DHAKA: A Dhaka Court framed charges against BNP Standing Committee member MK Anwar under the ICT Act after holding a hearing Monday morning.Senior Special Judge M Jahurul Haque also fixed November 23 as the deposition date in presence of the defendant MK Anwar.On May 6, 2013, MK Anwar,

DHAKA: The High Court on Monday ordered the concerned authorities to take steps to identify Ebola virus carrying people at all the ports including the international airports of the country.An HC bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice M Jahangir issued the order after

DHAKA: A Dhaka court issued another arrest warrant against Abdul Latif Siddique, recently removed as minister for Telecommunications, for hurting religious sentiment.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Meher Nigar issued the arrest warrant against him on Monday. Earlier, on October 15, Dhaka

NEW YORK: Bangladeshi citizen Rajib Ahmed Sizar admitted to bribing a former agent of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to get personal and secret information of a top Bangladeshi politician stored to US law enforcing agency.US Department of Justice confirmed the matter.Rajib,

DHAKA: The Education Ministry has been thinking the alternative to university admission test to save time, money and harassments of students.The ministry gave argument that if the admission tests are withdrawn, the students can admit themselves with their preferred subject.Now, the

RANGPUR: District Pickup Owners’ Association called an indefinite transport strike on Monday which halted the road link of the district with four neighboring routes. Sources said that miscreants vandalized bus stand and set fire to the office of Pickup Owners’ Association, leaving

DHAKA: Renowned journalist Al-Amin passed away on Monday morning. He was 46. He breathed his last breath around 5:00am in city’s Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute due cardiac arrest. Family sources said that on Wednesday, he felt severe pain at his chest and ignored it.

    GOPALGANJ: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-8 personnel detained a fired man of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) from Chandibardi village under Muksudpur Upazila of the district on Sunday night. The detainees is – Nazrul Islam, 48, so of Samsul Islam. Confirming the matter RAB-8

DHAKA: A court ordered Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate against 10 people including assistant police commissioner (AC) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch (West) in a murder case. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) court of Ali Masud

THAKURGAON: Border Security Force (BSF) of India detained two Bangladeshis from Dabri frontier under Haripur upazila on Sunday night.The detainees were identified as Enamul Haque, 25, son of one Nur Islam, and Hasan Ali, 18, son of one Ismail Ali, residents of Kathaldangi village of

DHAKA: The government has appointed Nazimuddin Chowdhury, additional secretary of energy and mineral resources department, as the chairman of Petrobangla.He will serve as chairman of Petrobangla in addition of his current duty.The ministry issued an order in this regards on Sunday.The

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Sunday said there are at least 740 illegal Bangladeshi intruders in Thailand and they would be brought back to the home soon, He made the disclosure while addressing the press on the just-concluded Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in

DHAKA: Law Minister Advocate Anisul Haque on Sunday categorically said Dr Piash Karim distributed leaflets for liberation war during 1971. He also claimed that father of Piash Karim was forcibly made peace committee chairman in 1971.The minister came up with the disclosure while talking

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday fixed October 26 for the remand hearing of MP Abdur Rahman Badi, elected from Cox’s Bazar-4 constituency, on in a case for his alleged involvement in attaining illegal assets. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ataul Haque passed the order in

DHAKA: Cornell University severed its relationships with the apparel manufacturer JanSport over worker and factory safety in Bangladesh. Cornell first pressed the issue in May when President David J. Skorton sent a letter to Eric Wiseman, CEO of VF Corporation which owns JanSport, asking

DHAKA: Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said that the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act will be amended to bring Jamaat-e-Islami under trial for their involvement in the crimes against humanity. The proposal to amend the ICT Act will be presented in

DHAKA: Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) in a separate drives detained seven people with huge arms and ammunitions from various spots of the city on Saturday night.  The identity of the detainees could not be known immediately.  Sources said that the law enforcers

DHAKA: Eminent historian and National Professor Dr Salahuddin Ahmed, 92, passed away due to old age complications on Sunday morning.  He breathed his last around 6:00am at his Banani residence in city. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock at his demise.  Dr Salahuddin

MANIKGANJ: Angry villagers lynched a youth on Sunday noon as earlier in the morning he chopped his parent’s to death in Shayesta Union under Singair upazila on Sunday. The youth was identified as Saidur Rahman, 35. Officer-in-Charge of Singair Thana Syeduzzaman confirmed the matter to

COX’S BAZAR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 40,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets worth about TK 1.20 crore from Naf River area in Teknaf upazila early Sunday.  Sources said that acting on a tip off law enforcers conducted a drive and recovered the Yaba tablets with from a