Though the government has stopped rawhide supply to Dhaka’s Hazaribagh tanneries to force the entrepreneurs to shift their units to the designated industrial park in Savar, the industry insiders observed that it will take at least 5-6 more months to…
The High Court (HC) on Thursday ordered the authorities to demolish and remove within 72 hours all the illegal structures, excepting a grave, on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the city.
STAFF REPORTER The two-day annual election to Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for its 14 executive posts, including president and secretary, has ended peacefully.
A woman, estranged from her husband, was stripped naked and tortured by three people in Ramganj upazila on Tuesday on charge of extramarital affairs.
Noted poet Rafiq Azad died at the age of 76 at a hostpital in Dhaka today (Saturday).The freedom-fighter poet breathed his last at 2:10pm at the city’s Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital (BSMMU) hospital. Earlier on 15 January, he…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday stressed the need for the equal development of the country’s womenfolk as there is no scope to leave them behind in the name of religion.”There’s no scope to push one behind or keep ignorant…
After the death of her husband and two children, today Sumaiya, who was injured in the horrific Uttara gas explosion in the new flat she moved into with her family on February 26, died at a hospital in city’s Mohammadpur…
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Sunday directed the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to reinvestigate into the case filed in connection with the construction of ‘Rana Plaza’ building with a faulty design.
Indian ruling party National Secretary General Ram Madhav on Friday highly appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s endeavour to protect the democratic institutions, saying democratic freedom does not mean burning buses and public property.
Police arrested two suspected robbers in two separate drives in Kaliakair upazila and Gazipur city in connection with the snatching of Tk 1.84 crore from an ATM booth of Dutch-Bangla Bank in Kaliakoir upazila.
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered the chief of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to conduct DNA and chemical tests of the evidences seized from the house, where the two slain siblings of Banastree area in the capital were…
STAFF REPORTER The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday passed no order on an appeal against a High Court verdict that declared illegal the BSEC decision to dissolve the AIMS First Guaranteed and Grameen One closed-end mutual funds.
A court here on Saturday placed three more suspects on an 18-day remand in two separate cases filed in connection with the murder of a Debiganj Hindu priest.
A 15-year old boy and his 18-month old brother, two of the family of five who got burnt in a fire at their home at Dhaka’s Uttara on Friday, have died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two alleged gunrunners and recovered two foreign made pistols two magazines and 18 rounds of bullets from the city’s Badda area on Thurtsday evening.
Robbers looted gold ornaments worth about Tk 30 lakhs from a jewellery shop on the broad daylight in the city’s Demra area on Friday.
Investigators found some names of suspected bank officials, travel agencies and traders in connection with ATM card forgery.
Staff Reporter The little baby had survived a fatal fall on a roof top of shop where her fragile body wrapped in a quilt landed 25 days ago after an unwed mother discarded her tossing downstairs from the window of…
Gulshan Society arranged a general election for the year 2016-2018 which was held at the Gulshan Park premises on last Saturday.
Two Bangla schools- Zhangdi Primary School and Jhuying Primary School- in cooperation with Bangladesh Language and Cultural Foundation (BLCF) observed the International Mother Language Day in Singapore today.To observe the day, two separate events were held one at Zhangdi Primary…
Detectives in a drive recovered several bombs and a huge amount of bomb-making materials from a house in the city’s Mohammadpur area early Saturday.
Bangladesh has accepted the ‘reality’ that there will be no progress in striking the much-talked-about Teesta water sharing deal with India before the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election scheduled for May this year.Against this backdrop, both Bangladesh and India are…