Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar police alerted after New Zealand attack
The police on Friday alerted their units in Cox’s Bazar and tightened checkpoints in the capital’s Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic areas after the extremist attack in mosques in New Zealand that left at least 49 people, including three Bangladeshis, killed.
Newly-elected DUCSU leaders to meet PM today
The newly-elected leaders of Dhaka University Central Students Union and hall unions would call on prime minister Sheikh Hasina today.
Nigeria school bulding collapses, 100 feared trapped
An unknown number of people died and up to 100 children were among those feared trapped after a four-storey building containing a primary school collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday.
UK MPs to vote on no-deal Brexit
Britain’s Brexit crisis deepened on Wednesday as business leaders warned the country was ‘staring down the precipice’ after MPs overwhelmingly rejected a draft divorce agreement.
Govt rules out UN concerns
The government has ruled out United Nations’ concern over Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char, saying that accommodation of the displaced people from Myanmar staying in Cox’s Bazar camps was the country’s internal affair.
VC rules out re-elections, protests on
Dhaka University vice-chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman on Wednesday ruled out re-elections to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union while all but Chhatra League continued protests for the second consecutive day for re-polling and resignation of people engaged in conducting the polls.
Obaidul due for bypass surgery next week: BSMMU director
Physicians at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore were taking preparations to conduct a bypass surgery on ailing Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader next week.
No written test for admission to Class I: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the ongoing written admission test system for Class-I in primary schools terming it a ‘mental torture’ on children.
DU students continue hunger strike
The hunger strike of five Dhaka University students rolled into the second consecutive day on Wednesday demanding DU Central Students’ Union re-election.
Ethiopia crash brings wave of Boeing suspensions, Trump anxious
Britain joined a growing wave of suspensions of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on Tuesday as US president Donald Trump waded into the debate over modern airplane design following a crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people.
