HABIGANJ, Dec 3 (UNB): Trashing the charge sheet submitted by CID for the third time in the former Finance Minister SAMS Kibria murder case, a court here asked the authorities concerned Wednesday to submit the supplementary charge sheet (CS) afresh...
SYLHET, Dec 3 (UNB): A court here placed Wednesday nine activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit on a two-day remand in connection with two separate cases filed over the recent BCL infighting...
BENAPOLE, Dec 3 (UNB): A dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Sangram Committee protesting the killing of Oliar Rahman, councillor of Noapara Municipality and also joint secretary of Abhaynagar Upazila unit of Awami League (AL), was observed peacefully in Noapara municipality area...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will go to Narayanganj on December 13 (Saturday) to address a public rally of her party-lead 20-party alliance in the district, reports UNB. The 20-party is going to arrange the rally protesting the 'growing' incidents of...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) will start on January 14, 2015 the appeal hearing of condemned prisoner Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid against the ICT-2 verdict sentencing him to death for committing crimes against humanity during...
President Abdul Hamid assented Wednesday to the Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) Bill 2014 passed in the fourth session of the 10th parliament, reports UNB. On November 24, parliament passed the Bill aiming to boost agricultural activities in the country's...
Closing the summing-up arguments on factual and law points from both sides, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) kept its verdict pending Wednesday to be delivered any day on the war crimes case against former Jatiya Party (JP) MP Engineer Abdul...
SATKHIRA, Dec 3 (UNB): The police arrested Wednesday a local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in connection with the attack on convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Kolaroa Upazila on August 30, 2002. The arrestee was...
MUNSHIGANJ, Dec 3 (UNB): A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed by his rivals over constructing a shop at Sipahipara in Sadar Upazila Tuesday night. The victim was identified as Mahbub Alam Tanu, 25, joint secretary of...
Amirul Islam Khan Alim was elected president of Belkuchi Upazila unit of BNP, according to a press release. Alim was general secretary of central committee of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD). Although he was elected president in March this year, the...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 3 (UNB): Another Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) member reportedly made his confessional statement before a local court Wednesday over his part in the sensational seven-murder incident. Senior Judicial Magistrate Ishtiaque Ahmed Siddiqui recorded the statement of detained Nuruzzaman...
RANGPUR, Dec 3 (UNB): Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad said on Wednesday his party members would surely quit the cabinet as they do not want to take responsibility of the government's failures. "We'll take a decision to this end...
FE Report | 2014-12-04 00:00:00
Family members of the Bangladeshis, cheated by a local fraudulent manpower recruiter, have sought the Prime Minister's intervention for immediate repatriation of their near and dear ones from Iraq. They placed the demand at a press conference at the National...
FE Report | 2014-12-04 00:00:00
State Minister for Children and Women Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki on Wednesday said 18 years as the minimum age of marriage won over the proposed 16 years. "The recent cabinet move to enact the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2014 sparked...
President Md Abdul Hamid underscored Wednesday the need for concerted efforts to establish rights and dignity of the people with disabilities, reports UNB. "Persons with disabilities are our close ones. They're not responsible for their predicament… it's not compassion; rather,...
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate six senior officials of Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB), including a former managing director (MD), in connection with a Tk 1.52 billion loan scam, reports UNB. On Wednesday, the ACC sent notices to the bank...
A Dhaka court granted Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, an Indian goon and an associate of mafia don Daud Ibrahim, a three-day remand Wednesday in a case filed under section 54, report agencies. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Nuru Mia passed the...
COX'S BAZAR, Dec 3 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in two separate drives recovered 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet and arrested one person in this connection from Baraitali of Teknaf Upazila Tuesday night and Wednesday. Commanding officer of...
The parliamentary standing committee on Defence Ministry appreciated Wednesday contribution of the armed forces to the welfare of the country and suggested them to work relentlessly to keep up their success in the global arena, Reports BSS. The parliamentary body,...
GAZIPUR, Dec 3 (bdnews24.com): Seven persons were arrested over the murder of a RAB member's wife during an incident of burglary in Gazipur. RAB Assistant Director Maksudul Alam said they were nabbed during raids at different places of Tongi. "Among...
Jatiya Garments Sramik Federation on Wednesday claimed that the authorities of Lovecraft Garments were trying to shift their factory to another place without paying any compensation to the workers, reports UNB. Addressing a human chain programme in front of the...
A documentary, titled 'Timeless Gitanjali' directed by Dr Chanchal Khan, eminent Tagore singer and researcher of Bangladesh, will be screened in Agartala today (Thursday), reports UNB. Manik Sarkar, the Chief Minister of Tripura, will inaugurate the event organised by Indira...
Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested a man along with good number of foreign currencies (FC) worth about Tk 0.72 million at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the city Tuesday night, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as...
Air quality research centre opens at DU A modern Air Quality Research and Monitoring Centre (AQRMC) set up at the Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences (CARS) of Dhaka University opened Wednesday. Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury, chairman of University...
The first death anniversary of eminent banker MA Samad Sheikh, former managing director and CEO of Al-Arafah Islami Bank, will be observed today (Thursday), said a press release. To mark the occasion, a Dua and Milad Mahfil will be held...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Thursday), reports UNB. Light to moderate fog may occur over the country until morning, Met Office said. Night temperature may rise slightly over the...
With a view to co-coordinating and conducting higher secondary education programme of airmen, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) and Bangladesh Open University (BOU), reports UNB. Captain Kazi Abdul Moyeen, director of Education Directorate...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-04 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 3: Speakers at a seminar have said that the eastern South Asia Sub-region is one of the least developed areas of the whole world with the majority of the people of Bangladesh and India living in abject poverty...
Observing that the unopposed election of 154 MPs was legal, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury said Wednesday they were elected legally, reports UNB. "There's a provision of uncontested election of MPs in the Representation of the People Order (RPO). The (national)...
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