The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan in separate drives arrested four fake DB police and four muggers from different parts of the city on Thursday night. Police also recovered one fake pistol, one handcuff, a walkie talkie, one bomb and…
Day: June 19, 2015
Airport police arrest man with 4 kg gold
Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested a man along with four gold bars, weighing four kilograms, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday morning. The arrested was identified as Mizanur Rahman, 40.
Khaleda takes iftar with orphans on Friday 1st Ramadan
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday took her iftar with orphans and ulema on the first day holy Ramadan at Eskaton Ladies Club in the city.
Lawyers to meet Jamaat leader Mojahid Saturday
Lawyers of war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed is scheduled to meet him at Dhaka Central Jail on Saturday Morning. A 5-member lawyers’ team led by Shisir Monir has given a schedule to go to the jail…
Morsi: Sentencing justice to death in Egypt
By Chandra Muzaffar It is utterly disgraceful that the first democratically elected president of Egypt has become the first Egyptian president in history to be sentenced to death by the highest judicial and religious authorities in his country. Dr. Mohamed…
One robber suspect killed 5 hurt in Kushtia, Jessore gunfights
A suspected robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ between his cohorts and police at Katlamari filed on the Kushtia-Meherpur road in Mirpur upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Nazmul Islam Sagar, 29, son of Nazrul Islam of Khalishakundi…
Another oil spill in Chittagong, oil tankers plunge down bridge
Two tankers of an oil train plunged into a canal as a bridge broke down with the tankers on Chittagong-Dohazari rail track at Benguira in Boalkhali upazila on Friday noon. Officer-in-charge of Boalkhali Police Station Samsul Islam said the 24…
Case backlog to go if judges work for 2nd shift – CJ
Chief Justice SK Sinha on Thursday observed that the backlog of cases in courts can be reduced if the judges and lawyers work for a second shift in the afternoon. He came up with the call noting that about 30…
Holy month of Ramadan begins
Holy Ramadan, the month of fasting from dawn to dusk for Muslims during day hours to practice self-restrant began in Bangladesh as elsewhere in Asia on Friday. Ramadan is a time of restraint and austerity, and also a time for…
Embrace stress — it’s good for you
Stressed-out, overwhelmed and doing too much? Join the club. These complaints are common among busy, go-getter professionals. And it’s that stress that’s killing us, right? But what if we’re approaching it all wrong and it’s really all about our perception…
Carolina church shooting suspect got gun as birhday gift
Dylann Roof, the suspected gunman in the South Carolina church shooting, had recently been given a weapon as a birthday present, according to a relative. The 21-year-old’s uncle told Reuters that Mr Roof’s father gave him a .45-calibre handgun. Carson…
Tigers beat India in ODI
Bangladesh proved they deserved win at World Cup. The win of the Bangladesh Cricket team in the first ODI against India in Dhaka last night proved their despair against umpairing in the last World Cup quarter final was not unfounded.