Dhaka–Highway police arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 100 bottles of liquor on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway, near Haripur Pakhuteki area of Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet on Monday night.The arrestees were identified as Noman Ahmed, 34, and Junayed Ahmed, 32.
Dhaka– A court here on Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and eight others in a case filed under the Special Powers Act in Gazipur .
Dhaka – Police arrested a leader of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir from Matikata union in Godagari upazila in Rajshahi early Tuesday.
Dhaka – Gazipur district police on Monday formed a three-member probe committee to investigate the apparent suicide of a man along with his minor daughter in an incident that shook the nation’s conscience.
Reclusive state acting in ‘open defiance of the international community’, says Lieutenant General America’s National Security Adviser has said America should be “prepared” to take military action against North Korea. Lieutenant General HR McMaster called on other world powers to…
Dhaka – Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested a union parishad chairman, an alleged robber kingpin, along with firearms, including an automatic Sub Machine Carbine (SMC), in Pekua upazila early Monday.The arrestee is Syed Nur, 52, chairman of Rajakhali union…
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a young man from the city’s Hatirjheel Lake on Monday.Sources at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) said locals spotted the floating body of Sabuj, 30, in Hatirjheel Lake in Tejgaon industrial area around…
Dhaka – Customs officials seized 60 gold bars, weighing around 6.960 kg, from a flight in an abandoned condition at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here on Monday.Assistant Commissioner (Customs) Saidul Islam told UNB that the flight ‘BS202’ of US-Bangla Airlines…
Dhaka – A leopard was beaten to death by locals at Aburi village in Mirpur upazila in Kushtia on Monday morning.Assistant sub-inspector Alamin, in-charge of Malidah police camp, said the leopard used to invade the village sometimes for the last…
Indian police officials say two Muslim men have been beaten to death by a mob in the northeastern state of Assam over allegations of cow theft, the latest in a series of similar attacks across the country. Senior Assam police…
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Kazi Reazul Hoque on Monday said the police and public representatives cannot shirk the responsibility over the alleged suicide of a man along with his minor girl for failing to get justice.…
Dhaka, May 1 – Four people went missing as a boat capsized in the Ganga River in Dargapara area of Rajshahi city on Sunday evening during a violent localised storm. Three of the missing people are—Sarwer Hossain Rafiq, 45, Robin,…
Dhaka – The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday directed the prosecution not to call anybody ‘Razakar’ in any case filed against anybody about crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War of 1971, until the allegations are proved.
Dhaka- Police have arrested four members of a fraud gang along with firearms, ammunition and other items usually used by law enforcers from the city’s Banani area.Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Masudur Rahman on Sunday said when…
Chief Justice SK Sinha on Sunday said the Supreme Court will not backtrack from scrapping any provision of the Constitution or any law if its formulated violating people’s rights. “Even if the 300 MPs enact any anti-Constitution law or bring…
Dhaka – The throat-slit body of a fish trader was found in a jute field at Chandipur in Sujanagar upazila on Sunday. Local people spotted the body of Hafizur Rahman, 35, son of Majed Khandaker of the upazila ,and informed…
Dhaka– An Awami League leader was found hanging in a hotel in Cox’s Bazar town on Sunday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Dr Md Ismail, 48, former vice president of Naikhangchhari upazila unit Awami League of Bandarban district.
Dhaka – A court here on Sunday sent a former officer-in-charge (OC) of Patia Police Station of Chittagong to jail in a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.The accused police officer is Refayet Ullah Chowdhury.
Dhaka – A local union parishad chairman has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house at Masumpur Mahalla in Ullapara upazila.Quoting locals, police said Khalid Intejar Shakti Mirza, chairman of Mohonpur union parishad and son…
15 Bangladeshi women returned home from India through Benapole borderon Saturday afternoon after serving three years in an Indian prison. Petrapole Immigration police handed them over to Benapole Port police following the issuance of a special travel permit by the…
Sunamganj – Issuing a note of warning that no one will be spared if any negligence is found inha or embankment construction,Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Haor farmers will get free agricultural inputs for the next crop. UNB…
Meherpur – Police recovered the body of a housewife from a banana orchard at Dighirpara village under the municipality area on Saturday night. UNB news agency reported
PM Sharif fired an adviser and ordered ‘action’ against a senior bureaucrat after controversial news story leak. Karachi, Pakistan – Pakistan’s military has rejected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s decision to fire a top foreign policy advisor over his alleged connections…
US President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on the media during a rally marking 100 days in office. He told supporters in Pennsylvania that he was keeping “one promise after another”, dismissing criticism as “fake news” by “out…
Muhammad Syfullah, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Apr 30 – The Election Commission is preparing to arrange elections to six city corporations — Rangpur, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, Barisal and Gazipur— before the 11th parliamentary elections to be held in late December…
Rajshahi, Apr 30 – The inquest report of the forensic department of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) has described the death of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) Assistant Commissioner Sabbir Ahmed Sarfaraz as suicide. Rajshahi is Bangladesh’s Northwestern division city.
Masudul Hoque, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Apr 30 – Rejecting the BNP’s demand for arranging the next general election under a ‘polls-time supportive government’, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said the parliamentary polls will be held as per…
Dhaka – BNP vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Saturday accused the government of maltreating with the flood-hit people of haor areas. Addressing a human chain on Saturday he said that troubles and miseries of the haor areas relected the failure of…
Dhaka – Twenty five members of two robber gangs -– Alif Bahini and Kabiraj Bahini -– surrendered to Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in presence of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan in the district town on Saturday.Nineteen members of Alif Bahini, including…
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the government is ‘interfering in all the state institutions, including the judiciary’. Speaking at a biennial council of Thakurgaon district unit Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal at Zila Parishad auditorium, he…