Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday formally submitted a chargesheet against 21 people, including four Bangladesh nationals, to a special court in Kolkata for their involvement in the Burdwan blast, according to Indian media reports. Banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen…
Three people, including a woman and her daughter, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Sadar and Shibganj upazilas of Chapainawabganj on Monday.
Police in a drive arrested a youth along with 60 bottles of Phensidyl from Dekutia Ferry Ghat in Sadar upazila on Sunday.
A school boy was crushed under the wheels of a truck on Bogra-Rangpur highway in Gokul area of Sadar upazila on Monday morning.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five alleged drug peddlers along with 2,700 Yaba tablets from Guho Laxmipur area of the Sadar upazila on Monday morning.
Border Guard Bangladesh personnel in a drive recovered a total of 53 pieces of rare species tortoise from Durgapur frontier under Benapole port police station, Lt Col Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, commanding officer, 26 Border Guard Battalion said.
The government suspended the member of Doyamir union parishad in Osmani Nogor upazila under Sylhet district on Monday.
Al-Asif Md. Anisuzzaman, Additional District and Session Judge-2 of Bagerhat, in a judgment delivered on Monday, convicted 4 persons including a former Councilor of Bagerhat Pourashava and sentenced them to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Tk.25 thousand each…
Six officials of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) including students affairs advisor Prof Dr Md Zahirul Haque Khandoker and proctor Prof Dr Md Harun-ur-Rashid on Sunday resigned from their posts as a part of their protest against Vice-Chancellor’s alleged involvement in sexual…
A suspected ringleader of a pirate gang was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Bojburia Char area of the Sundarbans in Koyra upazila here on Sunday night.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 144 bottles of Indian liquor from Narayantola frontier area of Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday night.
A local Jubo League activist was shot down by unidentified miscreants at Baghdanga village in Monirampur upazila on Sunday night.
A schoolboy was killed and two others injured in a road accident on the Rupsha Khan Jahan Ali Bridge of the city on Monday morning.
A team of Detective Branch of police (DB) of the district arrested a drug peddler with 800 yaba tablets from Tinn Bhai Dokan area under sadar upazila on Sunday.
Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP) has demanded of the government and the Election Commission(EC) to take appropriate steps for a free, fair and non-partisan City Corporation polls. “Otherwise it would be proven again before the nation that the present EC is…
A mobile court of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) in an anti-adulteration drive today fined a bakery and evicted illegal shops from the roadside footpaths in the city, official sources said.
Speakers, including human rights activists, lawyers and professionals,at a meeting here have stressed for creating and ensuring job opportunities for the physically challenged people to make them self-reliant.
Asian stocks were mixed on Friday as rising tensions in the Middle East obscured the investment outlook, while the dollar rebounded.
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Suspected extremists stabbed a progressive blogger to death in broad day light in Tejgaon Industrial area in the city yesterday morning. The deceased was identified as Wasiqur Rhaman alias Babu, 27, son of Tipu Sultan of Hazipur village in Ramganj…
A new law has got the Cabinet’s final approval for imposition of a one percent surcharge on mobile phone usage. The Development Surcharge and Levy Act 2015 was cleared in Monday’s regular Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.…
A trial court has ordered death sentence for seven accused for the murder of Swechhasebak League leader Manir Uddin Manu. In its verdict on Monday, Dhaka’s Fourth Speedy Trial Tribunal found eight people guilty of the 2006 murder in the…
Questioning the integrity of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), Bishwa Sahitya Kendra chairman Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed on Monday said the anti-graft national body must make itself clean first. “The ACC talks against corruption. Is the ACC free from corruption?…
One month into the killing of popular blogger Avijit Roy, another blogger named Washiqur Rahman Babu was hacked to death by a group assailants at South Begunbari of Tejgoan industrial area of the city on Monday morning. Police said Washiqur,…
Two killed reportedly in police firing during a clash between the supporters of two chairman candidates in Sadya Puskini union parishad election in Rangpur Sadar upazila on Sunday. Around 30 people were also injured, including six with bullets, in the…
A total of 26 mayoral aspirants, including BNP leader Mirza Abbas and his three party colleagues and Awami League-backed candidates Sayeed Khokan, filed their nominations to contest the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls on Sunday, the last date for…