Bangladesh

A Jhenaidah court has placed Nayeb Ali Joarder, former member of parliament for Jhenaidah-1 constituency (Shailkupa), on a four-day remand in two separate cases. Senior Judicial Magistrate Rumana Afroze placed him on remand after Joarder was produced before the court at 9:30am on Friday. Jhenaidah Sadar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Shaheen Uddin said: “We prayed for a 10-day remand for ...

DB inspector Arafat Hossain, who was arrested on Thursday night by RAB in connection with burning bodies after piling them up on a van in Ashulia, was handed over to Ashulia police on Friday noon. Earlier, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have arrested Arafat from Aftabnagar in the capital on Thursday night. RAB said when the video of the incident ...

Six people have died after separate landslides hit Cox’s Bazar’s Sadar Upazila and a Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya. Three members of a family died in Jhilongja Union’s Dikkul area in the Sadar Upazila while three members of another family died at the Hatikumrul-14 Rohingya camp in Ukhiya. The separate incidents occurred late on Thursday night and early on Friday ...

Amanullah Khan, founding chairman of United News of Bangladesh (UNB), passed away on Thursday. He was 80. Amanullah Khan, also the chairman of Cosmos Group of Companies, breathed his last around 5pm in the capital’s United Hospital while undergoing treatment there due to old age complications. He left behind his wife, brothers, many close relatives and a host of well-wishers ...

A Dhaka court has placed former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia on a seven-day remand for questioning in a case over the murder of a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader in police custody around a decade ago. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam placed the accused on remand on Thursday after the police produced him before ...

A professional rights body – ‘Journalists for Justice- (J for J)’ has formally started its journey aiming to work for the rights of the journalists oppressed and victimized by the outed government. J for J Convener Kazi Jasin announced the journey of the organisation at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) in the capital on Thursday. Speaking at ...

Fazle Karim Chowdhury, former lawmaker from Chattogram-6, has been detained while he was fleeing to India through Akhaura border in Brahmanbaria. BGB public relations officer Shariful Islam confirmed the detention on Thursday morning. A team of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained Fazle Karim while he was fleeing to India. Fazle Karim was wanted in several cases filed with different police ...

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 ...