A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) President Rajib Ahsan on 16 days’ remand in eight cases filed against him with Paltan Police Station of the capital. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the orders…
Construction work of elevated expressway from Airport to Kutubkhali on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway will begin from August 16, road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday. “It would help to reduce the traffic congestion of the capital after construction…
Members of Detective Branch (DB) last night arrested two people with one local made pipe gun and 55 pieces of yaba in separate drives at Rari Mohol and South Alekanda in the city.
A mobile court of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) today fined 11 vessels a total of Taka 3.5 lakh for different grounds.Authorised Officer of CPA and Executive Magistrate Mohammad Abul Hashem conducted the mobile court and fined the vessels for different…
Harvesting of T-Aus paddy of the current season has been completed in the district in the first week of the current month amid much enthusiasm.
A woman was crashed under wheels of a local train at Harespur area in Madhabpur upazila of the district this morning.The deceased was Rahima Khatun, 25, daughter of Alai Miah of Jamalpur village of the upazila.
Speakers at a meeting have stressed for strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) in public places to save thousands of nonsmokers from indirect smoking and human lives.
Various political and socio-cultural organizations here have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the National Mourning Day and 40th anniversary of martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15.The programmes include hoisting of national flag…
More than 35,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis.Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2,350 tubewells installed in the slum areas besides different…
Bangladesh authorities should unequivocally declare their commitment to free speech instead of proposing self-censorship, says Human Rights Watch (HRW). The killing of secular blogger Niladri Chakrabarti is a harrowing reminder of the need for the Bangladesh government to take immediate…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday slammed those seeking constitutional amendment again, saying that these people were either advisers to military dictators or worked with them in other capacity and sucked their feet and begged their mercy. “While discussing, some…
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on Tuesday condemned Sheikh Sirajul Islam to death and sentenced Khan Akram Hossain of Bagerhat to jail unto death for their crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. A three-member ICT-1 bench, led by…
As indicated earlier in January this year’s review, Bangladesh has been excluded in the renewal of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). On June 29, 2015, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill (H.R. 1295), that reauthorises the GSP through…
Five people died of unnatural causes in separate incidents in different places of the Sadar, Atghoriya and Ishwardi upazilas on Tuesday. In Sadar upazila, two primary school students drowned at a water body in Kulunia village in the afternoon. The…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday night left Singapore for the USA for better medical treatment. “Mr Fakhrul Islam, accompanied by his wife Rahat Ara Begum flew to New York on advice of doctors at the…