RESCUED BOATPEOPLE Bangladesh verifying nationality

The government has initiated measures to identity the nationality of over 1,100 migrants rescued at sea by Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar to bring Bangladesh nationals back home.

AL leaders seek land on Turag to build FF rehabilitation centre

A group of people who hold positions at different front organisations of the ruling party, Bangladesh Awami League, have illegally occupied a portion of Turag and its flood flow zone to install a rehabilitation centre for destitute people and freedom fighters.

False promises lure them into risky sea journeys

Promise of overseas job without advance payment, poverty, unemployment and shrinking labour markets in the Middle East were forcing many fortune seekers into risky sea journey for destinations in Southeast Asia.

MOBILE TOWER BUSINESS BTRC plans to auction 2 licences.

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decided to go for an open auction to award two licenses which will allow new independent companies to build and manage mobile network towers.

Salah Uddin moved to another hospital for better treatment.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salah Uddin Ahmed was shifted to North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences in Shillong on Wednesday from Shillong Civil Hospital,

Mahid, Chutu to die in jail for war crimes

The three-judge International Crimes Tribunal -2 on Wednesday unanimously sentenced Md Mahidur Rahman and Md Afsar Hossain Chutu to imprisonment until death finding them guilty of war crimes in several villages in Chapainawabganj in 1971.

Fakhrul named in 3 new cases Police seek 30-day remand

Police on Tuesday named opposition BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three new cases filed with Paltan Police Station over torching vehicles in the capital in January.

2,000 migrants stranded in boats off Myanmar: UN

At least 2,000 migrants stalked by hunger and violence have been trapped for weeks on boats off Myanmar, the UN said Tuesday, as Indonesia called for a regional effort to tackle the crisis.

JATRABARI BUS ARSON Khaleda, 37 others face fresh charges.

The police pressed charges against the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, and 37 others on Tuesday in a case filed under Special Powers Act for the Jatrabari transport arson that had killed a passenger and burned 27 others in January.