Former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, former chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md Nazibur Rahman and former home secretary Md Aminul Islam Khan were sent to jail after the end of their remand periods in separate murder cases. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police produced Sadhan before the court after the end ...

The government directed Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mohammad Javed Patwary to return home on August 14 last. However, he has returned though two months have already been passed following the issuance of the directive. Mohammad Javed Patwary, also the former inspector general of police (IGP), was appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia on contractual basis. It is learnt that he ...

Hurricane Milton crashed into the Florida coast Wednesday, packing furious winds and triggering life-threatening storm surges across a region still reeling from another massive storm two weeks before. The weather front made landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key, in a densely populated area on the US state’s western coast. Milton triggered tornadoes before its arrival, with unconfirmed ...

Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement early Wednesday. He was 86. Tata, who ran the conglomerate for more than 20 years as chairman, had been undergoing intensive care in a Mumbai hospital, ...

It’s now autumn in Bangladesh, according to the season but the country is experiencing rainfall more often, something which we used to see in the rainy season. So it is a necessity to equip yourselves properly to combat with the sudden rainfall. And there is urgency to maintain a stylish look also. Who doesn’t know that how tough it is ...

A total of 150 stranded Bangladeshi nationals were repatriated from Libya on Thursday. The repatriation has taken place under the joint initiative of the foreign ministry, Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a foreign ministry’s press release said. A Buraq Air charter flight with the returnees departed Tripoli in the morning and landed at Hazrat ...

Acting Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Tarique Rahman today underscored the need for holding fair elections for continuation of democracy. “We must hold a free and fair election aiming to keep the country’s democracy continue,” he said in a message marking Shaheed Jehad Day. Nazir Uddin Ahmed Jihad, a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist of Ullapara upazila in Sirajganj, was ...

Police recovered the body of a former additional secretary of the Ministry of Industries from a resort in Srimangal in Moulvibazar on Thursday morning. The deceased Salahuddin Mahmud was serving as the deputy managing director general of the SME Foundation under the Ministry of Industries. Srimangal police station Officer-in-Charge Aminul Islam said that Salahuddin had been attending programmes in Moulvibazar ...

Greek football was in shock Thursday at the death of Panathinaikos and Greece international George Baldock, with tributes uniting even the country’s usually hostile rival fans. The 31-year-old English-born right-back — a former Sheffield United stalwart in the Premier League — was found dead on Wednesday evening in a swimming pool at his home in the southern Athens suburb of ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday send former Member of Parliament from Sunamganj-5 Mohibur Rahman Manik to jail in a case over the attack on a student during the mass uprising. Judicial Magistrate Alamgir Hossain passed the order after Manik was produced before the court in the morning, said officer-in-charge (OC) of Sunamganj Sadar police station Nazmul Haque. Defense lawyer Abdul ...