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'Dial 106 if any land official demands bribe'

'Dial 106 if any land official demands bribe'

-- 2018-06-06 22:02:45

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner Dr Nasiruddin Ahmed has requested all to dial hotline 106 if any staff of land office demands bribe in exchange of giving services. “Stern action w...

Drives against militancy, terrorism, drugs to continue: PM

Drives against militancy, terrorism, drugs to continue: PM

-- 2018-06-06 20:49:01

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the drives against militancy, terrorism and drugs will continue to make Bangladesh free from anti-social elements. "The drives against militancy, terror...

BD important to UK because of Sylhet: Envoy

BD important to UK because of Sylhet: Envoy

-- 2018-06-06 20:38:37

Bangladesh is important to the United Kingdom because of Sylhet. British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Alison Blake said this while exchanging Ramadan greetings with locals at a hotel in Sylhet fol...

Motorcyclists unruly amid strict drives against traffic rule violation

Motorcyclists unruly amid strict drives against traffic rule violation

-- 2018-06-06 19:57:12

Although Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is conducting harsher drives against the traffic rules violators in the capital, motorcyclists have been constantly breaching the traffic rules and regulations...

President for more dynamic role of Information Commission

President for more dynamic role of Information Commission

-- 2018-06-06 19:50:24

President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday urged the Information Commission to be more active and dynamic for ensuring the free flow of information. "Getting information is one of people’s basic right...

Road crashes leave 10 dead in five districts

Road crashes leave 10 dead in five districts

-- 2018-06-06 19:48:20

Ten people, including a minor boy, died and four others were injured in separate road accidents across the country on Wednesday. In Tangail, four people were killed in a head-on collision between two...

Speakers demand rehabilitation of Langadu arson victims

Speakers demand rehabilitation of Langadu arson victims

-- 2018-06-06 19:41:39

Speakers have demanded rehabilitation of the victims of the last year's June 6 arson attack at Langadu upazila of Rangamati. They made the call at a programme on Wednesday marking the one year annive...

Passengers’ harassment at airports won’t be tolerated: Minister

Passengers’ harassment at airports won’t be tolerated: Minister

-- 2018-06-06 19:41:24

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Shahjahan Kamal on Wednesday said the government will not tolerate any harassment of passengers especially expatriate Bangladeshis at the country’s airports....

‘More than 300,000 unfit vehicles in BD’

‘More than 300,000 unfit vehicles in BD’

-- 2018-06-06 18:30:49

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passenger welfare platform, on Wednesday demanded that the government stop plying of unfit vehicles on highways during Eid-ul-Fitr. They came up with the demand at a...

Why no bail to Farmers Bank’s Babul Chishti: HC

Why no bail to Farmers Bank’s Babul Chishti: HC

-- 2018-06-06 18:02:52

The High Court has issued a rule asking the government to explain why former chairman of Farmers Bank's audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chishti, also known as Babul Chishti, should not be granted bail...

Funding shortfall brings new threat to Rohingyas

Funding shortfall brings new threat to Rohingyas

-- 2018-06-06 17:50:50

Medics with the UN Migration Agency (IOM) have now carried out more than 400,000 consultations in Cox’s Bazar since late August 2017 when hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas started fleeing into...

RAB detains Imran H Sarker

RAB detains Imran H Sarker

-- 2018-06-06 17:33:56

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained Ganajagaran Mancha spokesman Imran H Sarker. RAB spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan said Imran was detained on Wednesday afternoon from Shahbagh in Dhaka before...

'Army to be deployed during parliamentary election'

'Army to be deployed during parliamentary election'

-- 2018-06-06 17:25:43

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has said army will be deployed during the upcoming parliamentary election but not during the city polls. "I think, army will be deployed during the general e...

BPSC gets another member

BPSC gets another member

-- 2018-06-06 17:23:00

The government has appointed former secretary Abdul Mannan as a member of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC). President Abdul Hamid appointed him to the post, according to an official order...

BD loses scores on peace index

BD loses scores on peace index

-- 2018-06-06 17:13:47

Bangladesh suffered the largest deterioration in South Asia on the 2018 Global Peace Index, largely driven by a colossal influx of Rohingya refugees. Bangladesh’s rank plunged 10 places to 93 o...

Speakers for rehabilitation of Langadu arson victims

Speakers for rehabilitation of Langadu arson victims

-- 2018-06-06 17:06:43

Speakers at a programme on Wednesday demanded rehabilitation of the victims of the last year's June 6 arson attack by Bangalee settlers at Langadu upazila of Rangamati. They said though the governmen...

