Staff Reporter :Three cops of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) were closed on Wednesday for handcuffing a physically challenged person named Abul Hossain. The closed cops are Chittagong Metropolitan Court custody’s Sub-Inspector (SI) Shakhawat Hossain, transport section’s Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Khakon Chandra Majumder and constable Shankar De.CMP commissioner Abdul Jalil Mondal discharged them from duties in the morning.CMP additional commissioner (administration and traffic) AKM Shahidur Rahman said that they immediately investigated into the incident and closed the three policemen on charge...
Md Joynal Abedin Khan :After the killing of alleged mastermind of Neo JMB leader Nurul Islam Marzan in a recent ‘gunfight’ with the cops, some influential leaders led by Mainul Islam alias Sumon are trying to establish a ‘Post Marzan Neo JMB regime’ in the country, Detective source said.At least 12 JMB men have already been appointed to different posts to overcome the leadership crisis as per the pre-instruction of the slain militant leaders, they said.Several teams of the intelligence...
Six people went missing when a sand-laden trawler capsized in the Dhaleshwari River at Alirtek in Sadar upazila on Wednesday. The trawler with 20-25 workers on board sank in the middle of the river around 2:30pm when it was hit by a Munshiganj-bound cargo vessel, said officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Abdul Malek. Six people went missing in the incident while the rest managed to swim ashore, he said. On information, police from Baktabali police camp rushed in and launched...
Staff Reporter :Miscreants torched a private car on Tuesday evening in the capital’s Dainik Bangla intersection in the wake of...
Al Jazeera :Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on world leaders to show unity in the face of Russia’s continued...
Joynal Abedin Khan :The investigation committee could not find the connection of Sub-Inspector (SI) Ratan Kumar with the molesting of a private university girl in the city area a few days ago.The two-member probe-committee has submitted the report to the Deputy Commissioner of Tejgaon Division under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). Tejgaon Division Additional Deputy Commissioner Habibunnabi Anisur Rashid and the chief of the probe-body handed over the report to the concerned Deputy Commissioner office on Monday, said Maruf Hossain Sarder,...
Reza Mahmud :A number of Bangladeshi workers have been passing their hard days in Malaysian prisons allegedly due to the illegal activities of their recruiting agencies. Among them, 14 migrant workers died in last two years, sources said. “There are numbers of Bangladeshi workers in different jails in Malaysia. Most of them are there due to the violation of laws by their recruiting agencies,” Khabir Hossain, a Bangladeshi working in Malaysia, told The New Nation.He added 14 Bangladeshi workers have died...
The death of Bangladeshis in Libya boat capsize raised to 24, including three children, said a Bangladeshi diplomat from Libya on Saturday.”The death toll [of Bangladesh nationals] is so far 24,” Counsellor (labour), Bangladesh Embassy to Libya, now situated in Tunisia, Ashraful Islam told UNB over phone from Libya.He said there were 78 Bangladesh nationals, including children and women, in the two boats. Of them, 54 were rescued alive.Ashraful Islam said Bangladesh has sought support from the International Organization for...
Staff Reporter :Traders at Bashundhara city shopping mall in Dhaka on Saturday confined customs intelligence officials for seizing ‘illegally’ imported mobile handsets from their shops.Officials of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) earlier in the morning seized 262 unauthorized handsets worth Tk 2.9 crore in drives in the city’s different markers, including Bashundhara city shopping mall, led by its Additional Director General Kazi Md Ziauddin.They conducted the raid at the mall around 12:00pm with the help of Rapid Action...
bdnews24.com :The United Nations says it has no information of a possible visit to Dhaka by its Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco.”I have no information on Fernandez-Taranco’s visit,” the UN secretary general’s spokesperson Farhan Haq told the press on Saturday.The UN along with the US had called for probing allegations of ‘widespread rigging’ raised by the BNP against the ruling Awami League during April 28 city corporation polls.Mayor candidates endorsed by the Awami League won the elections in the three...
M M Jasim :The educationists on Saturday expressed their unhappiness over the poor allocation in the proposed national budget for the education sector. They said that it would be very difficult to ensure quality education with this hard up allocation for the fiscal year 2017-18.Overall allocation for the education sector in the proposed budget has decreased by 1.89 per cent while development budget fall by 2.33 percent, than the previous year’s budget.The percentage of allocation for the education sector, in...