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Dhaka highlights resuming regular visa processing

Indian High Commi-ssioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma on Wednesday met Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain and discussed ways to promote bilateral relations towards realising shared aspirations of the people of both the countries, reports UNB.Importance of resuming regular visa processing by the Indian High Commission was also discussed, said...

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Travel ban on ex-MP, BB deputy governor

A Dhaka court imposed a travel ban on several high-profile individuals, including Abdus Sobhan Golap, former member of parliament (MP), and Sitangshu Kumar Sur, an ex-Bangladesh Bank (BB) deputy governor, along with his wife Suparna Sur Chowdhury and their daughter Nandita Sur Chowdhury.Ujjol Mallik, chief engineer of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha,...

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Shibir announces DU committee

Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir announced a 14-member committee for its Dhaka University (DU) unit on Wednesday, two weeks after it revealed its president and secretary for the unit.Abu Sadique Kayem, DU's Shibir unit president, and SM Farhad, secretary, also shared the post separately from their verified Facebook accounts.The other members...

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Badruddoza Chowdhury hospitalised

Former President and veteran politician Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury was admitted to a hospital in Dhaka city's Uttara area with lung infections on Wednesday, reports UNB.He was admitted to the Uttara Medical College for Women and Hospital after his condition deteriorated, said his daughter Shaila Chowdhury."My father has a history...

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Arrest collaborators of AL regime: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Wednesday reiterated its demand to the interim government to arrest the former authoritarian Awami League regime's collaborators, who are still in their positions at different government organisations.The party also asked the collaborators to resign without delay and leave their institutions to avoid public outrage.Dr AZM...

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Fakhrul acquitted in arson case

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and seven other party leaders and activists were acquitted on Wednesday by a lower court in an arson case filed at Paltan Police Station, reports UNB.Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman acquitted the eight accused in the case.His lawyer Joynal Abedin Mesbah...

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Salman Rahman placed on seven-day remand

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Salman F Rahman, former private industry affairs adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on a total seven-day remand in two separate cases of attempt to murder filed with Nababganj Police Station and Dohar Police Station.Dhaka Judicial Magistrate M Saiful Islam passed the order...

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Diamond World MD Dilip sent to jail

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent Diamond World Limited Managing Director (MD) Dilip Kumar Agarwala to jail in connection with a case filed over the murder of 16-year-old Hridoy Ahmed during the recent anti-discrimination student movement in the capital's Badda area, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam passed the order...

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Ex-MP Henry, husband on 7-day remand

SIRAJGANJ, Oct 02 (UNB): A court in Sirajganj on Wednesday placed ex-MP for Sirajganj-2 Jannat Ara Henry and her husband Md Labu Talukdar, former chairman of Sirajganj Zilla Parishad, on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the death of local Jubo Dal leader Sohannur Rahman Ranju during the...

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