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Eight Regent group employees remanded in fraud case

Eight Regent group employees remanded in fraud case

-- 2020-08-16 16:58:24

A Dhaka court today (Sunday) placed eight employees of Regent Group and Regent Hospital on two-day remand each in a case lodged over issuing fake coronavirus test reports and other forgeries. The acc...

59 members of ‘dope gangs’ held in city

59 members of ‘dope gangs’ held in city

-- 2020-07-30 17:44:12

Detectives in separate drives arrested 59 members of ‘dope gangs’ from different parts of the capital on Thursday. Police also recovered foods mixed with sedatives and knives from their p...

BD witnesses rise in crimes after lockdown

BD witnesses rise in crimes after lockdown

-- 2020-07-29 20:17:01

The number of crimes across Bangladesh has been on the rise from June after a significant drop-off during the two months of lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic. One-third of the cases filed with 6...

Neo-JMB operative arrested over bomb blast at Ctg police box

Neo-JMB operative arrested over bomb blast at Ctg police box

-- 2020-07-28 21:45:07

The Counter Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has arrested an operative of an outlawed militant group, Neo-JMB, for his suspected ties with a bomb blast at a traffic police box Sh...

ACC sues BASIC bank official, two others

ACC sues BASIC bank official, two others

-- 2020-07-23 17:12:55

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against three persons, including a bank official, for allegedly plundering money from BASIC Bank Limited. ACC assistant director Mahbubul...

Police suspect ‘financial motive’ behind Fahim Saleh Murder

Police suspect ‘financial motive’ behind Fahim Saleh Murder

-- 2020-07-16 19:59:30

The motive behind the murder of young entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, who co-founded Pathao and Gokada, appear to be financial in nature, a senior NYPD official told WBBH on Wednesday. The killer appeared...

Minor girl raped in Jhenidah

Minor girl raped in Jhenidah

-- 2020-07-16 16:37:12

A nine-year-old girl was raped at Shahabazpur village of Shailakupa upazila in Jhenidah early Thursday. Rana Hossain, 22, son of Golam Kuddus of the village, violated the girl at night, said Jahangir...

Women trafficking kingpin Azam Khan gives confessional statement

Women trafficking kingpin Azam Khan gives confessional statement

-- 2020-07-13 21:16:17

Azam Khan, kingpin of a gang, which trafficked more than a thousand Bangladeshi girls and women to Dubai and forced them to prostitution there, gave confessional statement along with an accomplice bef...

Lazz Pharma fined Tk 2.9m for selling expired drugs

Lazz Pharma fined Tk 2.9m for selling expired drugs

-- 2020-07-13 20:36:28

A mobile court, run by the RAB, fined Kakrail Lazz Pharma, a franchise of the pharmacy chain in Dhaka, Tk 2.9 million for selling expired drugs. Polash Basu, executive magistrate of RAB-3, said the...

ACC opens probe into Shahed’s ‘illegal wealth’

ACC opens probe into Shahed’s ‘illegal wealth’

-- 2020-07-13 16:48:15

The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has launched an investigation into the allegations of amassing illegal wealth against Mohammed Shahed alias Shahed Karim, chairman of Regent Hospital who is on th...

NICVD doctor shown arrested over fake COVID-19 tests

NICVD doctor shown arrested over fake COVID-19 tests

-- 2020-07-12 17:13:20

Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury, a registrar of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and also chairman of JKG Health Care, has been arrested over the alleged involvement in a COVID-19 testi...

Regent Hospital MD, 15 others sued

Regent Hospital MD, 15 others sued

-- 2020-07-08 17:05:47

A case was filed against 16 people, including the managing director and chairman of Regent Hospital, for their alleged involvement in issuing fake Covid-19 test certificates. Inspector Faisal of Rab...

Human traffickers dodge conviction in BD

Human traffickers dodge conviction in BD

-- 2020-06-27 16:39:36

From Middle East to Europe, Bangladeshis are often among the victims of deadly migrant boat capsize or they end up in jail as undocumented immigrants. But their traffickers keep escaping justice as da...

HC turns down Tufan’s bail in rape case

HC turns down Tufan’s bail in rape case

-- 2020-06-22 19:40:44

The High Court on Monday rejected the bail petition of expelled Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar of Bogura in a case filed over the rape and torture of a schoolgirl and her mother. Justice Jahangir...

