Staff Reporter :The Detective Branch (DB) of police have submitted charge sheet before a Dhaka court against Haji Salim’s son Erfan Selim and four others in a case filed over the much-discussed assault on a Navy official in capital’s Kalabagan area. H M Azimul Hoque, deputy commissioner of DB’s Ramna zone, confirmed the matter to The Business Standard. On 26 October, Navy Lieutenant Wasif Ahmed Khan filed the case against Erfan and his associates for assaulting him in the previous...
Staff Reporter :Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has arrested Saifa Rahman Mim, an accused in a rape and murder case.She...
UNB, Noakhali :BNP candidate for Noakhali-1 constituency Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon and three other party activists reportedly suffered bullet wounds...
Staff Reporter :The BNP-led 20-party alliance’s fresh 72-hour countrywide non-stop hartal is beginning today (Sunday) morning amid the ongoing countrywide non-stop blockade programme. The shutdown will continue till 6:00 AM of Wednesday. The alliance called the hartal protesting the threats to arrest BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and cutting off utility services to her Gulshan office. The hartal was also called to protest Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s order to law enforcers to thwart the ongoing movement by any means, hurling...
Staff Reporter :BNP on Monday demanded immediate resignation of Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq who have been convicted of contempt of court.“The two ministers should quit voluntarily from the cabinet and parliament without delay for maintaining the dignity and image of the Supreme Court,” said BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office. He also demanded cancellation of all the orders signed by the two...
At least eleven people have been infected when anthrax outbreaks in the village of Ambaria under Madhupur Upazila in Tangail district, the health officials said on Monday. They said the patients were undergoing treatment at Madhupur Upazila Health Complex. A special medical team of the hospital was giving treatment to the infected patients. “The villagers were infected after processing the meat of a sick cow recently. They were involved in cutting and sharing the meat. Usually, the anthrax bacteria affects human...
SM Mizanur Rahman :Country’s roads and highways have virtually become the death traps as road crash is taking away peoples’...
BSS, Riyadh :The first-ever Arab Islamic-American (AIA) Summit kicked off at King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in the Saudi...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has increased the price of liquefied petroleum gas further to Tk 119.40 per...
UNB, Dhaka :In the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial, Vancouver, Special Envoy of the UNHCR and Co-Founder, Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative Angelina Jolie shared her strong views on the Rohingya victims of sexual violence.Earlier, Lt Gen Mahfuzur Rahman, Principal Staff Officer, Armed Forces Division of Bangladesh in a closed meeting on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse sought Angelina Jolie’s support to voice against the sexual exploitation of Rohingya women and children.In response, she shared with Bangladesh delegation that she is planning to see...
Staff Reporter :Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Wednesday declared today as holiday, paying tribute to former Mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka.All activities of the City Corporation and its regional offices will remain closed on the day.Khoka, a former Mayor and BNP Vice-Chairman, died at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Monday. He was 67.His namaz-e-janaza will be held at the Dhaka South City Corporation premises around 3pm....