UNB: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is formulating an anti-narcotics law where there will be a provision of death penalty for the patrons of drug traders, drug syndicates and godfathers. “There’ll be a proposal in the law to award death penalty to the patrons of drug trading, drug-syndicates and god-fathers,” she said….
UNB: The government has directed all the news media, includingprint media and news agencies, to provide dearness allowance to their staff, including journalists and other employees, under the 9th wage board. The Information Ministry issued a notification on Tuesday directing the news media to pay 45 percent of the main salary of media staff and…
Desk Report: Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) opened a dedicated service desk to ensure proper healthcare for unidentified patients, reports Daily Star. The desk was inaugurated at the neurosurgery ward of CMCH. Prof Dr Kanak Kanti Barua, vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, was present at the inaugural ceremony as chief guest. Prof Noman…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has urged people in Rangpur to vote for her party and its allies, adding they could overcome a famine-like situation by continuing to vote for the Boat. “Once, the entire Rangpur was suffering from famine. Rangpur has overcome the bad times and now it is witnessing…
UNB: Engel Foreign Food, popular chain shop of the Netherlands, will purchase products worth of US$ 5 million from PRAN, a leading food processor in Bangladesh. An agreement was signed between PRAN and Engel Foreign Food Group in this connection at PRAN-RFL Center. PRAN will export its noodles, juice and confectionery items to the European…
Police recovered the throat-silt body of an unidentified young man from Bhennagachhi village in Shahjadpur upazila on Saturday morning. Khawaja Golam Kibria, officer-in-charge of Shahjadpur Police Station, said locals spotted the body in a field in the morning and informed police. Later, police recovered the body and sent it to 250-bed Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib…
Raj Ahmed of DOT Independent candidate for the Dhaka 1 constituency Salma Islam, who competed against Awami League’s Salman F Rahman, announced at a press conference yesterday that she will step down from the polls and further called for a fresh election. Her husband businessman Nurul Islam made the announcement on behalf of her at…
Kabir Humayun: BNP yesterday extended its support to the ongoing student movement protesting deaths of their two fellows in a road crash on the city’s Airport Road on Sunday. “We’re giving full support to the logical demand of the students,” said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir while speaking at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office…
Michael Goodwin/New York Post Back in April, the Department of Justice sought to prevent illegal border crossing with a “zero tolerance” policy that involved a large expansion of criminal prosecutions. By June, holding facilities in Texas were packed, and pictures of crying children separated from parents hijacked any rational explanations, forcing President Trump to put…