Bangladesh

A Dhaka court on Monday placed Hefazat-e Islam Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed last year with Mohammadpur Police Station. Metropolitan Magistrate Debdash Chandra Adhikary passed the order after Sub-inspector of the police station Md Sajedul Haque submitted the remand prayer before the court. Mamunul was produced before the court amid tight security ...

Three Bangladeshi citizens were killed after a car carrying them skidded off in Oman on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Md Jahed, 42, Absar, 45 and Salahuddin, all of them hailing from different villages under Rangunia upazila of Chattogram. They used to work at Modern Rose Trading Enterprise LLC in Muscat of Oman. Mohammad Rezaul Karim, the Bangladeshi ...

Narayaanngj’s Shambhupura union chairman Abdur Rouf was arrested on Monday in a case filed for attacking police and vandalising a resort at Sonargaon in the district on April 3. Shambhupura unon BNP’s former president, Abdur Rouf is the incumbent president of the union Jatiya Party. Police arrested Abdur Rouf in a raid in the union parishad office in Sonargaon upazila ...

Hefazat leader Mamunul Huque has been taken to Tejgaon police station for interrogation, DMP commissioner Mohammad Shafiqul Islam has said. Hefazat-e-Islam joint secretary general was first taken to Tejgaon division of police after he had been arrested from Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa in the city’s Mohammadpur area at around 12:30 pm on Sunday. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Shafiqul Islam ...

With the deaths of 102 more people in the last 24 hours until 8:00 am on Sunday, Bangladesh’s Covid-19 death count now stands at 10,385. This is the highest daily death counts since the pandemic hit the country on March last year. On Saturday, the country saw 101 deaths from coronavirus. During this timeline, 3,698 fresh cases were reported, taking ...

The Dhaka North City Corporation’s 1000-bed hospital, the country’s largest facility for the treatment of coronavirus patients, began operations on Sunday. Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the country’s largest Covid-19 dedicated hospital as chief guest. Situated in the capital’s Mohakhali, initially there will be 50 ICU beds, 50 emergency beds, and 150 general beds from today, while 130 doctors, 200 ...

Hefazat-e Islam’s central joint secretary general Mamunul Huque was arrested from a madrasa at Mohammadpur in Dhaka on Sunday. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police nabbed him from Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa at 12:50pm. After arrest, the Hefazat leader is being taken to the DB office in Tejgaon, said DB police’s Joint Commissioner Mahbub Alam. Mamunul Haque was staying at ...

Gazi MM Amjad Hossain Milon, former lawmaker from Sirajganj-3 constituency, passed away at a hospital in Sirajganj on Sunday. Amjad Hossain, the president of Tarash upazila Awami League, breathed his last at Khwaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital at around 11:00am. Hosne Ara Loely, daughter of the deceased, confirmed the news.

Nine years after his disappearance, BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas on Saturday gave new information about BNP leader M Ilias Ali. He blamed some of the leaders inside the party behind the disappearance of Ilias Ali. Without mentioning the names of those leaders, the BNP standing committee member said, many people know these people hiding inside the party.  Awami League ...

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Amanullah Aman has been tested positive for coronavirus. The party’s assistant organizing secretary Mohammad Shahidul Islam Babul confirmed the information. Former minister Amanullah Aman has been admitted to Square Hospital in the capital. Aman Ullah Aman and his family asked countrymen to pray for his recovery from coronavirus.