Tag: Metro

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Sammilita Nari Samaj, a women’s organization on Saturday staged a demonstration demanding halting of unilateral election at shahbagh National Museum building.

Leaders of the Islami Chhatra Samaj on Saturday urged the government  to accept the demand of the opposition for election under a neutral government.

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.

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.

A youth has been killed in a ‘shootout’ with RAB in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area. RAB claims deceased Md Shafique, 38, was a mugger.

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…

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.

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.

Participants of a three-day long training workshop and seminar of teachers in Barisal on Sunday stressed on reality and moral values based teaching for quality education.

Dhaka – The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated former State Minister for Housing and Public Works Alamgir Kabir on graft charges.

A Dhaka court on Tuesday recorded the confessional statement of housewife Naurin Jahan Nadi, 25, in a case filed for repressing her domestic help Aduri.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 2,415 kilograms of Hilsa fish worth Tk13 lakh from a truck at Bankal Bridge in Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday morning.

Gunmen stormed into the house of a businessman in the city’s Mirpur area on Saturday afternoon and gunned him down.  

Speakers at a seminar in the city yesterday underscored the need for greater cooperation between Bangladesh. The seminar was organized by the Nawab Salimullah Academy to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

An Indian national was returned to the authorities of that country by the Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday after completion of his jail term in the district jail for intrusion.

Twelve Bangladeshi boys returned home on Monday night after languishing for two years in an Indian jail.

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday detained an alleged fraud who was demanding money from a businessman, claiming she is an ACC official.  

A devastating fire gutted 58 tin-shed houses near Rony Market in the city’s Kamrangirchar area on Saturday afternoon.  

Two construction workers were killed as a crane collapsed while bringing down embroidery machines from a  multi-storied building in the city’s Sutrapur area early Friday.

Train communications of the capital with Chittagong and Sylhet remained suspended from Thursday evening as the locomotive of an express train went out of order at Dewpara in Kaliganj upazila.