Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Anisul Haq on Sunday urged the inquiry and investigation officials of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) not to act as persecutor; rather to work in a dignified manner. Addressing a training programme for inquiry…
Hifazat-e Islam leader Mufti Izaharul Islam and eight others have been indicted in a case filed under the Explosives Act over an explosion at a Chittagong madrasa. Metropolitan Sessions Judge SM Mojibur Rahman issued the order on Sunday. The court…
A Supreme Court lawyer has brought charges of contempt of court against six secretaries for not implementing a court order within the time set form it. The lawyer, Yunus Ali Akhand, petitioned the court on Sunday against the secretaries for…
Two people were found slaughtered in a flour mill at Nitaiganj Khalghat in the district town on Sunday morning. Police recovered the bodies of Abdul Aziz,55, night guard of the mill and son of Mala Baks of Paikpara of the…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited city’s Apollo Hospital on Saturday to see Awami League leader and lawmaker Showkat Hossain Hiron who has been critically ill after suffering heart attack and brain hemorrhage. Hasina stayed there for some time and enquired…
A mobile court sentenced 642 people to various terms of imprisonment conducting anti-narcotics drives in the capital in the last two months.
A madrasah teacher has been slaughtered by a local youth allegedly for protesting sexual harassment of a girl at Shahjadpur Upazila in Sirajganj district. The deceased has been identified as Nazrul Islam, 65, a teacher of Chandragati Dakhil Madrasa at…
An activist of Parbatya Chhatragram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS) was shot dead by some unknown assailants at Beltolipara in Laxmichhari upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Narayan Marma, 35.
Johannesburg – Anti-balaka fighters killed at least 72 Muslim men and boys, some as young as nine, in two recent attacks in southwestern Central African Republic. The assaults, on February 1 and 5, 2014, were in the village of Guen,…
The Election Commission has no plan yet to hold direct elections to the 50 parliamentary seats reserved exclusively for women. This was stated by Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq, also responsible for the EC secretariat in Parliament,…
A ruling party MP allegedly beat up a journalist in sadar upazila in the district on Thursday. Witnesses said Awami League MP (Sadar constituency) Abdul Odud physically assaulted the district correspondent of Daily Jugantor, Emran Faruq Masum, in front of…
Ruling Awami League-led 14–party alliance on Thursday urged the government to take legal action against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her eldest son Tarique Rahman, now living in England, for their recent identical statements claiming slain Gen Ziaur Rahman as…
Pointing at the judges of the apex court, newly elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Thursday said the cordial relations will be retained if the judges serve the country for ends of justice,…
Parliament on Thursday passed the “Law and Order Disruption Crime (Speedy Trial) (Amendment) Bill-2014” with a provision of extending the speedy trial law for another five years. With passage of the law, the extension of the law will be effective…
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated four top officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, a sister concern of Petrobangla, in connection with a graft allegation. ACC deputy director Ahsan Ali grilled them from 10 am…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent five people, including three policemen, to jail in a case filed in connection with the recovery of gold bars. Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Arefin passed the order when police produced the accused to the…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred the next date of the case filed in connection with the celebrations Bangla New Year on April 1, 2001, when a blast killed 10 people and inured 50 others to April 10. Earlier, on…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday identified internal and external barriers related to the country’s macro economy that stood in the way of its development and progress. She said this while replying to a question from MA Hannan (Mymensing-7) during…
At least 15 activists of BNP and its political ally Jamaat-e-Islami were injured in an attack allegedly by supporters of newly elected chairmen over the 5th phase upazila election at Haidarganj in Raipur upazila on Tuesday night.
A 112-member contingent of Bangladesh Army left Dhaka on Tuesday to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali for the first time. The team of army personnel – headed by Col Mohammad Jahangir Harun – left Hazrat Shahjalal International…
US Ambassador Dan W Mozena on Tuesday said the first Ticfa meeting, to be held here on April 27-28, would be a high-level bilateral engagement between Dhaka and Washington which will help find ways for increasing trade and investment between…
A 14-member high-level Indian delegation, led by Indian Power Secretary PK Sinha, arrived here on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) and joint working committee meeting on power sector. Official sources said the JSC meeting…
Sonali Bank Limited authorities on Tuesday filed another fresh case against Hall-Mark Chairman Jasmin and Managing Director (MD) Tanvir Mahmud for loan default. Executive Officer of Ruposhi Bangla Branch of Sonali Bank Md Abdus Salam filed the latest case with…
Bangladesh has done the right thing by abstaining from voting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Crimea issue as it has not deviated from its foreign policy, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam clarified on Tuesday.…
A local leader of Sramik Dal was shot to death by miscreants at his own furniture shop at Sabalia Suruj road in the district town on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Golam Azam, 40, organising secretary of the district…
The Election Commission (EC) has admitted to incidents such as seizure of voting centres and widespread stuffing of ballot boxes during the fifth phase of the Upazila Parishad elections. The Commission has blamed grassroots officials for letting such incidents occur…
Parliament on Monday formed another 10 standing committees on different ministries. The JS bodies have been formed unanimously as chief whip ASM Firoze proposed the names of the committees. With this a total of 24 standing committees and parliamentary committees…
Chairman of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) M Badiuzzman on Monday said the economic emancipation of the country was not achieved even 43 years after the independence due to corruption. Addressing a prize giving ceremony at the Shilpakala Academy Auditorium at Segunbagicha,…
Visiting Yunnan Province Governor Li Jiheng on Sunday underlined the need for having more cooperation between Kunming and Chittagong, and sought Bangladesh’s cooperation under the Sister City Agreement signed in 2005 to strengthen ties in the areas of trade and…
An amendment to speedy trial tribunal law, 2002 has been placed in Parliament on Sunday to extend the validity of the law for another five years. Minister for Industries Amir Hossain Amu, on behalf of state minister for home Asaduzzaman…