Nineteen marine cadets from Bangladesh are currently lodged in the custody of Belapur police in India as their transit visas have expired. Their letters of invitation (LOIs) and joining contracts were found to be fake as they had been fleeced by their agent. The cadets were sent to Mumbai via Kolkata…

The police and the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) are in a quandary over the number of passports and the one with which BNP senior vice…

The public administration ministry will place the draft Public Service Act 2015 before the Cabinet today to protect government employees. Under the proposed law, law enforcement agencies would not be able to arrest government employees without prior permission from the government. Besides, the draft…

The EU cancelled a full 28-nationsummit yesterday to decide whether Greece stays in the European single currency as a divided eurozone struggled to reach a reform-for-bailout deal, reports AFP from Brussels. The summit had been billed as a last chance to stop Greece crashing out, but was scrapped as…

Officials and employees of Dhaka Wasa in collusion with political actors and brokers informally control the water supply of Dhaka Wasa, reports UNB based on a new TIB study. They study reveals that work orders are changed and payment of additional work is approved in Dhaka Wasa violating the existing…

Newly appointed LGRD and cooperatives minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain took charge of the ministry yesterday after a meeting with his predecessor Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam. Mosharraf went to Syed Ashraful Islam's Bailey Road residence before taking the charge…

International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday asked Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury to explain his position over his comments regarding the tribunal judges. The tribunal asked Zafrullah to explain why a contempt of court proceeding should not be initiated against him for his comments…