Govt asked to use khas lands to set up special economic zone in Habiganj
Politicians, academics and professionals on Monday called on the Awami League-led government to abandon 511 acres of agricultural land acquisition project of two tea estates in Habiganj for setting up a special economic zone.
TELCOS’ SERVICE QUALITY : Telecom regulator to restart drive with added parameters
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decided to restart the drive to check the quality of service of the mobile phone operators with added parameters.
2 ‘robbers’ killed in Sunderbans ‘gunfight’
Two suspected robbers were killed in a reported gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion in the Sunderbans in Mongla of Bagerhat on Monday morning.
Hearing on charge framing against Khaleda, others in Niko graft case deferred
A Special Judges’s Court in Monday deferred to February 17 the hearing on framing charges against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and 10 others in a graft case filed during the military-backed caretaker government in 2007 involving a Canadian resources company.
Special drives after municipal polls: HM
Home affairs minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Sunday that law enforcement agencies would launch special drives exclusively in militancy-prone areas after the December 30 municipal polls across the country.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS : Electioneering ends tonight
Electioneering in the municipal polls scheduled for Wednesday would end midnight today and Border Guard Bangladesh members were deployed for four days from this morning, while pre-polls violence reported from several municipal areas on Sunday.
Khaleda urges voter to go to cast votes
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday urged voters to go to the polling stations and cast their vote in the election to the 234 municipal councils slated for Wednesday.
Public univ teachers fume at new pay
Teachers at several public universities in the country, including Rajshahi University and Jahangirnagar University, began protesting at the new national pay scale for being ‘discriminatory’.
3 JMB men held
The detective police on Sunday said they, in a continued raid, arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in Chittagong and seized a US-made sniper rifle with ammunition, explosives and Bangladesh Army’s combat uniform.
SHIA MOSQUE ATTACK : No headway in probe
There is almost no headway in probe in one month after the gun-attack at a Shia mosque in Bogra that killed one and injured three on November 26.
