A Rangpur court on Monday sentenced a wife to death for brutally murdering her husband in unconscious state some five years ago in the city. Rangpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1 Learned Judge Md Rokanuzzaman announced the verdict this...
A Chittagong court on Monday awarded life-term imprisonment to seven people for gang-raping a young woman in Chandanaish upazila of the district in 1997. Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 Mohammad Rezaul Karim delivered the judgment convicting...
An official says protesters demanding statehood in western Nepal attacked police enforcing a curfew, killing at least six officers and wounding many more. Government Administrator Raj Kumar Shrestha said at least three protesters also were killed in the violent clash...
Police on Tuesday will place the charge-sheet of the case filed over the gruesome murder of teenage boy Rakibul Islam Rakib in Tutpara Central Road area of the city on August 3, 2015. KMP Sub-Inspector Mushtak Ahmed, also the investigation...
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the High Court order directing the government to remove the BIWTA recreation centre in the Buriganga River at Kamrangirchar in the capital within 30 days. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by...
A Dhaka court Monday remanded BNP chairperson's adviser and journalist Shawkat Mahmud for four days in four cases filed against him. Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order. Of the cases, three have been filed with Paltan Police Station...
A Dhaka court on Monday framed charges against 30 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies, including BNP education affairs secretary Khairul Kabir Khokon and Jubo Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal, in a violence case. Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul...
The High Court on Monday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the imposition of 7.5 Value Added Tax (VAT) on the tuition fees of private universities and medical colleges wound not be declared illegal. An HC...
Bangladesh Police have promoted 86 inspectors to the ranks of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). The promotion of these ‘non-cadre’ officials was announced in a circular of the ministry of home affairs on Monday. Such ‘non-cadre’ officials generally do not...
Stock markets across the US and Europe have fallen sharply as fears of a Chinese economic slowdown continue to haunt investors. Wall Street's Dow Jones was down 2pc in mid-morning trading, having earlier fallen 6pc. London's FTSE 100 index closed...
A 200-metre portion of area in Padma Bridge project site was devoured by Padma River at Mawa point in Munshiganj district on Sunday night. Witnesses said the mighty Padma ate up area – 200 metres in length and 50 metres...
The online admission process for the first year honours at Dhaka University (DU) began on Monday and will continue till September 10. Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the programme as the chief guest at the university's central admission...
A total of 125 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims who were rescued by Myanmar authorities on May 21 and May 29 will be brought back home from Myanmar on Tuesday. A flag meeting will be held between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)...
Muhammad Zamir | 2015-08-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh media might not have paid much attention to domestic political developments in Myanmar but evolving factors have been churning up interesting options within that matrix. Interest is being generated all over South East Asia, the European Union and the...
Rights activists have quite rightly expressed their concern over the neglect the country's aged population does largely face today. They have reportedly emphasised at a function held in the capital city last Friday the need for revival of social value...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-08-24 00:00:00
A few days back, the authorities concerned launched a drive against unfit vehicles, particularly the passenger buses, plying the city streets. Mobile courts headed by magistrates seized a number of vehicles and imposed fines on their owners. The immediate response...
Neil Ray | 2015-08-24 00:00:00
This country is not very famous for keeping prices of essentials stable. Actually, businesspeople call the shot. Whether such people cannot be tamed because of their overwhelming representation in the country's parliament is a question that lurks quite ominously, though....
Eid-ul-Azha is only a few weeks away and the entire Muslim world is preparing itself to celebrate it with due solemnity and religious fervour. Bangladesh is also no exception. It is reported that the city corporation of north is considering...
Rains are welcome on hot summer days, because it brings relief to us. I generally love rains, particularly so if it rains on holidays. On a rainy holiday, I enjoy staying at home reading books, listening to music movies and...
Recently enough noise has been generated about the wheat imported from Brazil. It was alleged that imported Brazilian wheat was not fit for human consumption. The matter went to the court when our judiciary acted on its own. Unfortunately, it...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-08-24 00:00:00
Contrary to the popular expectations in much of Far Northeast and Southeast Asia, Japanese rightwing prime minister Shinzo Abe did not say anything new on August 14 evening on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the end of World...
Khurshed Alam | 2015-08-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh's is still a rural economy where 78 per cent of the population lives in the villages. The village people have their own styles of production and consumption. If we look at the countryside, it can be seen that there...
RANGPUR, Aug 23 (BSS): The farmers of Rangpur division are very happy getting bumper output of the indigenous Parija rice as an additional Aus crop this season. With the assistance of RDRS Bangladesh, a non-government organisation (NGO), a total of...
FE Report | 2015-08-24 00:00:00
Stocks slipped into the red Sunday, after remaining upbeat for the past three sessions, with turnover dipping below Tk 5.0 billion-mark after one month, as the investors were largely inactive. The market closed flat in red despite promising start of...
FE Report | 2015-08-24 00:00:00
The securities regulator Sunday postponed the initial public offering (IPO) subscription of Simtex Industries due to 'unavoidable circumstances', officials said. In this regard the securities regulator issued a directive through a letter sent to the Issuer company and issue managers....
CSE 5th Capital Market Fair 2015 is going to be held on October 8-9 at the GEC Convention Centre, Chittagong, said a statement. Stockbrokers and dealers, merchant banks, asset management companies, listed companies like banks, NBFIs, insurance companies will participate...
CAPM Company Limited has declared the Net Asset Value (NAV) of CAPM Unit Fund. The total NAV of CAPM Unit Fund stood at Tk 72,409,055.90 on the basis of cost price and Tk 73,021,143.38 on the basis of market price...
Lafarge Surma signs MoU with House of Mannan Trust Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd. (LSC), one of the leading multinational cement manufacturers of Bangladesh signed an MOU with House of Mannan Charitable Trust, one of the leading non-profit and non-partisan organisations...
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