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Penang Immigration has rounded up 55 foreigners including 12 Bangladeshis in Bukit Mertajam of Malaysia on charge of working there without work permit and for overstay, the Malaysian daily The Star reported. The other workers are from Myanmar and one from Nepal, Penang Immigration sources said. During a two-hour operation codenamed Ops Bersepadu started at 10:00pm (local time) on Friday, the workers were arrested from Bukit Mertajam Fish Wholesalers Association’s market in Jalan Padang Lalang. Eighty-one personnel from the department and Seberang Prai Municipal Council took part in the operation. “Some of the workers tried to escape by hiding inside the boxes in trucks but failed. Two were caught inside a water tank,” an immigration official said, adding that the illegal workers had ...

A Habiganj court today issued arrest warrant against 11 people including Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury and BNP leader Harris Chowdhury in former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case. After receiving the supplementary charge sheet from Criminal Investigation Department, Senior Judicial Magistrate Rashid Ahmed Milon passed the order. The court came up with the order after CID Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Meherunnesa Parul, investigation officer of the case, filed a petition seeking arrest warrant for the accused. On November 12, the CID submitted the supplementary charge-sheet against 35 people, including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s political secretary Harris and Sylhet Mayor Ariful Haque, ...

  The main reason I began to cycle around London years ago was to save myself some cash. I was a student and just getting myself to Central to go to lectures and back was costing me more than a fiver every day. So I dragged out the bike of my teenage years, raised the seat and set about learning how to safely cycle the busy roads and navigate the confusing one-way systems of my city. And I caught the cycling bug. Over the next few years, I went through three bikes – but made substantial travel savings. The Old Bike Knocking Around In The Shed Though very basic, my first bike saw me through my first year of cycling around London. It cost me nothing, though I did invest in a helmet, decent lock and hi-viz jacket at around £70 for the lot. But after this initial cost, cycling sa...

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  The situation of governance and economy of the country is now “abnormal”, said Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain, urging for a constructive national dialogue to overcome the condition. “To institutionalise democracy, we need better education and the environment of the educational institutions ….. it is very much absent there,” he said. Dr Kamal, also an eminent jurist, was addressing a programme on releasing a study on The State of Governance Bangladesh 2013: Democracy Party Politics organised by the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development of BRAC University today. He said no elections were held in the student unions of the universities. Regular elections in the universities and good environment for education provide formation for the future leaders to be democratic, ...

Abdullah Mamun: Mobile operators said they will be able to let users switch from one operator to another without changing their numbers within two to three years. Bangladesh Telecommu-nication Regulatory Commi-ssion is now taking opinions of stakeholders, including subscribers and operators, to introduce the service -- mobile number portability (MNP). More than 70 countries have MNP, which increases competition among operators in terms of service quality, said Md Sarwar Alam, BTRC secretary and spokesperson. The process of taking the opinions on whether the service would be viable for Bangladesh, when it should be introduced and how it will benefit users started a month ago and will run till tomorrow, he said. TIM Nurul Kabir, secretary general of Association of Mobile Telecom Oper...

Shamim Ashraf: With the Pakistan army facing defeats at East Pakistan war fronts one after another in December 1971, there were attempts to use religion to cover up the mindless genocide, boost their morale and raise funds for them. Terming the Pakistan troops mujahid or those who struggle for the sake of Islam, people were asked through newspaper adverts to stand by them and donate for the military occupation. Different banks and some businesses were at the forefront of the campaign and its main aim was to exploit the religious sentiments of Muslims and encourage the Pakistan military to “exterminate the enemy” -- those fighting the occupation forces for the independence of Bangladesh. The Dawn, Pakistan's oldest English daily, has reproduced 11 such advertisements that it ran on Decem...

    BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today denied that any government officials met with her earlier in the month and said a panic situation is prevailing in Bangladesh Secretariat. Referring to media reports that some public servants meet Khaleda at her Gulshan office on December 5, she said, “They (government officials) did not meet me. The government is blaming them to terminate them from service.” Mentioning that 4,080 officers have already been made officer on special duty (OSD) and many others have been terminated from their services, the former prime minister said: “An anarchic situation is prevailing in the Secretariat.” Khaleda was addressing the day-long convention of former and incumbent leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, at th...

A Supreme Court lawyer today sent a legal notice to BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman asking him to apologise unconditionally to the nation for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a “Razakar, murderer and Pakbandhu" (friend of Pakistan). Advocate Momtazuddin Ahmed Mehedi sent the notice saying that Tarique reportedly told at a BNP meeting in London on Monday that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had accepted Yahiya Khan as the president and compromised with him immediate before declaration of Bangladesh’s independence. He said in the legal notice that Tarique has claimed his father Ziaur Rahman as declarer of Independence and the first president. Tarique Rahman has damaged the history of Independence and the ideology and spirit of the Liberation War achieved through the blood of 30 l...

  A police official died of “heart attack” during a clash between two rival groups of CNG-driven auto-rickshaw drivers in Balaganj upazila of Sylhet this afternoon. Mustafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Osmani Nagar Police Station, died of heart attack when he tried to mediate between the two groups, our Sylhet correspondent reports quoting Sylhet (south) assistant superintendent of police Gopal Chakravarty. “Doctors of MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital declared OC Mustafiz dead around 3:45pm after he was rushed there in an ailing condition,” the ASP said. Additional superintendent of police in Sylhet, Neamul Hasan, quoted the on-duty physicians and endorsed that it was heart attack that caused the death of the police OC. Rival groups of auto-rickshaw drivers clashed at...