Police on Saturday arrested three people who staged showdown with arms in front of a ward councillor candidate in the upcoming Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) election. The arrestees are Atikur Rahman, 42, Juber Ahmed, 38, and Nuruzzaman, 34, hailing from different areas of the city. They are the s
A 16-year-old boy has reportedly killed his teenage relative in a fight over Tk 150 in in Jangalkhain union in Patia upazila of Chattogram. Priton Sarkar, chief of the Patia Police Station, said the perpetrator was arrested on Tuesday night from his aunt’s house in the Hulain area on Tuesday
A cabin crew member of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was detained in Saudi Arabia on charges of smuggling gold and other goods. The flight attendant, FS Ziaul, was on duty as a flight attendant on Biman’s Dhaka-bound flight BG136. Saudi authorities detained him with gold and other smuggled goods
The High Court on Tuesday concluded the hearing on three applications filed by Nobel laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus challenging the tax liability for the assessment years 2011-2012 to 2013-2014 on the money donated by him in three trusts. The High Court bench of Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sar
A case has been filed under the Human Trafficking Act against four people, including two physicians, on charge of stealing newborns in Rajshahi. Syeda Tamanna Akhtar, a resident of Talaimari area in the city, lodged the case at Rajpara Police Station on Sunday, reports UNB. Sub-Inspector Kajal Na
A total of 25 Supreme Court lawyers, mostly pro-BNP, on Sunday secured anticipatory bail from the High Court till submission of police report in a case filed for the violence on the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) office premises on May 16. The HC bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Md Riaz
Two people were killed and ten were injured in a clash between two groups of people over gambling at Hatosh Haripur in Sadar upazila of Kushtia district on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Omar Ali and Miraj Hossain of Kantinagar area, reports UNB. Quoting local people, Shahadat Hoss
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) urged the government to accept the allegations brought against Dhaka WASA managing director made by its board chairman. Besides, TIB strongly demanded accountability of those people responsible for all the allegations of widespread irregularities and cor
The High Court has issued a guideline to give appropriate and proportionate sentence to an accused for his or her offence. The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Biswajit Debnath issued the guideline in the full text of a verdict that has been released on the SC website on T
Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested five alleged dacoits from the city's rail station area under Kotwali thana early today (Friday). The arrestees were identified as Md Moinuddin,25, Md Ismail,28, Md Sakib, 26, Md Yasin Arafat, 22 and Md Rasel, 20, reports UNB. Acting on a tip off
A woman has sent a legal notice to Kishore Kumar Das, chairman of the Bidyananda Foundation, seeking information on how her donation to the foundation was spent. Supreme Court lawyer Md Haider Tanviruzzaman said on Wednesday that the notice was issued on Tuesday on behalf of Sabiha Rahman Nitu, wh
FE REPORT A case has been filed with the Shahbagh Police Station accusing 25 Supreme Court lawyers, mostly pro-BNP, over the violence and vandalism that took place at the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) premises on Tuesday. Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokan, former Secretary of the SC
The High Court on Tuesday summoned Rajuk Chairman for not implementing its earlier directive to submit a report over a plot dispute. The Rajuk chairman will have to appear before the court on May 18 to explain his position over the issue. The High Court bench of Justice Mahmudul Hoque and Justice
