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Donors losing interest in providing food for Rohingyas: WFP

ROME (Italy), Feb 13 (UNB): Executive Director of World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley has said donor agencies are gradually losing their interest in providing food assistance for the displaced Rohingyas who have taken shelter in Bangladesh.The WFP executive director came up with the information during a meeting with Prime...

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Migrant workers not getting due rights in Mauritius

Migrant workers including Bangladeshis working in Mauritius are deprived of their due rights, said migrant rights activists at an international workshop on Tuesday.They said workers are subjected to lower wages and long working hours, adding they are deprived of proper legal support, health care and occupational safety.The rights campaigners were...

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60 Ctg SSC examinees caught red-handed with leaked questions

CHITTAGONG, Feb 13: About 60 SSC examinees have been caught red-handed with leaked questions of Physics today in the city and Fatikchhari upazila of the district.All of them were allowed to sit for the examination and actions will be taken against them in due course, authorities said adding that the...

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Narayanganj judge apologises to SC

The Joint District Judge of Narayanganj offered on Tuesday unconditional apology to the Appellate Division of Supreme Court for the failure to dispose of a case filed over faulty electric metres and inflated bill in over 10 years, reports UNB.A four-member Appellate Division bench, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud...

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Maintain status quo on felling 4,000 trees in Manikganj: HC

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to maintain the status quo on felling 4,000 trees by the Singair-Manikganj road in the district,reports UNB.An HC bench of Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir passed the order after hearing a writ petition.The court also issued...

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‘Minister's resignation no solution to questions leak’

Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said the education minister's resignation will not plug the leaks of questions in public exams, reports bdnews24.com.His remarks came on Tuesday amid calls for Minister Nurul Islam Nahid's resignation for failing to stop it.Emphasising efforts to pin down how the questions are leaked, Prof Iqbal told...

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President visits Sylhet tomorrow

Sylhet, Feb 13 (UNB): President Abdul Hamid is scheduled to visit the district on Thursday to attend the convocation of Sylhet Agricultural University.Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Additional Police Commissioner (media) Abdul Wahab said the president will offer fateha at the shrines of Hazrat Shahjalal (R) and Hazrat Shahporan(R) after attending...

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Police arrest couple for abducting baby

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) rescued a four-month- old male baby from Kushtia around one and a half months after his abduction from Gazipur and arrested a couple for their suspected link to the misdeed, reports BSS."We arrested Enamul Mia and his wife Akhni Akhter from Kushtia and rescued a...

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10 Gopalganj teachers can't perform exam duty for life

GOPALGANJ, Feb 13 (UNB): Ten schoolteachers have been relieved of exam duty for life for their negligence of duty at a centre of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations in Kotalipara on Tuesday. Secretary of Kotalipara exam centre Suresh Das said although examinees were given question papers of different sets,...

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WEATHER-14-02-2018

Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country, having chances of light rain over North and Northwestern part of Bangladesh in next 24 hours until 6:00 pm today (Wednesday), reports UNB.Light fog may occur at places over the river basins of the country during late night...

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Mustafa Jabbar speaking at the 4G auction programme

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar speaking at the 4G auction programme at Dhaka Club in the city on Tuesday. — FE photo

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