Category: Metro

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday arrested an officer of Sonali Bank along with his wife on charge of misappropriating Taka 3.11 crore from Sadarpur branch of the bank here.

Marginal people of Uttar-Paschim union under Baniachang upazila of the district would now be able to educate their children as the Education Engineering Department built a school at a cost of Taka 1.40 crore.

The five-hundred years old historical ‘Manasa Temple ‘, popularly known as ‘Bijoy Gupter Manasa Mandir’, opened at Goila in Agoiljhara of Barisal after completing reconstruction and renovation on Friday.

Two Bangladeshi nationals who were sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for intruding into India were released from Dumdum jail in Calcutta on Wednesday.

Day-time express passenger carrier and river cruising vessel Bay Cruise-1 plying on Dhaka-Barisal-Dhaka route was rescued 20 hours after stranded on shoal near Barisal river port with Eid passengers.

A case was filed against 180 people on charge of torching and looting around 50 houses of indigenous community families in Matiranga upazila.

DHAKA – Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday caught red-handed a junior officer of Insurance Development and Regularity Authority (IDRA) while receiving Tk 1.5 lakh as bribe.

A fierce battle took place between the 2 rival groups of jungle pirates at Charputia under Chandpai forest range in the Eastern Division of Sundarban forest in order to establish supremacy over each other in the forest, according to a…

A Bangladeshi boy, who was picked up by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from Medenipur border in Jibannagar upazila on Friday morning, was released three hours later.

At least 40 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Paikraj village in Goainghat upazila on Tuesday.

leader of Juba League, youth wing of ruling Awami League, was shot dead by miscreants in Gulshan area of the capital early Today.

A Ward BNP leader was shot to death by miscreants at Lalbagh Thana in the capital on Monday night.

Many roads in Dhaka are submerged after incessant rains and huge tailbacks that followed have made commuting miserable around the capital.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi farmer from Dhala village in Gangni upazila of the district on Friday.

In a huge haul, a customs vigilance team seized 60 kgs of gold bars worth about Tk 54 crore from an aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Wednesday.

Two workers were crushed to death under steel plates when chains came apart in a steel mill crane in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area on Sunday, police told bdnews24.com.

The Dhaka Reporter’s unity hosted an iftar mohfil for its members at the DRU office premises on Friday.

The local administration has imposed section 144 at Pathan Bazar in Matlab (North) upazila as two factions of BNP arranged iftar party at the same place on Friday.

Police recovered three crude bombs from a Dhaka University (DU) dormitory on Thursday.

Rejecting the International Crime Tribunal (ICT)-1 verdict of Gulam Azam, Ganojagaran Mancha of Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Tuesday observed hartal peacefully.

Coast Guard recovered fire arms, bullets, sharp weapons and a trawler from Kateshar Canal of Arpangashia River of West Sundarban, the base of a daring robber group named Raju Group on Monday noon.

The first namaz-e-janaza of country’s veteran lawyer and constitution expert Dr M Zahir was held on the Supreme Court premises in the city on Friday afternoon.

The body of senior lawyer of Supreme Court Dr M Zahir has been brought back to Dhaka from Thailand.

A token hunger strike was observed in Sylhet on Monday demanding immediate resumption of direct flights of the national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines between Sylhet and London.

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will probe the alleged embezzlement of about Tk 10 crore from different development projects of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), according to a senior official of the commission.