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Nation pays Homage to Language Martyrs

bdnews.com The nation pays homage to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement 1952 with the clock striking one minute past midnight Tuesday to mark `Amar Ekushey’, the Language Martyrs Day and International Mother Language Day, reports UNB. Walking barefoot to the Shaheed Minars with wreaths and flowers singing ‘Amar bhaiyer rokte rangano Ekushey February’, [...]

1,100 NU employees lose jobs

bdnews.com The High Court on Monday declared illegal the appointments of around 1,100 employees of National University – who were recruited in 13 months from November 2003 – for anomalies in advertisements and recruitment process. The termination will come into effect immediately after pronouncement of the verdict Monday, the court ruled. The NU has been [...]

Politicians frustrate us: HR chief

bdnews.com Head of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) vented his frustration on the country’s politicians saying that the people will have to realise their rights themselves because politicians will not do anything for them.   “Politicians are busy working on how to take control of Dhaka, they will not help people realise their rights,” [...]

Enactment of Law not mandatory

bdnews.com Shakhawat Liton By passing a private member’s resolution on the war crimes trial last Thursday, Parliament in fact expressed its opinion on the matter. The resolution says: “Parliament’s opinion is that legal provisions be enacted to take action against those obstructing the war crimes trial…”And it is not binding upon the government to move [...]

Illegal Gecko trading: 6 Jailed

DHAKA, Feb 19 (BSS) – A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) today sentenced jail terms to six people and fined two others on charges of illegal trading of tokkhok (geckos), a kind of rare reptile. The court awarded jail for two years to two persons each, one for one and half year and [...]

Target was Awamileague’s destruction

bdnews.com Collaborationist forces were formed with Jamaat-e-Islami men and its front organisations during the Liberation War to annihilate the Awami League and unarmed pro-liberation people of Bangladesh, the prosecution told the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday. File Photo Prosecutor Nurjahan Begum Mukta said this while reading out the formal charges against former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam [...]

Boom in potato is not helping harmers

bdnews.com Not a crop failure, but a bumper yield that is worrying the potato growers in the country’s northern districts. With their newly harvested potatoes, the farmers fear counting losses due to low prices in local markets. And they are worried that the prices may fall further. A 100-kg sack of potatoes now sells for [...]

Charge framing hearing to beging against Jamaat leader Quader Mollah

International Crimes Tribunal is scheduled to start hearing on framing war crime charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah on Sunday. The tribunal on January 29 deferred the hearing till February 19 (Sunday) after a time petition was submitted by the counsels of Quader Mollah, who is charged with seven specific crimes against humanity committed [...]

Bangla Academy Awards : 10 Awarded

bdnews.com Staff Correspondent Bangla Academy yesterday announced its literary award for 2011 in nine fields of literature. Dr Shamsuzzaman Khan, director general of the academy, named the 10 winners of Bangla Academy Sahitya Award 2011 at its premises. The awardees are Ashim Shaha and Kamal Chowdhury for poetry, Anisul Hoque for literature (Katha Sahitya), Prof [...]

Extortionists backed by Big Parties: Kader

bdnews.com Transport sector crime pushes up prices of essentials; minister, businesses share frustration Staff Correspondent The big political parties are encouraging extortion in the transport sector in their own interest, Commerce Minister GM Quader said yesterday. “Extortion at different places and under different names is on and it is causing prices [of essential commodities] to [...]

Explore new options abroad: Edu. Minister

bdnews.com Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday urged book publishers to explore untapped markets at home and abroad and con-tinue publishing quality books. He said the country has a huge market in the publication sector as it has a big population base. “If 10 percent of our 160 million people buy books, it will be [...]

Solar power for irrigation pumps soon: PM

bdnews.com SANDWIP, Chittagong, Feb 18 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government has a plan to replace all diesel-run mini grid and irrigation pumps with renewable solar power in phases to reduce dependence on fuel-based power. “As part of the plan, 10 lakh more home solar systems and 20,000 biogas plants would [...]

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