Police foil BNP procession in Dhaka
The police on Monday unleashed an attack on a procession of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Dhaka injuring about 15 activists and arrested over 30.
PENSION MONEY Govt servants press for full encashment
The government is under pressure from public servants to reinstate 100 per cent encashment of pension money by them on retirement at the age of 59 years.
APPAREL WORKERS’ SAFETY Promises made mostly not implemented
The expectations for positive changes in the country’s garment sector created by the Rana Plaza Collapse remain mostly unfulfilled over the last five years. The worst ever factory disaster in the history of the garment industry shook the world in 2013.
Newborn declared dead moves before burial
A newborn girl who was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Monday started to move and breathe within two and a half hours at city’s Azimpur Graveyard where it was taken for burial.
A van speeds across Toronto sidewalks, leaving 10 pedestrians dead
(CNN)Ten people are dead and 15 are injured after the driver of a van plowed into multiple pedestrians in Toronto on Monday in what appears to be a deliberate act, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said.
PM returns home from London
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from London on Tuesday morning, wrapping up her six-day official visit to the United Kingdom.
Abduction of three youths: Hartal underway in Khagrachhari
A dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Parbatya Bangali Chhatra Parishad is underway in Khagrachhari on Monday demanding immediate rescue of three abducted Bengali youths.
5 YEARS OF RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE Survivors’ woes continue
The woes of crippled survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse are continuing even five years after the deadly factory building disaster that killed 1,138 workers and left more than 2,400 others injured on April 24, 2013.
Institutional repression against women at DU: teachers
A section of Dhaka University teachers on Sunday censured recent incident of ousting female students from Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall at midnight terming it ‘institutional repression against women.
5 killed as nor’wester lashes country
At least five people were killed in Habiganj and Kishoreganj in a thunderstorm that lashed parts of the country, including Dhaka, Sunday evening.
