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
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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
Man who traveled ticketless on train while working govt job pays off debt
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Emdadul Haque, a government employee who, during his tenure, had traveled several times without tickets on different trains on the Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet railways recently paid for all his tickets after retiring. Emdadul Haque (61) from South Mourail area of Brahmanbaria town came to the booking assistant room at Brahmanbaria train ... Read more
We cannot advance and leave them behind
Suborno Nagorik Foundation honors inspiring people with disabilities News Desk : dhakamirror.com 15 people with disabilities and organizations supporting them from across the country received crests and certificates yesterday at the Daffodil Education Network conference hall in Dhanmondi. The event, titled “UCBL Suborna Nagorik Award 2022: Special Citizen Award for Changing perception and Improving the ... Read more
519 people killed in road accidents in August
News Desk : dhakamirror.com At least 519 people died in 458 road accidents across Bangladesh in August, according to a report compiled by the Road Safety Foundation (RSF).Among the deceased were 64 women and 69 children.Another 961 people were injured in the accidents last month.Meanwhile, 172 people have been killed in 183 motorcycle accidents – ... Read more
2 climbers from Bangladesh for the GoZayaan Expedition Ladakh
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Two Bangladeshi mountaineers Salehin Arshady and Imran Khan plan to attempt a series of peaks in the western part of the great Himalayas. Titled GoZayaan Expedition Ladakh, five high mountain peaks are to be climbed, including Kang Yatse II (6250m), Dzo Zongo (6250m), Dzo Zongo East (6200m), Regioni Mallai Ri-I (6080m) ... Read more
Actor Sohel Chowdhury murder trial finally begins
News Desk : dhakamirror.com After 24 years, the formal trial of the sensational murder case of actor Sohel Chowdhury in the city’s Gulshan area began with the deposition of prosecution witnesses. Judge Md Zakir Hossain of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-2 recorded the statement of Towhidul Islam Chowdhury, brother of the victim and also the plaintiff, ... Read more