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Lukewarm response to voter list updating
Amid lukewarm response from the people, the Election Commission (EC) yesterday began its month-long work of updating the voter list as controversy continues over its opting not to go door to door forthe
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CEC, 2 commissioners must go right away
Roundtable also calls for separation of EC Secretariat from PMO, introduction of transparent ballot box, e-voting
Legal experts and civil society members yesterday demanded immediate resignation of the chief election commissioner (CEC) and the two election commissioners on grounds of losing people's confidence in
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14-party Blockade Today
Strict security blanket planned in city
Awami League (AL)-led 14-party opposition coalition is scheduled to blockade the country's highways, railways and waterways today demanding electoral reforms, and resignation of the chief election commissioner
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Henry shows Brazil door
A Thierry Henry goal handed France a deserved 1-0 win over lacklustre defending champions Brazil in a World Cup quarter-final here early today.
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Last dash for making black money white
Record Tk 4,603cr whitened
A number of parliamentarians, directors of private television channels, bureaucrats and defence officials, a newspaper owner, and a large number of businessmen and professionals thronged the banks onFriday
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Non-govt school, college teachers threaten strike
Jatiya Shikkhak-Karmachari Front, an organisation of non-government school, college and madrasa teachers and staff, yesterday announced to go on an indefinite strike from July 8 to press home their eight-point
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RMCH interns start indefinite strike
Interns at Rangpur Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) yesterday began an indefinite strike protesting attack on the president of the RMCH unit of Intern Doctors Association by some locals on Thursday
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Shujan to upload existing voter list on web
Shujan (Shushashoner Janney Nagarik) has taken up a task for uploading the existing voter list to the web. Anyone interested can browse the voter list sitting at home or office by visiting www.shujan.
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Case Against Lawyers
SC bar to boycott court today
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will boycott the both divisions of the court today to protest a contempt of court case filed against its leaders for such previous court boycott programme.
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Abdur Rahman, Bangla Bhai sent to jail
A Dhaka court yesterday sent Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) chief Abdur Rahman and its second-in-command Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai to Dhaka Central Jail on completion of their 10-day remand in
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RMG workers block city road for hours
Garment workers blockaded Rokeya Sarani at Sheorapara in the city yesterday and halted vehicular movement for four and a half hours protesting the expulsion of 28 workers from their factory and suspension
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2 top bureaucrats sent to retirement
The government last week sent on forced retirement two senior bureaucrats recently appointed as envoys to the Philippines and Brunei, fearing they might be brought back and reappointed in the administration
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Power Outages
Football fans ransack electricity offices
Angry soccer fans on Friday night attacked and ransacked Palli Bidyut Samity offices in Comilla and Sirajganj protesting power cuts during the Germany-Argentina World Cup quarterfinal.
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Jail guards take revenge on football fans
Residents of Nazimuddin Road and its adjacent areas yesterday alleged angry jail guards ransacked their houses to take revenge after agitating football fans attacked them as the fans could not watch a
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M'singh Ammo Haul
BDR quizzing 3 arrestees
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) interrogating three indigenous people arrested in connection with the seizure of huge arms and ammunition at Monikura village under bordering Haluaghat upazila on June 30 is yet
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Pirates loot 22 trawlers, abduct 35 crews
Pirates looted at least 22 trawlers, abducted 13 fishermen along with three trawlers and left 35 crews wounded in the Bay during hours between Friday noon to early Saturday.
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Car bombing kills 66 in Baghdad market
At least 66 people were killed and 114 wounded yesterday when a car bomb struck the Baghdad Shia district of Sadr City, ripping through a massive security crackdown in the Iraqi capital.
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Palestinian PM's life 'at risk' if Israeli not freed
Air strikes on Gaza drags on as Israel rejects demands to free prisoners
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya's life will be at risk if the wounded Israeli soldier detained by militants in the Gaza Strip is not freed, a senior Palestinian official warned yesterday.
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Lankan navy averts harbour attack
Sri Lankan forces sank a Tamil rebel boat as it approached a strategic harbour in the island's north, rebuffed an attack on an army patrol, and killed a suspected guerrilla in the east, the military said
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Nasa space shuttle set to launch today
For the first time in almost a year, Nasa was set to launch a space shuttle today on a mission that will test whether the space agency has reduced the risks of flying in the 25-year-old vehicles.
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