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Two months have passed since the Detective Branch (DB) of the police sent a letter to the Interpol in a bid to know details about the five most wanted Indian criminals recently arrested by them, but the Interpol has not

An independent team of investigators from Dhaka probing the abduction and rape of a class VII schoolgirl in Kalapara yesterday alleged that the local police refused to collaborate with them. Police officer Kabir Hossain who

Retired BDR member Torab Ali, also a ward-level Awami League leader, yesterday confessed to his involvement before a court in the BDR mutiny on February 25-26 at Pilkhana Headquarters. After 15-day remand in four

Parliament yesterday passed the local government (city corporations) bill rejecting a House body’s recommendation for making MPs advisers to the city corporations from where they were elected. The House also did not

Aiming to explore hydrocarbon potential in Bay of Bengal, Petrobnagla, the state run oil and gas company, on Monday started negotiations with the USA based oil and gas company ConocoPhillips in the city. The government

The government has taken an eight-year-long mega plan to bring back navigability in 53 important waterways by carrying out massive dredging with a cost of around Tk 11,474 crore, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan informed

The much awaited hearing on appeals made by the condemned convicts in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Murder case began on Monday before a five-judge bench of the Appel-late Division of the Supreme Court after

The case of abduction and rape of a class VII schoolgirl in Kalapara on September 25 ‘ended’ two days later at an arbitration conducted by local Awami League (AL) leaders with police looking on, according to an investigation. Following

A new bill was tabled in the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday to ensure security to the family members of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Placing the bill home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun said some

Three suspected underworld terrorists were killed in three separate encounters with law-enforcers in the city early yesterday. Two of them were killed in an encounter with RAB personnel and another with police. The victims are

Only one-third of the recommendations put forward to the government by the Regulatory Reforms Commission have so far been implemented with no sign of progress in reform activities since the Awami League government

Three more suspected criminals were killed in as many incidents of ‘crossfire’ in separate incidents involving the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police at Jatrabari, Sutrapur, and Mirpur in the city, in the wee hours of

Bangladesh has advanced by two steps to secure 146th position from the previous 148th in the UN Human Development Report which is prepared on the basis of three major indices- per capita income, life expectancy and

A giraffe died at Dhaka Zoo Sunday night in less than one month of the deaths of two more animals of the same species for widely blamed negligence and mismanagement of the country’s largest zoo authorities. The two

Two ships carrying 1,571 reconditioned vehicles have been waiting at the outer anchorage of the Chittagong Port for several days for berthing in the CPA jetties. The CPA could not give permission for berthing as the

Additional inspector general of police Phani Bhushan Chowdhury, a BCS police cadre officer of the 1982 batch who is now working on deputation with the UN in New York, has been asked to come back urgently, according

Kalapara turns into the proverbial monkey, as no body wants to talk about the night of September 25. From a rickshaw puller to a top politician, everybody in the locality knows about the events of September 25 when

Nearly 6,000 doctors would be appointed on ad-hoc basis within two months. Besides, 10,000 community clinics, which were closed during the rule of the previous BNP-Jamaat alliance government, would

Staff Correspondent Shah Sufi Dewan Bagi Pir in the city’s Arambagh area has forcibly grabbed huge part of a private land despite the court’s status quo regarding possession of the property. The land claimant yesterday

The government plans to float shares in the stock market for collecting Tk 200 crore to renovate the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel in view of competition from other five-star hotels in the country. The civil aviation and the