Dhaka – Two people, including a local Sramik League leader, were shot to death and 20 others injured in a clash between two feuding groups at Baroikandi in Sylhet on Tuesday.
Category: Governance
Florida Senate passes bill to put restrictions on gun sales
Tallahassee, Mar 6 (AP/UNB) — In response to a deadly Florida school shooting last month, the state’s Senate narrowly passed a bill Monday that would create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools.
JCD leader murdered in Ctg
Dhaka – A local Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader was killed in an attack by miscreants at Chandrapur in Hathazari municipality in Chittagong on Monday.The deceased is M Sohel Rana, 24, a member of Hathazari municipality unit JCD and son…
2 cloth stores gutted in Rajshahi fire
Dhaka – Two cloth stores were gutted as a fire broke out at RDA market in Rajshahi on Monday night.
Making the business case for gender equality
Achim Steiner and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka New York – Around the world, gender bias is attracting renewed attention. Through protest marches and viral social-media campaigns, women everywhere are demanding an end to sexual harassment, abuse, femicide, and inequality.
HC rejects petition against quota in govt jobs
STAFF REPORTER Dhaka,Mar 5- Some 1,010 Qawmi madrasa graduates Monday join government service for the first time as the Qawmi madrasa certificates got the government recognition.
Girl commits ‘suicide’ taking poison in Barisal
Dhaka – A college girl allegedly committed suicide by taking poison over a family feud in Borakotha village of Uzirpur upazila in Barisal on Monday morning.
Farmer’s body found in Jessore
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a farmer from the playground of a school in Lebutola union of sadar upazila here in Jessore on early Monday.
Housewife’s body recovered in Sitakunda
Dhaka -Police recovered the body of a housewife from a house at Fakirhat Panthishah Mazar area in Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong on Monday noon.
7 get life for rape, murder in Sirajganj
Dhaka – A court here on Monday sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment for killing a minor girl after rape in 2010.
Boy dies falling off bus roof in Jessore
Dhaka – A school boy was killed after falling off the roof of a moving bus on Jessore-Khulna Highway at Basundia here on Monday.
3rd Div Football: Dipali JS rout Gov Printing Press 3-0
Dhaka – Dipali Juba Sangha defeated Government Printing Pres S&RC by 3-0 goals in the Saif Power Battery 3rd Division Football League at Birshreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur on Monday.
Myanmar army again deployed along border
After a three-day interval, Myanmar Army again took position along Tambru border in Naikkhonchhari upazila of Bandarban district on Monday, creating panic among the Rohingyas who have taken shelter on no man’s land.
China sets trillion yuan military budget
China has announced a military budget of 1.11 trillion yuan ($175bn; £126bn) for the coming year. The figure, an 8% increase on last year, was announced by Prime Minister Li Keqiang as the annual meeting of parliament got under way…
US aircraft carrier Vinson in historic Vietnam visit
US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is making a historic call at Vietnam, the first time a ship of this size has visited since the Vietnam War ended. The nuclear-powered carrier will anchor off the port city of Danang, where US…
Mother ‘commits suicide killing daughter’ in Dinajpur
Dhaka – A young housewife allegedly committed suicide after killing her minor daughter at Poly Khiar Mahmudpur village in Birampur upazila in Dinajpur on Sunday evening.
2 ‘pirates’ killed in Barguna gunfight
Dhaka-Two suspected pirates were killed in a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Majherchar area of Patharghata upazila in Barguna early Monday.
Zafar Iqbal received six stab injuries – now safe
Dhaka, March 4 – Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal received six stabs in his body but he is now out of danger and conscious, a doctor of Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Dhaka said Sunday.
Pro-AL panel narrowly win Dhaka Bar election
Dhaka, March 4 – The pro-Awami League While penal won 14 posts including the post of General Secretary in the Dhaka Bar Association election for the session 2018-2019.
Moulana Faruki murder case report deferred
Dhaka, March 4 – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday deferred the submission of the probe report to April 11 in the case filed for killing former host speaker of Channel i Television- Nurul Islam Faruki.
Women peace laureates condemn inaction on Rohingya genocide
Nobel Laureates Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi and Tawakkol Karman met with more than 100 women refugees in camps in the coastal Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh this week, as well as travelling to the “no man’s land” where thousands of…
10 thousand doctors to be recruited before election
The government has decided to recruit 10,000 doctors before the general elections due in December, the health minister says.Mohammed Nasim said half of them would be taken within three months.
Tigers off to Sri Lanka to play tri-nation Nidahas Trophy
Dhaka – A 16-member Bangladesh team, led by stand-in captain Mahmudullah Riyad, left Dhaka for Sri Lanka on Sunday afternoon to participate in the Nidahas Trophy Tri-nation T20I Tournament beginning on Tuesday (March 6) at the R Premadasa Stadium in…
One held with 21,500 Yaba pills in Ctg
Dhaka-Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged smuggler along with 21,500 Yaba pills from Moijjertek in the port city on Saturday night.
Magura BNP leader Syed Mokaddes dies
Dhaka – BNP Magura district Joint Convener Syed Mokaddes Ali died at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in the capital in Magura on Saturday night. He was 74.
‘I attacked Zafar Iqbal as he is enemy of Islam’
Sylhet, Mar 4 – The attacker confessed to the law enforcers that he attacked Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal as the teacher what he said is an enemy of Islam. Lt Colonel Ali Haider Azad Ahmed, CEO of Rapid Action Battalion…
Two uncles of Prof Zafar Iqbal’s attacker held
Sylhet, Mar 4 – Law enforcers, in separate drives, detained two uncles of the attacker of renowned writer and teacher of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) Professor Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal from Sunamganj and Sylhet respectively on Saturday…
1 killed in B’baria clash
Dhaka – A man was killed and five others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a piece of land at Laxmipur village in Nabinagar upazila in Brahmanbria early Saturday.
Fake NSI held in Faridpur
Dhaka – Police here early Saturday arrested a person posing as an official of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) and his accomplice from a property at Hazrakanda of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur.
Man ‘burns’ self to death in city
Dhaka – A man died as he reportedly set himself alight at Nazirabazar of the city’s Bangshal area early Saturday.