The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict acquitting former Awami League lawmaker Joynal Hazari in a case filed for amassing wealth illegally. The apex court also ordered the High Court to conduct fresh hearing in the case filed by Anti Corruption Commission…

The United Kingdom (UK) has provided the Special Branch of the police with forgery detection equipment to help tackle immigration crime. British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert W Gibson formally handed over specialist forgery detection equipment to the Special Branch in a ceremony held in the…

President Abdul Hamid returned home from London yesterday wrapping up his eight-day visit there for treatment, reports UNB. A flight if Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10.20 am. Foreign Miniter A H Mahmood Ali, Civil Aviation and Tourism…

Police arrested 62 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhattra Shibir from a mosque in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi on Sunday night. Among those arrested include Jamaat ameer of Bagha union unit Saiful Islam, office secretary Emaj Uddin, ward president Abdur Rashid and…

A traffic constable has set an example by saving a boy from drowning. The incident took place in the Nimtala area of the port city on Sunday. Monir Ahmed, a traffic constable of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police, was on duty in the Nimtala Truck Terminal area of Bandar police station. He rushed to…

The 7th session of the 10th parliament begins at 5pm today, reports UNB. President Abdul Hamid summoned the session of the Jatiya Sangsad on August 16. Prior to the session, a meeting of the business advisory committee will be held at 4 pm with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair to fix…

Jatiya Party (JP) yesterday condemned the attack on the teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, reports UNB. In a joint statement, JaPa chairman HM Ershad and its secretary general Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu also demanded immediate…

The government is taking tougher steps to halt illegal migration through sea which will open up a greater scope for legal migration from Bangladesh to foreign destinations, including Thailand, said Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc, reports UNB. During his recent Thailand…

Monsoon flood caused by incessant rainfall has affected life of several lakh people across the country as it has damaged crops on vast tract of land, houses and infrastructures, local and official sources said, reports BSS. According to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), in the next 48…

A huge amount of fishes worth over Taka 2.7 crore of 3,100 ponds here have been washed away due to the current flood caused by heavy rainfall and onrush of hilly waters from the upstream, reports BSS from Gaibandha. Office sources said a total of 32,062-pond of all the seven upazilas in the district…

Ruling Awami League yesterday submitted its audited financial statement for 2014 to the Election Commission (EC) showing an earning of about Tk 9.5 crore, reports UNB. AL office secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap submitted the report to EC secretary Sirazul Islam at the EC Secretariat around 1:15pm yesterday,…

Six fish traders were killed and seven others injured as a truck overturned on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Dhonpur area of Sadar upazila early yesterday, reports UNB from Comilla. One of the deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam,  hailing from Gobindoganj upazila of Gaibandha district. Abdul…

The Supreme Court yesterday revoked a High Court order that had quashed the proceedings of a graft case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) against BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, reports UNB. A four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, passed the order…

Two motorcyclists were killed as a bus ran over them on the capital’s Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover last night. The deceased were identified as Jahirul Islam and Amzad Hossain, according to their identity card and mobile phone respectively, reports UNB. Witness said the motorcyclists were going…