Some 38 members of three more robber gangs of the Sundarbans, including their ringleaders, surrendered to law enforcers on Tuesday in a bid to return to normal life. They gave in at the Rapid Action Battalion-8 headquarters in Barisal in…
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2 bus drivers, 2 helpers held with Yaba in Khulna
Dhaka – Police arrested two drivers and their two helpers along with 2,200 pieces of Yaba tablets from their buses in Sonadanga bus terminal of the city on Monday night.The arrestees were identified as the bus drivers Raihan and Riad…
HC bench splits on Article 70 that bars floor crossing
Dhaka, 15 Jan – A two-member bench of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday passed a split judgment on a writ petition that challenged legality of Article 70 of the constitution, regarding cancellation of membership of a…
Sedition case against Tarique – three others
Dhaka, 15 Jan – The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Monday fixed February 27 to record the depositions of the witnesses in sedition case filed against BNP’s Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman and thee others for telecasting a…
Niko case: Khaleda – 10 others asked to appear
Dhaka, 15 Jan – The Special Judge Court-9 of Dhaka yesterday asked BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and 10 other accused to appear before it on February 4 in the Niko graft case.
40 Sundarbans robbers to surrender Tuesday
Dhaka – Some 40 members of three more robber gangs active in the Sundarbans, including their ringleaders, are going to surrender to law enforcers in Bagerhat on Tuesday in a bid to return to normal life.They will surrender at the…
3 BCL leaders at BAU ask for money detaining motorbike
Mymensingh, 14 Jan – Three leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL) asked for subscription allegedly by detaining a motorbike of a university employees.
SC upholds Chamber Judge’s order for 4G auction
Dhaka, 14 Jan – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld an order of the Chamber Judge that stayed a High Court order which put a bar on the tender notice floated by Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission…
Khaleda Zia arrest order compliance deferred
Dhaka, 14 Jan – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday deferred the submission of the compliance report in connection with the arrest of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to February 14 in a defamation case.
Magistrate, OC summoned for sentencing people in custody
Dhaka, 14 Jan – The High Court yesterday summoned four officials including Nirbahi magistrate and officer-in-charge (OC) of Lohagora police station of Chittagong district for sentencing a people even after staying under the police custody in connection with criminal case.
One of 3 suspected militants killed on Friday, identified
Dhaka, 14 Jan – One of the three suspected militants killed in Nakhalpara raid on Friday is Mezba Uddin, a resident of Comilla. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) confirmed the identity after his fingerprints were matched with national identity database.
Two women out of 4 were raped in home in Chittagong
Dhaka, 15 Jan – Over the rape incident of four women in a home under Karnaphuli police station in Chittagong yesterday (Sunday) the four women gave deposition before a Chittagong Court.
2 held with 85,000 Yaba pills in Ctg
Dhaka – Detectives of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested two young men along with 85,000 Yaba tablets from a bus counter in Colonel Hat area of the port city on Sunday morning.The arrestees were identified as Md Ehsan Prokash Nurul…
2 youth stabbed dead in Kushtia
Kushtia, Jan 14 (UNB) – Two young men allegedly stabbed each other to death in Choudash Kalabagan area of the district town on Sunday over a trifling matter.The deceased were identified as Shamim Islam, 23, and Sohan, 21, of the…
3 get life in prison for abducting Ctg minor boy
Dhaka – A court here on Sunday sentenced three people, including an ayah of Chittagong Medical College Hospital, to life imprisonment in an abduction case.The convicts are Haradhan Nath, 58, Mohammad Abdul Aziz, 54, and ayah Shefali Begum, 45. Of…
Minor twins drown in Pabna
Dhaka – A pair of minor twins drowned in a pond of Dashuria Collegepara village in Ishwardi upazila on Sunday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Adib Hossain and Arafat Hossain, aged around one and half years, sons of Biplab Hossain…
Riyadh seeks extradition of corruption suspects
Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has said he will pursue extradition for corruption suspects living abroad as part of a two-month-old crackdown that has already netted princes and tycoons. Evidence is being collected against “fugitives” in order to issue indictments against…
‘Drug peddler’ held with liquor in Sylhet
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested a suspected drug peddler from Subid Bazar in the city on Saturday afternoon.
Chelsea Manning to run for US senate
Chelsea Manning, the former US intelligence analyst who was jailed for leaking classified documents, is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for the US senate in Maryland. In 2013 Manning was sentenced to 35 years after being found guilty…
Israel lobby is slowly being dragged into the light
By Jonathan Cook Nazareth: The scandal surrounding Priti Patel, who was forced to resign as Britain’s international aid minister last week after secret meetings with Israeli officials during a “family holiday”, offers a small, opaque window on the UK’s powerful…
IGP hopes to intensify crackdown against militants
Dhaka, Jan 13, 2018 (BSS) – Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque in an exclusive interview recently said they will intensify nationwide crackdown against militants this year in line with the ‘zero tolerance’ policy against militancy. “Police have…
4.2 lakh yaba tablets recovered from Teknaf
Dhaka – Members of Coast Guard in a drive recovered 4.20 lakh pieces of yaba worth of Tk. 21 crore from an engine boat at Bay of Bengal in St. Martin of Teknaf on early Saturday.
3 held with 494 turtles in Khulna
Dhaka- The Forest Department and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a joint drive arrested three people along with 494 turtles of rare species at the Zero Point of the city early Saturday while those were being smuggled to India.
2 die after ‘taking liquor’ in Sirajganj
Dhaka – Two people, including a local Jubo League leader, have died and three others fallen sick allegedly after taking liquor at Soydabad of Sadar upazila.
Abducted in Chapainawabganj, found in Lalmonirhat
Dhaka – Police rescued a 9-year-old boy from a house in Kanchshar village of Kaliganj upazila in Lalmonirhat on Saturday, five days after being abducted from Chapainawabganj.The rescued boy was identified as Jaynal Abedin Jihadi, son of Abul Hayat hailing…
Clash kills 1, hurts 5 in Kutupalong Camp
Dhaka- A Rohingya man was killed and five others were injured in a clash between two groups of the forcibly displaced Myanmar citizens at Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Ukhia upazila on Saturday afternoon.
50 Bangladeshis held in Malaysia for human trafficking
Dhaka, Jan 12 – The Immigration Department of Malaysia has busted another human trafficking syndicate, this time led by a Bangladeshi national known as “Abang Bangla”, according to Malaysian The Star Online.
7th anniversary of ban on corporal punishment in BD
Sir Frank Peters Let’s be bold, courageous, call a spade a spade, jump-in at the deep end, and make it categorically clear in Bangladesh that there is nothing that justifies corporal punishment in the eyes of Allah or man…NOTHING!
Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route resume
Dhaka – Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River resumed after seven hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Friday morning.
The reality of North Korea s nuclear power
With a track record of six underground nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017, North Korea is desperately yearning to be recognized as the world’s ninth nuclear power – trailing behind the US, UK, France, China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Israel.…