Salman F Rahman, former Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Private Sector and Investment, and Atiqul Islam, former Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), have been arrested in connection with a new case related Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. However, Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism’s former Senior Secretary M Mohibul Haque was also arrested. The orders of arresting them ...

A Dhaka court has granted remand for several political figures in connection with cases related to the anti-discrimination movement. Former State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak has been placed on a three-day remand, while banned organization Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders Siam Rahman and Anwar Hossain Naim have been remanded for four days. Additionally, the son of a former ...

The government has canceled the publication declaration of ‘Jai Jai Din’ due to violations of publication regulations. Following a complaint from the newspaper’s former editor Shafik Rehman, Dhaka District Magistrate and Deputy Commissioner Tanvir Ahmed issued the order on March 10. The information was confirmed on Wednesday (March 12) by Nusrat Naushin, Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate (Publication and Printing ...

The traffic division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has filed 1,533 cases for violating traffic laws in different areas of the capital. Deputy Commissioner (DC) of the DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division Muhammad Talebur Rahman confirmed this information on Wednesday (March 12) afternoon. He said that these cases were filed during the DMP’s traffic division’s drive last Tuesday (March 11). ...

Slain former vice-principal of Habibullah Bahar College Saifur Rahman Bhuiyan had sexually assaulted Rupa Begum alias Jannati which led to the killing. Md Nazim Hossain, 21, and Jannati, 23, who were arrested on charge of killing of Saifur Rahman, informed that they met with Saifur at Kamalapur Rail Station in the capital few days ago losing their money and bags. ...

A woman was allegedly violated after being taken to a rubber plantation in Sylhet. The incident took place on Tuesday (March 11) in Charagang area under the city’s Air Police Station. The victim is currently undergoing treatment at the One-Stop Crisis Center (OCC) of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital. She is said to be mentally unstable. Police have arrested ...

Government hospitals’ doctors across the country have launched a work stoppage to press home their five-point demands. Most outdoor and indoor departments at hospitals are not providing any services to the patients. Doctors at the emergency department of the National Institute of Neuro Sciences and Hospital in Dhaka usually see patients from 9AM. On Wednesday, they started to see patients ...

Only MBBS or BDS graduates can use the title ‘doctor’ before their names, according to a High Court verdict on Wednesday. An HC bench of Justice Razik-Al-Jalil and Justice Sathika Hossain passed this order after hearing a writ petition filed earlier. Meanwhile, no steps will be taken against those who have already used the title, the verdict also said.  

Syed Manzur Elahi, prominent businessman and chairman of Apex Group, passed away at a hospital in Singapore on Wednesday morning. He passed away around 7:30AM (Bangladesh Time) while undergoing treatment there, his son Syed Nasim Manzur confirmed from Singapore over phone. Manzur Elahi had been suffering from old age complications for a long time, Nasin said, adding that, both he ...

A Dhaka court has imposed a travel ban on on Sikder Group Managing Director Ron Haque Sikder and 13 members of his family in connection with corruption allegations brought against them. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge, Zakir Hossain Galib, issued the order in response to a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) On Tuesday (March 11). The others are ...