bdnews24.com : Areas prone to post-election violence have been identified and security strengthened there, said Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hassan Mahmood Khandker. He was speaking to reporters after visiting the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital at noon on Tuesday. “Law enforcing agencies have identified the areas which are vulnerable to violence after election. Precautions have been taken in these regions to prevent sabotage.” “Law enforcers fulfilled the call to duty with sincerity and courage in the...
UNB, Dhaka : The voter turnout in the general election in 139 constituencies was 39.83 percent, the Election Commission Secretariat sources said on Tuesday, two days after the January-5 parliamentary elections were held on Sunday. The commission on Sunday announced unofficially elected the candidates in 139 constituencies out of 147 where voting was held. The commission could not announce the final results of eight other parliamentary seats as re-voting in 392 polling stations will be needed which will be held...
UNB, Narsingdi : A gang of robbers looted valuables worth about Tk 5 lakh from three staff quarters of Palli Bidyut Samity at Morjal in Raipura upazila early Tuesday. Office-in-Charge of Raipura Police Station Mahbub said a gang of 10-15 robbers swooped on the quarters of the Palli Bidyut Samity-2 office of the upazila around 2am and looted the valuables. During the robbery, the bandits tied up three ansar members who were guarding the quarters after snatching their firearms. However,...
Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jun will meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office on Saturday evening. Khaleda is going to her Gulshan office after 14 days. Her adviser Sabih Uddin Ahmed told bdnews24.com that the meeting with the Chinese envoy was scheduled at 7.30pm. The meeting is the first between the two after the Jan 5 elections in which BNP did not participate and more than half of the seats returned winners uncontested. The Awami League is...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has called a meeting of the leaders of 18-Party alliance on Monday. The party’s Assistant Office...
UNB, Dhaka : The World Bank (WB) forecast on Bangladesh’s economic growth made in October last year remained unchanged as it says the GDP growth rate will slow down to 5.7 percent against 7.2 percent target in the current fiscal (2013-14) due to political turmoil.The WB, an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs, came up with the fresh but similar forecast on Wednesday in Washington.In its newly-released Global Economic Prospects (GEP) Report, the global...
BSS, Dhaka : Tens of thousands of Muslims on Tuesday celebrated the holy Eid-e-Miladinnabi joining colourful street marches amid festivity and sought eternal blessings for peace and prosperity in the country in special prayers coinciding with the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).Anjuman-e-Rahmania Moinia Maizbhandaria staged one of the biggest rallies in the city after thousands of devotees marched through the thoroughfares of the capital chanting hymns for the advent of the prophet as blessings for the universal mankind.The incumbent...
BBC Online : Myanmar’s military has continued to use rape as a weapon of war even after a nominally civilian government was elected in 2010, a women’s group says.The Women’s League of Myanmar said it had documented more than 100 cases, some involving children as young as eight. Most rapes were carried out in areas where the army was still fighting armed ethnic groups, the organisation said.The government in Myanmar, also known as Myanmar, said using rape was not army...
Reuters, Baghdad : Bombs hit Iraq’s capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba on Wednesday, killing at least 59 people, police and hospital sources said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that militants were trying to set up an “evil statelet.”In the deadliest incident, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Muslim pro-government militiaman, police said. It killed 18 people and wounded 16...