A team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-10 yesterday arrested three persons with 12 pounds of cobra venom, worth about Tk 45 crore, from the ground floor of a four-storey building in the capital's Lalbagh, said a Rab press release.
A prosecution witness yesterday testified that former Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain shot a boy dead in Jessore's Keshabpur upazila during the Liberation War in 1971.
At least 15 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured, two by bullets, in a factional clash at MC College in Sylhet city yesterday, said police.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government was barring the return of its Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman to the country.
A judge of a High Court bench yesterday expressed unwillingness to hear a petition of sacked Rab official Lt Col (retd) Tareq Sayed Muhammad seeking scrapping of the trial proceedings against him in a case filed for abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj in April, 2014.
The Election Commission (EC) finds no flaws in the incidents of many chairman aspirants' being elected unopposed in the Union Parishad(UP) polls.
Today is the sixth death anniversary of Zillur Rahman Khan, a veteran journalist, freedom fighter and bureau chief of The Daily Sangbad.
The United Kingdom has said it will continue to help Bangladesh's stride in eradicating child marriage and stopping violence against women giving both girls and women 'safe and secure' lives and ensuring their economic independence.
The cabinet approves the draft of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Act-2016, under which six dedicated fast-moving bus lanes will be built for the improvement of the capital’s transport system.
The government decides to decorate 14 distinguished personalities and Bangladesh Navy with this year's Independence Award-2016 in recognition to their glorious and credible contributions in the national level.
