Court Correspondent Police of Paltan Model Police Station on Tuesday submitted two separate charge sheets against 49 BNP men including Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah and Amanullah Aman in a case filed for arson attack with Paltan Police station.
Month: February 2016
101 held in special drives with Yaba, Liquor in Ctg
Chittagong district police in a series of overnight drives arrested 101 people with Yaba and Liquor from different upazilas of the district last night. Abdul Awal, Additional Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) of Chittagong district, said police detained 101 people…
Workshop on electronic government procurement held in Thakurgaon
A day-long awareness workshop on electronic government procurement (e-GP) was held at the Deputy Commissioner’s conference room today.Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of the Ministry of Planning organised the workshop. Deputy Commissioner of Thakurgaon Mukesh Chandra Biswas presided over the…
40 bus passengers injured in Ctg road accident
At least 40 bus-passengers were injured in a road accident on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway at Goiralar Tek area under Patiya upazila of the district on Tuesday noon. Among the injured 12 were rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital while the…
Ronaldo back on Champions League goal trail at Roma
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane reckons Cristiano Ronaldo is on top form as the Portuguese looks to increase his Champions League goals tally when they visit AS Roma in the first leg of their last-16 tie on Wednesday.Zidane, a Champions…
23 players share lead after 2nd round
Some 23 players are sharing lead in the points table with maximum 2 points after 2nd round games of the Latif Travels International Rating Chess tournament now being held at Abul Mal Abdul Muhit Sports Complex in Sylhet.They are GM…
Former world number one Nadal downplays Zika threat ahead of Rio Open
Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, who will play this week in the Rio Open, downplayed public concerns over risks linked to the Zika virus in the Brazilian city that will host the Olympics in August, saying “people are living completely…
World Cup T20 schedule published
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the schedule of men’s ICC World Cup Twenty20 2016, to be played at various venues across India from 8 March to 3 April.The first round matches in the men’s event will take…
Taylor Swift wins top album Grammy
Rapper Kendrick Lamar led the Grammy winners on Monday with five wins but was shut out of the night’s top categories as Taylor Swift nabbed album of the year in an upset victory.Compton, California rapper Lamar went into the awards…
Barnicat optimistic about Avijit murder investigation
US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat says Washington is “hopeful” that the “real culprits” involved in the murder of blogger Avijit Roy will be caught and brought to justice.“It’s a very tough case. We continue to be optimistic there will be a…
One killed in ‘gunfight’ with RAB
Gazipur – A suspected criminal was killed in what law enforcers claimed a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Nadibandar area under Tongi police station early Tuesday. Sumon Bhotto, sub-inspector of the police station, said tipped off…
Strikes on schools and hospitals in Syria ‘war crimes’
France and Turkey denounce raids in which up to 50 people were killed as Assad casts doubt on prospects for a truce. France and Turkey have called the bombing of two schools and five hospitals in Syria “war crimes”, while…
Rampal power plant project cannot be stopped: Muhith
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said the Rampal power plant was here to stay but admitted that it would have an adverse effect on the Sundarbans, bdnewsnews24.com has reported. “That would make some impact, obviously,” he said. “So many vessels will…
Finance minister permits spectrum price changes
The finance ministry has approved the Post and Telecommunication Division’s proposal to change base prices of unused 2G and 3G spectrum in auction.In a recent letter to the division, the ministry has also fixed licence fees and other charges for…
Thai Army wants to train in Bangladesh
Royal Thai Army wants to train its officers at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation Training (BIPSOT) before deploying them to UN peacekeeping missions.Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Army General Teerachai Nakwanich conveyed the interest when Bangladesh Ambassador in Bangkok…
Philippines asks women to postpone pregnancy
A minister in the Philippines has urged women to delay pregnancy until more is known about the mosquito-borne Zika virus raging in Latin America, even though the Asian country’s only reported case of zika was four years ago.Much remains unknown…
Love is expensive in Canada
Planning to woo the lady of your dreams this Valentine’s Day? Confirm with your wallet first as according to an interesting study, the average expenses linked with one-year of dating period, a one-year engagement and a wedding for couples is…
China buys half of all luxury goods
Chinese consumers spent some 1 trillion yuan ($184 billion) overseas in 2015 and purchased almost half of the world’s luxury products, the media reported on Monday.Chinese people spent a total of $116.8 billion on luxury products last year, accounting for…
Meghan Trainor wins Grammy
Pop singer Meghan Trainor, whose tongue-in-cheek play on weight issues “All About That Bass” became an Internet sensation, on Monday won the prestigious Grammy for Best New Artist.The 22-year-old Trainor broke down in tears as she accepted the award, the…
Man killed in gunfight with RAB
A suspected criminal was killed in what law enforcers claimed a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Nadibandar area in Tongi early Tuesday.Tongi police sub-inspector Sumon Bhotto, said tipped off that criminal Jewel, aged around 30 and…
A second MSF hospital bombed in Syria in 10 days
By Sally Hayden and Reuters A hospital supported by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Idlib province of northern Syria was “deliberately” hit by air strikes on Monday and eight people are missing, the charity has said in…
Saudis hosting largest military exercise in region, 20 countries invited
Soldiers from 20 countries will be gathering in Saudi Arabia for massive military exercises that are to go on for 18 days, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said. It comes as Riyadh has openly warned Syrian President Assad that…
Detective scientists discover ancient clues in mummy portraits
A Northwestern University research team has taken CSI to a whole new level: employing sophisticated scientific tools to investigate details of the materials and methods used by Roman-Egyptian artists to paint lifelike mummy portraits more than 2,000 years ago. These…
Republican candidates’ endorsement of torture shames America
Dr. Habib Siddiqui At the Republican debate in New Hampshire, when Senator Ted Cruz was asked whether waterboarding is torture, he replied that it is not. “Under the law, torture is excruciating pain equivalent to losing organs and systems,” he…
President Xi Jinping’s travel to the Middle East
By Giancarlo Elia Valori Historically, the Silk Road was established during the Han dynasty, between 206 B.C and 220 A.D., after the long Chinese exploration of Southern and Western Asia which had started at least two thousand years before. As…
Joey & Rory and their love story
By JAY POWELL Country duo Joey+Rory Feek captured the world’s attention as popular songwriters and TV personalities, but everything changed in 2014 when the couple received devastating news. Joey Feek was diagnosed at that time with stage four cervical cancer…
Another 17 cases filed against Mahfuz Anam
Seventeen more cases were filed against the Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in 17 districts across the country on Monday, bringing the number of cases against him to 35. The cases – either defamation or sedition – were filed for…
Govt wants to free country from its opponents: Fakhrul
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that the government has resorted to a repressive path to ‘free’ the country from its opponents. “The government is filing false cases against our leader Khaleda Zia…there’s no opposition…
Khaleda asked to surrender in GATCO graft case
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, will have to surrender before the trial court in two months in the GATCO graft case as the High Court (HC) has released the full text of its verdict rejecting her two…
Law for EPZ workers to get TU rights on anvil
The cabinet on Monday gave the final approval to the draft of the ‘The Bangladesh EPZ Labour Law, 2016′ keeping a provision for constituting trade unions (TUs) in the export processing zones (EPZs) as well as forming a permanent wage…