Governance

Dhaka, Oct 18 (UNB)- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday categorically declared that those involved in child repression and killing will be punished severely. Read More »

Rajshahi, Oct 18 (UNB) – An Indian fisherman who entered Bangladesh illegally in Charghat upazila here on Thursday was sent to jail on Friday as two cases were filed against him for trespassing and catching hilsa. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 18 – Four suspected criminals, including two Rohingyas, were killed in separate gunfights in Cox’s Bazar, Joypurhat and Mymensingh districts early Friday. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 18 – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday decided to conduct investigation against those who were involved in the alleged graft of purchasing furniture, pillow and other household items for Green City housing project under Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 18 – Two suspected criminals were killed in reported gunfights with police in Joypurhat and Mymensingh districts early Friday. Read More »

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested three suspected members of banned militant group ‘Neo JMB’ from Gabtoli area on Wednesday night. Read More »

Narail, Oct 17 (UNB) – A seven-year-old boy was found dead at a water body at Singa village in Lohagara upazila on Wednesday night. Read More »

Rangpur, Oct 16 (UNB) – An elderly man is said to have killed himself at a police outpost in Pirganj Upazila here on Wednesday. Responding the incident, five policemen was withdrawn to the district police lines. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 16 (UNB) – The process is underway to form a prosecution team to quickly receive the charge-sheet in the Abrar murder case, said Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday. Read More »

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Saraitkandi village in Sonagazi upazila early Wednesday. Read More »

Narayanganj, Oct 15 (UNB) – A minor boy died as her ‘mentally’ imbalanced mother threw him from a four-storey building in the city’s Fatulla area on Monday night. Read More »

Sunamganj, Oct 15 – A paternal uncle and a cousin of five-year-old child Tuhin Hasan, who was brutally murdered at Kezaura village in Dirai upazila, reportedly confessed before a court on Tuesday to their involvement in the murder. Read More »

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Tuesday sentenced five war criminals to death for their crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. Read More »

Four suspected forest robbers were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the Sundarbans under Koyra upazila early Tuesday. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 15 – The High Court will hear on Tuesday on a writ petition filed seeking Tk 10 crore compensation for the family of Buet student Abrar Fahad, who was beaten to death at his dormitory. Read More »

Mexico City, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — At least 13 police officers were killed and nine others wounded Monday in an ambush by gunmen in the Mexican state of Michoacan, a western region where violence attributed to drug cartels has spiked in recent months. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 14 – Police yesterday said that Abrar Fahad, who was a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), was beaten to death on suspicions of being a Chhatra Shibir member. Read More »

Chattogram, Oct 14 (UNB) – The Highway police has started a drive with a new device to law enforcement in the country to prevent drunken driving. Read More »

Cox’s Bazar, Oct 14 – Two people were killed in firing reportedly by members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during the by-election to a ward of Ghumdhum union parishad in Naikkhongchhari upazila of Bandarban on Monday. Read More »

Sylhet – A 5-year-old child was brutally murdered by some miscreants at Kezaura village in Derai upazila in Sunamganj district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Tuhin, son of Abdul Baser Mia of Kenaura village in the upazila. Victim’s relatives said Tuhin was picked up by the killers from his house sometime at night while he was asleep. The ... Read More »

Gazipur, Oct 14 (UNB) – Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon on Monday said some Tk 9 lakh crores has been siphoned off abroad from the country. Read More »

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested two suspected members of ‘Neo JMB’ from Mohammadpur on Sunday over attacks on police at Science Lab and Gulistan. Read More »

Chattogram, Oct 13 (UNB)- A local leader of Jubo League was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Agrabad area under Double Mooring Police Station on Sunday night. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 13 (UNB) – BNP on Sunday demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Police Superintendent (SP) of Kushtia accusing him of ‘intimidating and harassing’ the family members of slain Buet student Abrar Fahad. Read More »

Sacramento, Oct 14 Ecuador (AP/UNB) — California is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide whether to file lawsuits, joining several states in expanding the statute of limitations for victims over warnings from school districts that the new rules could bankrupt them. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 13 – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Sunday directed the owner of Sajan Paribahan to give Tk 10 lakh in a month to the brothers of Rajib Hossain, a college student who was killed in a road accident in the city last year after his right arm got stuck between two buses and got severed. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 13 UNB) – Police on Sunday foiled a ‘civic mourning rally’ brought out by Jatiya Oikyafront in the city protesting the killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad. Read More »

Shamim Billah, an accused in the Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case, was known in the locality as a brilliant, polite and gentleman. Read More »

A pregnant woman and her minor daughter have been murdered in Tangail municipality area. Read More »

Dhaka – The authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) on Saturday sealed off three rooms, including that of university unit president and general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), at two dormitories for illegally occupying those. Buet unit BCL chief Jami-us-Sani’s room-321 at Ahsanullah Hall and general secretary Mehedi Hasan Rasel’s room-3012 at Sher-e-Bangla Hall were sealed ... Read More »