Case filed over BB heist
Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday filed a case with Motijheel police station in the city in connection with the $101 million heist from its account with…
Archive for March 15th, 2016
2 BB deputy governors relieved of duty: Muhith
Two Bangladesh Bank deputy governors — Md Abul Quasem and Nazneen Sultana — have been relieved of their duty, said finance minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday…
BB governor Atiur quits; PM calls it courageous step
Embattled Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman on Tuesday quit amid a huge row over the heist of $101 million from the Bangladesh Bank’s account with…
Full verdict of Nizami’s appeal published
The full verdict of the appeal filed by war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami challenging his death sentence handed down by…
26 more biranganas recognised as FF
The government on Tuesday recognised 26 war heroines, who were violated by the Pakistani occupation army during War of Independence in…
AL man killed in Bogra UP polls violence
An activist of ruling Awami League was killed and six others injured in a clash with the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party at Shibganj in Bogra on Monday night…
Govt should also resign for BB money theft: Hannan Shah
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah on Tuesday said the government should resign immediately for…
Police rule out IS claim over killing man in Jhenaidah
The police on Tuesday ruled out the claim made by Islamist terrorist outfit Islamic State for the murder of a man it described as…
Fazle Kabir next BB governor
Former finance secretary Fazle Kabir will be the next governor of Bangladesh Bank, said finance minister AMA Muhith on…
Myanmar’s parliament elects Suu Kyi confidant as president
Myanmar’s parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the…
Mahfuz Anam gets bail in Faridpur libel suit
A court in Faridpur on Tuesday granted bail to The Daily Star editor and publisher Mahfuz Anam in a defamation suit…
3 ansar men killed in Habiganj road accident
Three ansar members were killed while 17 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus that was carrying them and a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Habiganj on Tuesday morning…
HC rejects Tareque Sayeed’s petition
The High Court on Tuesday rejected a petition filed by sacked Rapid Action Battalion officer Tareque Sayeed Mohammad…
SC now asks 2 ministers to appear March 20
The Supreme Court on Tuesday again ordered two ministers to appear before it on March 20 for their explanations over controversial comments about chief justice SK Sinha…
Putin says Russians to start withdrawing from Syria
President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that ‘the main part’ of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace…
IS commander Omar Shishani ‘dead’
A senior commander of so-called Islamic State is dead, the Pentagon has confirmed.
Defence officials said Omar Shishani died from injuries sustained in a recent US air strike in north-eastern Syria…
Muhith blasts BB again
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Monday once again disparaged the Bangladesh Bank for keeping him in dark about the biggest ever cyber theft from the Bangladesh Bank’s reserve, in the name of ‘secrecy’, and even informing the Prime Minister about the incident two days after the case was detected by the central bank…
3 dead, dozens injured in clashes
At least three people, including two members of Islamist outfit Hizb-ut Tawhid, were killed and several dozen others, including policeman, injured, in fierce clashes over construction of a Hizb-ut Tawhid mosque in Sonaimuri upazila of Noakhali district on Monday…
Govt to hire UK firm to improve airport security
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday requested her British counterpart David Cameron to reconsider the embargo imposed on direct cargo flights between Dhaka and London…
Biometric SIM registration: HC questions legality
The High Court on Monday asked the government to explain in a week the legality of biometric SIM re-registration.
A bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice AKM Shahidul Huq passed the order after hearing a public interest litigation writ petition…
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