The Supreme Court fines 10 private medical colleges Tk 1 crore each for admitting 153 candidates who failed to fulfill the relevant requirements in admission tests.
Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology forwards a letter to the home ministry for a drive against noncertified SIM cards.
The Supreme Court upholds a decision to hike the tariff on international incoming calls from 1.5 cents to 2 cents (Tk 1.60) per minute.
A local Jubo League leader is found dead with throat slit in Natore Sadar upazilla early today.
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan today slams the law enforcers for arresting veteran journalist Shafik Rehman in a “dirty trick”.
Workers Party, key ally of AL led 14-party alliance, reacts against restriction on celebrations of Pahela Baishakh after 5:00pm, demands withdrawal of restriction.
The United States is going to honour 14 women across the world, including barrister Sara Hossain, for their exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The government decides to curb the issuance of official passports for its employees across the country in view of allegations of human trafficking in disguise of government officials.
Police arrested Kendua upazila unit ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami from his relative's house at Purbadhala upazila on Saturday.
The arrestee was identified as Shamsuddin, upazila unit ameer of the party and resident of Goradoba village of Kandua upazila.
Purbadhala police said a team of police raided the house of his son-in-law on Rawshanara road in Purbadhala upazila and arrested him at about 10am.
The Jamaat leader was hiding there apparently to avoid arrest, said police.
There in no trace yet of two siblings who went 'missing' 11 days ago in Mathbaria upazila.
The two brothers are Khairul Bashar Rabbi, 13, and Sabbir Hossain, 11, sons of Md Khalil Jomadder, UP member in the upazila.
Rabbi is a student of class eight at KM Latif Institute in Mathbaria municipality and Sabbir is in class six at Model Government School in the upazila.
Khalil said, on the 21 February, his two sons went to school to celebrate the International Mother Language Day.
As they did not return home before evening, he looked for them at the houses of his relatives.
But after 11 days, he is yet to find their whereabouts. He also filed a general diary (GD) with the Mathbaria police station.
Police recovered the body of a 'missing' man from a crop land in Dharmadihi area of Borolekha upazila yesterday morning. The deceased was identified as Sushil Biswas, 42, son of Kanai Lal Biswas of the area under Dasher Bazar union. Police said, locals found the body and informed them. Sushil went missing on March 2.
At least eight people were injured in a clash between two groups of smugglers over sharing 'profit money' at Jawrani border village in Hatibandha upazila around 5.30pm yesterday. The injured were admitted to Hatibandha upazila health complex and Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital. They were identified as Sohel Rana, 35, Manik Barmon, 42, Hasem Ali, 45, Taher Uddin, 36, Quddus Ali, 30, Yasin Ali, 28, Hobibur Rahman, 40, and Nizam Uddin, 42, of Jawrani village. Local sources said that the clash took place between Moti Mia group and Lal Miah group.
Criminals hacked to death the president of Sariakandi municipality unit committee Chhatra League at Public Mat near press club in the town on Wednesday night. The deceased is Bijoy Rahman Babu, 25, son of Nuru Mia of Dhap (Baluahata) area of the municipality. Officer in-charge (OC) of Sariakandi PS Faisul Islam told this correspondent that the victim was hacked at 7:30pm. He was rushed to the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital (SZMCH) where he died at around 8:30pm the same day. The cause of his killing could not be known immediately, police said.
Several business establishments, vehicles and a bank's booth in the town were vandalised allegedly by Jamaat-Shibir activists yesterday. Witnesses said, they brought out a procession from Kandirpar Pubali Chhatar premises at about 9:30am. Then they vandalised an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) booth of local Pubali Bank branch in the area. The activists later vandalised two hospitals, a petrol pump, two buses, a truck and an ambulance on Laksam Road. They also vandalised the house of Saiful Islam, president of town unit Bangladesh Chhatra League.
Police have filed a case against 3030 jamaat men on charge of attacking them and obstructing their duties. Sub-Inspector Kawseruzzaman of Borolekha PS filed the case at 11pm on Thursday accusing 30 identified Jamaat leaders while 3000 others remained unidentified. Witnesses said a clash ensued with police when the activists of Jamaat and its student wing Shibir of Borolekha unit brought out a procession in support of their various demands, including the release of their party leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
Lalmonirhat district museum honoured 20 people for their role in implementing “Lalmonirhat Mahakuma†and “Lalmonirhat district†plans at a function held in Sadar upazila on Thursday. Those honoured were state minister for primary and mass education Motahar Hossain MP, Majibur Rahman MP, former MP Abul Hossain, ex-MP Saleh Uddin Ahmed Helal, ex-Sadar upazila chairman Shafiqul Islam Montu, ex-vice chairman of Lalmonirhat municipality Ansar Ali, freedom fighter Captain (retd.) Azizul Haque Bir Protik, Muhammad Shahab Uddin, Nuruzzaman Khandokar, Golam Rahman, ex-Lalmonirhat municipality chairman Lutfor Rahman, Nazrul Islam Mandol, Sultah Ahmed Bablu, Habibur Rahman, Iliyas Hossain, Khandokar Muhammad Ishaque Ali, Abdul Majid Mandol, Tajul Chowdhury and SK Khwaza Moinuddin.
A 10-year-old boy was beaten to death allegedly by his neighbours at Paker Ali village in Bagherpara upazila on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Selim, a student of Class II at Mohammadpur Alia Madrasa and son of late Milon of the village. Police and locals said Selim had a quarrel with his neighbour Tumpa over plucking tamarind at night. At one stage, Tumpa's father Abdul Kader and mother Shukurun beat him up mercilessly over the issue, leaving him seriously injured. Later, local people took Selim to Jessore Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
