Tuesday 19 November 2024 ,

Online Version

SC sets guidelines for law enforcers, judges

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday released its full verdict, issuing a 10-point guideline for law enforcement agencies about detaining a person on suspicion, and a nine-point guideline for magistrates, judges and tribunals for dealing with an accused during trial proceedings. The Supreme Court released the 396-page verdict after judges concerned signed it. On May 24, after hearing on an appeal filed by the government against a High Court order, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by the Chief Justice, upheld the HC order. In 2003, the HC gave instructions and recommendations on Sections 54 and 167 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which empower the police to detain a person on suspicion without any…

Front Page

Protests across US after Trump win

Protesters burned a giant orange-haired head of Donald Trump in effigy, lit fires in the streets and…

More News ⇒

News

CHT-based NGO wins Energy Globe Award

Tahzingdong, a non-profit, non-governmental voluntary organisation working on issues of the environment and socio-economic development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), has won the Energy Globe Award in Earth category at the COP22. Tahzingdong has won the award for its project on the restoration…

More News ⇒

Metro

Bird flu outbreak feared for interface of wild and domestic birds

Avian influenza, commonly called as bird flu, may become epidemic in the country due to unchecked interface of wild and domestic birds, experts warned at a workshop in the capital yesterday, reports UNB. They said bird flu is a global problem, but it can turn into an endemic proportion here for lack…

More News ⇒

Editorial

Another hike in gas price?

With less than a year, another hike in the existing gas price is likely to take place from next month. Quoting the sources of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC), a report of this newspaper said the hike would be around 20 percent for consumers of all levels. The energy regulatory body is…

More News ⇒

Op-ed

America “retrogrades” after 240 years

On October 30, we set the clock an hour behind to go back to the standard time zone. Nine days later, American voters reset the clock behind by decades and pushed the country back into an unknown zone. Since becoming a US citizen, I voted in four presidential elections. But the outcome of this…

More News ⇒

Miscellaneous

985 houses brought under power network in 2 dists

NATORE/NILPHAMARI: A total of 831 houses of seven villages in Sadar upazila Natore and about 154 residential houses of Kisamat-Bhutiapara village under Polashbari union in Sadar upazila of have been brought under rural electrification network by Natore Palli Bidyut Samity-1 (NPBS) and Nilphamari Palli…

More News ⇒

Business

Inflation rises slightly to 5.57pc in Oct

The country’s general point-to-point inflation rate slightly increased to 5.57 percentage point in October, up from 5.53 percentage point in September due to uptrend of food inflation. "The general point-to-point inflation rate increased slightly to 5.57 percentage point in October,"…

More News ⇒

Worldwide

N Korea urges policy shift from Trump admin

AFP, SEOUL: North Korea on Thursday warned the incoming Donald Trump administration will have to acknowledge it as a nuclear state, as the South said the maverick billionaire had pledged to protect it. The United States maintains it cannot accept North Korea as a nuclear power, despite it conducting…

More News ⇒

Dhakalive

Dhaka Int’l Folk Fest 2016 begins

The second edition of the three-day mega folk music event titled ‘Dhaka International Folk Festival 2016’ has begun at the Bangladesh Army Stadium in the capital yesterday. The music aficionados from all walks of life, along with a remarkable number of young audience, have gathered at the…

More News ⇒

Sports

Mushfiq always ready to take challenge

Emboldened by its tremendous victory against England at home, Bangladesh Test skipper Mushfiqur Rahim stayed upbeat about their chance in a condition alien to them. Knowing the England’s traditional vulnerability against spinners, Bangladesh made a turning pitch at home to confound them…

More News ⇒

Nationwide

Thousands suffer for want of concrete bridge

Residents of eight villages under Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur are suffering a lot due to lack of a concrete bridge over Khorka canal in the upazila. Local people said 20,000 people of Shuknagari, Khilkati, Fulzor, Koyra, Golabari, Tartapara, Beragaon and Hatmagura villages in Balijuri and Jorkhali…

More News ⇒

Backpage

Project well on course to digitise govt entities

Digitisation of all ministries, government organisations and directorates is well on course, as is evident from the completion of the first phase of the National Enterprise Architecture (NEA) project before the scheduled date. The first-phase of the NEA project, aimed at establishing uniform operation…

More News ⇒

Panorama

Why Trump won--and why the media missed it

THE BIG IDEA: President-elect Donald Trump was right all along. He had a silent majority. The media, the pollsters and Republican elites never saw it – even though it was right in front of them the whole time. -- Because his adopted party maintained its majorities in the Senate and the House,…

More News ⇒