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MNA Editorial Desk: Issues related to bonus of RMG workers are occurring every year and this year, the RMG workers demand Eid bonus by June 26. The leaders of different labor organizations on Friday demanded payment of their salaries and Eid bonus by June 26 (20th Ramadan) as they gathered to raisee voice at a human-chain organized in front of the National Press Club on Monday. This call came from a human-chain, attended by leaders and members of Bangladesh Garments Industry Workers Federation, National Garments Workers Alliance and other labor leaders on Friday. They told that, the labors will not ...

MNA Editorial Desk: More than 1,000 people, including BNP-Jamaat Shibir men, have been detained in some districts and the capital city on the first day of the crackdown as the law enforcement agencies threw a week wide anti-militant combing operation on Friday. The pronouncement to go threatening on the extremists was occupied at a meeting chaired by IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque at Police Headquarters in Dhaka on Thursday, five days after the murder of decorated SP Babul Aktar’s wife Mahmuda Aktar Mitu in Chittagong. Apart from the capital, the captures were reported from Chittagong, Feni, Rajshahi, Natore, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Satkhira, ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Three people suspected as militants were killed in three distinct shootouts between their associates and law enforcers in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Brahmanbaria yesterday. Police claimed the two killed in the capital were Tareque Hasan Milu and Sultan Mahmud Rana, aged between 25 and 40 in shootouts. They were operators of forbidden militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Tareque was openly linked to the killing of Rajshahi University Professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee and the bomb attack at Kantaji temple. Rana had associations with the Bogra Shia mosque attack, said Monirul Islam, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Wife of a Police Super  has been shot dead at Chittagong. As it was reported, Mahmuda Aktar, wife of a police officer, was shot dead near her home at Chittagong on Sunday. Police said motorcycle-borne assailants attacked the woman around on Sunday while she was on her way to drop her son to school. The victim Mahmuda Aktar was married to Superintendent of Police Babul Aktar, who was working as an Additional Deputy Commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) in Chittagong before being recently promoted to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP). He was at the headquarters ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Muhammad Ali, 74-years-old,  the greatest boxer of all time passes away after being rushed to hospital with breathing problems following 32-year battle with Parkinson’s. Ali’s family said his funeral would be held in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and thanked the public for their outpouring of support. The three-time heavyweight champion had been on life support at a hospital outside Phoenix, Arizona, after he was found ‘barely breathing’ at his home on Thursday. He was taken to hospital with an ‘unshakeable cough’, a separate source said, with his fatal respiratory problems likely to have been complicated by ...

MNA Editorial Desk: AMA Muhith, Finance minister, is set to place the national budget for the next fiscal year, 2016-17 at parliament on Thursday afternoon with a likely outlay of Tk. 340,605 crore (3.4 trillion) aiming to create more jobs, wooing investment and speeding up the implementation of a clutch of ‘transformational’ mega-projects. Muhith will place his 8th successive budget as finance minister of the AL-led coalition that has been in power since 2009, and his own 10th overall, putting him in a tie with the late Saifur Rahman. Muhith is projected to start his demonstration using PowerPoint at 3pm. ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Mustafizur Rahman’s charming presentation in the IPL has pleased everyone but the fresh bowler should also be cautious about too much exposure, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said as she worries about the cutter master. The pacer, who backed home on Monday night after a battle with Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Indian Premier League, became a subject of conversation at the meeting of the Executive Committee on National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday. Planning Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal said: “(Hasina) has wished Mustafiz. She said ‘we are proud of him. But he has to be careful.” “The prime ...

MNA Editorial Desk: A gorilla was fatally shot to be killed after a baby falls into the zoo enclosure at an Ohio zoo this weekend. The incident happened after it picked up a young boy who had tumbled into an exhibit, officials said. The encounter at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden occurred Saturday afternoon when the boy crawled through a barrier and fell into a moat at the facility’s outdoor gorilla center, zoo director Thane Maynard told reporters. The boy wasn’t seriously hurt in the fall, Maynard said at a news conference, but after he dropped into the enclosure, ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Bangladeshi sensation Mustafizur Rahman has been named the ‘Emerging Player of IPL 2016’ to top off an extraordinary run after his team Sunrisers Hyderabad won the title for the first time. In an exciting high-scoring final on Sunday night, Hyderabad sealed an 8-run win against Royal Challengers Bangalore who put up a valiant effort in their own backyard, the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The 20-year-old seamer’s four-over spell went for 37 for one wicket, which complemented a total of 17 wickets from 16 matches at a remarkable economy rate of 6.90 – the lowest among bowlers who bowled ...

