News Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh has started sending migrant workers to Malaysia again after a four-year pause. On Monday at 11:40 p.m., an AirAsia flight departed Dhaka for Kuala Lumpur carrying a total of 53 employees who were under the management of the recruitment firm Catharsis International. The AirAsia flight carrying the Bangladeshi workers landed ... Read more
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Complaint filed against Hero Alam for embezzlement
News Desk : dhakamirror.com For embezzlement and making death threats in Gazipur, a young person has submitted a written complaint against Hero Alam. Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Moniruzzaman said that Rubel Munshi (22) accused Hero Alam and his two associates in a complaint he submitted at the Sreepur police station in Gazipur. Ashraful Hossain also known ... Read more
Robbery, rape on bus in Tangail: One arrested
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Raja Mia, who was detained in Tangail in relation to a robbery and rape that occurred inside of a moving bus, has been placed on a five-day remand. Police brought him before the court with a seven-day remand plea on Thursday, 4 August, and Tangail Senior Judicial Magistrate Badal Kumar Chand ... Read more
Gang-rape, robbery on moving bus in Tangail
In Tangail, a group of armed men disguised as passengers boarded a bus headed for Chattogram, stole people’s money and possessions, and raped a woman while holding her at gunpoint. The terrifying occurrence happened early on Wednesday in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila’s Raktipara area, which is off the Dhaka-Tangail Highway. The bus of “Eagle Paribahan,” with ... Read more
Dhaka University teacher Samia Rahman’s demotion illegal: HC
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The action by Dhaka University administrators to demote faculty member Samia Rahman on accusations of plagiarism was declared “illegal” by the High Court on Thursday, August 4, 2022. The HC bench led by Justice Zafar Ahmed and Justice Md Akhtaruzzaman delivered the verdict after holding hearing on a writ petition filed ... Read more
Fresh SSC exam schedule announced
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A new schedule for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams 2022 has been released, reports UNB. The exam is scheduled to start on September 15 and last until October 15 according to the routine. On Sunday, the Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education issued the schedule for all educational boards. ... Read more
Eleven people killed when train rams microbus at rail crossing in Ctg
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Collision between a train and a microbus at a rail crossing in Mirsharai, Chattogram, resulted in at least 11 dead and two others badly injured on Friday. The accident took place at a level crossing near Baro Takia Railway Station at around 1:30 pm on Friday. The number of fatalities was ... Read more
Women outnumber men in Bangladesh’s 16.51cr current population
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh now has 165,158,616 people living there, according to preliminary results from the most recent census. There are 83,347,206 women and 81,712,824 men in the entire population. Up to 113,063,587 of them reside in rural areas, while 52,009,072 do so in urban areas. The population census has revealed that women outnumber ... Read more
Four jailed for taking proxy exam
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Yesterday, four people — two of whom were Dhaka University students — were given prison terms for taking the rajshahi University (RU) admission test on behalf of candidates. Dr. Shamir Ray, a lecturer at the Gazi Medical College in Khulna, was given a one-year jail term. Ekhlasur Rahman, a student at ... Read more
Bus strikes roadside tree in Bagerhat, leaving 2 dead and 15 injured
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A bus lost control and hit a roadside tree at Fakirhat upazila in Bagerhat on Tuesday (July 26, 2022), leaving two passengers dead and fifteen others wounded. The deceased are Anwara Begum (40), of the Matiranga region of Khagrachhari district, and Moni Mallik (24), the son of Siddique Mallick of Sapleja ... Read more
Wasfia Nazreen is the first Bangladeshi to summit K-2
Mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen became the first Bangladeshi to reach the top of the world’s second highest peak K2, the news agency AFP reported on Friday. Three of the world’s top climbers, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, and Nirmal Purja, were part of her Renata Limited-sponsored expedition. Iranian Afsaneh Hesamifard, Pakistani mountaineer Samina Baig and ... Read more
Eden College student killed in Dhaka road accident
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A Eden Mahila College student died after she fell from a battery-run rickshaw in old Dhaka’s Bangshal area on early Thursday. The accident took place when Salma along with her cousin Mohamamd Hasan were heading towards her college hostel on the rickshaw from Sadarghat area. They returned to Dhaka on a ... Read more
Argentina considering opening embassy in Dhaka
Argentina, a south-American nation, has expressed interest to set up a diplomatic mission in Dhaka, in an effort to strengthen its commercial and political ties with Bangladesh.Claudio Rozencwaig, the undersecretary of foreign policy at the foreign ministry in Argentina, came up with the disclosure at a meeting with Jashim Uddin, president of the Federation of ... Read more
Padma Bridge: Tk 10.97cr toll collected in 3 days
The government has earned Tk 10.97 crore in revenue from tolls collected from vehicles that crossed the Padma Bridge in three days.Tk 10.97 crore was collected from 12:00am on Thursday to 11:59pm on Saturday, according to Bangladesh Bridges Authority.A total of 74,222 vehicles crossed the Padma Bridge during this period.Of them, a total of 22,703 ... Read more
New record set for toll collection in one day
News Desk : dhakamirror.comPadma Bridge had its greatest toll collection ever on Friday, collecting Tk 41.9 million from 31,723 vehicles.The disclosure was made on Saturday by the bridges authority, who stated that the toll was collected on Friday from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm.On Friday, 12,056 vehicles paid Tk 17.01 million at the toll plaza ... Read more
Load shedding could continue until September
News Desk : dhakamirror.comThe government has no choice but to implement load shedding to handle the ongoing gas and electricity crises at least until the month of September (July 7, 2022), energy advisor to the Prime Minister Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said on Thursday (July 7, 2022).Tawfiq said, they will advise the government to implement measures to ... Read more
Animal waste must be disposed of by 10 pm on Eid day: LGRD minister
News Desk : dhakamirror.comThe trash from sacrificed animals shall be disposed of by 10 p.m. on Eid day (July 10, 2022), LGRD Minister Tajul Islam said on Thursday..The divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners, and local representatives have been instructed to take action to dispose of rubbish from all areas between 7pm and 10pm, the minister stated, ... Read more
Passenger leaves behind Saudi riyal worth Tk 6cr at Dhaka airport
Customs Intelligence and Customs House officials seized 22,99,500 Saudi riyal — equivalent to Tk 6 crore – at Dhaka airport on Wednesday night. Customs’ deputy commissioner Abdus Sadek said that the passenger, Mamun Khan, checked in the luggage for the Dubai-bound flight EK 585 of Emirates Airlines at about 9:30pm on
What steps taken for their birth certificates?
HC asks govt on street children The High Court yesterday directed the government to submit in three months a report on the steps taken to issue birth certificates to all street children. Secretaries at the ministries of women and children and home affairs, and office of the registrar general of birth and death registration have ... Read more
Eid-ul-Azha to be celebrated on July 10
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on July 10 with due solemnity and religious fervour. The National Moon Sighting Committee came up with the decision at a meeting held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the city since the ... Read more