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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

A five-member new bench of the Appellate Division was formed yesterday to hear on the appeals of the Bangabandhu Murder Case. The hearing on the long-pending appeals of the five former army officers

Children of Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana will be given lifelong special security along with their mothers, says a new government bill. Home Minister Sahara Khatun may place the bill titled ‘Father of the Nation’s

The government is expected to sign four agreements with India – an extradition treaty, a pact to provide mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, combating international terrorism, organised crime and

The government yesterday suspended police officers Mazharul Haq and Kohinoor Miah on charge of “professional misconduct”. A circular issued by home ministry said that a departmental case would also be

Ruling Awami League lawmakers yesterday in the third session of parliament demanded immediate resumption of the task to enroll educational institutions in the monthly payment order (MPO) system as they are

BNP secretary general Khondkar Delwar Hossain yesterday alleged that the present government has termed former general secretary of Awami League Abdul Jalil unbalanced in a bid to hide its secret deal

The draft National Health Policy-2009 suggests ‘user fee’ to be given by the patients for getting health services from public hospitals, which the health experts describe as a blatant attempt to commercialise

Three days after the death of a wild male elephant in Naikhhongchhari, forest department claimed yesterday that the animal died of diarrhoea. Divisional Forest Officer of Lama forest division Zahirul Islam Akhand

Thousands of people queued outside the country’s banks yesterday as subscription for the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) from Bangladesh’s biggest mobile-phone operator Grameenphone opened at the

A group of Awami League leaders and activists mercilessly beat a youth at the residence of AL lawmaker Ilias Mollah early hours of yesterday and later handed him over to Pallabi police for allegedly demanding

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday gave orders for taking action against party men involved in extortion, tender manipulation and other unlawful activities, which are tarnishing

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain to take immediate measures including construction of an elevated expressway in the capital to ease nagging traffic

The inspector general (prisons), Brigadier General Ashraful Islam Khan, his wife and daughters were severely injured when his son hacked them in their house on Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka Saturday

A section of ruling party leaders mounts pressure on local journalists to stop reporting further on the incident of gang rape of the teenage girl at Kalapara upazila in Patuakhali. Under immense pressure, the editor of

The border force of Myanmar – Nasaka – is learnt to have restarted barbed-wire fencing of border along Tumru and Naikhangchari in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) without any discussion with its counterpart