State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan told the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday police have undertaken all possible measures to maintain law and order properly for smooth celebration of the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, reports BSS. The state minister said at present the law and order situation across the…

A gang of criminals attacked and injured an Army man on Sunday night for resisting them from stalking a schoolgirl at Borotia village in Ghior upazila. Mrityunjoy Kumer Dash, 23, of Borotia village, a soldier posted at Rangamati Cantonment, was admitted to Shibalaya Upazila Health Complex immediately…

Police yesterday sent to jail the two suspects who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the killing of a man and his three sons at Bashati village in Nandail upazila on Friday night. Ali Akbar, 55, a retired bank officer, and Harun-or-Rashid, 38, of Bashati village, were arrested early on…

KHULNA: A total of 2500 farmers of nine upazilas of the district were sued on charges of non-payment of outstanding loans amounting to Tk 56.97 crore, reports BSS. Authorities of the 10 state-owned banks of Khulna have filed the certificate cases against the farmers last month. The District Agriculture…

Illegal structures on both sides of Dhaka-Tangail highway are being demolished for smooth movement of transports before and after the coming Eid-ul-Fitr.  Mobile courts began conducting drives for demolishing illegal structures and checking licences of vehicles yesterday. A mobile court, led by…

A youth was killed in an attack following a family feud at Baghasura village in Madhabpur upazila yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Uzzal Miah, 18. Local people said Uzzal’s elder brother Ful Mia, 45, locked in a quarrel with his wife over a family feud at 11 am yesterday. At one…

Faridpur: Two people were killed when a pick-up van plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Majhkandi in Madhukhali upazila yesterday, reports UNB. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Abu Syed, sub-inspector of Karimpur highway police, said the accident took…

The Access to Information (a2i) Programme under the Prime Minister’s Office and international non-profit Mozilla Foundation have joined hands to make government and private e-services more easily accessible and easy to use for the general public. Meeting the press on July 5, Mozilla Foundation…

A petition was filed yesterday with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 seeking its directive to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury for his comments over the tribunal proceedings. Freedom fighter Monoranjan Ghoshal and Kamal Pasha Chowdhury,…

State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzman Khan Kamal yesterday recognised that Bangladesh is being used as the transit for human trafficking in recent years, reports UNB. “This not untrue that human trafficking is being carried out from Bangladesh to various countries,” he said this in…

Some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL’s) Government Titumir College unit reportedly went on a rampage vandalising 20 vehicles and some shops in front of the college in the city’s Mohakhali area yesterday, reports UNB. Officer-in-charge of Banani Police Station Bhuiyan…