The Traffic Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has filed 1,799 cases for violating the traffic rule on the city road on Thursday and Friday (December 12 and 13). Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (Media) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, shared this information in a media release on Saturday afternoon. Besides, during the operations, 52 vehicles were impounded, and 58 ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Saturday in a second vote by the opposition-led parliament over his short-lived attempt last week to impose martial law, a move that had shocked the nation and split his party. Under the constitution Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who was appointed by Yoon, becomes acting president, while Yoon remains in office but ...

The benchmark index of the stock markets plunged into losing territory last week as investors became anxious about the market’s momentum. The jittery investors continued to offload their shares amid repeated regulatory actions against stock manipulations. Market analysts attribute the recent decline in stock market activity to a combination of factors, including waning investor confidence and heightened uncertainty. This sentiment ...

Police have arrested four individuals in connection with their involvement in vandalising and damaging properties of the Hindu community and the local temple at Doarabazar of Sunamganj district earlier this month, according to a press release issued by the Chief Adviser’s press wing. The arrestees were – – Alim Hossain, 19, Sultan Ahmed Raju, 20, Imran Hossain, 31, and Shajahan ...

Bangladesh National Women’s Football team climbed up 7 steps ahead in the latest FIFA /Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking published by World Football body FIFA on Friday (December 14). Tigresses clinched the SAFF Women’s Football championship for the 2nd consecutive time by beating host Nepal by 2-1 goals in the final in last October, thus jumped up to the 132nd place ...

BNP paid tribute to martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur of the capital, on Saturday, marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day. At around 9:15 am, several senior leaders of the party, including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, laid wreaths and stood in silence for a while to pay tribute to the great national ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Saturday paid glowing tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing a wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur here,  marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day. The head of the state placed the wreath at the memorial at about 06:59 am to pay tributes to those who were brutally killed just two days before Bangladesh’s final victory ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus Saturday paid rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day. He paid homage by placing a wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur here at about 7.15 am. The chief adviser stood there in solemn silence for a while as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the illustrious ...

The nation is observing the Martyred Intellectuals Day today to commemorate the intellectuals killed systematically by Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the Liberation War in 1971. On this day in 1971, the country’s renowned academicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists, teachers and other eminent personalities were dragged out of their homes, blindfolded and taken to ...

The BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH), BRAC University, celebrated its 20th anniversary today (12 December 2024) at The Westin Hotels and Resorts, Gulshan-2, Dhaka. The day-long event brought together distinguished global public health leaders, academics, and experts to celebrate two decades of impactful education, training, research, and advocacy. The experts, academics honored the School’s contributions ...