At least four incidents of burning vehicles were recorded in 24 hours till 11:00 am on Wednesday, according to UNB. A bus was set on fire in Dhaka while a truck each was burnt in Gaibandha and Sherpur districts, said Shahjahan Shikdar, deputy director of Fire Service and Civil Defence's Media Cell
The High Court on Monday stayed for six months the trial proceedings of a case filed by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) against journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol for illegally entering Bangladesh. The HC bench of Justice SM Kuddus Zaman and Justice Md Aminul Islam passed the order after hearing a peti
The High Court (HC) on Monday fixed December 7 to hear a bail petition filed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case over vandalising the Chief Justice's residence during a BNP rally on October 28. The HC bench of Justice Md Selim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin set the date as
A total of 154 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade of road, rail and waterways called by the BNP and like-minded opposition parties is underway for the second consecutive day on Monday.
A total of 162 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade of road, rail and waterways called by the BNP and like-minded opposition parties is underway since Sunday morning. Shariful Islam, pub
A newlywed woman is understood to have committed suicide by hanging herself in her new home in the capital's Banasree residential area on Friday night. Afiya Murshida Chaity Alam, hailing from Ghatail upazila of Tangail, got married to Md Tawhid just three days earlier, according to her own younge
A 50-year-old man was hacked to death, allegedly by his daughter, over a trivial matter in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahman of Putibila Sarai village under the upazila. Police detained the accused daughter, Humaira Aktar (22), shortly after the
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a suspected arms trader along with a firearm from Hajibagh village of Jhikargachha upazila in Jashore on Wednesday night. The arrestee is Zia Biswas, 45, son of Enatullah Biswas of Hajibagh village of the upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a
Members of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) recovered four abandoned gold bars weighing around 4.5 kgs from under a passenger seat of an Air Arabia flight at Shah Amant International Airport in Chattogram on Wednesday night. Md Abdul Matin Talukdar, assistant director of t
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday arrested nine more people, including BNP leaders and activists, in connection with attacks, sabotage, and violence that took place in different parts of the country. They were arrested from different parts of the country, said RAB Headquarte
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday arrested 21 more people including BNP leaders and activists in connection with cases of attack, sabotage, and violence that took place in different parts of the country. Bahaj Uddin, co-organising secretary of Jamalpur district BNP and Haji As
A Dhaka court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami central leader Laskar Mohammad Taslim to two-year jail in an arson case filed with capital’s Kafrul Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Torikul Islam pronounced the judgment in absence of the convict and issued an arr
Additional police commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Dr Mahid Uddin on Tuesday said that those who are planning sabotages in different areas of Dhaka city would never be successful. The commissioner said this while speaking at a press conference at DMP media centre in the city’s
