The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a charge-sheet for submission against a sub-registrar and three others in a graft case. The Commission at its regular meeting on Wednesday approved a proposal for submitting the charge-sheet against them, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya…

Some 274 people were killed and 848 others injured in around 205 road accidents across the country in 13 days during the Eid holidays, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kallyan Samity (BJKS), reports UNB. Besides, 106 people were killed and 14 others injured in 35 accidents in river and rail routes during…

A 160-strong contingent of Bangladesh Police left Dhaka Tuesday night by a chartered aircraft of the United Nations for joining the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, reports BSS. Apart from the stipulated forces working with different peacekeeping missions under the United Nations (UN), Superintendent…

Customs intelligence this morning detained two women and seized 40 gold bars from their possessions at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, reports BSS.  “Nasim Akter and Jesmin Akter, both in their mid 30s, came here from  Chittagong on a Regent Airways flight RX-724. Acting on information,…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) yesterday arrested a ‘robber ring leader’ of costal area of Bay of Bengal along with eight firearms, 15 round of bullets, 2000 pieces of contraband yaba tablets, huge rocket players, 26 mobile sets and Tk16.39 lakh from city’s Green View Residential Area…

COMILLA: A teenage boy was hacked to death by another one over previous enmity at Lalchandpur village in Monohorganj upazila on Tuesday night, reports UNB. Quoting locals, police said Yusuf Kazi, 14, son of Wazed Kazi and Rahmat Ullah, 15, son of Abul Bashar, both residents of Lalchandpur village, had…

Seven people, including a minor boy, of a family sustained burn injuries in a gas line explosion at a house in Dhalkanagar area in the city’s Gendaria early Wednesday, reports UNB. Locals said the gas line went off around 5:20 am as there was a leak in the gas pipe line, leaving all seven family…

University Grants Commission (UGC) yesterday temporarily suspended one of its assistant secretaries MA Wares on the allegation of stealing money from a duty free shop at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport recently.  The Commission thinks that the recent news report ‘one UGC officer…

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday visited party chairperson's advisory council member Habibur Rahman Habib at a city hospital as he received serious injuries in a road crash, reports UNB. Fakhrul went to Islami Bank Central Hospital, Kakrail in the morning and stayed…

Law enforcers in separate drives arrested four operatives of the banned militant Islamist outfit ‘Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh’ (JMB)…

A Gazipur court on Wednesday sentenced three people, including two brothers, to death penalty for killing an auto-rickshaw driver at Kaliakoir upazila…

Seminar held at North South University A seminar on ‘Carrot vs Sticks and other Incentive Stories’ was held at North South University yesterday, says a press release.  Dr Tanjim Hossain, department of Economics and Rotman School of Management, Toronto University, Canada delivered keynote…

Mexican envoy calls on Speaker Visiting Mexican envoy Melba Pria yesterday called on Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at her office at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. During the meeting, they discussed about parliamentarian affairs, trading facilities, empowerment of women, safety of women…