Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) yesterday arrested a cleaning staffer with 32 gold bars weighing 3.7kgs and valued at Tk 1.85 crore, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
Supreme Court lawyer Syed Sayedul Haque Suman, popularly known as “Barrister Suman”, has resigned from his post as prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal.
Police busted a gambling syndicate at the city’s Riazuddin Bazar Pakhir Goli area and arrested 16 gamblers -- including three “ringleaders” -- on charge of online gambling yesterday morning.
Five people were killed and at least 34 were injured in separate road accidents across the country over the last two days, report our correspondents.
In order to build a sustainable northern region, reviving dead rivers, protecting and improving quality of water bodies, and maintaining “good and well-planned practices” in implementing agricultural, fisheries and industrial projects is essential, speakers stressed at a discussion in Rajshahi yesterday.
Consumer rights activists at a discussion yesterday urged the government to limit the use of trans fat in all foods to maximum of two percent, and maintain the standard strictly as the substance is injurious for health.
BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid yesterday in parliament demanded that the government amends the University Ordinance 1973 to “force” four leading public universities to follow the uniform admission tests from this year.
Bangla Academy, Swadhinata and Ekushey Padak winning poet Nirmalendu Goon was hospitalised last night with pneumonia and respiratory complications.
Some 470 Bangladeshi migrant workers are set to return home this week from crisis-hit Lebanon, following applications for repatriation under a special programme announced by authorities. Many of them are desperate to return home, said officials and migrant workers living in the Arab country.
High Court orders, death of workers -- many of them minors, environmentalists and rights activists going up in arms, drives by authorities -- nothing seems to deter the greed of stone traders, as parts of Sylhet are steadily transforming into a grotesque mound of dirt.