109 held over extortion on roads, highways in 17 days

109 held over extortion on roads, highways in 17 days

-- 2020-06-18 16:37:13

Different units of police have arrested 109 people over extortion on roads and highways across the country from June 1 to 17. "Altogether 109 people were arrested in 51 cases for collecting extortion...

Four remanded over COVID-19 certificate forgery

Four remanded over COVID-19 certificate forgery

-- 2020-06-16 17:15:00

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed four persons on three days of remand each in a case lodged over making and supplying false coronavirus (COVID-19) infection certificates. The four accused are: Fazal H...

Suspended Ctg jailer Sohel Rana gets HC bail

Suspended Ctg jailer Sohel Rana gets HC bail

-- 2020-06-16 16:45:32

The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Jail Sohel Rana in a graft case filed by Anti-corruption Commission. The virtual bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder pas...

Lawmaker Shahid Islam held in Kuwait

Lawmaker Shahid Islam held in Kuwait

-- 2020-06-07 17:40:16

Mohammad Shahid Islam, MP of Laxmipur- 2 constituency (independent), has been arrested in Kuwait. Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Kuwait arrested Shahid Islam on Saturday night, Bangladesh...

Three held over gang-rape in Manikganj

Three held over gang-rape in Manikganj

-- 2020-06-01 16:31:34

Police arrested three youths from Mouhali village of Ghior upazila in Manikganj on Sunday night in a case filed over gang- rape of a woman. The arrestees are—Wasim Hossain, 20, Rakib Hossain an...

College student stabbed dead in Pabna

College student stabbed dead in Pabna

-- 2020-05-10 14:12:10

A college student was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants on Saturday in Pabna Municipaity area. The deceased was identified as Jewel Rana Akash, 20, son of Sujon Mia of Mondolpara in the are...

Two UPDF men shot dead in Khagrachhari

Two UPDF men shot dead in Khagrachhari

-- 2020-04-28 18:06:51

Two activists of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) were gunned down by miscreants at Madhyabanchara in Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identifie...

DMP realises Tk 64,250 as fine for breaching social distancing

DMP realises Tk 64,250 as fine for breaching social distancing

FE Online Report 2020-04-26 17:13:47

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Saturday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 64,250 for allegedly violating the government’s social distanci...

One jailed for violating social distancing

One jailed for violating social distancing

FE Online Report 2020-04-25 17:24:25

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Friday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 39,200 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing...

'Rivals' stab two youths to death in Ctg

'Rivals' stab two youths to death in Ctg

-- 2020-04-24 14:31:43

Two youths were killed in an attack by their rivals over a trifling matter at Bhuiya Para in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Thursday night. The deceased were identified as Mohammad Zahid, 25, son...

Thakurgaon lawyer fined for conning man

Thakurgaon lawyer fined for conning man

-- 2020-04-23 12:38:05

A mobile court fined a lawyer Tk 10,000 for taking money from a vegetable vendor on a false promise of enrolling him in the government’s special rice sale programme for the poor. Sadar Upazila...

ACC sues Narail UP chairman over relief embezzlement

ACC sues Narail UP chairman over relief embezzlement

-- 2020-04-21 17:23:47

The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against chairman of Perli Union Parishad of Kalia upazila in Narail district for embezzling government rice. Assistant director of ACC, Ja...

Fraudster held over selling ‘COVID-19 remedy’

Fraudster held over selling ‘COVID-19 remedy’

FE Online Report 2020-04-20 17:37:49

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Sunday arrested a fraudster from the capital’s Mouchak area amid the coronavirus (COVID 19) shutdown. The arrestee, Tipu Sultan, aged 35, was allegedly sellin...

Six held over fraudulence involving relief distribution

Six held over fraudulence involving relief distribution

FE Online Report 2020-04-19 17:41:30

A group of fraudsters is very active in the capital as they deceived the poor and homeless people taking money from them in the name of distributing the government’s relief. To this effect, the...

Four theft suspects held in city

Four theft suspects held in city

FE Online Report 2020-04-10 18:26:56

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested four suspects and recovered gold, cash and laptop which were stolen from a flat in the capital’s Kalabagan Central market road area on March 31. They we...

Coronavirus: Jubo League leader held for spreading rumour in Pabna

Coronavirus: Jubo League leader held for spreading rumour in Pabna

-- 2020-03-31 13:05:18

Police on Monday night arrested a leader of Jubo League's Ishwardi Municipality unit for allegedly spreading rumour over coronavirus infection on social media. The arrestee is Abdus Salam, 32, son of...