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A policeman was killed and another injured as a truck hit their motorbike at Ashulia in Savar on Tuesday morning. Deceased Mizanur Rahman, 45, a constable of Armed Police Battalion, hailed from Sirajganj, while the identity of the injured policeman could not be known immediately as he was in an unconscious state. Mohammad Sheikh Farid, ... Read more

Members of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) arrested one person with a pistol, some bullets and motorcycle from Dainur border under Fulbari upazila in Dinajpur on Monday, BGB and police said. The arrested was identified as Tushar Mollah, 26, son of Amirul Islam of Upashar (Newtown) area under Kotwali Thana in Dinajpur district town. Acting on secret ... Read more

A sub-inspector of Mirpur police station was sentenced to two year’s rigorous imprisonment by a Dhaka court on Tuesday for taking bribe from the complainant of a case. The court also fined sub-inspector Rakibul Hassan Tk. 10,000 and in default, he is to suffer for two more months in jail. Judge Mohammad Motahar Hossain

The High Court (HC) on Tuesday refused to grant bail to four officials, including Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) managing director SOM Kalim Ullah, and three others in connection with the embezzlement of over Tk. 6.7 crore through the illegal Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) business. The vacation bench of the HC,comprising

The country’s general elections are going to take place within January 24 next year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the secretaries of different ministries and divisions on Monday. “As per the constitutional requirements, Parliament will continue for three months from October 27 this year. However, it will not go into session,” Sheikh Hasina told

The Malaysian Immigration Department has arrested 2,433 illegal immigrants, including 387 Bangladeshis, on the first day of its biggest ever crackdown against those entering the country illegally. Talking to newsmen, Malaysian home minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said on Monday that 8,105 people were checked throughout the

Persons convicted under the Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order, 1972, and convicted of crimes against humanity would be out of the national electoral race and voters’ list, the Cabinet has decided in its regular meeting on Monday. “As per the Constitution’s provisions, any person can be enlisted as a voter for the parliamentary

A mobile court of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) Monday sealed off a jar water factory and fined two factories Tk one lakh at Jurain in the capital for supplying and marketing contaminated water in the name of pure drinking water. Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) and the district administration jointly conducted

A green dot in the blue of Bay of Bengal, the southern-most island of Bangladesh, is now under threat as wood cutters are felling hundreds of trees on regular basis. According to sources, in collaboration with a section of dishonest officers and caretakers of the forest, many unscrupulous people of Bandar Tila, Char Osman, Char ... Read more

Detective Branch police arrested Mufti Mohammad Wakkas, deputy chief of Dhaka City Unit Hefazat-e Islam from Malibagh Chowdhury Para area in the city on Monday afternoon on charge of Shapla Chattar mayhem on May 5. Mufti Mohammad Wakkas, is also the general secretary of Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Islam, which is associated with the Islami Oikkya

A senior BNP leader on Monday warned that the government will meet a tragic end if it failed to form a non-partisan administration to monitor the next general election. “Time is very short for the government as the fate of the country’s democracy and sovereignty will be decided within a few weeks. I urge Premier ... Read more

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has decided to simultaneously continue its movement for restoration of a caretaker government and launch its election campaign for the next national poll scheduled to be held by January next year. The party will kick off its formal election campaign at a public meeting at Narsingdi on September 8. Opposition

No charges pressed in 12 cases The police have pressed charges against 362 people in seven of the 19 cases filed for attacks on and looting of Buddhist temples and houses in the Cox’s Bazar district headquarters and Ramu, Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas in September 2012. Although various inquiry reports quoting

The Special Court of Dhaka on Monday concluded formal proceedings of the Pilkhana carnage case, which was filed following bloodshed at the BDR headquarters in 2009. The formal proceedings were concluded through the cross-examination of the last prosecution witness, Abdul Kahar Akanda, by the defence lawyer.

Bangladesh is considering signing the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly earlier this year regulating the international trade in conventional arms. Dhaka is also contemplating to ratify the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Bangladesh became the signatory of this convention on September 6,

The government has formed a two-member probe committee to settle the prevailing crisis at Jahangirnagar University (JU) over a movement by a section of its teachers demanding removal of the Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Anwar Hossain. The education ministry issued a circular on Monday asking the committee to file its report within 15 days. The

The government is set to approve seven new private universities on ‘political consideration’ at the fag end of its tenure raising the number of newly approved private universities to 25 in last two years. With the latest approvals, the number of the private universities in the country will be 78. According to officials of the education ministry, ruling ... Read more

The High Court (HC) on Monday directed the jail authorities to provide division facilities to the Secretary of rights organisation Adhikar Adilur Rahman Khan in prison. In response to a writ petition, the vacation bench of the HC comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Zafar Ahmed also issued a rule

International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-1) on Monday served a notice upon the New York-based human rights organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW), asking it to explain as to why contempt charge would not be initiated against it for its report on the verdict against professor Ghulam Azam and activities of the tribunal. The three-member tribunal, headed by ... Read more

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed on Sunday ruled out amending the Constitution to uphold the caretaker government system during the Parliament session from September 12. “No step has been taken yet to bring an amendment to the Constitution in the next Parliament session,” the minister said. He was talking to reporters after attending at an assembly ... Read more