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Extortion using mobile phone without proper registration has become a great threat in the country. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has made a major breakthrough in the fight against extortion with a number of raids in the city but they could not stop it. RAB sources said officers of the elite force were ‘awestruck’ after discovering ... Read more

Sept 30 Deadline No extension on offer for taxpayers National Board of Revenue Chairman Nasiruddin Ahmed yesterday insisted that the September 30 deadline for filing income tax returns would not be extended, despite appeals from different business bodies to widen it. “This time a clear message has been sent out that there will be no ... Read more

Neither the Information Commission nor the government machinery is ready to deliver the services to the citizens under the Right to Information Act though it was enacted nearly 18 months back, said officials. Short of manpower, the three-member commission can hardly function on its own, they said. Field level offices under different ministries have just ... Read more

Observes HRC chairman after visit to DMCH The Dhaka Medical College Hospital now remains a neglected centre for the treatment of the lower middle-class and poor sections only, observed National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman. “When I compare the present state of the hospital with that of 30 years back, it hurts me,”

Srivastava brands people killed in BSF firing criminals as BDR-BSF talks end The Indian Border Security Force director general Raman Srivastava on Monday claimed that most of the people killed in the BSF firing on the borders were ‘criminals’ and refused to call the incidents killing of civilians. At a joint briefing after a six-day ... Read more

One more inmate died in Dhaka on Monday following torture by the police. Dipak Das, 45, son of Prafulla Das of Maruadi village of Araihajar upazila in Narayanganj died at Dhaka Medical College Hospi- tal after admission in police custody on Sunday night. His wife Rina Rani alleged Araihajar thana police ruthlessly tortured Dipak after ... Read more

Miscreants hacked a school girl in village Aliabad under Shibpur upazila in Narsingdi Sunday night as she turned down a marriage proposal. The victim, identified as Mahinur, 15, daughter of Sundar Ali of Aliabad under Shibpur, is now fighting for her life at Narsingdi Zila Hospital, hospital

Deadline for relocation expires on Sept 30 The taskforce for ensuring relocation of inflammable and risky chemical factories and warehouses from Old Dhaka is yet to initiate any move till Monday to oversee the progress of relocating process the deadline for which would expire on September 30. The industries ministry, responsible to deal with the ... Read more

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni told the House that a total of 2,449 Bangladesh nationals are in the prisons of 32 countries at present and the government is trying to bring them back home through diplomatic efforts. In her written statement in the house the FM, mentioned that of those ill-fated Bangladeshi citizens, some 843 are ... Read more

Veteran comedy actor Saifuddin Ahmed has died. He died of old-age complications at Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital at 3:00pm on Monday, his son major Sayeed Ahmed told bdnews24.com. He would be buried at Banani graveyard, he

The Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh on Monday opposed jail sentence for fraud and deception in housing and land development business. They preferred financial penalty to the provision for jail sentence in the recently passed real estate development and management

Two million bottles of smuggled Phensedyl seized since 2009 Smuggling of banned codeine syrup Phensedyl has increased manifold in recent times causing alarm among the agencies concerned. Nearly two million bottles of Phensidyl have been seized across the country by the law enforcers and the narcotics control department since January 2009, officials

The government on Sunday signed an amended production sharing contract with UK-based Cairn Energy and its partners for the block 16, allowing the companies to sell gas directly to a third party from the newly found structures in the block. The government for the first time took such a decision to allow any international

Justice ABM Khairul Haque on Sunday was appointed the 19th chief justice of Bangladesh. The president, Zillur Rahman, made the appointment with effect from September 30. Justice Khairul Haque will replace the incumbent chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, who will retire on September

Victim was a jeweller of city’s Pallabi The body recovered from a roadside dustbin near the Mirpur Ansar camp Saturday noon was identified as of a jewellery shop owner of the city’s Pallabi yesterday. Ayub Ali Bhuiyan identified the body as his brother Mizanur Rahman at Dhaka Medical College morgue. Mizan, 25, was the owner ... Read more

Bapex hits oil-gas structure in Sunamganj-Netrokona, expects over 2 trillion cubic feet gas reserve; drilling next year to confirm discovery Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration Company (Bapex) has discovered a potentially large oil and gas structure in Sunamganj-Netrokona districts and is preparing to drill an exploratory well there. According to Bapex Managing Director Mortuza Ahmad Faruque, while ... Read more

Student’s death in road accident 30 hurt as police, students clash World University of Bangladesh students on Saturday rampaged through the Science Laboratory crossing and adjoining areas in sequel to clashes that took place on Friday after a fellow had been killed in a road accident near Lab Aid Hospital Friday morning. At least 30 ... Read more

Arifur Rahman, a 17-year old first year HSC student of Adamjee Cantonment College, died on the spot run over by a speeding bus at the busy Farmgate crossing in the city on Saturday. He became the second victim of road accident in the city in as many days, osing life only a day after a ... Read more

An alleged robber was beaten to death by a mob at Alekerchar village in Comilla Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Md Abdul Matin alias Motinya Dakat of the upazila’s Amratoli village. Police and locals said, at about 2:30am, a gang of six robbers stormed into the house of a local businessman of ... Read more

An assailant stabbed Rangpur correspondent of The Daily Jugantor at Jahaj Company intersection in the town yesterday evening, leaving him critically injured. Victim Mahbubur Rahman Habu was rushed to Good Health Clinic. Doctors at the clinic said he needed 32 stitches in his