Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Thursday granted bail to Ganojagaran Mancha spokesperson Dr Imran H Sarker and cultural activist Sanatan Ullash after they surrendered to the court.
Category: Governance
UK police make sixth arrest Parsons Green bomb probe
UK police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in south London in connection with last Friday’s terror attack on a Tube train. The teenager was detained after officers executed a warrant in Thornton Heath at about 00:05 BST on Thursday. It…
Drug peddler arrested with hemp, motorcycle
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a suspected drug trader with 10 kilograms of Indian hemp and a motorcycle at Sarbanghuda border village in Benapole on Wednesday night.The arrestee is Azizul Islam, 40, son of Abdus Samad…
Youth gets life in C’nawabganj rape case
Dhaka – A court here in Chapainawabganj on Wednesday convicted a young man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for violating a mentally disabled girl.The court also fined the convict Golam Kibria, 21, son of Sonaru Mistri of Bholahat…
Schoolgirl found hanging in Jessore
Dhaka – A schoolgirl was found dead at her house at Bagdanga village in Manirampur upazila in Jessore on Wednesday.Nila Khatun, 16, a class X student of Bagdanga-Dahkula Secondary School and daughter of Abdul Halim, a member of Arsingari union,…
Writ seeking to stop ads on foreign tv channels
Dhaka – A lawyer on Wednesday filed a writ petition with the High Court Division of the Supreme Court seeking an order to stop telecasting advertisement on foreign television channels running in Bangladesh.
Warrant of arrest against Imran H Sarker
Dhaka – The Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Dhaka on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against Ganojagaran Mancha spokesperson Dr Imran H Sarker in a defamation case filed over derogatory remark on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
House owner of ‘militant den’ remanded in explosives case
Dhaka – A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Habibullah Bahar Azad, owner of a suspected militant den in city's Mirpur Mazar Road area, on a 3-day remand in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
6 killed in Munshiganj textile mill fire
Dhaka – At least six people were killed in a devastating fire at a textile factory in Char Mokterpur area of Sadar upazila in Munshuganj on Wednesday morning.The identities of the deceased – five men and one woman – could…
20 gold bars worth Tk 1 cr seized at Dhaka airport
Dhaka- Customs officials seized 20 gold bars worth about Tk one crore from a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday.
2 friends electrocuted in Magura
Dhaka – Two friends died from electrocution at a poultry farm at Alamkhali village in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.Police said Titul Hossain, 28, and Hasan Ali, 26, residents of the village, went to their own poultry farm, in the…
Are Suu Kyi’s Rohingya claims correct?
Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been speaking about the violence and refugee crisis in Rakhine State.
Atrocity on Rohingyas barbaric: Amartya Sen
Dhaka, Sept 19 – Nobel laureate Prof Amartya Sen and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales have offered to be signatories to the open letter written by Nobel peace laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus to the United Nation Security Council (UNSC) calling for…
Justice Amir appointed judge of War Crimes Tribunal
Dhaka – The government on Tuesday appointed Justice Amir Hossain, a judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, as a member of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1).
The night one Russian officer saved the world
He was often called “the man who saved the world,” and in some sense, he did. On the night of Sept. 26, 1983, in a period of Cold War tension, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel on duty at a missile…
Indian couple held with arms in C’nawabganj
Dhaka – Police here early Tuesday arrested an Indian couple with arms and ammunitions from Bagichpara area of Sibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj.The arrestees are identified as Kadir Sheikh, 57, son of Sher Mahmud of Kaliachawk in India’s Maldaha district and…
Man stabbed dead in Gopalganj
Dhaka – A man was killed and his younger brother injured in an attack allegedly by his rivals over previous enmity at Chandradwip in Kashiani upazila on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Zihad Mollah, 42, son of Lokman Mollah while…
6 children return home after languishing in Indian jail
Dhaka – Six Bangladeshi children, including three girls, returned home through Benapole check post on Monday night after serving one year jail term in an Indian prison.The returnees were Sakib, 10, son of Jewel, Akash Sheikh, 7, son of Amirul…
HC stays suspension of Dinajpur Municipality Mayor
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court stayed a government order for three months on Monday that suspended Dinajpur municipality mayor Syed Jahangir Alam.
Robber held in Laxmipur
Dhaka – Police arrested an alleged robber along with arms and bullet from Bhatiyalpur area in Ramganj upazila on Monday morning. The arrestee was identified as Md Nasir, son of Nur Mohammad, a resident of Mahdebpur village in Chatkhil upazila…
Five held for gang raping woman in Satkhira
Dhaka- Police here on Monday arrested five people for allegedly gang raping a woman, from different areas in Satkhira.The arrestees are identified as Toriqul Islam, 25, son of Jamer Ali, Idris Ali, 20, son of Karim Box of Debnagar village…
US flies powerful warplanes amid tensions over N Korea
The U.S. military flew advanced bombers and stealth jets over the Korean Peninsula and near Japan in drills with South Korean and Japanese warplanes on Monday, three days after North Korea fired a missile over Japan. The United States often…
Myanmar violates airspace for govt’s subservient policy: BNP
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Monday alleged that Myanmar is repeatedly violating Bangladesh airspace due to the government’s incapability to run the country and its subservient policy. “The Myanmar is now violating our airspace again and again due…
Rights groups urged UN to punish Myanmar Army
Pressure tightened on Myanmar Monday as a rights group urged world leaders to impose sanctions on the country’s military, which is accused of driving out more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims in an orchestrated “ethnic cleansing” campaign. The call from Human…
SC Bar demands deployment of army for relief distribution
Dhaka – The Supreme Court Bar Association, SCBA yesterday demanded to the government to deploy army at the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazaar for smooth distribution of relief materials among the refugees.
Warrant against Khaleda for undermining map and flag
Dhaka – A Dhaka court yesterday decided that an warrant of arrest will be issued against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia if she fails to appear before it on October 5 in a case filed over her undermining the map…
Son ‘kills father’ in Jessore
Dhaka – A 70-year-old man was killed allegedly by his son at Banshbaria village in Keshabpur upazila in Jessore on Sunday.SM Anwar Hossain, officer in-charge of Keshabpur Police Station, said Abdus Salam, 32, had a brawl with his father Nawab…
BA plane evacuated on Paris airport runway
London-bound passengers were evacuated from a British Airways plane after a “direct security threat,” airport officials said. Travellers were escorted by armed officers and searched by sniffer dogs from flight BA0303 at Charles De Gaulle Airport, in Paris, this morning.…
UK police makes second arrest over Tube bombing
A second man has been arrested in connection with Friday’s attack on a London Tube train, police said. The 21-year-old man was arrested in Hounslow, west London, on Saturday night on suspicion of a terror offence and is in custody…
Magura schoolgirl raped, hospitalised
Magura, Sept 17 – A third-grade student was reportedly raped by a youth at Sajiara village in Sadar Upazila on Saturday afternoon.