UNB An organisation of freedom fighters’ children on Sunday demanded the Election Commission to scrap the candidacies of 25 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders. ‘Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan’ formed a human chain on the Nirbachan Bhaban premises around noon to press home their demand. The organisation’s chief Humayun Kabir said they had filed a writ petition with the High…
Sky news A feisty young seal pup is recovering after his sense of adventure got the better of him. The pup, believed to be about three weeks old, was found four miles from sea after apparently taking a wrong turn. He was found in the garden of a home in Terrington St Clements, Norfolk, on…
DOT Desk Islamic University (IU) authorities will introduce the Fine Arts department at the university from 2019-20 academic session, reports The Daily Sun. The activities of the department will be conducted under the Arts faculty, he said, adding that a total of 30 students can enroll at the department.
AFP 2018 was the hottest year in France since modern records began in 1900, the French meteorological service said Friday. “This year was the hottest France has known since modern meteorological measures came into use in 1900,” Meteo-France said. The average temperature of 14 degrees centigrade (57.2 Fahrenheit) was 1.4 degrees above the average recorded…
UNB A total of 40 platoons of Bangladesh Coast Guard were deployed in the coastal districts to assist the civil administration in maintaining the law-and-order situation ahead of the 11th parliamentary elections. Lieutenant Commander Abdullah Al Maruf of Bangladesh Coast Guard headquarters told UNB that Coast Guard members were deployed in coastal districts, including Noakhali,…
UNB Members of Bangladesh Army in a special drive arrested three persons along with arms and ammunitions from Bilaichharipara area beside Rangamati-Kaptai road in the district town on Saturday. The arrestees were identified as Biswajoti Chakma alias Baganbabu alias Kinkar alias Shidong, 50, a suspected kingpin of an arms-trading group and former commander of Janasonghhati…
UNB The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) once again warned its officials and employees not to use the commission’s logo on their vehicles. The Commission, for the first time in 2016, ordered its officials and employees not to use the commission’s logo in any of their official or private vehicles. ACC source said the Commission had taken…
BDnews24 At least ten people have been injured after police charged baton and fired tear gas shells at a demonstration by ready-made garment factory workers in Gazipur. The workers of NAZ Bangladesh Ltd, a factory located at Rajendrapur, were agitating for better pay when they torched a motorbike, a covered van and smashed a human-hauler…
DOT Desk The errant garment factories, inspected under National Initiative, will finally face strict measures like suspension of production, upon their failure to complete the post-inspection remediation work in certain phases, officials said, reports The Financial Express. The Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) is set to approve the draft of an ‘escalation protocol’ soon…
UNB A huge traffic gridlock has been created on both sides of Bangabandhu Bridge as the computerised toll collection system of the bridge broke down this morning. Due to the malfunction of the system, the toll collection was kept suspended from 10:00am to 12:00pm, keeping hundreds of vehicles stranded on the bridge. Later, the bridge…