Police have seized cheques worth Tk 2.25 crore and fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) worth Tk 20 lakh from the house of Abdur Razzak Riyad, who was earlier arrested for allegedly attempting to extort money from a former MP’s house in Gulshan. The recovery was made on Monday night based on information provided by Riyad, police said at a press briefing ...

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) has decided to move its scheduled student rally on August 3 from the Central Shaheed Minar to Shahbagh, despite having secured permission for the original venue. Speaking at a press conference at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Wednesday, JCD President Rakibul Islam Rakib said the decision was made in response to a request from the ...

A big bowl of steamed clams and juicy-crisp corn is summer eating at its finest. The combination is fresh, sweet and briny, almost like a chowder made for eating with your fingers. In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” we finish the clams and corn with a small ...

Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls Tuesday for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory. Seventeen countries plus the European Union and Arab League threw their weight behind a seven-page text agreed at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution ...

The number of people with liver cancer will nearly double worldwide by 2050 unless more is done to address preventable causes such as obesity, alcohol consumption and hepatitis, a study warned Tuesday. New cases of liver cancer — the sixth most common form of the disease — will rise to 1.52 million a year from 870,000 if current trends continue, ...

Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge. The decision came after the internet regulator urged the government last month to overturn the YouTube carve-out, citing a survey that found 37% ...

An Australian aerospace company, Gilmour Space Technologies, marked a milestone on Wednesday with the brief but symbolic test launch of its locally built orbital rocket, which carried a jar of Vegemite in its nose cone. The three-stage Eris rocket managed approximately 14 seconds of flight before crashing back to Earth in a plume of smoke. The 23-metre vehicle was launched ...

A Sylhet court has sentenced eight individuals to death, seven to life imprisonment, and 17 others to two years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with the 2021 murder of a schoolboy in Bishwanath upazila. The verdict was delivered on Wednesday by Judge Syeda Amina Farhin of Sylhet’s Additional District and Sessions Judge Court (3rd Court), who was serving as the ...

Trading at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) started positively on Wednesday, the fourth working day of the week, with the benchmark index showing early gains. Meanwhile, the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) recorded a slight decline. In the first two hours of trading, the DSEX, DSE’s key index, rose by 19 points. The Shariah-based DSES index gained 3 points, and the ...

Brazilian Lucas Ribeiro received four trophies, including player of the season, at the annual South African football awards ceremony in Johannesburg on Tuesday. In other African news, Al Ahly forward Wessam Abou Ali has moved to Major League Soccer and French coach Romain Folz has taken charge of Tanzanian champions Young Africans. South Africa A clean sweep for Ribeiro saw ...