A Habiganj court has acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case filed against him in the district. Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Abdul Alim passed the order on Thursday. Asaduzzaman Khan Tuhin, a former vice-president of the Habiganj district Chhatra League in 2015, filed the case following comments made by Tarique Rahman about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ...

A policeman was killed after being crushed under the wheels of a train in the Shibbari area at Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Zahirul Haque, hailed from Madhyanagar upazila of Sunamganj. He was a constable in the South Surma Police Station. The accident occurred in the Shibbari area of South Surma ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained former Mayor of Habiganj Municipality and Organizing Secretary of the District Awami League Ataur Rahman Selim and later handed him to police. RAB-2 and RAB-9 conducted a joint operation in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka and picked up Selim on Tuesday afternoon. Dhanmondi Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Anwar Hossain said on Wednesday Selim was ...

Brexit red tape on British businesses has caused goods trade between the UK and EU to slump and the problem is getting worse, a study has warned. Many smaller UK producers have given up exporting small amounts to the EU after facing more rules and regulations, a report by Aston University Business School has found. Between 2021 and 2023, the ...

Everywhere you go in the party conference centre at Brighton you keep seeing the same number – 72. That’s how many MPs the Liberal Democrats now have – and they have been celebrating that fact all week. It’s a dramatic increase on the 15 MPs they had before the election and represents a record number of seats for the party. ...

Former Supreme Court Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik has been granted bail in a case filed for attempting to illegally cross into India through the Kanaighat border in Sylhet. Around 9:30AM on Tuesday, Manik was produced before the court of Kanaighat Additional Chief Judicial Marigtrate Anjan Kanti Das. Then his lawyer applied for bail, which was later granted by the ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised “a new era” in cross-border cooperation to tackle people smuggling gangs ahead of talks on Monday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, part of his push to reset Britain’s relations with Europe. Starmer has put renewing ties with European leaders at the top of his diplomatic agenda since winning an election in July, ...

The tea workers on Sunday at separate protest rallies in Moulvibazar demanded the cancellation of the new gazette and the minimum daily wage of a worker Tk 500. They said that if the demands were not met, they would go for a strict movement. The Central Committee of the Bangladesh Tea Workers Federation held a rally at Choumuhana Square in ...

Sir Keir Starmer may have broken parliamentary rules in failing to declare clothes bought for his wife by Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli. According to the Sunday Times, the donations also covered the cost of a personal shopper and alterations for Victoria, both before and after the general election. The prime minister reportedly approached parliamentary authorities on Tuesday to make ...

Two motorcyclists, including a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), were killed in a road accident at Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district on Saturday night. The accident took place around 10 PM at Chandrichara Tea Garden area in the upazila. The deceased were identified as Hafiz Sarkar, son of Moulad Mia from Sudiakhala village under Shayestaganj upazila, and Mostafizur ...