NTV Online: Customs Preventive team arrested an Indian national along with 22 gold bars, weighing 12.3 kg, at Shahjalal International Airport early Thursday. The arrestee is Arshad Ayaz, 46, hailing from Kolkata in West Bengal. A flight of Thai Airways landed at the airport from Bangkok at night, reports the UNB. Tipped off, the team…
UNB: The Office of the Chief Inspector of Boilers under the Industries Ministry urged the authorities concerned to examine the boilers at factories before turning them on after the Eid-ul-Azha vacation to avoid any unwanted accident. Accidents may occur if the boilers are switched on without examination after a long vacation which may claim lives,…
DOT Desk North Zone fast bowler Ebadat Hossain ran riot on a green wicket as he took six wickets for 51 runs — his best bowling figures in first-class cricket — against Central Zone yesterday on the first day of the second round of the Bangladesh Cricket League. At the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogura,…
NTV Online Irked by the continuous absence of doctors at upazila-level hospitals, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said how rural people will get their basic medicare services if this culture continues. ‘We’ve taken various steps to upgrade upazila hospitals…we’ve upgrade the ten-bed hospitals to 50-bed ones. There should be at least 10 doctors in…
Riku Amir Authority has completed all the preparation & ready to initiate the Waste Bin Reinstallation project soon, informed Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Additional Director (Waste Management) Khondakar Millatul Islam to the press. Due to poor monitoring & waste management of the waste-bins, many of these are now obsolete. Some bins are overflowing with…
Tarannum Sattar (Tarannum Sattar is a journalist and poet. Also, she has a cat named Miserable.) The room still smells of the perfume phial that you broke. The stench of cigarettes still haunt the blanket. As I sit in one corner of the four walls, They all remind me of you. I want to escape….
AP Online Village of Shahapur, in Thane district of the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is in the grips of one of the worst droughts in decades. Parched fields, burnt crops and wasted cattle have helped drive up the number of suicides by distressed farmers unable to repay their loans. Tens of thousands have left…
Washinton Post: Lawyers representing Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa have filed papers urging the country’s Constitutional Court to throw out an opposition challenge to his disputed election. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has said Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF party won the July 30 election in this politically and economically troubled southern African country’s first election without…
Kabir Humayun: BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday said that three lakh leaders and activists of the party and its different fronts have been implicated this month in different false cases. He made the allegation at a press conference at BNP’s central office in Dhaka’s Nayapaltan. At least 3,000 false cases have…
DOT Desk The bench of Justice Tariqul Hakim and Justice Md Suhrawardy came up with the order and rule following a writ petition filed by Law Reporters Forum members M Badiuzzaman and Mahedi Hasan Dalim, Mobile Phone Subscribers Association president Mohiduddin Ahmed and Supreme Court lawyer Rashedul Hasan, reports The DAily Observer. The petition also…