NN Online Report: The High Court today cancelled an order of the Labour Appellate Tribunal order that suspended the conviction...
Day: March 18, 2024
NN Online Report: A Cumilla court today placed Jagannath University student Raihan Siddique Amman and Assistant Proctor Din Islam on...
AFP: Eight people, all women and children, were killed on Monday in “reckless” air strikes by the Pakistan military in...
UNB : After recovering the body of a 22-year-old mason on 13 March from Pabna’s Soyghoria village, police said on Sunday(17 March) that he was murdered by his close friend over money-related issues. After killing Azad Hossain, his friend Abdus Samad alias Somrat, 28, wanted to cover up the murder by dumping the body in a lychee orchard and covering it with dry leaves of the trees, said police. Masud Alam, additional superintendent of police, said that Azad left the...
Agency : Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane bagged a record-breaking 31st league goal and Jamal Musiala added two more in...
Business Desk : The Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust will give stipends to some 54 lakh underprivileged and meritorious students in the secondary level through Nagad, a leading mobile financial service provider in Bangladesh, with a view to ensuring their enrolments in schools. Under the stipend disbursement programme, students from class six to 10 will get Taka 5,000 each in one-time assistance. The disadvantaged students have already applied online for the stipends, with disbursements expected to start very soon. Earlier,...
Al Jazeera : One evening in 2004, when John Francis Mulligan, a US-born Irish citizen, was in the West Bank, a stranger asked him to walk her to a funeral. It was after curfew in Nablus, and Palestinians weren’t allowed out on the streets. A young man had been killed earlier that day, and because of religious beliefs, his family needed to bury him within 24 hours, Mulligan recalls. But if they went outside, the Israel armed forces “would open...
City Desk : Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has auctioned off a 10-storey building under construction illegally near the Ramchandrapur Canal in Bosila, Ward No. 33 of Mohammadpur, for Tk60,000. The DNCC’s Public Relations Officer Maqbool Hossain disclosed the information on Sunday, reports media. He said: “On March 13, Regional (Zone-5) Officer and Executive Magistrate Mutakabbir Ahmed conducted an open auction of the building. Dr Mohammad Mahe Alam, the chief property officer of DNCC, was also present at the time.”...
BBC Online : Whooping cough is on the rise across Europe, and the Czech Republic is no exception. However, a week marked by confusion surrounding official guidance and a controversial public appearance by Prague’s mayor has left some wondering if anything was learned from Covid-19. In the first week of January, say the Czech authorities, there were 28 registered cases of whooping cough. That figure now stands at 3,084 – a number not seen since 1963. Sufferers include the 80-year-old...