Member secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas, Mineral Resources and Power-Port Prof Anu Muhammad yesterday said the government cannot stop their movement against the Rampal power project through resorting to torture, reports UNB. “Even torture can’t put the anti-Rampal campaigners…

A supplementary petition was filed with the High Court (HC) yesterday challenging the legality of the six-member search committee formed by the president to reconstitute the Election Commission (EC). Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Eunus Ali Akond filed the petition. He said he had filed a petition on…

Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam yesterday said the present government is an education-friendly one and it is giving proper priority to education, reports BSS. “The goal of the government is to raise the literacy rate in the country to hundred percent. And we are working to attain the goal.…

Sydur Rahman Ridoy (14), a Class X student of the Barisal Government Abdur Rub Serniabat High School, was stabbed to death within the school compound yesterday (Saturday) morning. The police said Ridoy was killed by students of the Barisal Government Alekanda College. Sources said Ridoy was attacked…

Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday the search committee has been formed properly and its members are learned and knowledgeable persons. “The search committee has been formed properly. Its members are learned and knowledgeable,” the finance minister said while talking to journalists…

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the killers of MP Manjurul Islam Liton must be brought to justice, reports UNB. “The Prime Minister has ordered for hunting down the killers and handing them over to police. The killers of Liton will have to pay a heavy price,”…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with her party’s standing committee members tonight to discuss the country’s latest political situation and work out the party’s strategy to press for forming a neutral and stronger Election Commission (EC), reports UNB.  “The BNP chairperson…