The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner, Md Asaduzzaman Miah, said yesterday that police surveillance against controversial publications would not hamper freedom of speech. He, however, repeated that the police would continue their surveillance against books which may instigate chaos centring…

Sacked RAB-11 official Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Sub-inspector Purnendu Bala, who along with others were sentenced to death in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, filed separate petitions with the High Court yesterday challenging the capital punishment, reports UNB. Convict’s lawyer Ahsan-Ullah…

Noting that no one is above the law, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday told Parliament that action will be taken if any policeman is found involved in assaulting two TV journalists during a shutdown in the capital, reports UNB. "A probe panel has already been formed, head by an additional…

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday said Dhaka would continue working for a permanent solution to Rohingya crisis on the basis of bilateral friendship and mutual understandings through further strengthening multifaceted relations with Myanmar, reports BSS. “I hope that we would be able to…

The gas company Jamuna LPG has been fined Tk. 2.5 lakh by a mobile court for storing expired LPG cylinders, Nazim Uddin, the assistant commissioner and executive magistrate of the district administration, told journalists. He added that the Jamuna LPG factory at the Mongla port area was examined yesterday…

The sound pollution in capital Dhaka has grown to an alarming level and it now stands twice than normal level in some areas, according to a study revealed yesterday, reports BSS. Conducted over 45 places in the mega city in January 2017, it found that the day time sound level varies from 83.3 decibel…