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Samrat placed on 10-day remand
02:11 PM, 15 Oct 2019 TuesdayA court has placed Dhaka South City Juba League’s expelled president Ismail Chowdhury Samrat on a 10-day remand in two cases filed under the Arms and Drug Acts. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tofajjal Hossain on Tuesday passed the order putting him on a 5-day remand in arms case and another 5-day remand in drug case...
Pakistan likely be in FATF Dark Grey list
01:27 PM, 15 Oct 2019 TuesdayThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is likely to take strong action on Pakistan given its inadequate performance on terror financing and has managed to pass in only 6 of the 27 items, sources said...
5 Gaibandha war criminals get death
12:32 PM, 15 Oct 2019 TuesdayThe International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Court has sentenced five Gaibandha men for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War of 1971. The three-member tribunal headed by the Justice Md Justice Shahinur Islam passed the order on Tuesday. Six people were initially accused in the case...
4 ‘forest robbers’ killed in Sundarbans ‘gunfight’
11:44 AM, 15 Oct 2019 TuesdayFour suspected forest robbers were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the Sundarbans under Koyra upazila early Tuesday. Two of the deceased were identified as gang leader Aminul and his second-in-command Rafiq...
Dipan murder: Charges framed against 8 Ansarullah men
03:10 PM, 13 Oct 2019 SundayA Dhaka court has framed charges against eight members of the banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in a case filed for the murder of Jagriti Prokashoni publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan...
Bangladesh becomes role model in disaster management: PM
02:37 PM, 13 Oct 2019 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh is now a role model in disaster management along with development in the world as she addressed a function on International Day for Disaster Reduction...
Writ seeks ban on ragging, student politics
01:09 PM, 13 Oct 2019 SundayA writ petition has been filed with the High Court (HC) seeking its directives to ban the ragging and student politics at all public and private universities. Supreme Court lawyer Younus Ali Akand on Sunday filed the petition with the concerned department of the HC...
Pay Tk 10 lakh to Rajib’s family in 30 days: SC
11:32 AM, 13 Oct 2019 SundayThe Supreme Court today ordered the owner of Sajan Paribahan to give Tk 10 lakh in a month to the family of Rajib Hossain, a student of Govt Titumir College, who lost his right arm after being pressed between two buses in the capital and died later...
19 dead after fierce typhoon hits Japan
10:03 AM, 13 Oct 2019 SundaySelf-Defense Forces members scrambled Sunday to rescue people trapped by flooding after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped across Japan, killing at least 19 people and leaving more than a dozen missing. Around 100 people were injured across the country...
BNP leader Hafiz arrested
09:00 AM, 13 Oct 2019 SundayBNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed was arrested at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday evening in a case filed under the Digital Security Act...
Typhoon Hagibis: Biggest Japan storm in decades makes landfall
08:53 AM, 13 Oct 2019 SundayAs least five people are reported dead and others are missing as Japan endures what could be its worst storm for 60 years. The eye of Typhoon Hagibis made landfall shortly before 19:00 local time (10:00 GMT), in Izu Peninsula, south-west of Tokyo...
Another accused remanded in Abrar killing case
04:57 PM, 12 Oct 2019 SaturdayA Dhaka court today placed another accused in a case lodged over beating BUET student Abrar Fahad to death in the wee hours of October 7, on five-day remand...
PM questions about BUET student movement after meeting demand
03:37 PM, 12 Oct 2019 SaturdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today questioned about the justification of continuing movement on Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) campus after meeting the demands of the students...
Abrar murder: BUET accepts students’ 5-point demand
02:29 PM, 12 Oct 2019 SaturdayThe authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) today accepted the students’ 5-point demand. The university issued a notice in this regard. The demand of the students are permanent expulsion of those involved in the murder of Abrar after submission of charge sheet...
Dengue claims man’s life in Barishal
01:30 PM, 12 Oct 2019 SaturdayA man died of mosquito-borne disease dengue while undergoing treatment at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital here early Saturday...
Samrat taken to jail from hospital
12:25 PM, 12 Oct 2019 SaturdayExpelled Jubo League Dhaka South unit President Ismail Hossain Samrat was taken to Keraniganj central jail on Saturday morning after his discharge from the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in the capital. Associate Professor of the institute Dr Mohsin Ahmed said the physical condition of Samrat is stable. He was discharged from the hospital at 11:20am...
2 ‘listed Yaba traders’ killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’
11:33 AM, 12 Oct 2019 SaturdayTwo ‘listed Yaba traders’ were killed in a reported gunfight with police at Parjatan Bazar Uttar Mali hill area in Teknaf upazila early Saturday. The deceased were identified as Ahmed Hossain, 45, son of Hamid Hossain of Ghona area in Hatiya and Abdur Rahman, 46, of Block-D in Noyapara Rohingya Camp area...
BUET bans politics on campus, expels 19 students
11:26 AM, 12 Oct 2019 SaturdayBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on Friday imposed a ban on all kinds of political activities on the campus and temporarily expelled 19 students for their alleged involvement in the Abrar Fahad murder...
Tokarczuk and Handke win Nobel prizes in literature
05:52 PM, 10 Oct 2019 ThursdayPolish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke have both won the Nobel prize in literature...
Risha murder: Lone accused gets death penalty
03:47 PM, 10 Oct 2019 ThursdayA court has sentenced a man to death in a case lodged over murder of city’s Wills Little Flower School and College student Suraia Akter Risha around three years ago. Dhaka Metropolitan Session’s Judge KM Imrul Qayes passed the order on Thursday in presence of the sole accused Obaidul Khan...