A Chittagong court yesterday sent five Ready Made Garments (RMG) business men to jail over case filed for importing 288 cartons of cigarettes instead of cottons abusing bond facilities in Chittagong. Chittagong Metropolitan Session Judge Md Shah Nur passed the order. The five businessmen were identified…

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railway Ministry yesterday recommended introducing double-decker coaches for train passengers from Gazipur to…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested eight more graft suspects, including an engineer of Dhaka Wasa, from different parts of the country in separate graft cases, reports UNB. An ACC team arrested former superintending engineer of Dhaka WASA AJM Robiul Kawsar from the capital in a…

A man, who received injuries in a clash over felling a disputed tree in Sribardi upazila of the district on Monday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Monowar Hossain Montu, 36, son of Hamidur Rahman, a resident of the village. Police…

The government yesterday awarded 10 sculptors for their works presented at a competition for selecting a sculpture to be installed at Nagasaki Peace Park in Japan, reports BSS. Three sculptures selected from 62 in the competition will be presented to the Prime Minister. Housing and Public Works Minister…

A mobile court of the Power Development Board (PDB), Chittagong on Tuesday snapped 40 electricity connection lines and filed 41 cases for not paying bill arrears and using electricity illegally in Chittagong. The drive was conducted to realise outstanding bills Tk83 lakh at the city’s Khulsi,…

A Gazipur court yesterday convicted four men and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a woman. Mohammed Iqbal Hossain, Judge of Additional District and Session Judge Court of Gazipur, handed down the verdict. The judge also fined Tk 10,000 each of convicted in the same time. The convicted…

Police yesterday arrested two people over the incident of mother, daughter killing at Shillpara of Boalkhali in Chittagong on Tuesday. Earlier, victim Shelly Shill’s mother Minoti Bala Shill lodged a murder case accusing five people including victim’s husband, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law…

RAJSHAHI: Three children, who were abducted from Faridpur, were rescued by a BRTC bus supervisor in the city on Tuesday night, reports UNB. After their rescue, the supervisor later handed over the children to police. Shahadat Hossain, offficer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station, said the superviser…

SAVAR: A local leader of Hawkers League was injured by stabbing in an attack by some miscreants at Dilkhusabag in Savar upazila early Wednesday, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Jakir Hossain, senior vice-president of the Savar thana unit of the ruling Awami League’s associate body for…

KHULNA: Khulna Divisional Inland Water Transport Owners Association and Mongla Port Users Coordination Committee here at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon demanded to withdraw ban on vessels movement and reopen immediately for plying it’s in the Shela River route of the Sundarbans, reports…

As part of the drive to recover luxurious cars, customs intelligence (CI) early yesterday seized a silver colour Lexus car from Sylhet. "The car was recovered in an abandoned condition from in front of CI regional office at 2am yesterday on charges of misusing carnet facility," director general…

Titumir College ex-GS   dies of cancer Anwarul Haq Bhuiyan, a former general secretary (GS) of Titumir College Student Union, died of cancer at a hospital in the capital on Tuesday. He was 40, reports UNB. Anwar, who had been undergoing treatment at Green Life Hospital for brain cancer, breathed…

Robotics competition begins today at RUET RAJSHAHI: A two-day inter-university robotics competition will begin at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) from today. The Department of Mechatronics Engineering (MTE) of RUET and Robotic Society of RUET (RSR) are going to organize the…