Detectives in separate drives arrested seven people in connection with fake currency note trading and one suspected robber from different areas in the city on Monday night. Law enforcers also recovered various types of ornaments weight around 41 tolas around…
An angry mob set to afire to a passenger bus as a minor boy was crushed under its wheels on Mirpur Road near science laboratory in the city on Wednesday. The ill-fitted child was known as Fahim, 10. Contacted, the…
Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) five gold bars weght around 600 grams and arrested two receivers of its from the car parking of Hazrat Shahjalal International airport on Tuesday. The arrested persons are—Md Firoz, 38, and Md Nazif,32. Sources…
Detectives arrested four suspected members of a carjacking gang and recovered six stolen private cars and one motorcycle from their possessions.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Monday imposed a ban on carrying and blasting of any kind of explosives, fireworks, crackers, and other harmful and injurious elements from Tuesday night.
Burglars looted Tk 11 lakh from four offices at Baitul View Tower in the city’s Purana Paltan on Thursday night.
Customs Intelligence officials on Thursday night arrested a North Korean national on charge of running a bar illegally in Banani area of the city. They also seized 94 cans of beer, 10 bottles of whisky and 210 sex stimulant capsules…
It is a great sad for me that Mrs. Zebun Nahar Huq suddenly passed away of on 30 April 2015.
An HSC candidate suffered bullet injuries when a local group opened fire on its rivals over collecting household garbage in the city’s Dakkhinkhan area on Friday morning. The injured was identified as Md Ruman Hossain, 19, who is appearing at…
The Asia Foundation Bangladesh will host a map-up event for the upcoming city corporation elections in Dhaka, in partnership with the OpenStreetMap (OSM) in Bangladesh.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to an accused in the murder case of Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Shapna Rahman. Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 Judge Syeed Ahamed granted the bail to Oishee’s friend Mizanur Rahman…
A trial court has ordered death sentence for seven accused for the murder of Swechhasebak League leader Manir Uddin Manu. In its verdict on Monday, Dhaka’s Fourth Speedy Trial Tribunal found eight people guilty of the 2006 murder in the…
The body of a 4-year-old was found in a town service bus in Dhaka city on Monday afternoon. The incident occured in the Kalsi area of Mirpur after the bus crossed the Banani flyover. Khaled Saifullah SI of Banani Police…
Saiful Islam Talukdar, special correspondent of daily Amader Somoy died of a heart attack at 11 pm on Saturday night at his residence, said a BFUJ leader. A joint secretary general of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Saiful was…
Unidentified miscreants exploded a remote controlled bomb on the veranda of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court building of Dhaka on Thursday afternoon. Assistant Commissioner Aminul Islam of the Prosecution Department of the court has told newsmen after the incident,…
Dr. M M Shofi Ullah, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System (AEIS), Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) has recently joined the AEIS Department as the Chairman for a two-year term. He took over the charge of Chairman from…
DU Journalists’ Association president and two DU students were assaulted and beaten up reportedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Dhaka University’s Mohsin hall unit as they protested the assault of a female student of the university on Monday…
The two-day election of Dhaka Bar Association ended on Thursday at 5 pm and the result of the polls is scheduled to be announced on Friday. A total of 9,092 lawyer voters of the bar cast their votes in the…
A two-day annual election of Dhaka Bar Association began on Wednesday morning to elect a new executive committee of the association for 2015-2016. The voting will end on Thursday (February 26). A total of 61 candidates from pro-Awami League ‘White…
Rival groups of Lalbagh unit of yesterday engaged in clash in front of the party’s central office at Naya Paltan centering formation of the thana committee leaving at least seven injured including a police personnel. Eyewitness said supporters of BNP…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday framed charges against 13 BNP leaders including Sultan Salauddin and Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel. Magistrate Md Mahbubur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday afternoon.
Anti-Terrorism and Militancy Ulema Parishad has demanded the government of launching motivational programme by Islamic scholars to stop militancy in the country. Maulana Abdul Latif Chowdhury, convener of the organization, made the demand at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’…
Another university died in a bus accident. This time it happened in Dhaka. A private university student Sadi Morshed (22) has been killed by a public bus on Tuesday afternoon. Sadi was a second year student of BBA at Independent…
Senior journalist and international affairs analyst Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury was killed in a road accident in the city’s Karwan Bazar area on Saturday night. He was 69. Chowdhury, also former managing director and chief editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS),…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled Indian clothes worth Tk one crore from Nabharan area on the Benapole-Jessore road in Sharsha upazila early Saturday.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address a public meeting at Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday to mark its National Revaluation and Solidarity Day. BNP chairperson’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel yesterday confirmed that the party chief would join the meeting…
The Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested an alleged leader of banned Islamist militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) from the city’s Syedabad area on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as M Ibrahim, 40, a leader of the…
Police have recovered the body of a youth from the capital’s Gulshan Lake beside the deplomatic enclave and posh residential areas of Baridhar and Gulshan on Wednesday. Gulshan police OC Rafiqul Islam said locals informed police after spotting the body…
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi fisherman from Nitpur border point in Porsha upazila on Tuesday afternoon.
Leaders of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) yesterday vowed to continue their movement for demanding the trial of killers of journalist couple Sagor Sarwar and Meherun Runi. They expressed their vow while addressing 19th founding anniversary function of the organization.