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War crimes trial Tribunal starts work today The law minister, war crimes tribunal judges, investigation agency chief, and some of the members of the agency and the prosecution team on Sunday visited their offices and the courtroom, set up at the old High Court building on the Supreme Court

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested three accused, including the prime suspect of the double murder in city’s Gulshan area, at Gabkhan under Jhalakati sadar upazila yesterday. They arrested accused are: Rubel, 25, his associate Mithun Chandra Chanda, 25, and Rubel’s brother-in-law

The government will offload shares of 26 state-owned enterprises (SoEs) by June this year as the finance ministry yesterday informed a Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) delegation of the progress in this regard. The progress in the government’s previous plan was apprised when a delegation of the new DSE executive committee, led by its president

The 2-hour load shedding after every two hours introduced across the country on Saturday has received with criticism and resentment from different sections of power consumers. Power distribution agencies-DESCO, DPDC, REB, PDB and WZPDC – introduced the system at the best of the highest policy makers replacing

A total of 622 suspected criminals were killed in ‘gunfights’ with the elite striking force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the last six years since its inception on March 26, 2004. Director General (DG) of the RAB Hasan Mahmud Khandaker disclosed it yesterday at a function held at the battalion headquarters at Uttara in

Reveals WCS survey A dolphin habitat was found in the coastal rivers of the Sundarban and swatch of no-ground areas of the Bay of Bengal. A total of six species of dolphin and a species of porpoise graze there safely as water and environment of rivers of the world’s largest mangrove forest are suitable for

Remittance transfer High fees cost country $1b last year Few multinational financial institutions and banks are churning out a huge amount of money from the expatriate Bangladeshi workers in different parts of the world by charging high fees for transferring their remittances, according to a finance ministry

Upazila Vice-chairman Oikya Parishad at a press conference yesterday said they would go for tougher movement if their 10-point demands were not met immediately. Upazila Vice-chairmen Oikya Parishad convener Abdul Majid Khan and joint conveners Mohibur Rahman and Fatima Kabir were, among others, present at the

A couple and their daughter, a university student, were stabbed early Saturday at Kalabagan in the capital by a boy, reportedly having an affair of love with the girl, after they had refused to give him money to go abroad. The victims are businessman Aminur Rahman, 55, his wife Rokhsana Momtaz, 48 and their

Killers still at large An ‘accomplice’ of the two absconding accused in Wednesday’s double murder at Gulshan in the capital was arrested yesterday. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) tracked him down at Tongi in Gazipur. Rab identified the arrestee as Delwar Hossain Dipu, a close friend of the accused on the

The Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) has detected the presence of harmful heavy metals in the Buriganga sludge, which is dangerous for public health. There is a presence of harmful matter like chromium in the Buriganga river sludge, the report

Westin known to be lone participant in Dhaka Earth Hour was observed worldwide, turning off lights at 8:30pm for one hour yesterday, to send a powerful message to the global leaders about environmental awareness and caring for the planet. On Earth Hour, hundreds of millions of people around the world came together to call for

The government will issue Machine Readable Passport and Machine Readable Visa from the first week of May to meet the deadline set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. Official sources said one can apply for MRP from April 1 and the authority will start the delivery from the first week of May after completion of

12-member prosecutors’ team named  The government yesterday announced a three-member international crimes tribunal, a seven-member investigating agency and a 12-member prosecutors team to try the people who committed crimes against humanity during the Libaration War in 1971. The crimes include helping the Pakistani

Thousands of people across the country switched off lights a minute before midnight past Thursday for a minute paying respect to the people killed in the 1971 independence war and demanding punishment of war criminals. Nearly a thousand people who gathered at Shikha Chirantan in Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka chanted

Sufferings of city dwellers would mount next days as the government decided to cut 200MW of electricity from Dhaka and its adjoining areas to divert it for Boro irrigation. The decision was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting yesterday to ensure 10-hour uninterrupted electricity supply instead of seven hours to make

The postal department is going to introduce ‘Electronic Money Order’ (EMO), ‘Mobile Money Order’ (MMO) and ‘Postal Cash Card’ (PCC) services for its millions of customers to transfer money within an hour to the remote areas. It will also help avoid the risk of carrying cash. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the ... Read more

Double Murder in Gulshan Teasing ended her school life year ago Investigation into the killing of a schoolgirl’s parents at Gulshan reveals a year’s history of fear and torment. Killer Rubel attempted to drag Iti from the house in front of her parents on Wednesday in order to forcefully marry her. As her father Sadequr ... Read more

Assailants on Wednesday morning shot dead a businessman and his wife in their rented house allegedly over their rejection of a marriage proposal for their daughter at Kalachandpur in the Gulshan area in Dhaka. The deceased were fisheries and nursery businessman Sadikur Rahman, 50, and his wife,

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Wednesday sealed off the switch rooms of private landline operators RanksTel and Dhaka Phone again for their failure to provide lists of their subscribers. The commission chairman, Zia Ahmed, told New Age the landline operators had failed to provide