to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.The premier made this call while UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi paid a courtesy call on her at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel, reports BSS.Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen briefed the newsmen about the...