Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Dipankar Talukder, former minister of state for the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the president of Rangamati District Awami League, from Dhaka’s Sobhanbagh on Monday. DMP Deputy Commissioner (media) Talebur Rahman confirmed the matter. He is accused of several cases with various police stations. Most of the cases were filed after August 5, ...

The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) resumed its sales programme through trucks on Monday, aiming to provide essential commodities at subsidised rates to consumers in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas. The TCB will offer items including edible oil, lentils, sugar, chickpeas and dates through mobile trucks, a press release said on Sunday. This initiative is designed to assist low-income ...

Liverpool suffered a stunning FA Cup exit on Sunday in a 1-0 defeat to Championship strugglers Plymouth, while Aston Villa inflicted another damaging 2-1 defeat on Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou. Arne Slot’s decision to field a weakened team came back to haunt him, with Ryan Hardie’s second-half penalty sealing Plymouth’s epic upset and ending Liverpool’s quest for a quadruple at ...

Police arrested five people along with smuggled cows at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj on Saturday night. The arrested men are Md Rakib, 24, Md Rafiqul Islam, Md Fahim, 28, Ratul Miah, 32, and Md Masud Khan, 35. They are hailed from different districts across the country. Dharmapasha Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Enamul Hoque confirmed the detentions. Acting on a ...

Former UK City minister Tulip Siddiq was listed as a resident of a luxury 10-storey tower block in the capital’s Gulshan named after her family, according to British daily The Telegraph reports. Officials in Dhaka believed the former anti-corruption minister’s “permanent addressâ€� was the upmarket apartment complex named “Siddiquesâ€� in 2014, while she was a councillor in Camden, north London. ...

The interim government of Bangladesh has expressed strong disapproval of India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for commenting on the recent incident at Dhanmondi 32, calling the statement “unexpected and unwarranted.” The government emphasized that the matter is an internal affair of Bangladesh and should not be subject to external commentary. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Rafiqul Alam addressed the issue ...

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) recorded the country’s lowest minimum temperature at 8.9 degree Celsius on Saturday in Sylhet’s Sreemangal, as a mild cold wave continued to affect parts of the country. “A mild cold wave is sweeping Rajshahi, Pabna, Naogaon, Dinajpur, Moulvibazar, and Chuadanga districts and it may persist,” the Met office said in its regular bulletin in the morning. ...

Those involved in the attack on students in Gazipur will face the maximum punishment, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd) on Saturday. He said this to reporters after visiting the injured at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the morning. “Those involved in the attack on students and mass people, will be brought to justice.” ...

Barrister Zaima Rahman, representing BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, met with Rebekah Wagner, a prominent leader of the Women’s Fellowship Foundation, and other members. The meeting was held in Washington, D.C on Friday (February 7), according to a post on the party’s verified Facebook page. It said the discussion covered a broad range of topics, including Bangladesh-US relations, international cooperation, ...

Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus has stated that the earliest possible time for holding national elections in Bangladesh would be at the end of this year. In an interview with NHK World, the international service of Japan’s public broadcaster, Dr. Yunus emphasized that elections are a crucial step toward restoring democracy. He noted that the interim government has made significant ...