Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered smuggled goods worth about Tk 2.92 crore from the Jangalbari border area under Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj district early Thursday. Actin on a tip-off, a team of Sunamganj-28 BGB of Charagaon BoP raided the aforementioned area and recovered the illegal goods in an abundant condition, confirmed Sunamganj-28 BGB Captain AKM Jakaria. The goods included 5,127 ...

Route permits of passenger vessels charging fares beyond the fixed rates and carrying extra passengers, will be cancelled, said Shipping Adviser Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain on Thursday. “No passenger vessel would be allowed to charge more than the fixed fare and a fare chart must be displayed publicly from today.” The adviser came up with this warning after ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia on Thursday to join a special session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah. The extraordinary session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers will be held on Friday, said an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The session is expected to discuss the progress of ...

The United Nations (UN) will cut monthly food aid for Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char by more than half from April due to a funding crisis. The World Food Programme (WFP) informed this to Bangladesh on Wednesday (March 5). Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mizanur Rahman said that WFP verbally communicated its decision on Tuesday before sending ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his businessman Gias Uddin Al Mamun from a money laundering case charge. They were sentenced to seven years’ of imprisonment by the High Court in this case. A four-member tribunal, led by Chief Justice Dr Syed Refaat Ahmed, issued this order, said the defendants’ ...

Pakistan s Additional Foreign Secretary (Asia & Pacific), Ambassador Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, held a series of meetings with senior Bangladeshi officials to review and strengthen bilateral cooperation across multiple sectors, including foreign relations, trade, culture, visa and people-to-people exchanges. During his meeting with Mr. Md. Jashim Uddin, Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, both sides reviewed the current state of Pakistan-Bangladesh relations, ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued an order to freeze 39 bank accounts of former Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. The total balance of these accounts is approximately 52.6 million (Bangladeshi Taka). Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib passed this order following an application submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). According to Aminul Islam, Assistant Director of the ACC ...

Real Madrid secured a narrow 2-1 victory over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League last 16, while Arsenal and Aston Villa dominated with commanding away wins on Tuesday. At the Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid, sitting third in La Liga, defeated second-placed Atletico in a match featuring three spectacular goals. Real took the lead early in the fourth minute when Rodrygo ...

Borussia Dortmund were held to a 1-1 home draw by Lille in their Champions League last-16 first leg on Tuesday after a second-half equaliser from visiting midfielder Hakon Haraldsson. Last season’s losing finalists were in control after Karim Adeyemi opened the scoring on 22 minutes, thumping in a low shot from the edge of the box. But Lille striker Jonathan ...

Kidney patients in Manikganj are bearing the brunt of badly needed dialysis service at the Manikganj 250-bed General Hospital as four, out of five, dialysis machines are now out of order, thanks to reluctance of the authorities concerned. Patients now have to pay nearly three times higher charges at private hospitals compared to government facilities for the same services. In ...