MNA Editorial Desk: At least 10 people, comprising two applicants, have been killed in violence in the 5th phase of the union council elections. Voting was held in 717 unions under 45 districts on Saturday amid violence and accusations of rigging and other misconducts. The two candidates murdered were Kamal Uddin, BNP rebel chairman candidate at Comilla’s Titas, and MdYasin, who was competing for the post of member at Chittagong’s Karnaphuli. In Jamalpur, poll violence sued four lives, the highest in a district. They died after police unlocked fire to put an end to a clash between followers of two ...

MNA Editorial Desk: DRICM with a prospect to contribute in national economic growth arranged a seminar on the eve of ‘World Measurement Day’. A seminar titled ‘Contribution of DRICM on Research, Industrialization and National Economic Growth’ was held on Tuesday, as a part of celebrating the ‘World Measurement Day 2016’ at DRICM auditorium.  The seminar was held at the final stages of a week-long program arranged by Designated Reference Institute for Chemical measurements (DRICM) of BCSIR. Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. Yafes Osman, was present as the Chief Guest at the seminar. Prime Minister’s Media Adviser, Mr. Iqbal Sobhan ...

MNA Editorial Desk: At least 23 people were killed and 13 others were missing after Cyclone Roanu made landfall yesterday afternoon on Chittagong-Noakhali coast. The cyclone damaged tens of thousands of mud-and-tin houses in the impoverished southern districts, with many low-lying villages inundated by a storm surge that swelled up to seven feet high. Tens of thousands of people left their homes in the coastal areas for safety ahead of the storm and afterwards amid high tides, wind gusts and incessant rain. Authorities took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall just after midday, packing winds ...

MNA Editorial Desk: According to different class of people, the teacher humiliation incident seeks apology from MP Salim Osman. University teachers demanded an apology from MP AKM Salim Osman for publicly shaming a teacher in Narayanganj by making him squat while holding his ears. People are making angry posts and changing profile pictures with photos of them holding ears captioned ‘Sorry sir’ in a stunning show of solidarity with the teacher. In a statement on Tuesday, FBUTA (Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Associations), described the incident as the ‘highest form of savagery’. Being forced to do squats while holding one’s ...

MNA Editorial Desk: River Diversion by India in the upcoming days is going to intrigue Indo-Bangla river water dispute. A senior minister of India has announced that India is going to divert water from its rivers to deal with its severe drought. Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati said transferring water, including from major rivers like the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, to drought-prone areas is now her government’s top priority. At least 330 million people are affected by drought in India. Drought is taking place as heat wave spreads across India, with the temperatures in surplus of 40C. The Inter Linking ...

MNA Editorial Desk: The universe is yet to be explored; truly as reports say, NASA discovers 1,200 new planets and the universe just got bigger. NASA has announced an astonishing discovery of more than 1,200 new planets, several of which orbit in their sun’s habitable zone. The discovery more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler, giving scientists hope that they may eventually discover another Earth-like planet that could harbor life. The Kepler spacecraft has been looking for Earth-like planets since May 2009 and before the recent findings had discovered thousands of candidate planets, including 12 in the ...

Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged for 1971 liberation war crimes on Wednesday night. The death sentence of Motiur Rahman Nizami was executed as Bangladesh hanged the Islamist party leader for genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. Nizami, head of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at Dhaka Central jail just after midnight after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea against a death sentence imposed by a special tribunal for genocide, rape and orchestrating the massacre of top intellectuals during the war. Nizami, 73, a former legislator and minister during opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s ...

It is becoming more visible day by day that SWIFT technicians left Bangladesh Bank system vulnerable to hackers. Bangladesh’s central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyber heist, Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged. Technicians from SWIFT (Society for the Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before an $81 million cyber heist. And that time Bangladesh become more vulnerable to hackers. Mohammad Shah Alam, the head of ...

