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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...
Abrar murder charge sheet soon: Home Minister
03:27 PM, 10 Oct 2019 ThursdayHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said the charge sheet will be submitted soon in the case filed for the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad. The minister said this while talking to the journalists at his office in Secretariat on Thursday...
Abrar’s roommate detained
02:00 PM, 10 Oct 2019 ThursdayPolice have detained a roommate of BUET student Abrar Fahad who was beaten to death by BCL activists. Mizan, a student of Water Resource and Engineering department of BUET, was picked up by DB police from the room of 1011 of Sher-E-Bangla Hall of the university around 12pm on Thursday...
7 get death for murder in Faridpur
01:21 PM, 10 Oct 2019 ThursdayA court has sentenced seven people to death in a case filed for the murder of a pickup van driver in Faridpur. Faridpur District and Session’s Judge Md Selim Miah passed the order around 11am on Thursday...
Abrar murder: BUET BCL leader Amit detained
12:14 PM, 10 Oct 2019 ThursdayDetectives have detained a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) unit in connection with the murder of Abrar Fahad. Amit Saha, Deputy Felicitation Secretary of BUET BCL, was detained from Sabujbagh in the capital on Thursday morning...
PM opens 2 water plants, lays foundation stone of another
11:46 AM, 10 Oct 2019 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the Padma (Jashaldia) Water Treatment Plant (phase-1) and Well Field Construction Project at Tetuljhora-Bhakurta in Savar Upazila (Phase-1) with a capacity to supply 60 crore litres of purified water...
Nobody should be killed for exercising free speech: UN
02:54 PM, 09 Oct 2019 WednesdayThe United Nations has deplored the killing of young BUET student Abrar Farhad, saying freedom of speech is a human right. The UN Bangladesh noted steps taken by the authorities to apprehend alleged perpetrators, the statement reads...
Don’t try to destabilise country over Abrar murder: BCL
02:16 PM, 09 Oct 2019 WednesdayThe acting president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Wednesday warned that it will give a “fitting reply” if anyone tries to destabilise the country over BUET student Abrar Fahad’s murder. Abrar, a second-year electrical and electronic engineering student, was beaten to death by Chhatra League activists...