Monday, July 7, 2025

Carjackers held

Police arrested four suspected carjackers and recovered 10 CNG-run auto-rickshaws from different parts in the capital and its outskirts Keraniganj. A team of Kafrul thana police conducted simultaneous drives in city’s Shewrapara, Postagola and Keraniganj from Sunday night to Monday evening and arrested

World Environment Day today

National Tree Plantation campaign begins today World Environment Day is going to be observed in the country as elsewhere across the world today, with a call to reduce food waste and save the environment from degradation. The theme of the day ‘Think, Eat and Save’ is an anti-food waste and food loss campaign. UN Food ... Read more

Telenor asks govt to remove GB commission observation on GP

Telenor Group has requested the government to ‘remove’ observations and recommendations made against its subsidiary Grameenphone by a commission in an interim report. In a letter to the banking and financial institutions under ministry of finance last week, the Telenor officials said observations of the commission known as Geameen Bank

Muggers stab trader in city

A businessman was injured as a gang of muggers knifed him on his way home at Jattrabari in the Dhaka city early Tuesday and stanched Tk 1.3 lakh and two mobile sets. The victims, Idris Ali, 48, an import and export trader, was from Sutir Khal of the area Idris was returning to home at about ... Read more

No decision on Biman’s properties: MD

Biman Airlines managing director and chief executive officer Kevin Steele in a statement on Tuesday cleared that Biman had not taken any decision regarding its property as recently some online news agencies reported some ‘misleading’ and ‘wrong’ news on the issue. ‘I can confirm that Biman is currently looking

The rise and fall of a superstar

No one related with Bangladesh cricket could possibly have envisaged the rise and fall of Mohammad Ashraful, the country’s first cricket superstar. Ever since he made his bow in a Test match against Sri Lanka in 2001 as a precocious 17-year old, the only way was up for the big-hitting batsman.