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A mobile court here on Wednesday sentenced a local leader of Jubo League (JL) to six months’ imprisonment after he was arrested with Yaba tablets at Bilashpur in the city.

The trial of alleged war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami again slowed down on Wednesday due to the absence of the prosecution witness for deposition.  

Jatiya Party President H M Ershad left Dhaka for Seoul on Wednesday on a five-day visit to attend the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

A freedom fighter prosecution witness on Wednesday corroborated another PW’s evidence narrating how accused Mobarak Hossain, a 1971 Razakar Commander, had been involved in the ‘crimes against humanity’ during the Liberation War.

The female members of Bangladesh Police have been working successfully to serve the nation through maintaining a peaceful law and order situation, senior police officials said here yesterday.

The district unit of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front (SCF) formed a human chain in the town on Tuesday demanding cancellation of the move to construct a coal-based thermal power plant in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat, near the Sundarbans.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu currently on a tour of UK got into a fix by agreeing to pose for pictures with two young men .

Discussants have underscored the need for a comprehensive plan of action to check human trafficking that also needs collective efforts of all judges, lawyers, law-enforcers and others concerned.

Two labourers went missing as a boat capsized in the Jamuna River near Moti Shaheb Ghat in the town on Monday.

The fourth death anniversary of M Saifur Rahman, the country’s longest-serving finance minister and former BNP standing committee member, was observed with due respect Thursday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 46 people, including six women and one child, while they were being trafficked to India through Sadipur border point here on Friday night.

A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was injured in an attack by smugglers on Kakdanga border in Kalaroa upazila early Thursday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the first phase works on the much-talked-about ‘Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project’ in Pabna on October 2 next.   This was revealed at the 60th meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Undertakings held…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized heroin worth Tk 1.5 crore from a bus and arrested a man in this connection at city gate area in the port city on Wednesday.  

MEHERPUR: A school teacher was killed in bomb attack and shooting by miscreants who abducted a schoolboy from Shuvoraj village under Sadar upazila of the district early Wednesday.

Speakers at the inaugural ceremony of a fair here on Tuesday afternoon called upon all for boosting fruit production to meet nutrition demand, alleviate poverty and achieve selfreliance.

Speakers at a function here on Monday stressed the need for making land registration process easier and modernized to remove people’s sufferings and ensure accountability and transparency of the registry offices.

The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of the ‘Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) Bill 2013’ keeping a provision for both imprisonment and fine to bring the existing DNA test process under a legal framework.

Police recovered 10,000 pieces Yaba tablets on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Shahbajpur in Sarail upazila of the district on Friday night.  

In the wake of gradual rising of slum, poor and extreme poor people, more schemes needed to eradicate urban poverty in the city alongside eliminating other poverty linked social crimes especially addiction of drugs and its trafficking, speakers at a…

The eighth death anniversary of Stranded Pakistani General Repatriation Committee (SPGRC) leader Alhaj Nasim Khan was observed here through various daylong programmes on Wednesday.

Normalcy has been restored to shipping in Kaptai Lake as water level in the lagoon increased due to torrential rain and on rush of hilly water. General secretary of Launch Owner Association of Rangamati Moin Uddin Selim said various kind…

Two Bangladeshi girls have returned home from India after completion of their three years’ jail term in that country.

Eminent journalist Zahiduzzaman Faruque has been admitted to United Hospital at Gulshan in the capital for cardiac surgery under noted cardiac surgeon Dr. Jahangir Kabir.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said there was an international conspiracy against the funding of the much-hyped Padma Bridge project.  

A packaging factory was gutted in fire at Tagarpar in Fatullah of the city early Monday.

A Bangladeshi, who was picked by members of Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) from Hapania border in Sapahar upazila on Saturday, died at a hospital in India on Sunday.

A Bangladeshi national was allegedly electrocuted while returning from India through Boikari border under Sadar upazila on Sunday morning.  

The maternal and child death rates and waterborne diseases marked substantial reduction following laudable improvement in health services, sanitation and pure drinking water coverage in the country.

Fourteen scientists of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) have been promoted to Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and equivalent post.