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Propaganda being spread against Army: ISPR

2024-07-29 00:00:00

The Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) has condemned the false and misleading propaganda being spread by certain vested groups through various foreign media and social media platforms, aiming to tarnish the image of the Bangladesh Army both domestically and...

50 more arrested in Chattogram

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, July 28: Police have arrested 50 more people in Chattogram over the past 24 hours - from Saturday evening to Sunday evening - on charges related to clashes and arson attacks during the recent quota reform movement. Among the...

HC orders probe into wealth accumulation, laundering

FE REPORT | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

The High Court (HC) ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday to dispose of a representation that sought probe into allegations of accumulation of huge wealth and laundering it abroad by former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. The HC bench of...

Spanish Ambassador Gabriel Sistiaga Ochoa de Chinchero met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Spanish Ambassador Gabriel Sistiaga Ochoa de Chinchero met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gonobhaban in the capital on Sunday. – PID

ACC finds suspicious bank transactions linked to Benazir

FE REPORT | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has identified suspicious transactions in 116 bank accounts held by former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed and his family members.The anti-graft body mentioned these findings in a report submitted to a High Court (HC)...

Coordinators in custody for safety: DB chief

2024-07-29 00:00:00

DB Chief Harun-or-Rashid has assured families of the detained quota reform movement coordinators that their loved ones are safe and there is no need for concern, reports UNB.Speaking at a press conference at his DB office in the capital on...

Ex-Shibir chief on remand

2024-07-29 00:00:00

A Dhaka court has placed three people including former president of Islami Chhatra Shibir Rashedul Islam Rashed on a seven-day remand in an explosives act, reports BSS.The two other remanded accused are Jamaat-e-Islami treasurer Khandaker Mizanur Rahman and executive committee...

AL joint meeting tomorrow

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh Awami League (AL) will hold a joint meeting with the presidents and general secretaries of the Dhaka south and north city units, Dhaka district unit, all associate bodies and mayors of Dhaka north and south city corporations at the...

Free all opposition leaders and students unconditionally: BNP

FE REPORT | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) demanded on Sunday that the government release all detained opposition leaders and students from prison unconditionally. It also called upon the government to stop torturing them (leaders and students, during remand. Secretary General of BNP Mirza...

Eight including Rizvi, Parwar on remand

2024-07-29 00:00:00

A Dhaka court has placed eight people including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar and former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Nurul Haque Nur to a five-day remand each...

BNP planned to capture Ganabhaban like Sri Lanka, says Quader

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP had a plot to capture 'Ganabhaban' like Sri Lanka, if the curfew had not been enforced on the night of July 19 to control the situation created centering the quota...

Prayers offered for people killed in violence

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Special doa and prayers were offered on Sunday at all mosques, temples, pagodas and churches across the country seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of those who were killed in violence centering the quota movement and wished recovery of...

Police undergo major reshuffle

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh Police have made a major reshuffle with transferring two additional inspector generals of Police (AIGPs), five additional deputy inspector generals (ADIGs), and 48 Superintendents of Police (SP) ranking officials.The Public Security Division of the Home Ministry issued four separate...

Quota reform: Coordinators announce fresh programme from secret location

2024-07-29 00:00:00

The Anti-discrimination Student Movement has announced their next course of action programme, reports UNB.Rifat Rashed, Abdul Hannan Masud and Mahin Sarker, 3 coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, held the briefing on Saturday evening, in the background of three of...

Misery in life without metro-rail in Dhaka after violent quota protest

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Fardu Khan, a regular passenger of Dhaka Metro Rail, was continuously negotiating with ridesharing motorcyclists around 8am to travel to his office shortly in Karwan Bazar, reports bdnews24.com.The riders at Pallabi in Mirpur were asking for Tk 250, while Khan...

Assuming that her husband is detained at the Detective Branch headquarters

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Assuming that her husband is detained at the Detective Branch headquarters, Sharmin Akter on Sunday brings medicines for Nazim Uddin Shahin who was picked up from their Ati Bazar home the previous night. Amid a police crackdown, the family has...

France's Pauline Ferrand Prevot and bronze medallist

2024-07-29 00:00:00

France's Pauline Ferrand Prevot and bronze medallist Sweden's Jenny Rissveds take a selfie as they celebrate on the podium after the women's cross-country mountain biking event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Elancourt Hill venue in Elancourt, on Sunday....

HC orders report on embezzlement of Tk 1.0b of Homeland Insurance clients

2024-07-29 00:00:00

The High Court (HC) ordered the authorities concerned on sunday to investigate the allegations of embezzlement of more than Taka 1.0 billion of the clients of Homeland Life Insurance Company Limited and submit a report on August 27.A High Court...

Remittances drop significantly in six days from July 19 to 24

2024-07-29 00:00:00

The country has seen significant drop in remittances from July 19 to 24. During the period a total of $78 million was received over six days, reports UNB. But in the first 18 days of July, the country received an...

5 coordinators for quota movement in safe custody: DB

FE REPORT | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

The Detective Branch (DB) of police has urged the parents of five coordinators for the quota reform movement not to be worried about their sons as they are now in safe police custody."We've taken them (the coordinators) in our custody...

Juvenile freed from 7-day remand, sent to correction facility

FE REPORT | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

A Dhaka juvenile court on Sunday cancelled a seven-day remand order for Hasnatul Islam Faiyaz, ruling that he is a juvenile. The teenager was arrested over the killing of a police constable during violent anti-quota protests in Dhaka's Jatrabari area...

BR will have to refund passengers Tk 500m

Munima Sultana | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

The Bangladesh Railway (BR) will have to pay Tk 500 million to passengers as demurrage from its total loss of Tk 563.64 million caused since the spread of violence for suspending trains after ticket sale.According to estimation, tickets valued at...

Tax collection misses mark despite VAT uptick

DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

Tax-revenue collection faced Tk 274.29-billion shortfall even against a pared-down target for the immediate-past fiscal year though VAT receipt made a quantum leap.In June, the final month of the financial year, the VAT wing boasted a record growth of 47.2...

Briefing 2024-07-29

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Prayer Timings (2024-07-29)

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Mobile internet restored after 10 days of outage

FE Report | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

Mobile internet services have been restored in the country after a 10-day suspension.Around 3pm on Sunday, users of Robi, Grameenphone, Banglalink and Teletalk in Dhaka reported regaining access to the internet on their phones.State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information...

Student leaders 'not arrested,' to be released if out of danger

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has clarified that the five coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement "have not been arrested," and they would be released once the police deemed them out of danger, reports UNB.Speaking to journalists at his office in...

Govt to seek $700m from AIIB for deficit financing

SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh will soon seek US$700 million in budget support from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) with the pivotal need to replenish the country's foreign-exchange reserves, officials have said.Sources at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) say the loan to fill...

PM consoles members of mayhem victims’ families, provides aid

2024-07-29 00:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday consoled the family members of the deceased persons killed in the mayhem by BNP-Jamaat terrorists taking the advantages of the recent quota reform movement as they met her at her official residence Ganabhaban in...

Money outside banks rising amid disconcerting road ruckus

JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-07-29 00:00:00

An ambiance of uncertainty amid the latest road ruckus only accelerates the switch of cash from bank vaults into private coffers as some ATM booths went dry for some recent days. The volume of out-of-bank currency, euphemistically called 'mattress money',...