Dhaka: The High Court granted a six-month bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed with Shahbagh police station on Monday. The case was filed after a person was killed in the capital`s Malibagh during a demonstration on November 30, 2013. The HC bench of Justice Borhan Uddin and Justice…
Dhaka (newsnextbd.com): “Scouts have a great role to play in building the nation into a more successful one,” said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while inaugurating the 9th Bangladesh Scout Jamburi in Mouchak, Gazipur on Saturday. “The Mouchak scouting complex will be renovated into international standard,” the PM said adding that the scouting infrastructure will be developed…
Dhaka (newsnextbd.com): BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is granted bail in one murder case filed at Shahbag police station, but was denied one in another case filed at Ramna police station. Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Md. Jahurul Islam passed the orders after the hearing on Thursday, on Fakhrul’s plea for bail on March…
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Dhaka- A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Tazreen Fashions Chairman Mahmuda Akhter Mita to jail pending trial in homicide charges over a fire that broke out in the factory in November 2012 that killed 112 workers. Senior Judicial Magistrate Kazi Shahidul Islam rejected the bail petition and ordered sending her to Dhaka Central Jail after…
International Desk, Santiago (newsnextbd.com) — A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit Chile’s Pacific coast Tuesday, killing at least five people as tsunami waves of more than two meters lashed the shore. Panicked residents poured into the streets after the authorities ordered them to flee to higher ground, while President Michelle Bachelet declared parts of northern Chile…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was released from jail on Tuesday a day after High Court granted his bail. The BNP leader was sent to jail on March 16 pending his trial as he surrendered before the lower court in cases of vandalism and arson attacks during last year’s…
Dhaka : Muggers shot Abul Kalam Azad, 30, a representative of Bkash Limited (a subsidiary of BRAC Bank), and snatched away Tk 10 lakh from him in the premises of the bank at Rokeya Sarani of the city’s Mirpur section 10 area Tuesday noon. Azad said, collecting Tk 10 lakh from the area, he went from their Bkash (aid…
Dhaka – The government has planed introduction of third generation Wi-Fi connectivity on city buses to facilitate commuters to surf internet on the go, officials said on Tuesday. Twenty city buses being operated by state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation will bring the service to the commuters to and from Uttara and Motijheel route. The service…
Dhaka: The librarian of Investigation Agency of International Crimes Tribunal, Md Anisur Rahman, on Tuesday testified against Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali before a special tribunal dealing with war crimes cases. Anisur, testifying as the 23rd prosecution witness against Quasem, said the investigation officer Md Nurul Islam had visited his workplace at Dhanmondi in the city on…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Overseas Employment Services Limited will process request of an Omanis request for recruitment doctors and nurses from Bangladesh, an official said Tuesday. Oman’s Rusayl Health Center has intended to recruit 35 Bangladeshi doctors and 50 nurses. “Interested doctors and nurses can begin the process through the public sector recruiting agency for making…
Dhaka: The government has appointed GM Jainal Abedin Bhuiyan, an additional secretary who is now on post-retirement leave (PRL), as the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) chairman. Moreover, M Shefaque Ahmed has been appointed as the chairman of Insurance Development & Regulatory Authority (IDRA) for three years. The public administration ministry issued two separate orders in…
Dhaka – Ethics Advanced Technology Limited and Grameenphone jointly have launched 30 health apps in Java and android platform for GP subscribers on the occasion of ‘World Health Day’, a release said Tuesday. Grameenphone, the market leader of the mobile phone operators in Bangladesh, and EATL, one of the leading ICT services providers, developed the…
Dhaka: Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) will organise a three-day Teesta-March programme from April 17, demanding equitable share of the Teesta River water. “We’ve declared the Teesta-march programme to force the government to take effective steps over the fair sharing of Teesta water,” said CPB general secretary Syed Abu Zafar…
Dhaka: A female classmate of Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam on Tuesday testified that Azhar was involved in abducting and killing four Hindu teachers of Rangpur Carmichael College and a teacher’s wife during the liberation war. Testifying as the 9th prosecution witness against Azhar in the case against him in the International Crimes Tribunal-1, Shova Kar, 62,…
Dhaka: To an interrogation of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Bilkis Akter, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain’s wife, admitted to siphoning off money to United Kingdom. “She has admitted to having a joint account during our questioning,” said ACC Investigator Ahsan Ali. ACC deputy director Ahsan Ali made the disclosure on Tuesday to journalists after…
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