A Special Judge Court in Dhaka has sentenced Abdul Malek, a former driver at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), to 13 years in prison for amassing wealth beyond known income sources. Judge Zakaria Hossain of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-6 on Sunday delivered the verdict. Malek received 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for illegally acquiring wealth, alongwith a fine ...

India was aware of an anti-Sheikh Hasina wave building up in Bangladesh ahead of the violent overthrow of the former Prime Minister’s government on August 5, last year, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar informed the Consultative Committee on External Affairs on Saturday, according to The Hindu reports. However, India was not in a position to do much as it lacked ...

Sharvari is back with a bang to claim her throne as a sartorial queen on her social media handle. The 27-year-old actress looked like a wonder in her latest closet outing that saw her draped in an off shoulder gold gown that our jaws drop to the floor. Sharvari made sure to keep her wardrobe game on point as she ...

Number of cancer patients is on rise in Bangladesh due to food habits, unaware lifestyle, and negative impact of industrialization and technology. World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of cancer patients more than 15 lakh, mostly children and teenagers. According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, about one-third of cancer patients are children and adolescents of 01 to 19 ...

The “July Warriors,” a group representing the families of those killed and injured in the July uprising, have issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the interim government to ban the Awami League. At a rally held at the Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus, the protesters vowed to escalate their movement if their demand was not met. They warned ...

A cargo vessel arrived at Chittagong Port from Vietnam carrying 29,000 tonnes of rice on Saturday, reports UNB. The vessel, MV OBE Dinares with rice brought under the G2G agreement signed on February 3, anchored at Chittagong Port, said a Food Ministry press release on Saturday. The testing of samples of rice stored on the ship has already been completed ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Saturday said the interim government will take steps to implement the Media Reform Commission’s proposals that can be done without delay, reports UNB. “We want to implement the reform proposals that are immediately implementable. For that, I would like the Reform Commission to submit the recommendations quickly that need to be done immediately or ...

Areas of special programme under the budgetary allocation of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock to stable the prices of essential animal protein products in the month of Ramadan has extended and the selling price has been adjusted. A press release of the ministry in this regard confirmed this on Saturday. From the 1st to the 28th of Ramadan, an ...

A teenage girl has been kidnapped and raped allegedly by a man with the help of two other individuals in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj. The victim has been admitted to Habiganj Sadar Hospital following the incident. The incident occurred on the night of Wednesday. The victim was brought to the hospital on Thursday afternoon. According to the victim’s statement, three ...

Protests erupted across multiple Turkish cities on Friday as people rallied against the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite the Turkish leader’s stern warning that street protests would not be tolerated, reports AP. In Istanbul, police used pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets to push back hundreds of protesters who tried to ...