Ruling party men themselves indulging in violence: BNP '

Terming Rangamati gun attack a well-designed one, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Tuesday violence and criminalisation by miscreants is growing centring elections in the country for lack of democracy, reports UNB. "Bangladesh has got affected with the disease of terrorism. BNP considers killing of any people...

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VP Nur still undecided on joining first DUCSU meet March 23

Newly-elected Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) vice-president (VP) Nurul Haque Nur is yet to decide whether he would join the maiden executive meeting of the DUCSU and hall unions, scheduled to be held on March 23.The Dhaka University (DU) authorities on Monday night fixed the date for the first...

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Charge sheet against nine gets ACC nod

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday approved charge sheet against nine people including a former parliament member in a case for misappropriating Tk 1.20 billion from Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd (BCBL). The prime accused in the case-Md Shawkat Chowdhury- is the proprietor and managing director of Messrs Jamuna Agro Chemical...

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Ex-President Zillur Rahman's 6th death anniv today

The sixth death anniversary of former president Zillur Rahman, one of the close associates of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be observed today (Wednesday), reports BSS.Also a veteran politician, a Language Movement hero and an organiser of the Liberation War, Zillur Rahman died at a Singapore hospital on March 20,...

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Pre-polls violence injures 12 in Khulna

At least 12 people were injured in a clash between the supporters of two chairman candidates at Chuknagar Bazar in Dumuria upazila on Monday night over the upcoming third-phase upazila election, reports UNB.Aminul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dumuria thana, said the clash ensued between the supporters of Awami League candidate...

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Khaleda sick, unable to eat properly, says Fakhrul

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Tuesday his party chairperson Khaleda Zia neither can eat anything properly nor keep her head straight as her health condition has seriously deteriorated, reports UNB."She vomited today before coming here (to the court). She now can't eat anything. She was not...

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Submit probe report on April 16: Court

A Dhaka court has set April 16 for submitting probe report in the case lodged over the murder of former USAID official Julhas Mannan and his friend Tonoy Majumder, reports BSS.Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Ziaur Rahman set the date on Monday as the Detective Branch (DB) of police failed to submit...

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Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and his Bhutanese counterpart

Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and his Bhutanese counterpart Sonam Tshong representing their respective sides at the second Foreign Office Consultation held at the State Guest House Meghna in the city on Tuesday — PID

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