Category: Nation

Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus has expressed his deep shock at the death of veteran journalist ABM Musa. In a condolence message, Yunus said a star of journalism of this subcontinent has fallen at his death.

Indian authorities handed over 18 Bangladeshi children, who languished in jail for four years for entering the country illegally, to Bangladesh authorities at Benapole check post on Monday evening.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 125 pieces of Yaba tablet from Jamalganj Rukindipur village in Akkelpur upazila on Wednesday afternoon.

Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 17 pieces of Yaba tablet from Kajli Bazar in Sreepur upazila on Tuesday afternoon.

Twenty-two chairman candidates, mostly BNP-backed ones, boycotted the upazila elections in nine districts on Monday on various allegations. In Barguna, all candidates except the Awami League-backed ones, boycotted polls in three upazilas alleging that the supporters of the ruling party…

A court here on Sunday sentenced two siblings to life and three others to two year’s imprisonment in the sensational Dablu killing case. The lifers are Mansur Ali Kaiser and his brother Majibar Rahman, sons of Mostab Ali of Bharaimari…

Members of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) in a drive seized huge smuggled sex-stimulating injections and tablets worth about Taka 44 lakh from Hakimpur frontier in Dinajpur on Saturday, BGB sources said.

Unidentified miscreants damaged an idol of Hindu goddess Kali at a temple at Bhurulia Nagbati village in Shyamnagar upazila on Friday night.

One person was killed and eight people were injured in a clash between transport workers and passengers of a picnic bus over a trivial matter in Bakerganj upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Jasimuddin Hawladar, 30, the helper…

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized 15 maunds of jatkas (hilsa fries) from two passenger launches in the Dhaleshwari River in Munshiganj early Friday.

The Election Commission on Thursday denied it has given magistracy power to the army deployed to keep order during the on-going upazila elections. It said some media reports on this issue have not been objective. The commission had rather specially…

The curtain falls on Tangail-8 by-election campaign on Thursday midnight, 32 hours before the voting opens. Five candidates — Anupam Shahjahan of the ruling Awami League, Sadek Siddiqui of JP (Manju) and independent Abdul Malek (AL rebel) and Principal Abu…

Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban. The Army Chief was accompanied by Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Major General Sheikh Mamun Khaled.

Some 56.12 per cent of voters exercised their franchise in the fourth phase election on March 23 (Sunday) in 91 upazila parishads of the country’s 43 districts, according to the Election Commission. The highest 81.48 percent votes were cast in…

Jahangirnagar University (JU) Administrative Officer Mahtab-ud-Zahid testified on Tuesday to Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 in the case filed for the killing of JU student Zubair Ahmed. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of the tribunal recorded the depositions of the witness and…

The Election Commission has informed the Prime Minister about alleged violation of code of conduct by Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu during the fourth phase of the Upazila Parishad elections. EC Joint Secretary Jesmin Tuli told journalists on Monday of…

A total of 10 chairman candidates, mostly backed by BNP, boycotted the upazila elections in Bhola, Barisal, Chittagong, Pirojpur and Jessore districts on Sunday on various allegations. In Bhola, four candidates — BNP-backed Samsuddin Bachchu Chowdhury in Manpura, Zahurul Islam…

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized contraband Indian sarees worth Tk 2 crore from Sadipur border here on Friday.

Police recovered 500 crude bombs from an abandoned house in Fulgazi upazila on Wednesday night.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced a young man to life term imprisonment for violating a dumb girl in Mohra area of the city in 2008.

A couple has been missing since a motorised boat sank during a storm in Rangamati’s Kaptai Lake on Wednesday afternoon. Boatman Biton Chakma, however, had a narrow escape. He has been admitted to the Rangamati General Hospital, said Kotwali Police…

The voting in the two-day election of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) ended on Thursday afternoon. The voting was held from 10am to 5pm on Wednesday and Thursday with a one-hour break from 1pm every day. Some 3,143 lawyers,…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday overrode a High Court order that granted bail to former senior police official who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court in a bribery case filed in 2003. Following an appeal filed by…