UNB Two minor brothers were found dead at Dhulipara in Sadar South upazila on Saturday. Police recovered the bodies of Joy, 7, and his younger brother Moni, 5, sons of Abul Kalam of the area, in the afternoon. Victims’ father Abul Kalam said he along with his wife Rekha Akhter found the…
UNB The Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has sought Home Ministry’s permission to accept a complaint as a sedition case against The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam. Inspector Nur Hossain (Investigation) of Kotwali Police Station sent a letter to the Home Ministry on Saturday in this regard. Sitakunda upazila chairman and district (North)…
UNB After the two children, now the father who was injured in the Uttara gas explosion on Friday died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday evening. Shahnewaz, 50, an employee of the US Embassy in Dhaka, succumbed to his injuries around 5:55pm, hospital sources said. Earlier, Shahnewaz’s two…
BSS Against the backdrop of strong dissatisfaction of the Apex Court about the way the prosecution and investigation agency of the ICT are handling the war crimes cases, Law Minister Anisul Huq today hoped the Chief Justice would give observation about these in the upcoming verdict. “Whatever the Chief Justice has said is discernible. I…
BSS Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu today came down heavily on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for its growing “no confidence” attitude towards the results of the elections in which the party was defeated. “The BNP did not accept the results of the elections in which the party was defeated … it also expressed “no…
BSS Temperatures have risen across the country on an average by two degree Celsius in the past few days as a retreating winter makes room for the summer to take over soon, an official of Met Office told BSS. The winter is packing up as steady rise in temperature signals its retreat for past several…
BSS Legal and economic experts at a seminar today laid emphasis on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for downsizing the backlog of cases, settling the disagreements outside the courtroom. “The magnitude of unresolved trade and business disputes and litigation are on the gradual rise. Informal but globally recognized outside-court settlement process is a milestone and proven…
BSS Land Minister and language movement veteran Shamsur Rahman Sharif today said the language movement led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had later turned into the movement for self-rule and autonomy. “The language movement took place under the dynamic leadership of Bangabandhu,” he said speaking as the chief guest at a discussion meeting marking the…
BSS Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 12 bars of gold worth around Taka 50 lakh and arrested a woman from Abdullahpur bus-stand under Uttara West thana today. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-1 led by Assistant Superintendent of Police Mohammad Najibul Hasan Rajib conducted a special drive at the bus-stand area…
BSS The White House pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to expand his non-militarization pledge to cover the entire South China Sea, despite Beijing’s recent military activity in the area. Daniel Kritenbrink, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, spoke amid rising tensions between the two countries over China’s deployment of…