DOT Desk: A suspected robber was killed in an alleged gunfight with police at Ujanchar Beelpar area in Bajitpur Upazila of Kishoreganj district, reports The Financial Express. Police named the deceased as Arshaf Uddin, 30, son of Bachchu Mia, from Bhairab Upazila’s Manikdi area. He is accused in several robbery cases, report UNB. A police…
Abrar Hussain: Family members of one of the injured leaders of quota reform movement alleged that authorities of a hospital in Dhaka forcefully released yesterday. Nurul Haque Nur, a joint convener of Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, was injured along with several others in an attack allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) members in…
UNB, Dhaka A court here on Sunday asked the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to reinvestigate the case filed over the construction of ‘Rana Plaza’ with a faulty design. Dhaka Divisional Special Judge M Atoar Rahman passed the order and fixed May 8 for submitting the chargeheet in the case after reinvestigation. In its observation, the…
Police arrested 54 people from different parts of the district in an overnight special drive on Thursday on various charges. Sub-inspector Azam Khan of the Special Branch of Satkhira district police said they conducted the drive from Thursday evening to Friday morning and made the arrest. The arrestees face various cases, including of sabotage and…
Bdnews24: The Department of Narcotics Control has seized around 850kg new psychoactive substance or NPS, which are ‘new’ to Bangladesh’, from the Shahjalal International Airport and a firm at Shantinagar in Dhaka. The seized NPS, which look much like green tea leafs, have been common in Africa for a long time and are recently being…
Desk report: Bangladesh will no longer eligible for concessional loan from the World Bank as it has started lending at 2.0 per cent rate, reports the financial express. The Washington lender has made the higher rate effective from last month instead of 0.75 per cent, officials said on Monday. Besides rate, the bank’s other lending…
Chester Bennington (41) was the lead vocalist of the famous Rock-Rap band LINKIN PARK. He was found dead in his house near Los Angeles on Thursday. Police are thinking that it is a suicide. In 2000, with their album “Hybrid Theory”, Linkin Park achieved success. He suffered sexual abuse in his childhood. When…
BDnews24: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang have extended their heartfelt congratulations to Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on securing her party’s absolute majority in the 11th parliamentary elections. Zhang Zuo, Chinese envoy to Dhaka, handed over their messages to Hasina at her Ganabhaban residence on Monday, said PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim….
DOT Desk: In 2018, Bangladesh received the highest number of bodies of its migrant workers from abroad in last 14 years, according to Wage Earners Welfare Board, reports The New Age. At least 3,793 Bangladeshi workers died abroad in the last year mostly due to stroke or heart attack. WEWB deputy director Zahid Anwar told…
UNB: The government has created 30,000 more skilled manpower through providing world-class IT training to them to boost the country’s ICT sector, reports UNB. UK-based Ernst and Young (EY) conducted the training under the World Bank-financed Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC). “We engaged the local and…