Most of the hajj agencies have failed to produce documents before the probe committee proving that the people they sent to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj or Umrah have returned home. The government last month constituted a five-member inter-ministerial probe committee headed by the Religious Affairs Ministry’s…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that the government is not getting cooperation from the US, Canada and Pakistan governments to bring back Bangabandhu’s killers, now living in those countries, reports UNB. “For any reason, we are not getting cooperation from the governments…

As arable land is shrinking in a faster rate, the government is going to formulate a land law to ensure its optimum utilization in a planned manner, Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif said yesterday, reports BSS. “Formulation process of the law titled “Agricultural Land Protection and Land…

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday said the authorities concerned are seriously considering the proposal to set up a circuit bench of the High Court in the port city. He said this at a view-exchanging meeting with lawyers at the Chittagong Bar Association. “The erstwhile circuit bench…

One of the two siblings arrested in connection with the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das reportedly made confession before a Sylhet court yesterday, reports UNB. Judge Anwarul Karim of Metropolitan Magistrate Court-3 recorded the statement of Mannan Rahi under Section 164, said court Inspector Nazibul…

Four noted citizens, including Ekushey Award winner educationist Prof Anupam Sen, received death threats allegedly from banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) yesterday. The other threat recipients are Rana Dasgupta, International Crimes Tribunal prosecutor, former general secretary of…

The Anti-Corruption Commi­ssion (ACC) yesterday gave clean chit to independent lawmaker and Dhaka city unit Awami League Joint Secretary, Haji Mohammad Selim, saying that it did not find any substance in the allegation levelled against him of building houses by encroaching upon government land.…