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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The 5th International Arsenic Conference ended in the city yesterday with a call for greater participation of local communities and local government institutions in implementing the arsenic mitigation plans....
Bangladesh Krishak Samity (BKS) yesterday demanded of the government to ensure supply of sufficient fertiliser across the country with a view to tackling the existing fertiliser crisis....
A three-day Science and Handicrafts Fair organised by Siddeswari Girls' College got underway on the college premises in the city yesterday.
Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Secretary Daliluddin Mandol inaugurated the fair which will remain open for public from 9:00am to 3:00pm.
About 50 science projects and handicrafts, innovated and prepared by the college students, are being displayed in the fair.
An underground operative was murdered by unidentified assailants at village Bharsha in Tala upazila in the early hours of yesterday....
Fifty-eight news books were shelved at different publishing houses on the 10th day of the Amar Ekushey Book Fair yesterday....
Md Nurul Alam, a freedom fighter and retired additional IG of police, and freedom fighter and Joint Secretary of Bangladesh Government MA Mubarak were elected chairman and member secretary of the Advisory Committee of Chattagram Samity-Dhaka recently, says a press release....
Some cadres of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday severed the tendons of hands and legs of a Jubo League leader in Char Fashion upazila of the district.
According to police and local Awami League sources, the BNP cadres swooped on Akhtherul Alam Sham, also a ward commissioner of Char Fashion Municipality, on his way to Bhola district town in the morning. They beat up Sham, cut the tendons and left the scene riding motorbikes.
The critically injured Jubo League leader was admitted to Char Fashion Health Complex and later shifted to Barisal Sher-e- Bangla Medical College Hospital as his condition deteriorated.
A case was filed with Char Fashion police.
