News Desk : dhakamirror.com A Chattogram court today (September 20, 2022) sentenced Nurjahan group Chairman and Managing Director Zahir Ahammed to one year in jail and fined him Tk 2.5 lakh in a case filed by BSTI for marketing low-quality edible oil. Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Shariful Islam passed the order today, our Chattogram staff ... Read more
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55-year-old Balayet gets chance to study journalism in Varendra University
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The 55-year-old, Md Balayet Sheikh, has qualified in the admission test of Varendra University for the academic session — Fall-2022. Balayet proved that age cannot be a barrier to education as he got the successful passed the entry test of Journalism, Communication and Media Studies at the Varendra University. Balayet said, ... Read more
BTRC to disable additional SIMs under one NID by November 30
News Desk : dhakamirror.com BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission) will disable more than 15 SIMs registered to a single national identity (NID.) There are a total of 3.13 million such SIM cards under 7.24 million NIDs, according to the telecom regulator, and they will all be terminated by November 30. A user may register a ... Read more
Three prisoners sit SSC exams in Khagrachari Prison
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Three inmates from the Khagrachhari district jail are taking the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam. The three prisoners are taking exams in the jail’s office room, said AG Mahmud, jailer of the Khagrachari District Jail. SSC exams began across the nation today (September 15, 2022). One of the examinees, Sohag Alam, ... Read more
Police help lost SSC candidates reach exam centres on time in Dhaka
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday (September 15, 2022) helped two SSC examinees, who were lost after reaching the wrong examination centres by mistake on the first day of the exam, by dropping them off at their respective centres on time. The two incidents took place in the capital’s Shyampur ... Read more
Ban on catching, selling hilsa from October 7-28
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government is going to impose a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting of hilsa from October 7 across the country to protect safe spawning of the fish during its peak breeding period. This information was disclosed in a notification issued by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock today ... Read more
BNP Vice-Chairman Shah Moazzem Hossain no more
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Shah Moazzem Hossain, a veteran politician and deputy leader of the BNP, died on Friday at the age of 83. He died at 9:30 p.m. at his home in Gulshan, said Sayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP media cell, who also noted that he had long-standing age-related health problems. ... Read more
Charges pressed against Babul, 6 more in Mitu murder case
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Police Investigation Bureau yesterday filed charges against seven people, including former Police Superintendent Babul Akhter, in a case linked to the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu. Abu Jafar Mohammad Omar Faruk, of the PBI metro unit and also the investigating officer on the case, filed the indictment in ... Read more
1,000 hawkers drove out in Gulistan
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A team from Dhaka South City Corporation evicted around 1,000 hawkers from sidewalks in Gulistan yesterday as it conducted a drive for the second time this week. Earlier Sunday, DSCC had evicted over 1,000 street vendors, but many of them returned to the sidewalks. MA Kashem, president of the Bangladesh Hawkers ... Read more
HSC exams start on November 6th
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Higher Secondary Certificate examinations for this year will start on November 6. The exam timetable is made available on the Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education’s website yesterday (September 12, 2022), According to the schedule published on the Board of Education’s website, the HSC theory exams end on December ... Read more
Sajeda Chowdhury laid to rest
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, deputy leader of the Jatiya Sangsad and a member of Awami League presidium, was buried with state honors yesterday at the Banani cemetery. One of the country’s political doyen, Sajeda, who played a crucial role in organising the AL following assassination of Bangabandhu, died on Sunday at Dhaka ... Read more
Deputy Leader Sajeda Chowdhury no more
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Deputy Leader of the Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury passed away last night (September 11, 2022). She was 87. She breathed her last around 11:40pm at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, her son her son Shahdab Chowdhury confirmed. Sajeda Chowdhury, also presidium member of Awami League, was admitted to CMH after her ... Read more
Earthquake of magnitude 7.6 hits in Papua New Guinea
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A magnitude 7.6 earthquake was recorded in eastern Papua New Guinea, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC). According to the US Geological Survey, the quake struck at a depth of about 50 to 60 kilometers (30 to 40 miles), 67 kilometers (42 miles) east of Kainantu, a sparsely populated ... Read more
A life devoted to welfare of the masses
People from all walks of life pay tribute to Akbar Ali Khan News Desk : dhakamirror.com Former adviser to a caretaker governmentAkbar Ali Khan devoted his life to the welfare of the people and his death is an irreparable loss to the nation, said his colleagues, civil society members and noted politicians before bidding farewell ... Read more
A Gazipur village mourns for the queen
Elderly people of a village in Gazipur remembered fond memories of a visit by the late Queen Elizabeth II to their village in 1983. “The queen sat in a jackfruit orchard and talked to the women of our village. We presented her with a key made of silver which symbolised that the door of the ... Read more
Akbar Ali Khan buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Former advisor to the caretaker government and economist Akbar Ali Khan was buried at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Cemetery in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Friday afternoon. He was buried around 3:30pm today (September 9, 2022). His namaz-e-janaza was held at Azad Mosque in Dhaka’s Gulshan after Juma prayers. Akbar Ali ... Read more
Queen’s death: Bangladesh to observe three-days of state mourning
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government of Bangladesh today declared a three-day national mourning on the occasion of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The three-day national mourning will be observed from September 9-11 to commemorate the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, a true friend of Bangladesh, the Cabinet Department said in a statement. ... Read more
Akbar Ali Khan passes away
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Former adviser to caretaker government and economist Akbar Ali Khan died on Thursday night. He was 78. Akbar Ali Khan, also a freedom fighter, died at about 10:00pm, said his younger brother Kabir Hossain Khan over phone. Akbar Ali Khan, also former cabinet secretary, was one of the most prominent faces ... Read more
It was a cold-blood murder
Says IO in Shimu murder charge sheet News Desk : dhakamirror.com On the night of January 15, Khandaker Shakhawat Alim Nobel, husband of the slain film actor Raima Islam Shimu, decided to kill his wife over a family feud and called his friend SMY Abdullah Farhad at their flat on Green Road. Later, Farhad also ... Read more
Charges framed against PK Halder, 13 others over money laundering
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A Dhaka court today framed charges against former managing director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, and 13 others in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally. Sukumar Mridha, his daughter Anindita Mridha, Abantika Baral, Shankha ... Read more