Inspector General of Police Hasan Mahmud Khondker yesterday denied allegations of torture on detained BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury under police remand.
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Jail reforms are nearing completion as 25 recommendations including arrangement for separate habitation for women and children prisoners of the cabinet committee was implemented during the last one and a half years....
Police arrested 1,753 people during their countrywide drive in the last 24 hours ending at 6am yesterday.
During the drive, they also recovered seven firearms, seven other weapons and 18 rounds of bullet and filed six cases against 14 people.
A meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will be held at the party's Dhanmondi office at 10 am on March 23.
Awami League President and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina will preside over the meeting, says a press release.
Party General Secretary M Abdul Jalil MP has requested all the central working committee members to attend the meeting in time.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has taken an initiative to make social movement against dowry a success as part of her government's campaign against it....
Around 2,800 chickens perished in a fire that broke out at a poultry farm in the city in the early hours of yesterday.
An electrical short-circuit sparked off the fire at round 3.00am at the farm, causing an estimated loss of Tk 2 lakh, fire service sources said.
The farm is owned by Farid member of Uttar Kulgaon under Panchlaish thana.
Karmajibi Nari, an organisation for the working women, celebrated its 12th founding anniversary in the city yesterday with a call to ensure social security for the working women....
Syed Sajjadur Rahman, editor of a fortnightly magazine, was killed in a road accident at Mohammadpur in the city yesterday.
A speeding people carrier, Druti, knocked him down when he was crossing a road 200 yards from Mohammadpur Police Station at around 12:30pm. Rahman, 50, was the editor of the Procharpatra.
He was rushed to Bangladesh Medical College Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead at around 1:40pm.
Rahman went to the police station to collect some information but met with the tragic accident when he tried to cross the road to go to his home at Jafrabad Poolpar in Mohammadpur, police said.
Police seized the vehicle but the driver fled away.
Robbers looted cash, eight television sets and other electronic goods worth about Tk 2 lakh from a Butterfly showroom at Mirpur in the city on Wednesday.
The robbers entered the showroom at section-1 after breaking the shutter at about 3:00am.
A case was filed with Mirpur Police Station in this connection.
Police held Lal Mian, a guard for interrogation.
Police are yet to arrest the killers of a Jubo Dal ward unit leader who was murdered inside a hotel room at Mugda in Sabujbagh on Wednesday....
