The Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment has told the High Court that recruiting agencies are responsible for the failure to send 17,777 Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered authorities to take steps to get an arrest warrant issued through Interpol against Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in connection with charges of irregularities in plot allocation in Purbachal New Town.

The Supreme Court will hear on May 4 the leave to appeal petitions filed by the state challenging the High Court verdict that acquitted BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar and all others earlier convicted in two cases over the August 21 grenade attack in 2004.

Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain yesterday said the ongoing tensions between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan should be resolved through dialogue.

Poet Daud Haider, known for his timeless poem Janmo-i Amar Ajanmo Pap (My Birth, My Eternal Sin), died while undergoing treatment at a Berlin hospital early yesterday (Bangladesh time).

After the killing of her husband, the sole breadwinner of the family, in last year’s uprising, the woman pinned her hopes on the eldest daughter. The girl’s death, reportedly by suicide following the trauma of being gang-raped, shattered the mother’s new dreams.  

Hajj flights from Bangladesh will begin early tomorrow, with the maiden flight of Saudia carrying around 420 pilgrims scheduled to depart from Dhaka Airport at approximately 2:15am on Tuesday.

Polytechnic students staged fresh demonstrations across the country yesterday, demanding urgent action on their six-point demand for reforms in technical education.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday sought the European Union’s assistance in installing CCTV cameras at every polling centre for the upcoming national elections.

The government yesterday suspended the leasing process of 17 out of 51 stone quarries in the country, considering environmental concerns.

To avoid legal challenges to constitutional reforms, two Ganatantra Mancha allies -- Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and Ganosamhati Andolon -- have demanded that the next election be held to form a constituent assembly.

A madrasa superintendent in Pakundia was sentenced to seven days of jail and fined Tk 200 today for attempting to leak exam questions during the ongoing Dakhil English First Paper examination

"This occurred as part of the automatic protection system of the grid"

A woman was dragged along a road for several metres by suspected muggers in a private car in the capital's Siddheswari area early yesterday

Demands include punishment for question leakers, and reformation of the BCS exams and the PSC

The market value of the properties stands at Tk 559,48,20,477.

The decision was taken at the 12th meeting of the committee with Law Adviser Asif Nazrul in the chair today

Indian Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad tells Yunus

Recently, Md Moazzem Hossain, APS to LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, and Tuhin Farabi, PO to Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum, were relieved of their duties following corruption allegations

"I urge all of you not to throw wastages indiscriminately… You please keep your society clean," the DNCC Administrator Mohammad Azaz said