Ganoforum terms new budget anti-people, discriminatory
Terming the newly-passed national budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 an anti-people and discriminatory one, Ganoforum leaders on Sunday said the new budget will favour the wealthy people, bank looters and the corrupt.Rejecting the new budget, they also said it will make the rich even richer and make lives...
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Holey Artisan terror attack trial to end soon: Prosecution
As the country is set to observe the third anniversary of its history's deadliest terror attack at the capital's Holey Artisan Cafe on July 1 2016, the prosecution of the case lodged over that massacre is hopeful that the trial will complete soon with the prompt appearance of prosecution witnesses...
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30 BNP men sent to jail over attack on Hasina’s train in Pabna
PABNA, June 30 (UNB): A court here on Sunday sent 30 BNP leaders and activists to jail in a case filed over a bomb attack on a train carrying then opposition leader and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina in 1994.Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1 Rustam Ali passed the order...
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Report on executing arrest warrant for Khaleda July 29
A Dhaka court on Sunday set July 29 to submit report on executing an order to arrest BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in a case lodged over allegations of making religious instigation and creating conflict among people of different classes, reports BSS.Saturday was fixed for submitting the report, but Gulshan...
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Five Ansar Al Islam suspects arrested in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, June 30 (UNB): The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested five suspected members of banned militant group Ansar Al Islam from the city's Katakhali area on Sunday.Rab identified them as Anisur Rahman Saddam, 30, Afroza Begum, 55, Ruhul Amin, 31, Mamun-or-Rashid, 35, and Abu Talha, 21. All of them are...
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Chhatra League's Munshiganj district unit chief held
MUNSHIGANJ, June 30 (UNB): The president of Bangladesh Chhatra League's Munshiganj unit was arrested from the district town on Saturday night in a case accusing him of physical assault and theft.Rehana Begum, the plaintiff, filed the case against Faisal Mridha, 28, and five others at Munshiganj Sadar Police Station in...
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