A Dhaka court yesterday appointed administrators to look after some of the immovable properties of Benazir Ahmed and his family members.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Bangladeshis were found to be the highest number of irregular migrants reaching the shores of Italy in the first six months of this year.
Police in Manikganj are trying to arrest five men accused of raping a schoolgirl.
A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others were injured while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj yesterday morning.
Two patients with Covid-19 died and at least 620 new Covid-19 cases were recorded by the health directorate in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared the main protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early yesterday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.
A local company that owes the government more than $ 67 million in penalty for failing to supply electricity from its two rental power plants is lobbying hard to have one of its two contracts renewed for five years.
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Jasmine IslamA Dhaka court yesterday took cognisance of charges against 25 people, including Hall-Mark Group Chairman Jasmine Islam and its Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud, for swindling over Tk 2,600 crore out of Sonali Bank.
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The Awami League last night offered the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to join the all-party polls-time government as proposed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Around 80 percent of the respondents in a survey said they had hardly received any information they had requested from officials concerned, who are bound by law to provide information in 20 days.
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Hartal supporters torched two parked trucks in Sitakunda of Chittagong yesterday, the last day of the 84-hour opposition-sponsored countrywide shutdown. Photo: Focus Bangla
Two foreign diplomats yesterday said they will urge the government to change the controversial provision in the Anti-Corruption Commission law, which requires the ACC to get government permission before filing a graft case against any public servant.
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Awami League President Sheikh Hasina approved a 71-member full-fledged committee of Chittagong Metropolitan unit of the party yesterday, seven years after the previous committee had been formed.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will fly to Colombo today to attend the three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) beginning on Friday morning.
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Two death row inmates were executed Tuesday in Florida and Texas, the states that hold the record this year for executions in the United States, penal authorities said.
In Florida, Darius Kimbrough, 40, died from lethal injection after the US Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, said Misty Cash, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections.
He was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and killing of a 28-year-old woman in 1991 in her apartment in Orange County. The anesthetic drug he received, midazolam, was used for only the second time in Florida.
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Fireworks and laser show at Hatirjheel project area in the capital yesterday on the occasion of celebrating the country's more than 10,000 MW of power generation capacity. Photo: Darshan ChakmaThe government yesterday celebrated its achievement for touching the milestone in power generation capacity of 10,000-megawatt with a grand and cheerful jubilation.
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