The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has interrogated four Rajuk officials as part of investigation into the three cases recently filed against former secretary of Housing and Public Works Ministry Dr Khondaker Showkat Hossain for allegedly taking government plots abusing power.…
The High Court has asked why Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital interns who denied treatment to a journalist should not be denied their certificates. A High Court bench on Thursday also asked under what authority those interns had denied treatment…
RAB investigations have found evidence of its own officers being involved in the Nayarayanganj murders, several sources inside the elite force say. It has found no proof that suggests involvement of anyone besides RAB and fugitive Ward-4 Councillor Nur Hossain,…
Chief of the probe body, formed to investigate law enforcers’ involvement in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, Md Shahjahan Ali Mollah on Thursday said the fact behind the murder of seven people would be unveiled. “The investigation into the murders will…
Bangladesh Awami League on Thursday nominated Zebunnesa Afroz, wife of late Shawkat Hossain Hiron MP as its candidate to contest the by-election to Barisal-5 constituency, which is slated for June 12. The nomination was finalized at a meeting of the…
A case was filed by Hasina Begum wife of Elangi UP member and Jamaat leader Abul Kalam against Officer in charge of Kotchandpur thana Fazlur Rahman and 7 others on Wednesday for abduction and murder of her hustand. Judicial Magistrate…
A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed May 18 for arguments afresh in the Ramna Batamul blast case. Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge of Dhaka Ruhul Amin set the date, after completion of arguments on behalf of 13 accused in the…
BNP leader Hannan Shah on Thursday alleged the government is desperately trying to hush up the seven-murder incident here as it has a direct link with the killings. “The involvement of Rab in the gruesome killings has proved the government…
A court here on Thursday placed three people arrested in connection with the abduction and killing of seven people on a 10-day remand. Senior Judicial Magistrate Monowara Begum passed the order when police produced them before her court. Those who…
Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said the term “forced disappearance” is being wrongly used for missing persons. “There is no word like forced disappearance rather it should be missing. Many people go missing…
Three minor children drowned in the river Dhali at Ilazpur village under Purbadhala upazila of the district on Wednesday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 737 bottles of liquor from Companyganj border area early Thursday.
A mobile court here on Wednesday sentenced a young man to two years’ imprisonment for possessing hemp.
Police arrested a leader of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party from Sultanpur village in Damurhuda upazila early Thursday.
Highway robbers looted valuables worth Tk several lakhs from passengers of a bus on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Putia in Daudkandi upazila on Wednesday night.
A minor girl was killed after she got hit with a spade in her house at Mosipur village in Shahjadpur upazila on Wednesday.
At least 54 students of a local women’s madrasah were hospitalised after they fell sick eating foods at a feast at the madrasah ground in Bheramara upazila on Wednesday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 2,200 pieces of Indian three-piece worth about Taka 2.60 crore from Jibannagar frontier area under Jibannagar upazila of the district on Wednesday evening.On a tip-off, a BGB team conducted the…
A discussion meeting for ensuring integrated education arrangements for the disable children jointly organized by ‘Campaign for popular education’ and local NGO Racine was held here on Wednesday.
The farmers have already started plantation of the off-season indigenous parija rice seedlings to complete the process by this month-end everywhere in Rangpur division.
Mango production is likely to suffer a setback in Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj districts, famous for mango production, this year as immature mangoes are falling off trees due to a drought like situation which has been prevailing in the region for…
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Miscreants have killed two brothers early on Thursday in Rangamati district of the Chittagong hill tracts. The dead were identified as Sushanta Chakma, 40 and Tridev Chakma, 35. The two were former activists of Parbatya Jana Sanghati Samity faction (JSS-…
BNP alleges the government is plotting to throw Khaleda Zia out of politics by not allowing a rally at Narayanganj that she was to address and by changing court premises in two cases filed against her. On Wednesday Narayanganj Mayor…
The next budget will have no provision to legalise black money, says Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith. “There will be no more chance for converting black money into white,” the finance minister said, while addressing the 35th meeting of…
“Justice should prevail”, a European Union delegation in Dhaka says while expressing concerns over Bangladesh’s human rights situation. Ambassador William Hanna, the head of the delegation, also renewed call for dialogue between major parties to solve political crisis as he…
Narayanganj Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy has refused the BNP permission to hold a rally in the city in fear of deterioration of law and order. The city has been under the media spotlight after the abduction and killing of seven…
Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine are due to consider a proposal by Russian President Vladimir Putin to delay referendums on autonomy. Separatist leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk say they will put the matter before “people’s councils”. The referendums are due…
Speakers at a sit-in programme in the city on Wednesday demanded stopping extrajudicial killings and fair investigation into and trial of every incident of secret killings. They also observed the whole country, including Narayanganj, has turned into a death valley…