886 bullets recovered in Rajbari
Rajbari police on Tuesday noon recovered huge bullets, 11 bullet chargers and 4 magazines from Udoypur village of Sadar upazila…
Archive for October 20th, 2015
French firm wins contract for Bangabandhu satellite system supply
French firm Thales Alenia Space have won the contract for supplying the satellite system under the Bangabandhu Satellite Launching project…
Mithu ‘confesses’ to killing Khijir
JMB militant Tarequl Islam Mithu, arrested over the killing of Khijir Khan, has reportedly confessed that he along with his other associates slaughtered the former PDB chairman following a conflict over religious ideology, said a DB officer…
Addl security brought more safety: EU, German envoys
European Union Ambassador in Dhaka Pierre Mayaudon and German Ambassador Thomas Prinz on Tuesday expressed satisfaction over additional security measures that have brought more safety for them in helping them move and live freely…
Turkey ready to accept 6-month transition period for Syria’s Assad
Turkey is ready to accept a political transition in Syria in which President Bashar al-Assad stays in symbolic power for six months before leaving office, and is discussing the plan with Western allies, two senior government officials said on Tuesday…
Sadeque’s sentence politically motivated: BNP
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday alleged that the verdict delivered on Tuesday by a Special Judge’s Court sentencing BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka in his absence was ‘unilateral’ and ‘politically motivated’…
Biometric SIM re-registration begins Wednesday
The re-registration of subscriber identity modules (SIMs) through biometric verification system begins on Wednesday on an experimental basis, State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim said on Tuesday…
Tangail-4 by-polls: Kader Siddique challenges nomination cancellation
Krishak Sramik Janata League president Abdul Kader Siddique filed a writ petition with the High Court on Tuesday challenging the legality of the cancellation of his nomination to contest the Tangail-4 by-polls…
40pc area quota in school enrollment in the offing
The government is likely to finalise school admission policy for the next year in a couple of days with a provision of keeping a 40 per cent quota for students from localities of the respective schools…
14 die as bus plunges into deep gorge in Kashmir
An overcrowded minibus fell from a Himalayan mountain road and plunged into a deep gorge in the disputed region of Kashmir on Tuesday, killing 14 passengers and leaving another 18 injured, police said…
7 BCL activists held for vandalising Durga idols in Barisal
Seven activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were arrested as local people caught them after vandalising idols of Ganesh, Kartik and Ashur at a Durga Puja Mandap at Wazirpur in Barisal on Monday night…
Pirates abduct crew with fishing boat in Cox’s Bazar
Pirates abducted a crew along with the fishing boat he was driving from Sonadia coast of Cox’s Bazar early Thursday.
The abducted boat driver is identified as Saker Ullah of Kutubdia Para in Cox’s Bazar town…
Disgraced CCIE Controller Shahidul suspended
Controller of the Office of the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports M Shahidul Haque who was filmed while counting bribed money has been suspended…
HC asks why inaction of police over Gulshan accident won’t be declared illegal
The High Court on Tuesday asked government and police to explain in two weeks why their inaction in initiating proceeding against anyone over car-racing in busy Gulshan streets and injuring four…
DLA announces fresh programmes to save Sunderbans
Leaders of Democratic Left Alliance, a combine of the eight left-leaning political parties, on Tuesday announced programmes to save Sunderbans and protesting against police attacks on their Dhaka-Rampal three-day road march which ended on October 18…
Khoka jailed for 13 years
The Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 on Tuesday sentenced Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka to 13-year rigorous imprisonment in a case for amassing wealth illegally…
Woman, daughter burnt to death in Jhenaidah
A woman and her daughter were burnt to death and two more of the family injured as miscreants set fire to their house at Farashpur in Kaliganj of Jhenaidah on Tuesday…
Review petitions of SQC, Mojaheed: SC sets Nov 2 for review petition hearing
The Appellate Division has set November 2 to hear review petitions of war crimes death row inmates Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and…
Transport owners accompany BRTA mobile courts
Transport owners on Tuesday accompanied mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority in drives at different parts of the city against charging extra fare in buses and minibuses…
Hajj disaster death toll at least 2,177
The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,177 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed Monday, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy…
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