Staff Reporter :Police recovered the body of a new born baby from the city’s Moghbazar area on Friday evening.Locals said, they found, the body of a 5 to 6 days baby into a dustbin beside the under-construction flyover and informed the police.On information, police rushed the spot and recovered the body at about 4.30 pm.Kamal Hossain, Sub Inspector of Ramna Police Station said, someone might have thrown the baby’s body here. “We are looking into the matter” the SI said....
UNB :A Pabna court on Sunday granted bail to 12 farmers who were arrested for defaulting loans taken from a government bank.Pabna Senior Judicial Magistrate Court-2 Shamsuzzaman passed the order after hearing a bail petition, said Advocate Saidur Rahman Sumon who stood for the accused accompanied by two other lawyers.Those who secured bail are: Nure Box, 45; Alam Promanik, 50; Mahatab Mandal, 45; Kitab Ali, 50; Hannan Miah, 30; Mohammad Majnu, 40; Mohammad Atiur Rahman, 50; Shamim Hossain, 45; Samad...
Staff Reporter :The home-bound people are leaving Dhaka for their village homes to celebrate the Eid-ul -Azha, one of the...
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government has taken a decision in principle to recruit 50,000 more manpower for the police force. “Moreover, a process for constituting a special counter- intelligence unit is going on to contain terrorism,” she said relying to a written question from treasury bench member Shamsul Haque Chowdhury during her question-answer session in the House. She said a total of 30,474 new manpower has been added to the police force...
UNB :The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has approved the import offilms made in the languages of Indian subcontinent on five conditions including export of films made by Bangladesh.An office order signed by Information and Broadcasting Ministry Deputy Secretary (Films) Saiful Islam was issued in this regard on Tuesday.However, maximum 10 movies will be allowed to be imported in the first year against export of 10 movies, said the order.The order said, considering the Sammilito Chalacchitro Parishad’s application regarding the...
MM Jasim :When the government and private hospitals in Dhaka couldn’t accommodate patients due to seat crisis, the seats of...
Sabbir Hossain :Bangladesh and Australia will lock horn today (Tuesday) in their last Group 2 match of the ICC World Twenty20 Cricket at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur. The match starts at 3.30 pm BST (Bangladesh Standard Time).State-owned Bangladesh Television, private satellite channels Maasranga Television and G TV will telecast the match live from the stadium.Before today’s match, Bangladesh and Australia faced each other in two Twenty20 International matches and Australia won in the two occasions.Bangladesh lost to...
Staff Reporter :The ongoing road development project undertaken by Gazipur City Corporation has caused huge discontent among people due to indiscriminate acquisition of private lands.It is alleged that affected landowners are not getting just compensation and they are also denied of proper rehabilitation and resettlement. Even the city authority continues to bulldoze private properties prior notice.Gazipur, one of the largest city corporations in the country, is now undertaking various development projects. Most of these developments works involve the construction of...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Saturday called a nationwide daylong hartal for Monday, protesting the foiling of its scheduled Gazipur...
Md Joynal Abedin Khan :The ‘Aggyan party’ and ‘Malam party’ men have become active again ahead of upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr.They use sedatives and ointment to make their prey temporarily blind and unconscious in order to loot money and valuables, detective police sources said. Such incidents, in most cases, occur in buses, shopping centres, bus terminals and branches of different banks, they said. More than 400 members of different organised Aggyan parties are active in the capital, Police Headquarters sources said. However,...