Staff Reporter
The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government not to restrict Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), from going abroad.The HC passed the order following a Writ petition filed by Khandker Mahbub, also an advisor to the opposition BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, seeking the court’s directive upon the [...]

Staff Reporter
CNG refueling station owners’ scheduled strike from November 1 was deferred until November 25, following a meeting yesterday with State Minister for Power and Energy Mohammad Enamul Haque. The owners had earlier announced a non-stop strike from November 1 to press home their six-point demand, including withdrawal of Government order for six-hour closure of [...]

Special Correspondent
The Indian government refusal to pay transshipment fees for carrying cargo to its northeast using the Bangladesh water ways has come as a big embarrassment to the government. The authorities had earlier introduced the transshipment fees at a rate of Tk 10,000 for a cargo container and Tk 1000 for per ton cargo under [...]

Staff Reporter
Police yesterday arrested 20 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, including a former lawmaker of the party, in the city’s Mirpur area along with six handmade bombs, one kg of explosive substance and a large number of Jihadi books.The arrested include Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat and a former lawmaker of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi Professor Mujibur [...]

Staff Reporter
National flag carrier Biman now facing a tough time as two confronting sides refused to bow down causing severe mess in the relevant sector.On Thursday confrontation between the Bangladesh Airlines Pilot Association (BAPA) and Biman authorities has taken a serious turn as both sides went to a hard-line. BAPA decided to defy the 48-hour [...]

Mamunur Rashid
At least 800 youths have been arrested as part of the nationwide crackdown on eve teasing of schoolgirls after a spate of teenage suicides blamed on harassment.Many of the juveniles have been arrested from outside the girls’ schools across the country by police. They are investigating about 1000 youths and have arrested 800 [...]

Staff Reporter
The mass-probe committee, formed by the main opposition BNP to investigate the causes of tragic train accident in Sirajganj, will visit the spot of occurrence on Friday to record the statements of eyewitnesses and investigate the spot. The chief of the probe committee and President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Khandkar [...]

DU Correspondent
Dhaka University (DU) authorities caught a fake student from the Dhaka University dormitory yesterday. He was identified as Kamruzzaman (Shohag), a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist from Gaibandha District.He was caught from the room No 363 of Haji Mohammad Mohsin Hall at the university early Monday. The room is under the control of Mohammad [...]

DU Correspondent
Results of combined admission test for 61 public and private medical colleges across the country for the session 2010-11 have been published yesterday.The results were posted on the website (www.dghs.gov.bd).Candidates with a mobile phone connection can find their results by typing MISdghs college code registration number, and sending the SMS to [...]

Staff Reporter
The police, including personnel from the Detective Branch (DB), suddenly raided the central office of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami at Mogbazar in the capital yesterday. Earlier, police raided the party’s headquarters two times in August. DB and police claimed that they carried out the raid to arrest the former Jamaat lawmaker Dr Syed Abdullah Mohammad [...]