A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -7 arrested a police assistant sub-inspector and his driver and seized 6.8 lakh pieces of contraband yaba tablets from their possession at Lalpole in Feni district on Saturday night. The estimated market price of seized yaba tablets is Tk27.20 crore. The arrestees…

Members of the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers' Association (FBUTA) yesterday announced one-hour work abstention and human chain programme in 37 public universities, starting from 11am on June 28, to realise their demands, including a separate pay scale and reconstitution of the Eighth…

A joint team of Bangladesh and India will begin enrolment of people living in enclaves of the two countries from July first week so that they can migrate to their country of choice as part of implementation of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA). The home ministry, in a notification yesterday, informed…

The depression over North West bay and adjoining West Central Bay moved northwest wards and crossed Orissa coast between Gopalpur and Puri at 03.00 pm yesterday, reports UNB. Under its influence steep pressure gradient persists over the north Bay. Squally weather may affect North Bay, adjoining coastal…

The High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three cases filed over vandalism and arson. “There is no legal bar to release Fakhrul from jail following the High Court order as the BNP leader has secured bail in all the seven cases filed against…