The third phase of elections in 620 Union Parishads (UP) will be held on Saturday even as poll-related violence in different areas continues since the…

Grameenphone (GP), the country’s leading mobile phone operator, yesterday said that none of their employees is involved in siphoning off funds from…

Bangladesh is going to court here in Manila today or tomorrow seeking to recover about 10 million US dollars out of 81 million stolen from Bangladesh Bank reserves in March. Bangladesh ambassador to the Philippines James Gomez told The Independent that Bangladesh would get the entire amount since it…

The High Court yesterday asked the Principal of Udayan Higher Secondary School in Dhaka to submit a report on the steps taken against the teacher responsible for allegedly torturing Jamiul Islam Nadim, a Class VIII student of the school. The Principal will have to submit a report before the court within…

A team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday interrogated four people over the killing of college girl Sohagi Jahan Tonu, reports UNB. The CID team, headed by Dhaka senior police super Abdul Kahhar Akand said the team interrogated Alal Hossain, paternal uncle of Tonu, his wife Sazeda…

Dhaka-based Yunus Centre issued a clarification over a news report published in The Independent yesterday headlined ‘$13m US grants to Yunus under FBI scanner’. Yunus Centre in its clarification said: A report published in web-based newspaper in the USA called The Daily Caller on April 17,…

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) heist probe committee handed over the interim investigation report to the government yesterday. Head of the committee, former BB governor Mohammed Farashuddin, handed over the report at 6.30 pm to finance minister AMA Muhith at his office in the Secretariat. BB governor Fazle…