The second case has been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on charge of kidnapping a lawyer from the capital’s Uttara in 2015. Victim Supreme Court lawyer Sohel Rana lodged the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury on Wednesday (August 14). The other accused are former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former law minister ...

Law Adviser of the interim government Prof Asif Nazrul said on Wednesday that all cases of harassment filed over the student movement across the country will be withdrawn within August 31. He said this while briefing reporters at the secretariat in Dhaka. The law adviser said the cases filed in Dhaka during the student-led movement will also be withdrawn by ...

After the White House, the US Department of State has also trashed reports that claimed the United States was involved in former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation. “That’s laughable,” Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters at a regular briefing in Washington on August 13. He said any implication that the United States was involved in Sheikh Hasina’s resignation is ...

Diego Rossi’s two second-half goals launched the reigning MLS champion Columbus Crew over defending champion Inter Miami 3-2 to reach the Leagues Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday. The Uruguayan forward lifted the host Crew level in the 69th minute and netted the decider in the 80th to dethrone Miami, this season’s overall MLS season leader. Miami star Lionel Messi did not ...

Two more dengue patients died while 181 people were hospitalised with viral fever in the country in last 24 hours till Thursday morning. With the new fatalities, the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 62 this year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), some 642 patients are receiving treatment in different hospitals across the country. ...

The contractual appointment Shaban Mahmood, the press minister of the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delh, has been canceled. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday (August 13) with immediate effect. Shaban Mahmud was appointed to the post for two years on November 16, 2020. He got an extension on November 2, 2022.

Primary schools across the country have reopened after around one month of closure. Students were seen going to schools in the capital in the morning. All government primary schools under eight city corporation areas of the country were declared closed for an indefinite period on July 17 amid tension over students’ demonstrations for quota reform. The Ministry of Primary and ...

Shafiqul Alam has been appointed as press secretary to the interim government’s chief adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus with the status of a secretary on a contractual basis. The Public Administration Ministry issued a gazette notification to this end on Tuesday (August 13) night. The notification mentioned that Shafiqul, Bangladesh bureau chief at AFP News Agency, will remain in office for ...

While France basks in the glow of the dazzling Paris Olympics, French football is trying to shake off a hangover from its own disastrous summer as the first Ligue 1 season of the post-Kylian Mbappe era begins this weekend. A year after the departures of Lionel Messi and Neymar, Mbappe left Paris Saint-Germain too, signing for Real Madrid after eight ...

The Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP), with army assistance, have succeeded in recovering 77 pieces of firearms and 129 rounds of ammunition among the large number of weapons looted by angry mobs in the wake of Sheikh Hasina’s ouster as premier. The aforementioned number of weapons was recovered until Monday, said SMP Additional Deputy-Commissioner Mohammad Saiful Islam adding the list of ...