A group of armed muggers looted Tk 6 lakh from two ‘bKash’ agents from Mudafa area in Tongi of Gazipur yesterday. Local sources said two bKash agents Anwar Hossain and Saidul Islam were going to their office at Senakalyan Bhaban in Tongi Bazar area after collected money from Mudafa area…

The chief executive officer of the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has asked the superintendent engineer of its electric department to explain how a contractor was allowed to install sodium lights without any tender or work order. Based on the report published in The Independent on May 13, titled…

The anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four alleged professional killers along with pistols, ammunition and knives from Mirpur area in the capital early yesterday. Talking to The Independent, RAB Deputy Director Major Rumman Mahmud said, getting secret information, a team of…

Police recovered the headless body of an unidentified man from the capital’s Khilgaon area yesterday. Inspector Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Khilgaon Police Station, said after being informed by local people, they retrieved the headless body from Nandipara around 10am. The body,…

The local administration yesterday launched an eviction drive at AK Khan Hill at Tigerpass area in the city. On the second day of the drive, a total of 40 houses were evicted as a measure of precaution to avert possible loss of lives from landslides ahead of monsoon. This year the first drive which…

Man held with yaba tablets CHITTAGONG: Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 1,000 yaba tablets in city’s Karnaphuli Bridge area of the city early yesterday. The arrestee was identified as Sayed Alam, 40, hailing from Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar District. Mohammad Mohsin, officer-in-charge,…

The annual budget of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was announced yesterday. The proposed budget amount was Tk 422 crore 60 lakh 75 thousand will be spent in different sectors of the city corporation, which was Tk 385 crore 27 lakh in the outgoing fiscal. KCC Mayor Md Moniruzzaman…

The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) yesterday inaugurated selling of essential commodities to the poor at subsidised price in the month of Ramzan. The CCCI President Mahbubul Alam inaugurated the activities on Chamber House premises in Agrabad area in the city.  “Like previous…

A group of teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) staged a sit in programme on the campus yesterday demanding removal of Vice-chancellor Md Aminul Haque Bhuyan. They organsied the programme in front of the central library under the banner of Mohan Muktijudder Chetonay Udbudda…

A college student was killed in a road accident as speedy truck hit him near at Bahaddarhat flyover in front of Rowsan Boarding yesterday at around 8:45am. He died on the spot. The victim was identified as Satyapriya Das Tapu, 25, son of late Swapan Das, hailing from Moheshkhali upazila of Cox’s…

The  qulkhwani of noted journalist Habibur Rahman Milon will be held today after Asr prayers at his residence at 6/1 Gausnagar, new Eskaton in the capital, a press release of Jatiya Press Club said here yesterday, reports BSS. All members of the Press Club have been requested to attend the Qulkhwani…