Former president Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury has been hospitalised following deterioration of his health condition. He was admitted to Medical College For Women and Hospital at Uttara in the capital early Wednesday, his son Mahi B Chowdhury, former lawmaker, confirmed. He said, “How serious the situation is, has not yet been understood. He has profused of bleeding.” Mahi B sough ...

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked banks to provide account details of cricketer Shakib Al Hasan and his wife, Umme Roman Ahmed and five other individuals. In a letter, the anti-money laundering agency on Wednesday requested banks and non-bank financial institutions to submit information of various accounts, including savings, current, fixed deposit receipt, held by these individuals and ...

The price of 12 kg LPG cylinder has been raised by Tk 35, making the new price Tk 1,455, which will be effective from 6:00pm on Wednesday. The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) chairman Jalal Ahmed announced the price hike at a press conference on Wednesday. This follows a previous increase in September, when the price rose by Tk 44. ...

Detective Branch (DB) police have arrested Kamal Naser Chowdhury, former principal secretary and adviser to ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina; Mesbah Uddin, former secretary of Youth and Sports; and Bashundhara Group Coordinator Adnan. They were arrested from different areas in the capital early Wednesday. They were accused in multiple cases, said DMP deputy commissioner (Media) Talebur Rahman confirming the arrest ...

Nahida Rahman Shumona presented her credentials to President Katerina Sakellaropoulou at the Presidential Palace in Athens, officially marking her role as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bangladesh to Greece. This event followed her appointment as the successor to Ambassador Ashud Ahmed. During the ceremony, President Sakellaropoulou accepted the Letter of Credence from Ambassador Shumona, who is recognized for her ...

Mahalaya, an auspicious occasion that heralds the advent of Goddess Durga, celebrated at the dawn on Wednesday through different rituals by Hindu community members across the country. With the beginning of ‘Devipaksha’, Mahalaya is observed six days before Durga Puja. Marking the day, special programmes will be arranged at different temples, including the capital. Hindus will remember and pay homage ...

Former chairman of Exim Bank Nazrul Islam Mazumder has been arrested from the city’s Gulshan area. A team of detectives arrested Nazrul Islam Mazumder from the Gulshan area in the city on Tuesday night, confirmed Detective Branch (DB) of police. Majumder was removed from the post of the chairman of Exim Bank on August 5 following the fall of the ...

Former Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic was on target as Al Hilal, buoyed by Neymar returning to training this week, swept past Al Shorta 5-0 in the AFC Champions League Elite late Tuesday in Riyadh. Brazil superstar Neymar announced his return to club training with the Saudi champions on Monday after a year out with a left knee injury. Al Hilal ...

Five dengue patients died while 1,152 more people hospitalized with the viral fever across the country in the last 24 hours till Monday morning. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), with the new fatalities, the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 163 this year. Among the new patients, 219 from Dhaka division (out of city ...

Former Awami League lawmaker from Khulna-4 constituency Abdus Salam Murshedy was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday from Bashundhara Residential Area in Dhaka. Murshedy, managing director of Envoy Group, was arrested in a case over attack and killing at Khulna’s Fultala in 2022, said a RAB press release on Tuesday night, ANM Imran Khan, assistant director (ASP) of ...