Bangladesh

A Dhaka court on Thursday imposed a travel ban on Waheeda Rahman Choudhury, former commissioner of the Large Taxpayer Unit of Value Added Tax, of National Board of Revenue (NBR) in connection with a case filed over providing illegal benefits to four mobile phone operators, causing losses of Tk 152 crore to the government. Dhaka Metropolitan senior special judge Mohammad ...

There will be no tickets black markets after this year, said director of Rapid Action Battalion’s legal and media wing commander Arafat Islam on Thursday. “RAB has been working against ticket black markets, muggers, molom party for some days. RAB’s surveillance is continuing to keep passengers safe during Eid time.” If there is any complaint at the railway station during the ...

Global Fund and Stop TB Partnership wants to include Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in their coalition of leaders and champion of global fund. Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands and Stop TB Partnership Executive Director Dr Lucica Ditiu today made the plea when they paid a courtesy call on her at her official residence Ganabhaban. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq today said that if a citizen breaks any law, the way he would have been brought to justice, Dr Muhammad Yunus’s trial is being held in the same way. “But he (Yunus) is giving false statements, and these are humiliating for the people of Bangladesh,” the law minister told newsmen after coming ...

A court has ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate eight more flats and 25 acres (1 acre=60.5 kathas) and 27 kathas of land remaining in the names of former inspector general of police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed, his wife and daughters. The flats have been traced at Badda and Adabar in Dhaka, and residential plots at Rupganj in Narayanganj, Uttara and ...

An HSC examinee died after her scarf got entangled in the wheels of a battery-operated auto-rickshaw in Patuakhali Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred at around 11:30am on Wednesday in the Model Mosque area of Patuakhali. Deceased Adhara Chowdhury Mohona, 18, was the eldest daughter of Md. Rasel Munshi from the Shimulbag area of Patuakhali municipality. She was ...

Action will be taken against bus owners if they are found charging extra fares during Eid-ul-Azha, said Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Munibur Rahman on Wednesday. He noted that the intense travel rush typically seen one or two days before Eid, primarily involving workers returning to their home villages. “Those who leave Dhaka for trips cannot easily return ...

A court in Dhaka on Wednesday framed charges against Nobel Laureate economist Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and 13 others in a case filed over misappropriation of about Tk 25.22 crore of Grameen Telecom Workers’ Profit Participation Fund. Now, there is no legal bar to start the trial in the case. Judge Syed Arafat Hossain of the Special Judge’s Court-4 of Dhaka framed the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday received the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) as Bangladesh won the maiden award for its leading role in introducing local adaptation programme to face climate change impacts. GCA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Professor Patrick V. Verkooijen today handed over the award to the Prime Minister while paying a ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the government is working to ensure civic amenities for all the rural people throughout the country. “We’ll bring every village under the coverage of civic amenities and the people of every village will enjoy the civic amenities,” she said, reports UNB. The premier said this while handing over 18,566 more houses among the ...