Jubo Dal leader killed in Ctg road crash
A local Jubo Dal leader was killed as a covered van hit his motorcycle on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda upazila headquarters on Friday afternoon…
Archive for April 29th, 2016
Facebook provides info of 31 Bangladeshi users to govt
Popular social networking site, Facebook, has for the first time responded to requests of Bangladesh government providing users’ information…
Govt to re-fix long-route bus fares on Monday
The government will re-fix the long-route bus fares following the recent decrease in diesel price, road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said on Friday…
Police pick up 2 over RU prof killing
The police picked up a retired schoolteacher and his son from their house at village Sripur in Baghmara of Rajshahi early Friday for quizzing over the gruesome murder…
BNP offers cooperation to curb militancy
Accusing the incumbent government for sponsoring militancy, Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said it is ready to extend its cooperation…
No int’l pressure on govt over LGBT editor killing, says law minister
The minister for law, justice and parliamentary affairs, Anisul Huq, on Friday said there is no pressure from international quarters on his government…
Sramik Dal gets DMP nod for May Day rally
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has allowed Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the workers’ front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, to stage a workers rally…
2 hacked, shot dead in Lakshmipur
Miscreants hacked and shot two men to death at village Rajibpur in Lakshmipur sadar early Friday…
Man stabs wife, 4 in-laws in Lakshmipur
A man stabbed his wife and four of his in-laws over a family feud at Madhyabazar in Raipur municipality area of Lakshmipur early Friday…
26 APBn men injured in Barisal road accident
At least 26 members of Armed Police Battalion were injured in a head-on collision between their carrier and a truck on Dhaka-Barisal highway in Barisal city…
Mexican general gets 52 years for torturing, killing man
A judge has sentenced a general in the Mexican army to 52½ years in prison for ordering the torture of a suspect, then having his body burned, Mexico’s federal judiciary council said Thursday…
Sons arrested as suspects of Bangladeshi couple murder
US police on Thursday arrested the two sons of a Bangladeshi couple in connection with their shooting deaths…
Colombia’s high court clears way for gay marriage
Colombia’s highest court has cleared the way for same-sex couples to marry in the conservative Roman Catholic nation…
Kerry phones Hasina to arrest Xulhaz killers
US secretary of state John Kerry on Thursday night phoned prime minister Sheikh Hasina and requested her to take necessary steps to bring the killers of Xulhaz Mannan, one of the editors of the country’s first LGBT magazine Roopban…
Verdicts written after retirement: SC to rehear 168 petitions
The Appellate Division has decided to rehear 168 petitions, rejecting the verdicts written by two judges mostly by Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury long after they went into retirement. On Thursday, Chief Justice SK Sinha set May 5 for rehearing 107 petitions by a fresh Appellate Division bench he would chair. The Chief Justice posted 61 other petitions for rehearing by […]
Gas set for another price hike
The government is going to increase the price of natural gas for household and motor vehicle users seven months after the price was hiked by around 26 per cent…
Sunderbans on high alert
The forest department on Thursday announced that Chandpai range under the Sunderbans east division in Bagerhat would remain on high alert against the backdrop of four incidents of fire in the forest’s Nangli camp area in the past one month…
EP delegation calls for ensuring freedom of expression
The European Parliament delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia has called on the government to ensure the respect of democratic principles on freedom of expression in Bangladesh and bring to justice perpetrators of the recent incidents of killing without delay…
LGBT mag editor killing: Police yet to identify any suspect
The police were yet to identify any suspect in the killings of Xulhaz Mannan, one of the editors of the country’s first LGBT magazine Roopban, and his friend Khandaker Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy although a patrol team encountered suspects and took away a bag with two pistols, a mobile phone and documents from one of them…
RU professor killing: Police claim progress, RAB finds no clue
The police on Thursday claimed that they got important information about the killers of Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee while the Rapid Action Battalion said they were yet to get any clue to the murder as protests continued…
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