Noakhali, Bangladesh News

An executive engineer of the Roads and Highways Department was released instantly from his duties yesterday for his failure to operate a weighbridge and have some roads in Comilla repaired.

Ms Chowdhury firmly believes that Gandhian basic education plays a vital role in lifting people out of poverty and in promoting better understanding Jharna Dhara Chowdhury was eight when bloody communal riots between Muslims and Hindus broke out in late 1946 in southern Bangladesh - or East Bengal as it was known at that time.

In the run up to the partition of British India, as Pakistan and India in 1947, there were communal riots in many places of the sub-continent in which thousands of Hindus and Muslims were killed.

A Bangladeshi national accused in a murder case and now detained in the Sarjah Central Jail of the United Arab Emirates could not be released due to non-cooperation of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training in Dhaka, even after being pardoned by the victim's family.

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has categorically said evil designs for going to power through undemocratic means will not be allowed further.