The High Court on Wednesday scrapped 11 cases, including a sedition and 10 sabotage cases, against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. An HC bench comprising Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the verdict, following hearings on separate petitions. The cases were filed on charges of arson, violence and sedition with different police stations in Dhaka at different times ...

Former deputy commissioner (DC) of Mirpur Division Jasim Uddin, warranted accused in the July-August genocide case, has been arrested from Rangpur. Prosecutor Abdullah Al Noman confirmed the information to media on Wednesday morning. He is scheduled to be produced before the International Crimes Tribunal today. He is being brought to the tribunal in connection with charges related to the July-August ...

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), the financial intelligence agency of the central bank, has summoned bank account details of 28 journalists. The BFIU has sent letters to various banks of the country seeking information about them, sources familiar with the development said Tuesday. After receiving the letter from the Ministry of Information, BFIU wrote to the banks and asked for ...

Police have arrested former Agriculture Minister Dr Abdus Shahid from Uttara in the capital. He was arrested at about 1AM on Wednesday from his Uttara residence during a raid, Uttara Paschim Police Station OC Md Hafizur Rahman confirmed. Abdus Shahid, lawmaker from  Moulvibazar-4 constituency, was appointed Agriculture Minister following the 12th national parliamentary election. From 2009 to 2014, he served ...

A Habiganj court on Tuesday sentenced three people to death in a case filed for killing a woman and her daughter in 2021. Habiganj Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Mohammad Yasir Arafat handed down the verdict. The convicts were Amir Hossain, 35, son of Alamgir Mia, of Salutikor area under Goainghat upazila; Monir Mia, 22, son of Mahib Ullah, ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has started the process of taking the party’s chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced medical treatment. Professor Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, BNP standing committee member and Khaleda Zia’s personal physician, told The Daily Observer Online on Tuesday (October 29) evening. Dr Zahid Hossain said Begum Khaleda Zia will be taken to London first by a ...

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman and two commissioners have resigned from their posts. ACC Chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah, and two Commissioners Md Zahurul Haque and Asia Khatun who were appointed during the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government have resigned showing “personal grounds.” They have resigned after two and a half months into changing of the government through a mass uprising. ...

The government has announced more details of what is in this week’s Budget for the NHS – including £1.57bn for new surgical hubs, scanners and radiotherapy machines. The funding is part of the government’s overall pledge to increase the number of NHS hospital appointments and procedures in England by 40,000 per week. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the Budget will ...

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Defending champions Bangladesh are set to face hosts Nepal in the final of the ongoing South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s Championship 2024 on Wednesday, aiming to retain their regional title. The match will kick off at 6:45 pm (Bangladesh time) at Dashrath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu. Bangladesh claimed their first SAFF Women’s Football Championship in 2022, also held in ...