Bangladesh

The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee leaders are holding meeting with the BNP leaders. The meeting was arranged at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday (October 26) evening. Apart from BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, several leaders of the party have joined the meeting. On the other hand, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement coordinator Hasnat Abdullah, ...

Former Chief Whip Abul Hasnat Abdullah’s son Moin Abdullah was arrested from a house at Gulshan-2 in the capital early Saturday. Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, confirmed the arrest in the morning. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted a raid in the area around 3:30AM and arrested Moin. He was wanted in several ...

Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna on Saturday. General Waker-uz-Zaman briefed the Chief Adviser about his recent visit to the United States and Canada during the meeting. The army chief returned home on Friday after an 11-day official visit to the US and Canada. During the visit, the ...

Six people were killed as a truck smashed a CNG-run autorickshaw in Narsingdi’s Shibpur upazila on Saturday afternoon. The accident happened at Poncharbari area on the Monhordi-Shibpur-Itakhola regional road. Confirming the accident news, Shibpur Model Police Station OC Md Afzal Hossain said the identities and other details of the deceased could not be known immediately. Fire Service and police members ...

A day after India’s news portal The Print reported that former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been residing in the VVIP area of Lutyens’ Delhi, Hindustan Times reported today, citing intelligence sources, that she is staying in a secure bungalow in the VVIP area located in central Delhi near India Gate and Khan Market. Multiple layers of security shield ...

Police Headquarters has again released a list of 44 police officers who were killed during the student-led mass uprising in July-August to remove confusion. The list was published in a notice on Friday (October 25). According to the list, 44 police personnel were killed during the student-people’s mass uprising. Of them, 14 were from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and ...

A Dhaka court on Friday placed former secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Helaluddin Ahmed on a four-day remand and former senior secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Mostafa Kamal Uddin on a three-day remand in separate murder cases. Mostafa Kamal Uddin was remanded in the case lodged over the murder of Jubo Dal leader Shamim as police produced ...

The government has appointed five more prosecutors to the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). The solicitor wing of the Law and Justice Division issued a gazette notification in this regard on Thursday (October 24), saying the order will come into effect immediately. Five prosecutors have been appointed as per section 7 (1) of the International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973 to run ...

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Friday arrested two alleged active members of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir from Turag area of Dhaka. They were arrested conducting raid at about 11:45pm on Thursday at Turag area. The arrested were identified as Jahangir Alam, 34, and Farhad Hossain, 26. Muhammad Talebur Rahman, ...

Former State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Zakir Hossain was detained in Dhaka on Thursday afternnon. Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said the members of Mohammadpur police station detained him. The detailed information will be disclosed later. Meanwhile, Zakir Hossain, a former Awami League lawmaker from Kurigram-4 constituency, was accused in several cases which were ...