The home ministry has initiated the process of dismissal of some officials and employees of the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) from service after detecting that some of them were involved in issuing official passports on the basis of fake ‘no objection certificates (NOCs)’…

World Bank (WB) Group president Jim Yong Kim, concluding a two-day trip to Bangladesh, focused on the country’s successes in reducing extreme poverty and pledged USD 2 billion over the next three years in new funding to help the country become less vulnerable to climate change. He announced this…

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday disclosed a government plan to utilise the country's reserve of foreign currency for investment, reports UNB. "We are thinking seriously to invest our hard-earned remittance of the expatriates. We will take loan from our foreign exchange reserve to invest…

A court in Sylhet yesterday asked the authorities concerned to conduct a fresh investigation into the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder and submit a supplementary chargesheet before it, reports UNB. Judge of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Court-3 Haridash Kumar passed the order. Assistant public prosecutor…

The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the Tangail chief judicial magistrate to conduct a judicial inquiry into the allegation of torture of a schoolboy before he was sent to prison. The HC has also acquitted the Tangail schoolboy Sabbir Shikdar, of the charges of threatening Awami League (AL) MP Anupam…

Militant leaders are yet to assign women members of terror outfits any role in attacks in the country. Till now, they have been assisting the male members by providing shelter, secret information and carrying arms and ammunition before a militant attack. Talking to The Independent recently, Sanowar…