A 60-year-old female advocate was strangulated to death allegedly by unidentified miscreants at her flat in the capital’s Mirpur area yesterday morning. The deceased Rowshan Ara was the wife of Mahboob-e-Sattar, an associate professor of Dhaka University. The killing happened around 10:00am when Sattar and his physician daughter
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Only T20 against WI today
With both teams having won one series each, the only Twenty20 International between Bangladesh and West Indies, which is scheduled to begin at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium at 6:00 pm today, promises to provide the month-long tour a fitting end. The game will be shown live on Channel 9 and state-run
Net gets submarine backup
Internet cost to go competitive; outsourcing business to rise The cost of Internet service in the country is set to become competitive as NovoCom commercially launched data and voice connectivity with International Terrestrial Cable (ITC), which will serve as a backup to the submarine cable. NovoCom, a private company, launched its operations taking a connection ... Read more
Sonali Bank mulls differently
Tk 3,606cr Recovery Sonali Bank mulls differently Wary of legal implications for forged papers used in Hall-Mark loan The Sonali Bank is looking for ways to get back around Tk 3,600 crore it lent to Hall-Mark and five other companies on false documents as the repayment has become uncertain. The state-run bank now wants the ... Read more
Tanvir on 29-day remand
Arms case filed against the Hall-Mark boss Tanvir Mahmud, managing director of Hall-Mark Group of Industries, and Tushar Ahmed, general manager of the company, were each placed on a 24-day remand in three cases over the Sonali Bank loan scam yesterday. The Hall-Mark MD was also placed on an additional five days’ remand in an arms ... Read more
Metro rail project to get underway
Ministry expects no further delay, hopes to finish by 2019 The metro rail project has finally gathered momentum after nearly three-year delay over change of route with the government deciding to appoint a consultant to prepare a detailed design of the metro rail from Uttara third phase to Motijheel. Several international companies that have been ... Read more
Hall-Mark MD arrested after daylong drive
Sonali Loan Scam Hall-Mark MD arrested after daylong drive Tanvir Mahmud, managing director of Hall-Mark Group, and another top official of the controversial firm, were nabbed by the Rapid Action Battalion last night in the capital’s Pallabi in connection with the Sonali Bank loan scam. The other official is Tushar Ahmed, general manager (commercial), also ... Read more
Heritage, treasures all burnt
Sectarian violence at Ramu Heritage, treasures all burnt Buddha relics, several hundred statues of the Buddha, hundreds of ancient manuscripts and religious scriptures, mostly dating back to the 11th to the 12th century and about 5,000 copies of the Tripitaka in different languages were either burnt or looted during sectarian attack by the Muslims on ... Read more
Stop polluting Dhaka rivers
Task force gives 2-month time to plug sewage lines The Inter-ministerial Task Force on rivers has served on the capital’s house owners a two-month ultimatum to stop discharging excreta into the river and to make their own septic tanks. At present a large number of house owners link their sewage lines with the storm sewerage
58pc children still need basic services
13 percent engaged in child labour Bangladesh made significant progress in promoting child rights during the last five years but around 58 percent children are still deprived of one of six basic services, says a government draft report. The draft of the Fifth Periodic Report on child rights labels shelter, sanitation, water,
3 Bangladeshi farmers injured in BSF firing
Three Bangladeshi farmers suffered serious injuries shot at by Indian Border Security Force troops at Chakpara frontier in Shibganj upazila on Sunday morning. The farmers Setabul Islam, 45, his brother Abu Sayem, 30, and Saidur Rahman, 32, were irrigating their crop fields near border pillar no 182/3 at
Hall-Mark seeks fresh Sonali loan
Claims it can export garment worth Tk 500cr in 2 months if granted Tk 25cr loan Controversial business group Hall-Mark has sought a fresh loan of Tk 25 crore from the Sonali Bank, claiming the credit would help it export garment worth Tk 500 crore in two months, said sources in the bank. Like before, ... Read more
Delay in repair’ deliberate’
Battered Dhaka Roads Delay in repair’ deliberate’ Slow action of DCCs aims at greater corruption With repairing dug-up roads, the Dhaka city corporations allegedly make deliberate delays or resort to substandard patch ups to have expensive repairs later on, opening the window for greater financial irregularities. The infliction of uncalled for miseries on the city ... Read more
Written tests of 33rd BCS put off
Bangladesh Public Service Commission yesterday postponed the written test of the 33rd Bangladesh Civil Service examination scheduled to start today in the wake of question leak allegations. Exams on the compulsory subjects scheduled to be held from October 7 to October 18 have been postponed. But the subject-wise tests due from October 30 to November ... Read more
‘Drug addict’ kills 2-year-old son?
Mother sues him, 6 others The drug-addict father of a two-year-old has been suspected of murdering his only child, whose body police dug up at the capital’s Osmany Udyan on Friday morning. The child’s mother Shanta Islam yesterday filed a murder case against seven people, including the father Johny, his parents and siblings, said
Fake note den busted, 4 held
Detectives yesterday arrested four members of a ring counterfeiting bank bills, seized notes worth Tk 24 lakh and busted their mini-factory in the capital’s Uttara. The detainees are Mominur Rashid Babu alias Driver Babu, 25, Mohammad Rubel alias Chashma Rubel, 28, Mohammad Shaheen Miah, 24, and
Fatal crash takes 13 lives
Bus from wrong side rams microbus in Sylhet, 12 of the dead were from same family At least 13 people, twelve of them from the same family, were killed and 30 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus at South Surma of Sylhet yesterday morning. The accident occurred around 6:30 ... Read more
Ill-paid teachers barely make ends meet
Non-govt teachers get Tk 100 as house rent About 4.8 lakh teachers of non-government schools, colleges, technical institutions and madrassahs under monthly pay order have been receiving only Tk 100 as house rent per month for 28 years and Tk 150 as medical allowance for 18 years. They draw 25 per cent of their basic ... Read more
27 sued, finally
Hall-Mark Loan Scam 27 sued, finally After two and a half months’ investigation, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed 11 cases against 27 top officials of Sonali Bank and Hall-Mark Group for misappropriating over Tk 1,568 crore in depositor’s money. The sum, which was funded loan meaning given in cash, is part of
World Teachers’ Day today
World Teachers’ Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere in the world today on the theme ‘take a stand for teachers’. But police action on the non-government teachers agitating for salary hike clouded the occasion. Police charged batons and fired tear gas on teachers and employees of non-government