Sadiq Khan, a proud Pakistani-born bus driver’s son became London’s first Muslim mayor. He is so liberal that, he backed gay marriage and even launched his campaign in a pub. The Labor Party MP also put tackling terrorism and ‘rooting out its cancer’ at the heart of his election manifesto and pledged to put the capital on a ‘war-footing from day one’. Mayor Khan was helped into City Hall by Tory rival Zac Goldsmith’s campaign, which was even branded ‘racist’ by his own party after he claimed Labor ‘thinks terrorists are its friends’. But his political career has been dogged ...

The Singapore government on Tuesday announced the arrest of eight Bangladeshi terrorists detained in Singapore for terror attacks in home country, including assassinations, to establish an Islamic state. The men, aged between 26 and 34, called their group the Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB) and intended to join terror group ISIS as foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. But as it was difficult to travel to the Middle East, these terrorists focused on returning to Bangladesh to topple their government through violent means, set up an Islamic State there, and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the Islamic State ...

US-based monitoring agency SITE Intelligence Group confirmed Ansar Al Islam (AQIS), Bangladesh branch of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, has claimed responsibility for the murder of Xulhaz Mannan and his friend. In a Twitter post by spokesperson of Ansar Al Islam, Mufti Abdullah Ashraf, AQIS’s Bangladesh unit, said their ‘mujahidins’ assassinated the two for being ‘pioneers of practicing and promoting homosexuality in Bangladesh’. The twitter account mentioned as @Ansar_Islam_BD posted a statement, one in Bangla and the other in English. “Alhamdulillah, By the grace of Almighty Allah, the Mujahidin of Ansar Al-Islam (AQIS, Bangladesh branch) were able to assassin Xulhaz ...

Islamic State, commonly known as IS claims the responsibility for the murder of Rezaul Karim Siddique, a teacher of Rajshahi University. He was a professor of English department from Rajshahi University. He was hacked to death early in the morning on Saturday. Police said to the media that Professor was almost beheaded by the assailants, when they attacked him from behind as he walked to the bus station from his home in the city of Rajshahi. By examining the nature of the attack, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police suspected that it was carried out by extremist groups. The IS group claimed the ...

Famous journalist Shafiq Rehman has been put under five days’ remand after arrest. DB police has captured him from residence at Iskaton Garden Road at around 8am in the morning on Saturday. Later he was shown arrested on a case of conspiracy to murder filed last year at Paltan Thana. Police filed a General Diary (GD) during last year’s august month at Paltan Thana foor conspiracy to kidnap and murder the son and Information and Technology Advisor of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Sajib Wazed Joy. Later that Gd turned into a police case and Shafiq Rehman was shown arrested ...

Accepting Technology – a critical issue of modern era but possesses huge challenges in rural areas of our country. Bangladesh, known to the world as a low income country, has taken a challenge to become a middle income one by 2021. Our country has recently experienced several improvements in different development indicators; notably in societal, technological, educational, women empowerment, healthcare, and investment areas. Our Prime Minister has also declared some development targets to shift towards becoming a middle income country. Various actions like coverage of 30 lakh people through solar electricity in next three years and faster improvements in implementation ...

In recent days, a menace in the form of car parking is surrounding the lives of citizens of Dhaka City. The sight of cars being jacked and locked on the streets of Dhaka city has become an everyday phenomenon. Any person roaming inside the city must have experienced this spectacle in recent days. This incident takes place when the car owners or the drivers park them at unauthorized or inappropriate places. Undoubtedly, it has become an absolute necessity that these cars should be parked properly at proper places. But are there enough suitable places for parking cars in the city? ...

Bangladesh Bank Governor, Atiur Rahman, has resigned today after a disastrous cyber heist. The governor on Tuesday submitted his resignation according to sources of Prime Minister’s office. He was serving his second term as BB Governor when a cyber heist cost $101 million. Atiur Rahman told the reporters this morning that he was ready to resign if Prime Minister wants. Later he submitted his resignation with the burden of the lost fund on his shoulder. He also added that, he has no hesitation to resign if that helps Bangladesh Bank. He took over the responsibility of BB Governor on May1, ...