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Ruling MP Giasuddin fires his gun when under attack

Ruling MP Giasuddin fires his gun when under attack

Mymensingh, May 18 (UNB) – Ruling Awami League lawmaker Capt (retd) Giasuddin Ahmed came under a terrorist attack in Gafargaon upazila on Friday evening. The lawmaker told UNB over phone that a group of miscreants intercepted his car near Kandibazar at about 6 pm while he was returning to his constituency from the capital. Soon, [...]

First Bangladeshi woman reaches Everest

First Bangladeshi woman reaches Everest

Nishat Majumder has become the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain.   She reached the summit at 9:39am Bangladesh time on Saturday, Enam Ul Haque, the founder of Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club said.   Musa Ibrahim is the first Bangladeshi who conquered the Mount Everest on May 23, 2010. [...]

PCJSS leader shot and killed in Khagrachhari

PCJSS leader shot and killed in Khagrachhari

Unidentified criminals gunned down a leader of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) in Laxmichhari upazila of Khagrachhari early Saturday.   Two locals — Ripon Chakma, 20, and Mahendra Chakma, 23, — also sustained bullet injuries.   Deceased Anil Chakma, 34, was the convenor of PCJSS Laxmichhari upazila unit, reports our Khagrachhari correspondent.   [...]

Padma work to begin next fiscal: Muhit

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said the government plans to start construction work on the Padma Bridge project, the largest ever infrastructure project in the country, in the next fiscal year. “We firmly believe, we’ll be able to start the construction work in the next fiscal year,” he told at a pre-budget discussion at [...]

Dr Anwar named new JU VC

Dr Anwar named new JU VC

Ending over a two-month standoff in the country’s lone residential university, Prof Sharif Enamul Kabir was forced to resign as vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University on Thursday.   Soon after his resignation, President Zillur Rahman, also chancellor of the university, appointed Prof Anwar Hossain, a biochemistry teacher at Dhaka University, as new VC of JU.   [...]

Detained Bangladeshi UN Observer Major Osmani freed in Syria

Dhaka, May 16 (UNB) – Bangladeshi UN Observer Major Shahidur Rahman Osmani psc, who was detained by Syrian opposition activists, was released on Wednesday. He was released at 4pm Bangladesh time, according to a release of ISPR. Eighteen Bangladeshi unarmed officers have been working as UN observers in Syria. Eight UN observers from different countries, [...]

Continuity of democratic process important for economic emancipation: PM Hasina

Continuity of democratic process important for economic emancipation: PM Hasina

Dhaka, May 16 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the country’s democratic process needs to be maintained to gain the economic emancipation of its people. “Our goal is to achieve economic emancipation and to make that happen, the democratic process has to be maintained,” she said while addressing the officials and employees [...]

Assistant teachers of govt secondary schools now second class jobs: PM

Assistant teachers of govt secondary schools now second class jobs: PM

Dhaka, May 15 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday announced that from now on the job assistant teachers of the government secondary schools will be treated as ‘second class’ instead of ‘third class’. “From today you are second class job holders,” she said while addressing a grand rally of teachers organised by Bangladesh [...]

Railwaygate scam: ACC seeks wealth info of 5

Railwaygate scam: ACC seeks wealth info of 5

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday asked two suspended railway officials, their wives and the ex-APS to the former railway minister, to submit their wealth statement within seven working days.   Akhter Hamid Bhuiyan, a deputy director of ACC issued separate notices in this regard.   Omer Faruq, assistant personal secretary of than railway minister, General [...]

Arrest order for Rajshahi city mayor

Arrest order for Rajshahi city mayor

A labour court in Rajshahi has ordered the arrests of Rajshahi City Corporation Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton and three RCC officials for not complying with its order.   Rajshahi Divisional Labour Court Judge M Ansar Ali issued the warrants on May 10 since the defendants did not appear before it despite its order, reports our [...]

80 injured as 18-party men and cops clash in Ctg

80 injured as 18-party men and cops clash in Ctg

At least 80 people including policemen and journalists were injured as the BNP-led 18-party alliance leaders and activists clashed with law enforcers in Chittagong on Sunday. Police used rubber bullets and charged truncheons to disperse the demonstrators who in reply pelted brick chips in Jubilee Road area of the port city, reports our Chittagong correspondent. [...]

Hasina ranked 7th world leader: 2011 USA Gallup poll

Hasina ranked 7th world leader: 2011 USA Gallup poll

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership is approved by 77 percent people in Bangladesh, according to a Gallup poll that conducts public opinion polls around the world under the Washington-based research group Gallup.   The research result published on Friday shows that 19 percent people disapproved of Hasina while 4 percent refused to answer.   Hasina, [...]

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