CHITTAGONG, Aug 10 (UNB): A court here framed Sunday charges against BNP leader Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, brother of war crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in a case filed for defaming former Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud. Passing the...
A local Awami League (AL) leader was gunned down by miscreants in the city's Agargaon area Saturday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Jahangir Kabir (45), son of M Mustafa of Pacshim Agargaon. Victim's relative Abdul Gafur said...
Mir Iqbal Hossain, a member of the prosecution team of the International Crimes Tribunal, has submitted his resignation on health ground, reports BSS. "Iqbal Hossain submitted his resignation letter to the law minister and sent a copy of that to...
BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas has been acquitted in a case of violence, reports bdnews24.com. Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court Sunday indicted 19 other accused in the case filed with Motijheel police for obstructing police duty, sabotage and exploding...
Captain of Bangladesh national cricket team Mushfiqur Rahim on Saturday night invited BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to his wedding ceremony, reports UNB. Mushfique along with his parents went to BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office around 10pm and invited Khaleda presenting a...
Eminent environmentalist Dr Ainun Nishat stressed on Sunday the importance of generating authentic environmental data as per the international standard and sharing those with each other for working out effective polices, reports UNB. "Differences have been found in data generated...
The Liberation War Affairs Ministry has cancelled the fake provisional freedom fighter (FF) certificates of another 31 government officials as well as the gazette notifications about their freedom fighter status, reports UNB. The ministry issued a notification in this connection...
Rescuers have decided to reduce the number of vessels looking for Pinak-6 to four, as focus shifts to ascertaining whether a metallic object, detected on the Padma River bed at Mawa, is the sunken passenger ferry, reports bdnews24.com. All other...
The High Court (HC) issued Sunday an order asking all concerned to stop construction of a multi-storied building beside the Kutibari, an establishment that contains the memories of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Sahajadpur in Sirajganj district, reports BSS. A...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 10 (BSS): Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been constructing seven kilometres of new drains in the metropolis aimed at removing its water logging problems at an estimated cost of Tk 230 million. Mayor Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul visited Sunday...
Outgoing Swedish ambassador in Bangladesh Anneli Lindhal Kenny made a farewell call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in the city, reports BSS. President Abdul Hamid said the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Sweden expanded in every sphere during her...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina expressed Sunday deep shock at the loss of lives in a tragic plane crash in Iran, reports UNB. In a condolence message to Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani, Hasina said, " I'm deeply shocked to...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will investigate the allegation of grabbing a government house by a retired deputy secretary in Chittagong. The allegation against Abu M Nurul Islam is that he has been occupying the house for nine years since...
The journalist community strongly condemned Sunday Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali's remarks about newsmen, reports BSS. In a statement, leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) and journalist unions in Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi,...
Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested five Malaysia-bound passengers along with foreign currencies worth about Tk 8.6 million at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) early Sunday, reports UNB. The arrested persons were identified as Maksudur Rahman (38), Rafiqul Islam...
National Professor Qazi Motahar Husain Memorial Lecture was held at Teacher-Student Centre auditorium at Dhaka University (DU) on Sunday, reports UNB. Qazi Motahar Foundation and the DU Department of Statistics, Biostatistics and Informatics jointly organised the programme. DU Vice-chancellor Prof...
COMILLA, Aug 10 (UNB): Police arrested a man along with 10 gold bars weighing 115 tolas from a passenger bus on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila of the district Saturday night. The arrested person was identified as Sentu Kar (35),...
Teachers and students of Dhaka University brought out a procession on the campus Sunday demanding an immediate end to the Israeli aggression against innocent civilians of Palestine, reports UNB. The procession started from the Business Faculty and ended at the...
US team, Japanese Professor call on DU VC A three-member US delegation called on Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at the latter's office of the university Sunday, reports. Dr Golam M Mathbor, president of American Institute...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions until 6pm today (Monday). Moderately heavy to heavy falls are...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-08-11 00:00:00
Efforts to arrange a humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have failed despite efforts by the United Nations, USA, Qatar and Turkey. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that the Israeli military would continue dismantling Hamas' tunnel network (Operation Protective...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-08-11 00:00:00
The Ukraine crisis has worsened as the NATO alleges that Russia has deployed 20,000 troops along the border of Ukraine and Moscow has banned food import from the West. Fresh fighting has claimed several lives on both sides - Ukraine...
The recent verdict of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, upholding the government order to make mandatory use of jute sacks for packaging rice has provided a much sought-after support that the country's jute sacks industry needed for long....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-08-11 00:00:00
Money is very restive in nature. It flows in and flows out very frequently and hardly sticks to one particular place. It usually rushes to activities and areas that offer higher return. This is what is now happening in the...
Neil Ray | 2014-08-11 00:00:00
"Till death do us part" is a traditional Christian marriage vow. Archaic enough, its original "Till death us do part" is even more archaic but a couple making the vow know for sure that they have expressed the sincerest desire...
Travelling in the wrong/opposite direction has become a common practice for many people in Dhaka. This is one of the major traffic rule violation that occurs in Dhaka during peak hours. This not only worsens traffic congestion but poses a...
Bangladesh is a country of unlimited potential but unfortunately due to excessive corruption we cannot achieve desired success. A free Press is necessary to curb the graph of corruption as freedom of press establishes transparency in a society. Freedom of...
This refers to the very recent public statement made by the prime minister's energy adviser about energy and power guzzlers. However, who these persons or entities are, was not mentioned. So the whole thing has become light and can be...
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