4 stolen vehicles seized Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested eight carjackers and recovered three private cars, one microbus, firearms and other valuable items from their possession during separate drives in the capital on Thursday. Mokhlesur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), conducted a drive and arrested the carjackers at Moghbazar in ... Read more
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Bangladeshi beaten dead in India
A Bangladeshi national was killed by miscreants in Malda district of India’s Paschimbanga on Thursday. The deceased was Asadur Rahman, 34, son of Mozzafar Hossain of Akkelpur village in Gomostapur upazila. Commanding officer of Battalion-46 of Border Guard Bangladesh Lieutenant Colonel Jasim Uddin said Asad went to visit his relatives’ house at Batsa village under ... Read more
3 held with fake currency in city
Three members of a gang involved in making and marketing fake bank notes were arrested by detectives early yesterday from the capital’s Jatrabari with fake Bangladeshi currencies worth Tk 2.05 lakh. The detainees — Mehedi Hasan alias Samir, 38, his wife Shirin Akhter, 32, and their associate Sohel Elahi alias Apel, 26 — confessed that ... Read more
Extortion rampant in capital before Eid
Extortion by some high-profile criminal networks continues unabated in the capital before Eid-ul-Fitr although various measures have been taken against such crimes by law enforcers, alleged traders in different city areas. Intelligence sources admitted that extortion was rampant in all types of business
Govt goes for nationalisation
Non-govt Primary Schools Govt goes for nationalisation Process starts in January with MPO-listed schools; to be completed in three phases The government is going to nationalise all the 26,284 non-government primary schools in the country in three phases starting on January 1 next year. The jobs of 1,05,345 teachers of these schools will also be ... Read more
Police report biased: rights activists
Limon shooting Police report biased: rights activists Rights activists, lawyers and columnists condemned the final report the police submitted in the case filed against the Rapid Action Battalion for an attempt at murder of Limon Hossain, a college student who had to have his leg amputated after being shot by the force. They said that ... Read more
Zillur urges OIC to persuade Myanmar
Settling Rohingya Crisis Zillur urges OIC to persuade Myanmar President Zillur Rahman has urged the OIC member states to persuade the Myanmar government with political and economic support to ensure dignified living of their Muslim-minority Rohingyas. “We must take a pro-active role towards a lasting solution to this long-standing (Rohingya) problem both bilaterally and multilaterally,” ... Read more
People stream out of city
Tens of thousands of people continued streaming out of the capital by buses, trains and launches to celebrate Eid with families in their country homes. Ticket counters at bus and launch terminals and railway stations are teeming with passengers round the clock desperately trying to buy tickets for high prices as Eid is only a ... Read more
Fishermen cannot fish hilsa in bay, estuaries
Fear of pirates Fishermen cannot fish hilsa in bay, estuaries Coastal fishermen said they were unable to catch hilsa in the estuaries and the bay out of fear of pirates roaming there with no resistance from the law enforcement agencies. They said that the pirates were looting fishing trawlers, abducting the fishermen for ransom and ... Read more
Limon, his mother reject police report
Henoara Begum, mother of Limon Hossain, who was shot at by the Rapid Action Battalion in 2011 and had to have his leg amputated, has rejected the final report the police submitted in the case she filed against the battalion. She said that she would file a no-confidence petition with the court on the investigation ... Read more
20 fishermen rescued following gunfight
A total of twenty abducted hilsa fishermen were freed on Thursday, six days after being abducted by pirates on August 11, following a combined operation by joint forces that resulted in a gunfight between law enforcers and suspected pirates at Narkelbaria area under Sundarban east zone. Law enforcers, however, were unable to arrest any of the ... Read more
3 killed, 35 injured in stampede in capital
Zakat garment distribution 3 killed, 35 injured in stampede in capital Three poor women were killed and 35 others injured in a stampede in the capital’s Fakirerpul when several hundred people, mostly women, were trying to attend an iftar followed by a Zakat distribution programme. The victims, Sajia Akhter Moyna, 30, of Laxmipur, Jarina Begum, ... Read more
Sales low as markets see less crow
Eid Shopping Sales low as markets see less crowd Business centres in the capital yesterday saw a thin presence of Eid shoppers as thousands of city people had already left for their village homes. Ismail Hossain, a salesman at Ibrahim Handicrafts in Eastern Plaza, said the relatively early beginning of Eid holidays this year had ... Read more
Power cuts to greet consumers after Eid
Power Division has asked the utility agencies to chalk out load shedding management plan immediately as load shedding would be back after the Eid-Ul_Fitr. “We need to produce fertiliser to support the Agriculture Ministry, thus we should divert gas from the power plant to fertiliser factories,” an energy division official said. In a bid to ... Read more
Jaish-e-Mohammed leader nabbed
The detective branch of police arrested a leader of the Bangladeshi chapter of the Pakistan-based militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed from the capital’s Fakirapool area on Thursday. The Jaish-e-Mohammed’s primary motive is to separate Kashmir from India. The organisation has been banned in Pakistan since 2002 and is regarded as a terrorist
Jumatul Wida today
Jumatul Wida, the last Friday prayers in the holy month of Ramadan, will be observed across the country today. Muslim devotees will attend the Juma prayers at different mosques, seeking divine blessings for the departed souls of their near and dear ones. Special munajat will be offered after the prayers seeking peace, progress and prosperity
BUET agrees to transfer EVM technology to EC
EC officers would be trained on EVM operation The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has decided to transfer the electronic voting machines, it developed, to the Election Commission. To this end, BUET’s Institute of Information and Communication Technology would also train nine IT Department officers of the Election Commission from September 2 to 5, ... Read more
Nation pays homage to Bangabandhu
Punishment for remaining killers demanded Tens of thousands of people, on Wednesday, paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on National Mourning Day, marking his 37th death anniversary. People urged the government to bring the five absconding killers of Bangabandhu back to Bangladesh for execution, and to speed up the ongoing trial of the ... Read more
People rush out of capital to celebrate Eid
60km tailback in Comilla Thousands of people on Wednesday huddled at bus, railway and launch terminals in the capital to head home in outlying areas to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, to fall on either August 19 or August 20. Passengers crowded Gabtali, Sayedabad and Mohakhali inter-district bus terminals, Kamalapur railway station and Sadarghat launch terminal frantically trying ... Read more
National Mourning Day today
The nation will pay homage to Bangladesh’s independence hero Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in observance of the 37th anniversary of his death on Wednesday. A group of disgruntled army officers, at the dawn of August 15, 1975, assassinated the Bangabandhu and most of his family members, at his Road 32, Dhanmondi