Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to the chief adviser, has said the consensus Committee will start their dialogue with the political parties starting on 15 February. Shafiqul Alam said, “A decision was taken today to hold first meeting of the National Consensus Commission with political parties on February 15.” He said it in a press briefing held at Foreign Service Academy ...

Interim government Advisor Mahfuz Alam on Monday said that mobbers will be considered as devil during the ongoing Operation Devil Haunt. He made the remark in a social media platform post on his verified page on Monday night. Mahfuz Alam wrote, “Following the today’s incident, no more requests will be made. It is not your duty to take the law ...

A Dhaka court has ordered to request Interpol to issue a red alert for arresting former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Ghalib passed the order following an application by Investigation Officer Director Hafizul Islam in the graft case. It is reported that former IGP Benazir’s family is currently staying in Australia. ...

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Dipankar Talukder, former minister of state for the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the president of Rangamati District Awami League, from Dhaka’s Sobhanbagh on Monday. DMP Deputy Commissioner (media) Talebur Rahman confirmed the matter. He is accused of several cases with various police stations. Most of the cases were filed after August 5, ...

The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) resumed its sales programme through trucks on Monday, aiming to provide essential commodities at subsidised rates to consumers in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas. The TCB will offer items including edible oil, lentils, sugar, chickpeas and dates through mobile trucks, a press release said on Sunday. This initiative is designed to assist low-income ...

Police arrested five people along with smuggled cows at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj on Saturday night. The arrested men are Md Rakib, 24, Md Rafiqul Islam, Md Fahim, 28, Ratul Miah, 32, and Md Masud Khan, 35. They are hailed from different districts across the country. Dharmapasha Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Enamul Hoque confirmed the detentions. Acting on a ...

Former UK City minister Tulip Siddiq was listed as a resident of a luxury 10-storey tower block in the capital’s Gulshan named after her family, according to British daily The Telegraph reports. Officials in Dhaka believed the former anti-corruption minister’s “permanent addressâ€� was the upmarket apartment complex named “Siddiquesâ€� in 2014, while she was a councillor in Camden, north London. ...

The interim government of Bangladesh has expressed strong disapproval of India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for commenting on the recent incident at Dhanmondi 32, calling the statement “unexpected and unwarranted.” The government emphasized that the matter is an internal affair of Bangladesh and should not be subject to external commentary. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Rafiqul Alam addressed the issue ...

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) recorded the country’s lowest minimum temperature at 8.9 degree Celsius on Saturday in Sylhet’s Sreemangal, as a mild cold wave continued to affect parts of the country. “A mild cold wave is sweeping Rajshahi, Pabna, Naogaon, Dinajpur, Moulvibazar, and Chuadanga districts and it may persist,” the Met office said in its regular bulletin in the morning. ...

Those involved in the attack on students in Gazipur will face the maximum punishment, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd) on Saturday. He said this to reporters after visiting the injured at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the morning. “Those involved in the attack on students and mass people, will be brought to justice.” ...