A Dhaka court on Monday exempted popular actress Mehazabien Chowdhury and her brother in a case over embezzlement of Tk 27 lakh. Dhaka executive magistrate Md Adnan Zulfiqar passed the order after hearing, said Advocate Tuhin Hawladar, lawyer of actress Mehazabien. According to the case statement, Mehazabien took Tk 27 lakh from plaintiff Amirul Islam through Nagad and bKash promising ...

A task force on Sunday seized 20,000 cubic feet of illegally extracted sand and destroyed 50 boats used for sand extraction at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet. The taskforce conducted the drive in Rangpani River at Banglabazar area at about 11:00 am, the upazila administration said. Jaintapur upazila nirbahi officer, Mohammad Golam Mostafa, led the taskforce comprising members of the police ...

Sylhet Titans ended their Sylhet phase of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with a six-wicket win over Rangpur Riders on Monday to take another step closer to the playoffs. The Titans bowled first and dismissed the Riders for 114 in 19.1 overs with Moeen Ali (2-8) and Nasum Ahmed (3-19) spinning a web around the Rangpur batters. Shohidul Islam was also ...

Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that a total of 555,958 Ansar-VDP members will be deployed at 42,766 polling stations during the upcoming elections. Of the, 13 members assigned to each centre, he said while speaking at a passing-out parade at the Ansar and VDP Academy in Safipur, Gazipur, on Monday. Jahangir Alam said ...

Canada has said it remains steadfast in its support for efforts to advance accountability, dignity and justice for the Rohingya. Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Ajit Singh met three Rohingya survivors who will be travelling to The Hague to testify in the upcoming International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings in the landmark genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar ...

Unrest in Iran has killed more than 500 people, a rights group said on Sunday, as Tehran threatened to target US military bases if President Donald Trump carries out his renewed threats to intervene on behalf of protesters. With the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment facing the biggest demonstrations since 2022, Trump has repeatedly threatened to get involved if force is ...

China’s state-of-the-art medical technology and clinical expertise can play a significant role in strengthening Bangladesh’s healthcare sector through knowledge sharing, specialist collaboration, and medical tourism facilitation, experts said. Speaking during a recent medical exchange programme, the CEO of Belt & Road Healthcare Center said that over the last three days, eight specialist doctors from China were brought to Bangladesh from ...

Bangladesh is set to achieve a milestone in institutionalizing its growing freelancing sector as the country’s first national digital platform for freelancer registration and ID card management, freelancers.gov.bd, will be formally inaugurated tomorrow. The platform’s security and technical capabilities have been successfully verified through VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing), said a press release of the ministry of posts, telecommunications ...

Scott McTominay scored a double as defending champions Napoli twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw with Serie A leaders Inter Milan at the San Siro on Sunday. Inter came close to gaining revenge for their 3-1 defeat in Naples earlier this season and a win would have opened up a commanding gap at the top but Napoli’s ...

Jamaat-e-Islami candidate AKM Fazlul Haque has failed to get back his candidacy for the Chittagong-9 constituency as the Election Commission (EC) rejected his appeal, citing dual citizenship. Now, he will not be able to contest the upcoming 13th parliamentary election. The decision was taken following a hearing on his appeal at the Election Commission on Monday. Fazlul Haque said he ...