Mamunur Rashid
At least 10,000 security forces, including 5,000 troops of additional Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), have been deployed in the city’s bus terminals to ensure safety of home-goers during Eid-ul-Fitr.Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) and the RAB have already taken intensive security measures for the Eid holidays.The elite force RAB has already engaged its 5,000 additional [...]

bdnews24.com, Dhaka
The BNP has said presidential pardon to 20 death-row convicts for murdering a leader of the main opposition party’s youth front was against the rule of law.Shabbir Ahmed Gama, a Juba Dal leader, was shot dead in 2004. The pardon of President Zillur Rahman following a verdict of the lower court and much before [...]

New Nation Desk
As many as 150-MW electricity was added to the national grid as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the Shikalbaha 150-MW peaking power plant in Chittagong yesterday.She opened the power plant built at a cost of Taka 777.98 crore by unveiling its plaque. Of the amount, Taka 553.15 crore is foreign currency and [...]

Syful Islam
A large number of new industrial units awaits commissioning as the government fails to provide those with gas and power, stakeholders say.The inadequacy of gas and power is badly hampering industrialisation in the country squeezing the scope of generating employment. Solution to this problem of unemployment thus becomes a distant cry.Stakeholders say that supply [...]

Staff Reporter
A High Court order that granted bail to former BNP state minister ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon in an extortion case was upheld at the Supreme Court yesterday.The court of the Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division passed ‘no order’ following a government petition filed seeking stay on the HC order.Following the Chamber Judge’s order, [...]

UNB, Dhaka
Despite a huge demand for money disbursement in banks ahead of Eid festival, the country’s call money market remained stable.According to sources, the interest rate on the lending of the banks went up as much as 8 per cent on Monday.“We borrowed about Tk 300 crore from another bank at a rate of 5.5 [...]

Staff Reporter
Lailatul Qadr, the most significant night of blessings for the Muslims, was observed last night with due respect and religious fervour.Muslim devotees spent the whole night offering special prayers, ebadat-zakir-askar, khatme Quran and milad Mahfil at mosques and homes seeking divine blessings and mercy of Almighty Allah for themselves as well as for the [...]

Staff Reporter
Eyewitness of the BDR mutiny Major Zayedi Ahsan Habib on Monday told the court that Subedar Major Gofran Mallick of the 24th Rifles Battalion led the mutiny in which 73 people including 57 military officials were killed on February 25-26 last year.“The conspiracy and planning for the mutiny was finalized at his residence which [...]

UNB, Makkah
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia joined special Munajat of Lailatul Qadr (Shab-e-Qadr) at the holy Kaba Sharif early Monday.Million of Muslims from across the world took part in the nearly 30-minute long special munajat conducted by the head Imam of Kaba Sharif, Abdur Rahman Sudais, after Qiam-ul-Lail (Tarabi) at about 2:45 am on Monday.Dignitaries from [...]

UNB, London
After many dramas and speculations, Bangladeshi- born British national Luthfor Rahman secured the Labour Party ticket to contest for the first ever election of the Executive Mayor of the Tower Hamlet Borough.Luthfor got the highest votes among seven Labour Party candidates who were on the short list. About 1,000 Labour members select their candidates [...]