Even though the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has found that five persons are allegedly involved in plundering 33,000 metric tonnes of wheat of a Korean company, they are not able to submit charge-sheet against them since the government is not interested in it and because of legal complications,…

A Dhaka court yesterday upheld a lower court verdict that had sentenced former police officer Md Helal Uddin to three years' imprisonment on charge of torturing a former Dhaka University student. Judge Md Zahidul Kabir of the Dhaka Fifth Additional Sessions Judge’s Court passed the order dismissing…

Ismat Jahan, who is currently serving as the ambassador to the European Union (EU) and Belgium, has been made the envoy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Permanent Observer Mission to the EU. OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani has already approved the appointment, said sources…

Major General Mohammad Humayun Kabir of Bangladesh has been appointed as the Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon made the announcement of the appointment of Gen Kabir on Tuesday at the UN headquarters, said a…

A total of 6,000 tonnes of rice and Tk. 5.5 crore in cash have already been sent to 11 flood-affected districts of the country, disaster management and relief minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya said yesterday. Besides, 4,000 cartons of dry food and flood-relevant materials have been dispatched,…

A writ petition was filed with the High Court seeking directives to cancel the Junior School Certificate (JSC) of class VIII citing the examination as illegal, reports UNB. Eunus Ali Akond, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed the writ petition with the HC bench concerned on Wednesday. Secretaries to the Ministries…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion handed over two people to Jhenaidah police on Tuesday evening after they were arrested for sheltering the attackers to Holey Artisan Bakery at Gulshan in Dhaka and Sholakia in Kishoreganj. The arrestees were retired army soldier Kawser Ali, also owner of a mess at Sonalipara…

A fire broke out at a restaurant in the capital’s Banani area yesterday, reports UNB. Fire service officials said the fire broke out at the restaurant at Block-B on Road-10 around 6:20pm. Informed, five firefighting units rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control around 6:53pm.…

The post-mortem of the nine militants who were killed in their den in Kalyanpur was completed by forensic experts of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) at 2pm yesterday. The bodies will be kept at the DMCH mortuary for a certain period. If nobody claims their bodies, they will be handed over…

The counter-terrorism chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Monirul Islam, in a Facebook post yesterday,  replied to people who raised questions about the success of the police operation in Kalyanpur. Nine militants were killed and one caught alive in the operation on Tuesday. The police official…