Bangladesh

It rained continuously for three hours across the capital on Friday morning from 6 am to 9 am. According to Meteorological Office, 60 mm of rain has fallen in Dhaka in these three hours. It is still drizzling. Incessant rains have caused waterlogging in various places. The city dwellers are suffering. Incessant rains have created waterlogging at Moghbazar Wireless Gate, ...

A court in Chattogram on Thursday issued arrest warrants against Chandanaish Upazila Chairman Jasim Uddin and his wife Tanzina Sultana in a case filed over defaulting loans of Tk115 crore. Judge Mujahidur Rahman issued the arrest warrant after hearing a case filed by Padma Bank. Earlier, the Chittagong Money Loan Court on April 30 this year sentenced Jasim Uddin to ...

The High Court has published the main portion of its judgment declaring the circular illegal after cancelling the freedom fighter quota in government services in 2018. The main portion of the ruling was delivered on Thursday by a bench comprising Justice KM Kamrul Kader and Justice Khizir Hayat. The court’s decision declared the circular invalid, but it said the government ...

‘Bangla Blockade’ programme is continuing for the fourth consecutive day demanding removal of quota from the government jobs. The agitating students have now blocked Shahbag breaking the police barricades. Ignoring the rain, hundreds of students from different universities and colleges throng Shahbag intersection with processions from different parts of the capital on Thursday afternoon. Then they chanted ‘fake, fake’ and ...

A Dhaka court has ordered to confiscate former National Board of Revenue (NBR) official Matiur Rahman’s four flats at Mirpur in the capital and 2,367.07 decimals of land in his name. Besides, the court has ordered to seize Tk 13,44,36,471 in 116 bank accounts and freeze 23 beneficiary owners (BO) accounts to deal with share markets. Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Jaglul ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a charge sheet against Bengal Group Chairman Abul Khair Litu in a case filed over illegally acquiring wealth beyond his known sources of income. ACC Deputy Director (Special Enquiry and Investigation-2) Md Kamruzzaman filed the charge sheet on Thursday against the chairman under sections 26(2) and 27(1) of the ACC Act, 2004, and submitted ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said on Thursday that they will take strict action if quota protesters create public sufferings blocking road in the name of the blockade movement. DMP Additional Commissioner KH Mahid Uddin warned the protesters while speaking at a press briefing at DMP media centre. Earlier on Wednesday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court issued a one-month ...

Chief Justice Obaidul Hasan said on Thursday that the court’s door is always open for the quota protesters. “Why do they talk about the executive department? Any decision of the executive department can be challenged in court,” the chief justice this to the agitating students. He said these to senior lawyers and leaders of the Supreme Court during hearing of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached home after wrapping up her three-day bilateral visit to the Chinese capital Beijing today. The Premier went to Beijing on Monday afternoon at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang. A special flight of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against seven people, including former director general of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) Abul Kalam Azad and Dr Sabrina Sharmin, chairperson of JKG Health Care, on charge of embezzling around Tk 1 crore by issuing fake coronavirus certificates in 2020. ACC Assistant Director Afnan Jannat Keya filed the case with ...