bdnews24.com, Dhaka
A Dhaka court has remanded ruling Awami League MP Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon’s driver Kamal Hossain alias Kala and personal secretary Sohel Ahmed for three days.Judge Zulfikar Hayat of the Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrates’ Court gave the approval on Monday based on a petition by the police’s Detective Branch (DB) for ten days.They were arrested [...]

Staff Reporter
Country’s manpower export has significantly declined over the year alongside the reduction of remittance earnings during the last couple of months, statistics show.The reduction of manpower export is as high as 20 per cent as 231,171 jobseekers went abroad during the last seven months against 288,925 in corresponding previous year.A total of 832,609 people [...]

AP, United Arab Emirates
The imam spearheading a proposed Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York believes the fierce opposition is closely linked to the U.S. elections in November, according to comments published Monday.“There is no doubt that the election season has had a major impact upon the nature of [...]

Munim Hossain Protik, Lalmonirhat Correspondent
A devastating erosion by the river Teesta rendered over four thousand people belonging to about one thousand families of seven villages under three upazilas of Lalmonrhat district during the last three days. The Chondimari spar under Mohishkhocha union of Aditmari upazila is under the threat of Teesta erosion as about 200 [...]

Staff Reporter
The United Nations (UN) system has extended its support to 14,000 cyclone Aila affected families who are still living on embankments in Khulna and Satkhira districts.A release of the agency said Thursday that drawing assistance from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the UN agencies will work to distribute food, assist [...]

Staff Reporter
A Dhaka court has granted Jamaat-e-Islami’s Dhaka city unit chief Rafiqul Islam Khan for three-day remand. Dhaka’s additional chief metropolitan magistrate Mohammed Ali Hossain granted the remand on Thursday noon. Earlier in the day, metropolitan Detective Branch police inspector Zia-uz-Zaman produced Rafiqul Islam before the court and appealed for a seven day remand. Rafiqul [...]

Staff Reporter
The High Court yesterday stayed the Government decision that canceled parole of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia till October 4.A bench of the HC Judges Md Abdul Wahhab Miah and Dr Quazi Reza-ul Hoque passed the order upon a writ petition challenging the decision.The court also asked the [...]

Staff Reporter
Former president and Chairman of Jatiya Party Hussain Mohammad Ershad yesterday declined making any comment on the verdict of the High Court and said we respect the verdict and will make our views known after getting its details. He said this at a discussion and Iftar Mahfil held in the auditorium [...]

Staff Reporter
Ruling Awami League has said the High Court verdict that cancelled the Seventh Amendment of the Bangladesh Constitution is epoch-making decision.The decision will not affect the Awami League-led grand alliance, said AL leaders on Thursday. In an instant reaction with the newsmen after the announcement of the HC verdict, AL advisory council [...]

UNB, Dhaka
Instead of awarding contract to a Chinese contractor, the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase Thursday decided to take further opinion of Prof. Jamilur Reza Chowdhury regarding the repair of cracks in the Bangabandhu Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge.“Neither we accepted the contract award proposal, nor rejected it.Instead, we deferred it and decided to seek further opinion [...]