Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) authorities have formed an eight-member medical team for the proper treatment of the newborn who was shot inside the womb of its mother allegedly by Jubo League men in Magura. Dr Ashraful Haque Kajal, head…
Month: July 2015
Hearing against Fakhrul 25 other Bnp leaders Aug 25
A Dhaka court on Tuesday again deferred the hearing against 26 BNP members, including the party’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on whether to frame charge or not to August 25. The case was filed on the charges…
Bnp asks for extra 45 days to submit audit report
As a registered political party, BNP yesterday sought additional one and half months time from Election Commission to submit its statement of account. A two-member BNP delegation led by assistant office secretary Asadul Karim Shahin went to the EC at…
Body recovered in Narail
Police recovered the body of a man from Taltala area under Sadar upazila this morning.The deceased was Dhala Miah, 70, resident of Chakulia village of the upazila.
Two held with phensidyl in C’nawabganj
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested two alleged drug peddlers with 249 bottles of phensidyl from Pirojpur area under Shibganj upazila of the district this afternoon.
One lakh yaba seized in Teknaf
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered one lakh pieces of Yaba tablet from Natun Transit Ghat area of Chowdhurypara in Teknaf upazila early this morning.On a tip-off, a BGB team conducted the drive in the area…
Youth dies from snakebite in Sylhet
A young man died from snakebite at Jahidpur village in Chhatak upazila on Monday.The deceased was identified as Nur Uddin, 32, son of Abdul Bari, a resident of the village.
11 Jamaat men held in Jessore
Police in a drive arrested eleven leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from a mosque in Narendrapur Post Office area in sadar upazila on Monday night on charges of plotting sabotage.The arrestees were Abdul Malek, Jamaat Amir of Kochua union unit,…
2 held with 545 yaba pills in Munshiganj
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug peddlers, including a woman, along with 545 pieces of Yaba tablet from Sirajdikhan upazila of the district on Monday.The arrestees were identified as Jiasmin Begum,35, wife of Anowar Bepari and…
2 college students stab each other in Sylhet
Two college students stabbed each other in a state of frenzy over posting a photo on social networking site Facebook at Beanibazar Government College in Beanibazar upazila on Monday.They were identified as Rejwan, son of Chunnu Miah, a resident of…
Man crushed under oil tanker in Gaibandha
A man was killed under the wheels of an oil tanker in Kaderi & Sons Oil Pump area of the district town on Monday night.The deceased was identified as bus helper Azam ali, 65, hailing from Shaplapara area in the…
Cop held for ‘selling Yaba’ in Cox’s Bazar
Police arrested a police constable allegedly for selling Yaba tablets and seized 23,500 pieces of the tablet from his possession in the district Ansar Office area in Sadar upazila on Monday noon.The arrestee was identified as police constable Saddam Hossain,…
Schoolgirl killed after rape in Natore
A schoolgirl was killed after rape allegedly by her cousin and his friend at Yarpur village in Naldanga upazila on Monday.The victim was a resident of the village and a class V student of Yarpur Primary School.
RAB nabs 2 with spurious soft drinks in Rajshahi
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained two persons and seized huge spurious soft drinks and sex-stimulating tablets from a city area yesterday afternoon, RAB sources here said this morning.The arrestees are: Raju Ahmed, 26, son of Nurul Islam, and…
Schoolgirl killed after rape in Natore
A schoolgirl was killed after rape allegedly by her cousin and his friend at Yarpur village in Naldanga upazila on Monday. The victim was a resident of the village and a class V student of Yarpur Primary School. Police sources…
Govt out to destroy Bnp’s youth leadership, alleged Juba Dal
Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth associate body of BNP, on Tuesday alleged that the government is conspiring to destroy BNP’s young leadership with the help of its ‘puppet’ administration. “The government has long been conspiring to destroy BNP and politics…
SC exempts Zafruallah from fine on contempt charge
The Supreme Court has exempted Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafruallah Chowdhury from Tk5,000 fine in a judgment of the International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) for contempt of court. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice SK Sinha,…
Bangladesh Bank plans to disburse Tk 164 billion in agricultural credit, eyes 5.47% rise
The Bangladesh Bank aims to distribute Tk 164 billion as agriculture and rural credit in 2015-16 fiscal year (FY). Governor Atiur Rahman disclosed the plan on Monday while announcing the bank’s agriculture and rural credit policy.The target had been set…
‘Ant-Man’ tops charts, ‘Pixels’ opens to lacklustre $24 million
Adam Sandler’s star appears to have dimmed significantly, after “Pixels,” a slice of arcade game nostalgia that recruited the likes of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to appear alongside the funnyman, opened to a disappointing $24 million at the domestic box…
Only 106 tigers left in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh, says govt survey
The number of tigers in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, has decreased drastically, with only around 100 to be found in the Bangladeshi part, says a new survey.The survey by Bangladesh’s forest department, with technical support from the…
Ancient Hindu temple found built on Buddhist shrine in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur
A Hindu temple sits firmly on the remains of a Buddhist shrine in Dinajpur in an awe-inspiring sight that testifies to the conquest by Hindus of Buddhists at Barendra – a region in ancient north Bengal.Buddhist monasteries and Viharas had…
Bangladesh keen to carry confidence into last Test against South Africa
Bangladesh are looking to make the most of the confidence they gained from the drawn Chittagong Test to face South Africa in the last match of the month-long tour in Dhaka.In Chittagong, the hosts restricted the Proteas to just 248…
Facebook to scale up free mobile Internet service to boost usage
Facebook Inc plans to scale up its service to offer free basic Internet on mobile phones, an executive said, after introducing the application in 17 developing countries over the past year.In a blog post released to mark the first year…
Turkish jets hit PKK targets in Iraq after soldiers killed: sources
Turkey attacked Kurdish insurgent camps in Iraq for a second night on Sunday, security sources said, in a campaign that could end its peace process with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Ankara, which called for a special NATO meeting on Tuesday…
Australian actress faces child sex charges
Australian actress Maggie Kirkpatrick, who starred in 1980s soap Prisoner Cell Block H and later Home and Away, has been charged with child sex offences. Ms Kirkpatrick, 74, denies two counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency…
BNP demands EC’s resignation for move to enroll under-18 olds
Terming unlawful, motivated and whimsical the Election Commission’s (EC’s) move to enrol under-18 youths in the voter list, BNP on Monday demanded resignation of the CEC and other commissioners for what it said breaching their oath by indulging in illegal…
Suicide?
A housemaid reportedly committed suicide in the city’s Uttara on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Nasrin, 13, daughter of Nasim Mia of Sadar Hospital Road at Maizdi in Noakhali district. She was working as housemaid at a house…
Inside El Chapo’s escape tunnel
Infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who daringly escaped prison on July 11, utilized a tunnel leading from the only “supermax” maximum-security prison in Mexico, where he’d been held. At least that’s the explanation Mexican authorities have given as…
SC cancels bail, orders, Anwar, Aman Mintoo to surrender
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday cancelled the anticipatory bail granted by the High Court to senior BNP leaders MK Anwar, Abdul Awal Mintoo and Amanullah Aman in separate cases for arson attacks and vandalism, and ordered…
3-day Korean concert marking 42nd year of diplomatic ties Aug 1
The Korean Embassy in Dhaka will host music concerts, titled ‘Charm of Korea VII 2015 Woong San Jazz Story’, on July 30, 31 and August 1 to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Korea. The first…