Nation to observe Historic 6-Point Day Thursday

Nation to observe Historic 6-Point Day Thursday

-- 2018-06-06 17:04:37

The historic Six-Point Day, marking the demand for autonomy for former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, will be observed on Thursday across the country in a befitting manner. On June 7 in 1966, Father...

President mourns death of Kishoreganj lawyer

President mourns death of Kishoreganj lawyer

-- 2018-06-06 16:51:30

President M Abdul Hamid on Wednesday expressed profound shock and grief at the death of Fazlur Rahman Mollik, an eminent lawyer and a member of Kishoreganj Bar Association. In a condolence message, t...

Court sends singer Asif to jail

Court sends singer Asif to jail

-- 2018-06-06 16:51:26

A court has sent singer Asif Akbar to jail in a case filed by lyricist, composer and singer Shafiq Tuhin under the Information and Communication Technology or ICT Act. The court of Dhaka's Additional...

PM greets Raushan Ershad, Ershad on Eid-ul-Fitr

PM greets Raushan Ershad, Ershad on Eid-ul-Fitr

-- 2018-06-06 15:58:14

PM greets Raushan, Ershad on Eid Prime Minister greets Raushan Ershad, Ershad on Eid-ul-Fitr Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted Begum Raushan Ershad, leader of the opposition party, and PM's S...

Cops detain 49 in Rajshahi anti-narcotic drive

Cops detain 49 in Rajshahi anti-narcotic drive

-- 2018-06-06 15:58:11

Police arrested 49 people including ten suspected drug peddlers from different parts of Rajshahi city from Tuesday evening till Wednesday morning. Police also recovered drugs from their possession, s...

Three ‘forest robbers’ die in Sundarbans ‘shootout’

Three ‘forest robbers’ die in Sundarbans ‘shootout’

-- 2018-06-06 15:49:13

Three suspected forest robbers were killed in a 'gunfight' with police at Maidakhesha canal in the Sundarbans in Koyra upazila on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Akbar Ali, 37, Abu Sayed M...

Govt starts process to launch Bangabandhu-2

Govt starts process to launch Bangabandhu-2

-- 2018-06-06 15:26:21

The government has started the process to launch another satellite, ‘Bangabandhu-2’, ahead of the expiry of the country’s first satellite ‘Bangabandhu-1’, Prime Minister...

Outgoing and new Air chiefs meet PM

Outgoing and new Air chiefs meet PM

-- 2018-06-06 14:42:22

Both outgoing Air chief Marshal Abu Esrar and newly appointed chief Air Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Jatiya Sangsad office on Wednesday....

Ctg port authorities recover missing body of captain

Ctg port authorities recover missing body of captain

-- 2018-06-06 14:22:08

Body of the foreign ship captain who went missing after slipping into the Karnaphuli River at Chattogram port on Monday night was recovered from under a jetty of the port on Wednesday. Security perso...

Two more die in anti-narcotics crackdown

Two more die in anti-narcotics crackdown

-- 2018-06-06 13:47:03

Two more people have died overnight in security forces’ anti-narcotics operation amid growing criticism from rights groups and rival political parties. Police claimed that one suspect was kille...

Court jails husband, second wife over AL leader murder

Court jails husband, second wife over AL leader murder

-- 2018-06-06 13:43:42

A court in Chandpur on Tuesday sent the husband and his second wife to jail in connection with the murder of Shahin Sultana Fancy, a central Mohila League leader. Shahin Sultana Fancy, 50, principal...

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Chandpur ‘gunfight’

‘Drug pedlar’ dies in Chandpur ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-06-06 11:39:00

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a reported gunfight with police at East Sriramdi of Chandpur district town early Wednesday amid the ongoing anti-narcotics drive. The deceased was identified as...

Two die in Nekrokona bridge collapse

Two die in Nekrokona bridge collapse

-- 2018-06-06 11:30:23

A young labourer and a minor boy were killed after an under-construction bridge collapsed upon them at Paikura village in Mohonganj upazila of Netrokona on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Ta...

BRT project: Executing agencies seek extension in time, cost

BRT project: Executing agencies seek extension in time, cost

FHM Humayan Kabir 2018-06-06 11:11:23

The project-executing agencies concerned have sought two more years to complete building the country's first dedicated bus rapid transit (BRT) line, officials said on Tuesday. If the time extension i...