Tarique, Fakhrul sued for remarks on PM
A defamation case has been filed against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for allegedly making derogatory remarks on Bangabondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jononetri Parishad, a pro-Awami league organisation, filed the case with the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on Monday.
8 jhut godowns gutted in Gazipur
Eight jhut (garment factory waste) godowns have been gutted in a fire that broke out at Palli Biddyut area under Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur early Monday.
Kaliakoir Fire Service and Civil Defense Station Official Apurba Bal said: “The fire originated from trader Altaf Hossain’s jhut (garment factory waste) godown around 4:45am."
PM's daughter gets WHO award
The World Health Organization (WHO) has nominated Saima Wazed Hossain Putul, the daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, for the South Asia Award for Excellence in Public Health.
She has been selected for the award in recognition of her “glorious and outstanding” contributions to create mass awareness about autism in Bangladesh.
ACC quizzes MP Enamul
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has quizzed ruling party lawmaker from Rajshahi 4 constituency MP Enamul Haque following the allegation of accumulation of illegal wealth.
The ACC authority started quizzing Enamul at 9am and it continued till 10:30am, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharia, public relations officer of the anti-corruption body, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Eradicating illiteracy by 2014 fails
The government is going to fail to accomplish its target of eradicating illiteracy by 2014 as the latest counts show that around 55 million people – 35% of the population – are still illiterate.
Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman Fizar at a press briefing yesterday said at present Bangladesh’s literacy rate was 65-67%.
After Syria and Iraq, Islamic State makes inroads in South Asia
Islamic State pamphlets and flags have appeared in parts of Pakistan and India, alongside signs that the ultra-radical group is inspiring militants even in the strongholds of the Taliban and al Qaeda.
A splinter group of Pakistan’s Taliban insurgents, Jamat-ul Ahrar, has already declared its support for the well-funded and ruthless Islamic State fighters, who have captured large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in a drive to set up a self-declared caliphate.
Arab League chief: Confront IS group
The head of the Arab League urged its members Sunday to confront Islamic State extremists "militarily and politically," issuing an apparent call to arms as President Barack Obama prepares to go to lawmakers and the American public with his own plan to stop the militants.
Backing from the 22-country Arab League could provide crucial support across the Middle East for Obama's effort to assemble an international coalition against the Islamic State, the marauding group that has conquered a swath of Iraq and Syria and committed beheadings and mass killings to sow terror.
