Bangladesh

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 ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader left Dhaka for Singapore on Tuesday morning for a medical check-up. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, BG-0584, carrying Quader departed from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:30am. The minister will undergo treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. He is expected to return to Dhaka soon after his medical checkup.

Opposing the decision of the government to keep the provision of black money whitening by paying only 15 percent taxes of the money which was not shown, the Voluntary Consumers Training and Awareness Society (VOCTA) suggested the government to scrap the provision and disclose the names of black money holders through newspapers after preparing a concrete list of such persons. ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sued former commissioner of large taxpayers’ unit (LTU) of value-added tax (VAT) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Waheeda Rahman Choudhury on chrage of embezzling money by causing losses amounting to Tk 152 crore of the state through misuse of power. The case was filed at the ACC’s integrated district office in Dhaka-1 on ...

Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman has been appointed as the new Army Chief of Bangladesh. With this appointment, he will be promoted to the rank of General, as confirmed by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Tuesday. He has been appointed as the Army chief for three years from June 23, according to a press release from ISPR. General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed ...

MP Anar murder: Mastermind Shahin’s two cars seized from Gulshan residence Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) of police have seized two cars from the garage of Aktaruzzaman Shahin, mastermind of Jhenidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar murder. The vehicles have been seized from Shahin’s Gulshan residence in the capital. One is white Prado and another is white microbus. Investigation-related sources said that ...