The OC of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Khilkhet station has gone missing for the past four days. Shamim Hossain was last seen going out of his workstation on Saturday complaining of sickness.
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Rizvi hospitalised
Dhaka – BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was shifted to Birdem Hospital from the Dhaka Central Jail as he fell sick on Monday. BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan at a press conference at BNP’s chairperson’s Gulshan…
PM’s advisor Gowher Rizvi meets Ershad at CMH
Prime Minister’s International Affairs Advisor Gowher Rizvi met HM Ershad on Sunday along with his wife and daughter at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) amid intense speculation whether the Jatiya Party chief was indeed ill or detained.
Petrol bombs hurled on 2 N’ganj police camps
Activists of Jamaat’s student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir hurled petrol bombs at two police camps at Chasara in the city Saturday afternoon. Witnesses said 25-30 Shibir activists equipped with sticks brought out a protest procession near Government Tolaram College around…
Deadlock leads to Mitford Hospital closure
Keraniganj – Interns at Mitford Hospital continued their indefinite strike for the second consecutive day on Wednesday demanding the punishment of the attackers of their fellows.
Closed-door meeting at govt secretariat
Top government officials have held a closed-door meeting at the Secretariat amid the ongoing discussions on the execution of war crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla’s death verdict.
Court calls back Tarique warrant
Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-3 on Monday asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to withdraw the arrest warrant in the Money Laundering case against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tareque Rahman and businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun, as Tareque was acquitted in the case.
Hannan, Rizvi bail prayers rejected
A Dhaka court on Monday sent back three arrested BNP leaders including Hannan Shah and Rizvi to jail rejecting their bail plea and remand prayers of police in three cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel Police Stations.
Sonali scam: ACC grills 9 bank officials
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday interrogated nine officials of Sonali Bank in connection with the much-talked-about Sonali Bank loan scam. A seven-member investigation team, led by its deputy director Mir Zainul Abedin Shibly, interrogated them as witnesses of…
Women’s Black flag protest against unilateral election
Sammilita Nari Samaj, a women’s organization on Saturday staged a demonstration demanding halting of unilateral election at shahbagh National Museum building.
Chhatra samaj wants stoppage of repression
Leaders of the Islami Chhatra Samaj on Saturday urged the government to accept the demand of the opposition for election under a neutral government.
2 buses torched in Dhaka
Miscreants set fire to two buses in Dhaka on Saturday amid the 18-Party alliance’s nationwide blockade. However, there were no casualties in the incidents, police said.
Trader shot dead in city
Dhaka – A trader was gunned down in the city’s Pallabi area on Friday night. Police arrested one of the suspected killers soon after the shooting incident.
Youth killed in ‘gun battle’ with RAB
A youth has been killed in a ‘shootout’ with RAB in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area. RAB claims deceased Md Shafique, 38, was a mugger.
Shahbagh arson toll rises to 2
Another young man, who suffered burn injuries in an arson attack on a bus in the city’s Shahbagh area on Thursday evening, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday afternoon, raising the death toll from the incident to…
19 bombs recovered in city
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive recovered 17 crude bombs and two petrol bombs at Mirhajirbag in city’s Jatrabari area on Wednesday night. Rab headquarter sources said being tipped-off, a special team of Rab-10 conducted drive in…
9 hurt in crude bomb blasts in city
At least nine people, including three rickshaw-pullers, suffered injuries from splinters when crude bombs were exploded in the city’s Chankharpool and Bakshibazar areas on Wednesday evening.
Hefazat may postpone 15 Nov rally for Asura, Tablig Iztema
Hefazat-e-Islami Bangladesh, a qaumi madrasah based non-political organisation, is likely to postpone its scheduled rally at Shapla Square in the city on November 15, according to organisation sources.
‘Stop use of orphan children in pol programs’
Speakers at a seminar on Thursday expressed their concerns over using orphan children in the political programmes.
Bus torched at Farmgate, 7 crude bombs blasted at DU
Miscreants torched a bus at Farmgate while exploded seven crude bombs at Dhaka University on Tuesday evening, during the second day of the straight 60-hour hartal enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance.
Police recover 6 crude bombs from city’s Shyamoli, arrest one
Police recovered six live crude bombs along with bomb making materials from a house in Shyamoli of the city on Sunday afternoon.
Fire in CMM court: Case papers gutted
Dhaka – Some papers of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court were gutted in a fire on Sunday noon.
Crude bomb blasts near CEC’s residence
A crude bomb was exploded in front of Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakib Uddin Ahmad’s residence in the city’s Baridhara area on Saturday evening.
Emerging from Rana Plaza ruins
When Minu’s limp body was piled onto the mass of corpses after Rana Plaza collapsed, she prayed that someone would notice that she was still alive. Too weak to call out, she had been smothered under dead bodies in the…
Yet another big gold haul
The airport armed police battalion seized 280 gold bars from an aircraft at the Shahjalal International Aiport early Tuesday morning.
531 houses gutted in Hazaribagh fire
A total of 531 houses, including 24 shanties of a slum, were burned to ashes in a fire in the city’s Hazaribagh area on Thursday night. Nilufar Yasmin, a duty officer at the Fire Service Control Room, said the fire originated…
4 plastic warehouses gutted by city fire
Four warehouses of scrap plastics were gutted by a fire that broke out in the city’s Lalbagh area on Thursday morning.
Chopped body parts recovered in Dhaka again
Police have recovered seven severed body parts of an unidentified woman from Bhashantek in the capital.
2 held in city with huge Yaba tablet
Members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 1,700 pieces of Yaba tablet from North Rayerbagh under Jatrabari Police Station on Tuesday.
Dhaka-Ishurdi rail route unsafe
Travelling on the Dhaka-Ishurdi rail route in Sirajganj has become very much hazardous causing frequent accidents especially for absence of gatemen at most of its level crossings.