CHITTAGONG, Oct 30: Customs Intelligence officials seized 82 gold bars weighing 9.50 kg and valued Tk 45 million at the Shah Amanat International Airport here and detained a man in this connection Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Mohammad Hossain...
NARAYANGANJ, Oct 30: Another Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) member reportedly made his confessional statement before a local court on Thursday over his part in the sensational seven-murder incident. Senior Judicial Magistrate HM Shafiqul Islam recorded the statement of detained Lance...
Today (Oct 31) is the last day to submit applications for enlistment of names as freedom fighters (FFs). Those who are yet to apply for enlistment as freedom fighters, have been asked to apply within the stipulated time by Friday....
The first phase of 72-hour nationwide hartal (shutdown), enforced by Jamaat protesting capital punishment to its Maulana Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami for wartime offences, ended at 6:00am on Friday. No major clashes were reported except some stray incidents, including bomb...
The 2nd phase of the tiger census using camera trapping method is going to begin in November, forest officials say. Divisional forest officer Zahidul Kabir said 89 infrared cameras will be used and 30 field workers will take part in...
Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel seized 52,500 Yaba tablets from a trawler in the Bay of Bengal under Chittagong district on Thursday. A team of coast guard under Coast Guard East Zone conducted a drive in Kutubdia Channel around 2:30am and...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a drive seized Indian goods worth Tk 1 million at Benapole union in Sharsha Upazila in Jessore on Friday. Being tipped off, a team of BGB-26 conducted a drive at Amrakhali of Benapole and...
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over two Bangladeshi young girls, who were arrested for illegally entering India, to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Thursday. Those returned were identified as Puja, 18, daughter of Suvra Kumar of Mymensingh district, and...
Some miscreants exploded at least a dozen crude bombs in Paltan area in Dhaka city on Thursday evening, the 1st day of Jamaat-e-Islami’s 2-phase 72-hour nationwide hartal (shutdown). Locals said, unidentified miscreants exploded 12 crude bombs Purana Paltan Mor (intersection)...
Players, officials and support staff of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe national cricket teams arrived in Khulna city to play the 2nd Test of the 3-match Test series. The 2nd Test will begin at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium on Monday. They arrived...
The Charter will not be amended amid widespread calls for a change to deny war crimes convicts presidential pardon in future. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ruled out any such amendment to the Constitution in near future. Her remarks on...
A local activist of Awami League was stabbed to death by some miscreants in Chalitabari area in Bogra Sadar Upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Moazzem Hossain Mondal, 55, an activist of the ruling party's Sadar Upazila...
A hotel employee was found dead at his residence at Goalchamat in the Faridpur district town on Thursday. The victim was identified as Sajal, 25, a resident of the area. Quoting family members, police said Sajal went to sleep in...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir are likely to enforce another round of 2-day nonstop hartal if the verdict of a tribunal in the war crimes cases goes against Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali. The International Crimes...
Asian shares ticked higher on Friday as investors cheered upbeat US growth data, while the dollar held near four-week highs against the yen as markets awaited the outcome of the Bank of Japan's monetary policy meeting. MSCI's broadest index of...
Good news awaits the people living nearby the Sundarbans as well as its wildlife as the massive shipping now taking place across the rivers in the mangrove forest is expected to come to an end in 4 months' time with...
A fire broke out at Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC) Bhaban at Karwan Bazar in the city on Friday. Fire Service and Civil Defence sources said the fire erupted on the top floor of the 11-storey building around 11:48am....
At least 293 CNG filling stations out of 557 are operating across the country without taking any licence from the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC). The data was revealed at the 7th meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power,...
A woman and her daughter were killed as a truck rammed into their rickshaw in Mission Para area in Narayanganj city on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Shirin Begum, 28, and her daughter Jayita, 6. Witnesses said a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has criticised and questioned the position of the West on human rights for their concern over the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami. She said it was important to try those who committed crimes...
A road accident involving three trucks in Sirajganj has left one dead. The Friday morning mishap on the Bogra-Nagarbarhi Highway at Salanga also left three injured. The dead has been identified as Faruk Hossain, 25, one of the truck drivers,...
Police arrested 7 activists of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal for trying to form a human chain on Friday in the city, demanding the release of its leader Moazzem Hossain Alal. They were picked up from in front of National Press Club...
Ntv (National Television) and Rtv (Rose television) have shut their transmission temporarily amid fire at a 11-storied building in Karwan Bazar housing the two private TV stations. The televisions show 'no signal'. 'We came out of the building amid smoke,'...
Biman on Friday started operations of its 4th weekly flight on Dhaka-London-Dhaka sector. The flight to London of the national flag carrier BG-001 took off Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at 11am in the morning. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister...
The Dhaka University authorities have asked 20 residential students of Kobi Begum Sufia Kamal Hall to leave their dormitory. However, the DU authorities are yet to assign any reason for issuing the order to the 20 students who have been...
Diabetes triples the risk that a person will develop tuberculosis, claimed a new report by the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and the World Diabetes Foundation. The report that screened TB patients in a South Asian...
Some miscreants shot to death a man in Boro Hatia village under Lohagara Upazila in Chittagong district on Friday. The dead is Anil Rudra, 45, a farmer and son of Niranjan Rudra of the Upazila. Local sources said a gang...
A case was filed against 45 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in connection with Wednesday’s clash following the ICT verdict against Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami. Utpal Chandra Roy, assistant sub-inspector of Sylhet’s...
A fire that broke out at Karwan Bazar's BSEC Bhaban, which houses several news media units, is under control, Fire Service and Civil Defence Director General Ali Ahmed Khan has said. No report of any casualty has come in and...
Claiming that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remark that a democratic government can hold an election anytime as an indication for snap polls, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the government has started conceding to their demand. ‘The...
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