SYLHET: A court here on Sunday framed charges against industrialist Ragib Ali in two cases filed over grabbing endowment property of Tarapur Tea Estate, reports UNB. Sylhet Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman Hero framed the charges against Ragib Ali. The court also rejected the discharge petition…

GAZIPUR: A court here on Sunday placed suspended Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) mayor MA Mannan on a one-day remand in an extortion case filed with Joydebpur Police Station, reports UNB. Gazipur Senior Judicial Magistrate Abdul Hye passed the order when police produced MA Mannan, now in jail in another…

After facing heat from the district administration, encroachers on both sides of the Kirtankhola river have started removing illegal structures. On a…

Around 500 shanties in Karail Slum in the capital were completely destroyed in a devastating fire that broke out yesterday afternoon, reports BSS. Deputy assistant director of fire brigade Masudur Rahman Akhanda said the fire might have originated from an electric short circuit or a burning cigarette…

The High Court (HC) yesterday acquitted the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Chapainawabganj, Mujahidul Islam, of his reported comment provoking people to take law into their own hands, reports UNB. An HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah passed the order as the Chapainawabganj…

Railway Ministry and Bangladesh Railway yesterday honoured a rail worker for his brave rescue of a man from committing suicide by jumping on level crossing gate adjacent to the Chashara Railway Station at Narayanganj, reports BSS. Billal Hossain Mazumder risked his life on November 21 this year by dragging…

RAJSHAHI: At one night before going to sleep, Haider Ali told her wife with a deep voice: "Parita, I had never thought, even in my dreams, that I'd be able to live in such a good house." They had just moved to their new house, which they constructed with support from Community Housing…

International Turkish Hope School, Uttara Junior Section organized a science fair on the campus yesterday, says a press release.  Over 200 students from Grade 1 to 5 worked in groups to demonstrate their passion for science through the execution of around 150 projects.  The projects on display…

Diagnostic centre sealed off SYLHET: A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -9 had shutdown a diagnostic centre in stadium market area of Sylhet on Saturday and fined other five centres Tk 17 lakh which had been operated with unskilled technicians and unhygienic way. A RAB release said the RAB…

New trust fund launched at DU A new trust fund titled ‘Justice Sikandar Ali Memorial Trust Fund’ was set up at Law Department of Dhaka University (DU). Former Resident Representative of UNDP Sarwar Sultana, also daughter of  late Justice Sikandar Ali, yesterday handed over a cheque…