Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmud khandkar on Sunday said the reported audiovisual message of al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri against Bangladesh is being investigated with due importance. The IGP made the comments while talking to reporters after inaugurating the…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday quizzed Awami League lawmaker Abdul Rahman Badi at its head office for accumulating a huge amount of wealth. After emerging from the commission office, the AL lawmaker, who has been elected from Cox’s Bazar-4…
A nine-month old boy, who was kidnapped from the capital’s Banani area nine days ago, was rescued from Gazaripara village in Jhinaigati upazila on Saturday afternoon.
Two Bangladesh photographers have won prizes at the World Press Photo contest with pictures of the Rana Plaza collapse.Women’s rights activist Taslima Akhter won the third prize (singles) in the spot news category of the contest. Another photo journalist Rahul…
A court here on Thursday sentenced a bus driver and his helper to life term imprisonment in a case filed for molesting a girl in their moving vehicle last year.
Dhaka – Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested two alleged gun-runners along with an automatic stain machine carbine (SMC), 20 bullets and a magazine in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. The arrested were identified as Ratan Paul, 40, and Chandan Paul,…
Dhaka – A 10-day antiterrorism assistance training programme focusing on ‘Border Control Management’ concluded here on Thursday. Officials from Border Guard Bangladesh, the Immigration Unit of the Special Branch of the Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Coast Guard, Customs Department of the…
Dhaka – President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday visited ECB (Engineer Construction Battalion) camp at Sajek in Rangamati as he flew into the hill district as part of his two-day visit to Rangamati and Bandarban districts.
The 72nd birth anniversary of Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina’s husband and renowned nuclear scientist Dr M A Wajed Miah (Sudha Miah) will be observed here through two-day elaborate programmes on February 15 and 16 next.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 2,000 kgs of hisla fish while those were being smuggled out to India through Gatipara border here early Wednesday.
Dhaka, Feb 11 (UNB) – Bangladesh Coast Guard seized huge 74,000 Yaba tablets worth about Tk 3.70 crore from Inani Beach of Cox’s Bazar early Tuesday.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked authorities concerned to provide wealth information of former state minister for water resources Mahbubur Rahman The commission on Monday sent letters to some authorities in this connection, according to an ACC official.
The government has merged the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. The fresh nomenclature for it would be the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, said a government handout on Monday.
So far, 19 newspapers in the country have implemented the 8th Wage Board, Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu told Parliament on Monday. An 8-member ‘Monitoring Committee’ has been formed with representatives from the government as well as of journalists and…
Speakers at a function here on Sunday stressed the need for providing quality and standard services to the municipality dwellers regularly through ensuring transparency and accountability.
All types of export and import-related activities at Hili land port will remain closed for the next four days from Monday because of the ongoing road reconstruction works on the Indian side.
Dhaka – Some 6,778 students were absent on the first day the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations that began across the country on Sunday. Of them, 3,326 are under eight general education boards while 2,400 under Madrasah…
Police recovered the bodies of two unidentified men from rail tracks in two separate places in Sadar and Sharsha upzilas of the district on Saturday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested 20 people, including seven women and two children, from Putkhali border here on Sunday morning while trying to go to India illegally.
A mugger snatched away all belongings of three women and kept a new born baby hostage for sometime demanding ransom Saturday here at a private clinic.
Dhaka – At least five people, including a couple, were killed and six others injured in separate road accidents in Chandpur and Chuadanga districts on Saturday. In Chandpur, three people, including a couple, were killed and five others injured as…
Dhaka – The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations begin across the country on Sunday. This year, a total of 14,32,727 students under 10 educational boards, including one madrassah and one technical boards, will sit for the examinations…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized Indian contraband items worth about Tk3 crore from Putkhali and Baro Achra borders in Benapole on Friday.
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) pushed back nine Bangladeshi people into the Bangladesh territory through Darshana border early Friday.
Election commissioner Md Shah Nawaz on Wednesday said stern action will be taken if any candidate hurts religious sentiments of others during upazila election campaign. “No candidate is allowed to hurt religious sentiments of others,” he told reporters at his…
Bagerhat – Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued four fishermen, kidnapped by pirates for ransom, from Katlarkhal area of the Sundarbans East Zone on Tuesday afternoon.
A mobile court here on Monday noon sentenced a young man to six month’s jail for eve teasing.
Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a man along with 40 bottles of Phensidyl from Bus Terminal area of the town on Saturday afternoon.
Three people, including a couple, sustained bullet wounds in a gun attack by miscreants at Dighirpar village in Tongibari upazila on Friday night.
Police in a drive arrested two people along with arms and bullets at Bijoynagar in Godagari upazila on Thursday.