Detained BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, Tuesday issued a legal notice on the Election Commission, asking for withdrawal of its invitation letter to M Hafizuddin Ahmed — who was appointed as the acting secretary-general of the party at a controversial meeting of the standing committee — for the dialog on electoral reforms. The...
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Three persons will be charge-sheeted in the case of attempted murder of late Dr. Humayun Azad, a writer and a senior teacher of Dhaka University. The charge-sheet will be submitted to the chief metropolitan magistrate’s court Thursday. Five persons, including former Islamist militant kingpin Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his brother Ataur Rahman...
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Internet and international telephony services were disrupted for 14 hours from early Tuesday as BTTB’s Dhaka-Chittagong Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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Detained former prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, will be questioned in connection with the deadly grenade attack on her rally at Bangabandhu Avenue that killed at least 24 people, including front-ranking Awami League leader Ivy Rahman, and injured and maimed more than a hundred others on August 21, 2004....
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Bangladeshi blogosphere observed November 10 as Nur Hossain day. Banglapedia: Hossain, (Shahid) Nur (1961-1987) a victim in a mass movement against Ershad-regime in 1987. Born in 1961 at Narinda in Dhaka Nur Hossain was the son of Mujibar Rahman, an auto-rickshaw driver, whose ancestral home was at village Jhatibunia under Mathbaria upazila...
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“Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world.” — Archimedes, 220 BC. On November 10, 1987 a young Bangladeshi man named Nur Hossain was shot and killed by the forces of Bangladesh’s part-time poet and full time dictator General Hossain Mohammad Ershad....
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BNP chairperson’s adviser, ASM Hannan Shah, was arrested from his Dhaka residence Wednesday night for violating the Emergency Powers Rules, in the wake of intense factional fights in the party. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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New Age runs a notice: We apologise When New Age was going to press on Wednesday evening, we had in our possession photographs of top-brass BNP leaders, including standing committee member Mahbubur Rahman, being assaulted by activists of their own party. While we at New Age strongly believe that — in the spirit...
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Akbar Ali Khan, chief of the Regulatory Reforms Commission, said Tuesday nongovernmental organizations must go through massive reforms to benefit the poor. Akbar, a former bureaucrat and adviser to the caretaker government, was critical of the NGOs for moving away from its original mission of empowering poor people into money-making. Did you...
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The High Court Tuesday issued a rule on the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to explain in three weeks why its refusal to accept the taxes of detained former prime minister Khaleda Zia on undeclared income will not be declared illegal. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
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