The High Court yesterday granted bail to senior BNP leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy in a case filed under the Explosives Act. “There is no legal bar on Roy’s release from jail following the HC order, as he has secured bail in all the other 26 cases,” Nitai Roy Chowdhury, counsel of Roy,…

BNP executive committee member MM Shahriar Rumy yesterday resigned from all posts of the party. “I have tendered my resignation letters to party chairperson Khaleda Zia, acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam  Alamgir and party spokesperson Dr Asaduzzmana Ripon today (Sunday),”…

Chuadanga: Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dr Mizanur Rahman yesterday expressed surprise over a Narayanganj court order sending seven-murder prime accused Nur Hossain to jail instead of placing him on remand, reports UNB. “I’m also shocked like the countrymen for…

A district court yesterday convicted and sentenced five persons to life term imprisonment for carrying contraband phensedyl. The convicts are identified as Mina Begum, Asma Begum, of Laxmipur village in Bhairab upazila, Ibrahim, Hore Krisno, of Rupshi village in Rupganj upazila and Akter, of Fajilpur…

Iswarganj upazila administration yesterday imposed Section 144 at Cinema Hall area in Atharabari Bazaar restricting gathering of people after two factions of Sramik League, a front organisation of ruling Awami League, called workers’ meeting at the same time and on the same time. Two faction of…

Six people were killed in separate road accidents in four districts yesterday.       In Habiganj: Three people, including two women, were killed and four others injured as a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Nabiganj upazila yesterday, reports UNB. The…

Police in Kushtia held a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Islamic University unit yesterday in connection with question paper leak during admission test at the IU. Masudur Rahman, former joint secretary of IU BCL unit, was caught red handed by Proctor M Mahbubur Rahman while trying to leak…

A neonate was found abandoned at BSCIC Area in Kushtia Sadar upazila yesterday morning. Shopkeeper Lavlu saw the baby boy lying on Kushtia –Jhenaidah highway at about 8:00 am and took the child to the Kushtia 250-bed Hospital. Physician Ayub Ali said the newborn weighs only two pounds, which is…

State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Mashiur Rahman Ranga yesterday called upon all to be united to resist the anti-state elements, reports BSS. “The conspirators are hatching conspiracies at home and abroad,” he said speaking as chief guest at a workshop organised by Rural Livelihood…

A schoolboy, who went missing on Tuesday morning from Baropur Modhyapara village in Sadar upazila, was found dead in a jungle at Chandpur in the same upazila of the district yesterday afternoon.  Ripon, 12, son of Faruque Hissen of Baropur Modhyapara village and a student of class-VI at a local…

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has claimed that a terror attack like the ones in Paris cannot be carried out in the country. He, however, said there is some instability prevailing in the country. “Law enforcement agencies have already been put on alert to avert any untoward incident and the intelligence…

A female physician was found hanging at the staff quarters of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the city yesterday. Police recovered the body of Dr Tanzila Akter Mithila, 27, wife of Dr Mizanur Rahman, a physician of the DMCH medicine ward. Mithila, also daughter of Firoz, hailed from Comilla…