Day: October 7, 2024
BSS : Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized various types of smuggled goods worth Taka 253 crore 56 lakh 85 thousand in different places across the country, especially in the border areas, in the month of September-2024. “During the month-long drive of the BGB, a para-military force, assigned to ensure border security, said legal action has been taken against 241 smugglers, 298 Bangladeshi nationals and 24 Indian nationals for illegally crossing the border,” according to a BGB release issued here this...
Court Correspondent : The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked banks to freeze all accounts belonging to Mahbubul Alam Hanif, a former lawmaker and Joint General Secretary of Awami League. The BFIU has sent directives to all banks and financial institutes in this regard yesterday. The anti-money laundering agency also instructed banks to suspend the transactions in the personal and privately-owned institutional accounts of Hanif for a period of 30 days in the first instance. The intelligence unit also...
Court Correspondent : Former Minister and lawmaker Saber Hossain Chowdhury was arrested from the capital’s Gulshan area on Sunday evening. “We arrested Saber Hossain Chowdhury from Gulshan around 7 pm,” Md Talebur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of Media and Public Relations of Detective Banch (DB) told the media. Saber was arrested in specific cases, he said. Former Minister of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Saber was elected Member of Parliament for several times from Dhaka-9 constituency since 2008. In another drive,...
UNB : Bangladesh received inward remittance of US $ 425 million in five days of October, showing an uptrend of $100 million remittance flow year-on-year. According to Bangladesh Bank’s latest update, the expatriates sent $325 million remittance during the same period (October 1-5) in 2023. The expatriates sent inward remittance of $ 6967 million ($6.69 billion) so far in the current fiscal year 2024-25, which was $5232 million ($5.23 billion) in the previous fiscal year FY2023-24. Bangladesh receives $2.4bn remittance...
UNB : Four more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning, bringing the total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 186 this year. During this period, 1,225 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Foreign medical teams to treat July Movement victims’ eye injuriesAmong the recent fatalities, two were reported in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), while one occurred in each of the Khulna and...
Court Correspondent : Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked banks to provide account details of television host and journalist Munni Saha. Wishing anonymity, an official of BFIU confirmed the matter on Sunday. BFIU sent a letter seeking information on Munni Saha’s deposits, loans, credit cards, foreign trade, money exchange, lockers and offshore banking. It is known that recently Munni Saha resigned from ATN News. She took this decision due to a dispute with the television owner. Later, she said...
BSS : Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md. Nahid Islam on Sunday said that the interim government’s key focus is to reduce the unemployment in the country through employment generation. “The main goal of the current government is to generate employment opportunity because the mass-uprising was crafted centering the issue,” he said. Nahid Islam, also the Adviser of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, made the remarks while a JICA delegation led by its Chief Representative ICHIGUCHI Tomohide, met...
Staff Reporter : The elite force RAB never used bullets or lethal weapons on the students and people during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, claimed Lieutenant Colonel Munim Ferdous, director of its Legal and Media Wing. “RAB expressed solidarity with the mass uprising. We are working to make the revolution successful,” he said. Munim Ferdous made the claim while replying to a question from journalists at a press conference organized at RAB’s media center in the capital’s Karwan Bazar on Sunday....
Court Correspondent : BNP Legal Affairs Secretary Barrister Kaiser Kamal on Sunday said all the cases filed against party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman were false, fabricated and intentional, and those will be faced in the due legal process. “All the cases filed against him were false, fabricated and intentional, and all the judgments were obtained by dictating the court. We will face those in the due legal process. Tarique Rahman will take the decision to come home at the appropriate...
Staff Reporter : The recent ban on visiting the three Hill Tracts districts—Bandarban, Rangamati, and Khagrachhari—threatens to significantly impact the tourism sector, as tourists have been requested to refrain from visiting these popular destinations. Following incidents of violence in Rangamati and Khagrachhari, local authorities have been urging tourists to avoid the region. On Sunday, the administration formally imposed a ban on visiting the Hill Tracts from October 8 to October 31, citing security concerns. In a statement, the Rangamati district...