The government has promoted some 95 senior assistant judges to the rank of joint judge.The Law Ministry issued an order in this regard on Tuesday, said Law Division Secretary Abu Saleh Sheikh Md Zahirul Haque.He said the judges were promoted…
Category: Governance
HC orders police to file case against torture on BB official
The High Court on Monday ordered the officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station to accept the complaint of Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabbi, who was allegedly tortured by a policeman, as the first information report (FIR).
Sagar-Runi, probe submission on Feb 28
Court Correspondent The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Monday once again deferred the submission of the probe report in the Sagar-Runi murder case and set February 28 for submitting the report.
N.Korean speakers broadcasting inward
Some North Korean loudspeakers at the inter-Korean border are pointed toward the North, not the South, a South Korean network reported on Sunday.Recently, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff asked for professional advice from a sound engineering researcher as to…
Ex president Chhatra Samaj found dead
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of former central president of ‘Jatiya Chhatra Samaj’ student wing of Jatiya Party, from Easter Housing area of Mirpur in the city on Sunday. The victim was identified as Sayed Mizanur Rahman Himo, 36,…
Huge Indian currency recovered at Shahjalal airport
Dhaka – Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested a passenger along with Indian currency worth 1.04 crore from Hazrat International Airport on Sunday afternoon. The arrested passenger was identified as Asaduzzaman Mirza, 45, hailing from Pirojpur district.
Businessman Nur Mohammed remanded over cocaine seizure
A court here on Sunday placed Nur Mohammad, chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Group, on a three-day remand in a case filed in connection with the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong Port on June 8 last year.Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate…
Police SI suspended for assaulting Dhaka City Corporation inspector
Dhaka – Sub-inspector Arshad Hossain Akash was suspended on Saturday night for allegedly assaulting DSCC cleaning inspector Bikash Chandra Das. Maruf Hossain Sardar, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP media), said earlier a probe committee was formed to look…
Five of a family including two kids hacked to death in Narayanganj
Dhaka – Five members of a family, including two kids, were hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Baburial in the city on Saturday night. The Officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Abdul Malek said the family members were the residents…
2 held with fake currency notes in Barisal
Police arrested two people in possession of 27 fake currency notes amounting to Tk14,000 from Launch Ghat area in the city on Friday.The arrestees were identified as Sarwar Hossain,20, son of Afzal Hawlader, a resident of Baraia village in Rajapur…
China too putting sanctions against N.Korea: Seoul
South’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Friday that China has expressed intent to participate in the United Nations Security Council’s sanctions against North Korea.China’s agreement reportedly took place in a working-level defense policy meeting with South Korea.“During the meeting…
IS link to deadly attack on Indonesian capital Jakarta
By Reuters News Agency Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, police said, in an attack that followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the country in their “spotlight.”…
TIB finds graft, irregularities in RMG export supply chain
Dhaka – A number of foreign buyers of ready made garments (RMG) are exploiting the Bangladeshi suppliers through buying products from them and then later terming them as ‘non-compliant’, a research report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) saidon Thursday. TIB,…
Khaleda doesn’t appear to court
Court Correspondent The Special Judge Court-3 of Dhaka on Thursday fixed January 21 for cross-examining the Investigation Officer in the Zia Charitable Trust Graft case.
Two JMB-men including alleged police killer dead in city ‘gunfight’
Dhaka – Two suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were killed in a gunfight with detectives in the city’s Hazaribagh area on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as Hiron, 25, and Abdullah alias Noman, 30.
Child gets bail after passing 1.5 yrs in jail
Staff Reporter After experiencing around one and half years in jail, a Dhaka Court yesterday granted bail to a child who was arrested in a explosives case during the BNP-Jamaat led blockade filed with city’s Airport Police Station.
Sayedee to seek review of his punishment
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee will file a review petition for acquittal even though his death sentence has been reduced to prison until death.His three lawyers and son spoke to journalists of the plans after meeting him at Dhaka Central…
Saudi prince meets Khaleda Zia
Visiting Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdullah Aziz Al Saud and his brother Prince Badar bin Abdullah met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday evening.The 40-minute meeting that began around 7:50pm was held at the BNP chief’s Gulshan residence.President of Islamic…
HC asks for fresh summon on Tarique Rahman
The High Court on Tuesday asked authorities to issue a fresh notice on BNP leader Tarique Rahman about his surrender and acceptance of an appeal against a previous lower court verdict in which he was acquitted in a money laundering…
India-Pakistan peace talk runs through Kabul
Writing against the received wisdom of the day, one would like to assert that India-Pakistan road to peace runs through Kabul and not through Kashmir is a contemporaneous strategic truism as Pakistan’s strategic uncertainties arise from Pakistan’s morbid fears that…
Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo —It helped Drug Lord’s capture
By Nathaniel Janowitz The story of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán was already stranger than fiction — but it took an even more bizarre turn on Saturday night when Rolling Stone published a lengthy feature story authored by the actor Sean…
Escaped Mexican drug lord recaptured
In the rain and darkness Friday morning, Mexican marines crept up in trucks with their lights out and jumped between rooftops on Boulevard Jiquilpan, surrounding a little white house in this coastal city where their country’s most-wanted fugitive, Joaquín “El…
Cop closed for torturing Bangladesh Bank official
Dhaka – A sub-inspector of police of Mohammadpur police station in the capital has been closed for allegedly torturing and blackmailing a Bangladesh Bank (BB) official and issuing him death threat.
HC for release of Kh Mosharraf soon
The Supreme Court on Sunday upheld a High Court (HC) order that granted a conditional bail BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.
Zero tolerance for terrorism: PM tells Tripura minister
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated her government’s stance of zero tolerance to terrorism and said no one would be allowed to use Bangladesh’s soil for insurgent acts against any country.
3 member Counterterrorism team in the city
A three-member team of the US Department of State’s Counterterrorism Bureau is now in city to discuss issues of mutual interest with government officials here.
Chief justice warns Judiciary against usurpation of power by executive
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has asked the judiciary to come forward to stop the executive from usurping all powers.”Beware of the executive; it is trying to take away all our powers,” said Justice Sinha during his inaugural address at…
Zero tolerance to terrorism:PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated her government’s stance of zero tolerance to terrorism and said no one would be allowed to use Bangladesh’s soil for insurgent acts against any country.The Prime Minister made the remarks when visiting Minister…
Where all the cocaine is destined for
Dhaka – Investigation agency is yet to ascertain the final destination of the cocaine consignment, which was seized along with a Spanish national from Hazrat Shahjal International airport on December 8 evening. Officials of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC)…
Man claiming to be Jesus tried to kidnap Obama’s dog
CNN – A North Dakota man claiming to be Jesus Christ was arrested Wednesday in Washington, where he had traveled with a plan to kidnap one of the First Family’s pet dogs, law enforcement officials said Friday. Scott Stockert was…