Dhaka – Customs officials seized 60 gold bars, weighing around 6 kg, from a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here on Tuesday. Assistant Commissioner (Customs) Shahiduzzaman Sarkar told UNB that a flight of the national…
Dhaka – Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday arrested an alleged international human trafficker along with ransom money of Tk 3 lakh from Jatrabari area in the city. The arrested person was identified as Akhter Hossain, 29.
Police released an official of the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka keeping his colleague as guarantor, hours after his detention at Gulshan police station on Monday.The Pakistan High Commission issued a press statement stating that a team of four to…
Bangladesh and India have expressed satisfaction over the progress of implementation of Joint Declaration issued by the Prime Ministers of Bangladesh and Indi in June last year.The expression came when Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque met with his Indian counterpart…
Bangladesh Army’s Adjutant General Md Mahfuzur Rahman has been made the Armed Forces Division’s Principal Staff Officer. A government source on Monday confirmed his appointment to the crucial post. Lieutenant General Rahman hais replaced Lt Gen Md Mainul Islam who…
A Sub-Inspector of Adabar Police Station in the city was on Monday suspended as he faces charges of harassing a female private university student. Deputy Commissioner (Tejgaon Division) of Metropolitan Police Biplob Kumar Sarkar, told newsmen that they took the…
Court Correspondent The report on serving summon on Begum Khaleda Zia, in the sedition case filed against her, was submitted to the court on Sunday.
Hundreds of MPs have begun a parliamentary session in Myanmar to see in the first democratically elected government in more than 50 years. It is an assembly dominated by MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD),…
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday (Sunday) rejected bail petitions of BNP leader Mirza Abbas in two arson cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel Police Stations of the city. Kamrul Hossain of the court passed the order hearing…
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Sunday once again deferred the submission of the probe report in the case filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for hurting the religious sentiments of the people. Magistrate Shamsul Arefin of the Chief…
Syria’s main opposition bloc has threatened to pull out of United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Geneva if what it called the “crimes” of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government persisted.Representatives of the Saudi Arabia-based group, known as the High Negotiations Committee…
France intends to make another push at trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has warned that if its efforts failed, it would recognise a Palestinian State.”France will engage in the coming weeks in the preparation of an international conference…
About $4bn (£2.8bn) may have been stolen from a fund owned by the Malaysian state, a prosecutor says.The 1MDB fund was set up in 2009 to pay for major new economic and social developments in Malaysia.Last year, Swiss authorities opened…
A two-day South Asian Speakers’ Summit on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) begins in the city on Saturday.The Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU), Bangladesh Parliament and Washington-based organisation Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK) are jointly arranging the summit at Pan Pacific…
Dhaka – Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque ordered the filed level police officials to give most priority to contain militancy and abuse of illegal drugs taking those as two big challenges. The IGP was asked about his directives…
Dhaka – Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said the government is planning to enact a liberation war denial crimes law. “Formation of a liberation war denial crimes law is the demand of time and the Law Commission is working…
Dhaka – A court n Dhaka on Thursday placed Mohammad Kamal, arrested in connection with the sexual harassment of several women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on the Dhaka University campus last year, on a two-day remand. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abdullah…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday unveiled the cover of the ‘Unfinished Memoirs of Bangabandhu’ (Bangabandhur Asamapto Attajiboni) in Chinese language.
Dhaka – Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Wednesday said their leader Khaleda Zia will legally fight the sedition case filed against her over her remarks on the number of the 1971 Liberation War martyrs. Speaking…
A power struggle between a political maverick and a conservative insider. A show of force by China and a dead mystic turtle.It’s not usually an occasion for drama but Vietnam’s leadership transition is serving up an unprecedented amount of political…
There has been no improvement as far as corruption in Bangladesh is concerned, according to Transparency International (TI).The Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog published its Corruptions Perception Index (CPI) 2015, covering 168 countries and regions, on Wednesday.Bangladesh has been ranked 139 with…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the members of Bangladesh Police to be the servants of people facing all the challenges and stand beside the helpless and endangered ones as their trusted friends.
A bill was placed in the parliament on Sunday with the proposal to increase salary and other related benefits to the speaker and the deputy speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad to almost double, reports agencies. Law, justice and parliamentary affairs…
The Cabinet is likely to approve the draft of the Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Policy 2016 on Monday.
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Sunday allowed last time for hearing on charge framing in a violence case filed against 74 BNP men including the party’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
Robbers looted valuables worth of Tk7 lakh from an electronics showroom at Wahab Market in Dhaka’s suburb Ashulia on early Thursday.Wahab, owner of the market, said a gang of robbers stormed the showroom, tied and beat up its security guard…
Court Correspondent A woman on Wednesday noon filed a case against five police officials including Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Jatrabari Police Station Aboni Shankar Kor and four other police personnel for allegedly assaulting her.
New British high commissioner to Bangladesh Alison Blake on Wednesday said most of the Bangladeshis were denied rights to vote in the 5 January 2014 general elections.Blake, who took charge after handing over her credentials to the president, Abdul Hamid,…
Washington – A Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama bin Laden allegedly kept an unauthorized photo of his corpse, The Intercept reported Tuesday. Matthew Bissonnette turned over a hard drive that contained the photo to U.S. investigators in exchange for an…
STAFF REPORTER Bail orders of the High Court Division were frequently stayed by the Appellate Division during the initial stage of the last military caretaker government, observed Justice Sharif Uddin Chaklader, who went on retirement yesterday.