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Facebook account of Bhola SP hacked, GD filed
12:01 PM, 22 Oct 2019 TuesdayThe Facebook account of Superintendent of Police of Bhola Sarkar Mohammad Kaisar has been allegedly hacked. The police officer filed a General Diary (GD) with Bhola Model Police Station in this regard on Tuesday morning...
National cricketers announce boycott plan
04:00 PM, 21 Oct 2019 MondayBangladesh's cricketers have decided not to participate in any cricket activity for the foreseeable future until their demands for the improvement of cricket in the country are met. The immediate impact of their action will be on the National Cricket League...
BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid jailed for 5 years
02:49 PM, 21 Oct 2019 MondayA court has sentenced BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid to 5 years imprisonment and fined him Tk 50 lakh in a tax-evasion case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam of Dhaka Special Judges’ Court-4 passed the order on Monday...
12 get death for murder of lawyer’s assistant
01:22 PM, 21 Oct 2019 MondayA court has sentenced twelve people to death and two others to one year in jail in a case filed for the murder of a Dhaka Judges’ Court lawyer’s assistant Mobarak Hossain Bhuiyan. Dhaka’s 3 no. Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Monir Kamal passed the order on Monday. The court also acquitted one person in the case...
Nine new HC judges take oath
12:14 PM, 21 Oct 2019 MondayNewly-appointed nine additional judges of the High Court took oath on Monday. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain administered the oath at the Judges’ Lounge of the Supreme Court around 10.30am. Md Golam Rabbany, Registrar of HC Division, conducted the oath ceremony...
President reaches Tokyo to attend emperor’s enthronement ceremony
11:46 AM, 21 Oct 2019 MondayPresident M Abdul Hamid reached here this morning to attend the country’s new emperor’s enthronement ceremony. A regular flight (SQ 646) of Singapore Airlines carrying the President and his entourage members landed at the Haneda International Airport...
Public gathering banned in Bhola after clashes
11:31 AM, 21 Oct 2019 MondayThe local administration imposed an indefinite ban on public gathering in the district on Monday, a day after clashes between protesters and police left four people dead. Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Masud Alam Siddique told UNB that the move was aimed at maintaining law and order...
Joy launches one-stop services of Eksheba, Ekpay, Ekshop
06:02 PM, 20 Oct 2019 SundayPrime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy today inaugurated three digital one-stop services - Eksheba, Ekpay and Ekshop - to enable the people to get different government services, utility bills and fees payment facilities and e-commerce...
Books on Bangabandhu, Hasina in Russian language handed to PM
05:40 PM, 20 Oct 2019 SundayThree books on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina which were translated and published in Russian language were handed over to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today...
4 killed as locals clash with police in Bhola
03:31 PM, 20 Oct 2019 SundayFour people were killed and more than fifty people including police members injured in a clash between police and local people in Bhola on Sunday. Of the deceased, three people were identified as Mizan, 40, Mahfuz Patwary, 45 and Abdul Gani...
Indian Army destroys 4 terror launch pads in PoK
01:39 PM, 20 Oct 2019 SundayFour terror launch pads in Neelam valley in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir have been targeted and destroyed by the Indian Army, sources said. Fatalities have also been reported...
Quader attributes Menon’s election comment to ‘personal interest’
12:58 PM, 20 Oct 2019 SundayTaking a swipe at Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon for his claim that people could not cast their votes in the last parliamentary elections, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday questioned whether he would have made the claim...
British PM sends unsigned letter seeking Brexit delay
12:03 PM, 20 Oct 2019 SundayBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson reluctantly wrote to Brussels asking for a Brexit extension after MPs voted Saturday to force him into seeking a delay beyond October 31...
Anti-casino drive: Now DNCC councillor Rajib held
11:44 AM, 20 Oct 2019 SundayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Tarequzzaman Rajib, councillor from ward No-33 of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), here on Saturday night for his alleged involvement in casino business. A team of Rab-1 picked the councillor up from a house in Bashundhara Residential Area...
Father accused of killing toddler in Faridpur
05:10 PM, 19 Oct 2019 SaturdayA man has been accused of killing his three-year-old son in Sadarpur upazila’s Bhasanchar union. The body of Rahmat Promanik, 3, son of Hanif Promanik, was recovered from a paddy field in Chandpur village on Saturday...
Father, daughter found dead at Chattogram house
03:32 PM, 19 Oct 2019 SaturdayThe throat-slit bodies of a man and his four-year old daughter were recovered from a house in Nimtali Biswa Road area in the city on Saturday. The deceased were identified as day labourer Md Arif 35, and his daughter Bibi Fatema. Police detained two women including the wife of Arif in the incident...
Iraqi man arrested over deaths of over 350 asylum seekers in Australia
01:52 PM, 19 Oct 2019 SaturdayThe Australian Federal Police said on Saturday it had charged a 43-year-old Iraqi man for his part in allegedly organizing a people smuggling venture that led to the deaths of more than 350 asylum seekers when their boat sank in 2001...
Huawei in early talks with US firms to license 5G platform
12:47 PM, 19 Oct 2019 SaturdayBlacklisted Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei is in early-stage talks with some U.S. telecoms companies about licensing its 5G network technology to them, a Huawei executive told Reuters on Friday...
Rohingya Repatriation: Dhaka urges Berlin to put pressure on Myanmar
11:56 AM, 19 Oct 2019 SaturdayBangladesh has urged Germany to put pressure on Myanmar so that they can start taking their nationals back, noting that not a single Rohingya has been repatriated over the last two years...
Over 100 shops gutted in Chattogram market fire
11:41 AM, 19 Oct 2019 SaturdayOver 100 shops were gutted in a devastating fire at Jahur Hawkers Market adjacent to New Market in the port city early Saturday. Md Jashim Uddin, assistant director (media), Fire Service, said the fire broke out at 3:50 am at the market and soon spread to adjoining Jalalabad market...