A court in Dhaka on Monday imposed a travel ban on Mohammad Enamul Haque, the commissioner of Sylhet Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate, in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Jaglul Hossain passed the order following an application lodged by the anti-graft body. Earlier on July, the court ordered to seize the immovable ...

At least 25 people were injured after a passenger bus overturned on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at South Surma upazila of Sylhet district in the early hours of Monday. The accident occurred around 5:30 am in front of the APBn-7 office in Lalabazar area under the upazila. Citing locals, media officer of APBn-7 ASI Mohammad Pabel said the Sylhet-bound bus from ...

A Dhaka court has set July 23 for holding hearing on a plea of police to take BNP leader Ishraque Hossain on 10-day remand in a sedition case. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman set the date as police produced Ishraque before the court and pleaded to take him on remand in the case filed over presenting a man before ...

Five young people were crushed under the wheels of a train at Raipura upazila in Narsingdi district on Monday morning. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. But four of them were in between 18 to 20 years, another one was above 20. The incident happened in Komoltoli Khaksar area near Methikanda Railway Station in the upazila at ...

The two people, who were critically injured in electrocution at Ratha Yatra in Bogura town on Sunday, are not out of danger, said Health minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen on Monday. “They are now receiving treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. I have talked with the victims’ family and ensured them that we will do ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday left Dhaka for Beijing on a four-day bilateral visit invited by her Chinese counterpart. The visit is believed to elevate the relations between Bangladesh and China to “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership” from “strategic partnership”, reports BSS. A special flight (BG1701) of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the prime minister and her entourage members, departed from Hazrat ...

The Copa America is down to the final four with a pair of fascinating semi-finals and favourites Argentina hoping they can win their third straight major title. The Argentines, world champions and defending Copa title holders, open the semi-final action when they face surprise package Canada on Tuesday in New Jersey, reports AFP. Then on Wednesday in Charlotte, Uruguay — ...

BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital early Monday as her health condition suddenly deteriorated. BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan said, “The BNP chief suddenly fell ill at an early hours and taken to the hospital immediately. And after reaching there, she was hospitalised.” Earlier, the BNP chairperson left her Gulshan residence for ...

France faced potential political deadlock after elections on Sunday threw up a hung parliament, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot but no group winning a majority. Voters delivered a major setback for Marine Le Pen’s nationalist, Eurosceptic National Rally (RN), which opinion polls had predicted would win the second-round ballot but ended up in the third spot, ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to Bute House isn’t going exactly to plan. Instead of the usual photo op on the steps with Scotland’s First Minister, the PM is believed to have gone in the back door, avoiding a significant and vocal pro-Gaza protest outside. Starmer has faced criticism for his comments on the Gaza conflict, including being too slow to ...