Bangladesh

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday night arrested former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Asaduzzamàn Mia at Mohakhali in the capital. RAB director for Legal and Media Wing Munim Ferdous said that they arrested him at about 11:00pm. “We will hand over him to DB (Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s detective branch),” Munim added. He is wanted in a case of custodial death. ...

Seeking cooperation from all to keep factories open and economy functional, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said the workers’ brothers and sisters have many pains but it will not be right if their main livelihood is about to be stopped while expressing that grief. “It will not be right if the country’s economy is destroyed. We will definitely ...

Adviser to the Ministry of Labour and Employment Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan has said the due salaries and allowances of ready-made garment workers of the factories at Savar will be paid by Thursday (September 12). He stated it to mass media representatives on Wednesday (September 11) following a meeting of the Advisory Council held over the ongoing labour unrest. Advisor ...

A Dhaka court has placed former prime minister’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on a four-day remand for questioning in a case involving murder of a person at Badda during the recent anti-government movement. Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Ali Haider’s court placed him on remand on Wednesday. Earlier, showing arrested in one Sumon Sikder murder case with Badda Police Station ...

Two separate cases have been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on charge of killing of Salam Babu and Selim Ali Sheikh in different areas of Dhaka during the anti-Discrimination Student Movement. Tofazzal Hossain, father of auto-rickshaw driver Salam Babu, who was killed in Uttara House Building area on July 22, filed a complaint against 46 people, including Hasina, ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested former Thakurgaon-2 constituency lawmaker Mazharul Islam Suzon from the Nikunja area of the capital on Wednesday on charges of extortion and death threats. RAB Media Wing Assistant Director ANM Emran Khan acknowledged the matter and said a team of RAB-1 arrested him from the Nikunja area. It could not be known immediately in which case ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent former inspector general of police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque to jail in a murder case after ending his seven-day remand. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ali Haider passed the order in the morning after investigation officer New Market police Station SI Bayezid Bostami pleaded to keep him in jail until the case investigation is over. ...

Police have arrested former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury from Gulshan area in the capital. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested him at about 9:45PM on Tuesday, Rezaul Karim Mallik, additional commissioner of DB, confirmed. Tawfiq-e-Elahi was taken to DB and he was shown arrested in one case, Rezaul Karim added. Tawfiq had been ...

Netherlands has expressed keenness to invest in the ICT and pharmaceutical sectors of Bangladesh to reap benefits from the growing potential of these items in both the domestic and international markets. Netherlands Ambassador to Bangladesh Irma van Dueren today expressed the interest while meeting with Interim Government’s Adviser to the Ministry of Industries Adilur Rahman Khan at Industries Ministry in ...

US Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin has expressed his support to Bangladesh’s interim government led by Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus. On Monday, the whip took to the US Senate floor in Washington DC voiced his backing for Dr Yunus, who faced decades of harassment by ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to press release received in ...