DHAKA: Police Monday charged 824 persons with serious crimes like killings, raping, looting and so in the Pilkhana BDR headquarters during last year’s mass mutiny in the country’s border force. Simultaneously, the cabinet Monday approved a draft law reforming the mutiny-ridden

 DHAKA: The government has appointed some 1,445 senior staff nurses to the vacant posts under the Health and Family Welfare Ministry. The appointments have been given according to their batch, merit and seniority, a notification of the directorate said Monday. The recruited nurses have

PABNA: Three children drowned in ponds in Chatmohar and Shujanagar upazillas in the district Monday. The deceased were identified as Sathi, 3, daughter of Akkas Ali of Shomaj village, and Arif, 5, son of Rafiqul Islam of Doyarampur village, in Chatmohar upazilla, and Kawser, 6, son of

DHAKA: A special court on BDR mutiny trial fixed February 2, 2011 for the next hearing on charge framing against 735 suspected mutineers of Sadar Rifles Battalion, after all of them were roped in the dock Monday.The Special Court 6, led by BDR Director-General Major-General Rafiqul Islam,

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday placed Saidur Rahman, the new chief of the banned Islamist organization Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), on four days police remand for interrogating on one of the charges against him.Judge Syeda Minhaz um Munira of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

DHAKA:  An old man was killed in a road accident in the city’s Mirpur area on Monday morning, triggering a violent backlash.Police said a bus knocked down Abdul Baki Mia, 75, a resident of Pallabi, on the road near Mirpur 11 bus stand at about 7:30am. He died on the spot. “Enraged by

DHAKA: Health condition of former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, lying on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital, remained unchanged on Monday. ICU Chief of the hospital Dr Mirza Nazim Uddin told banglanews24.com.bd, “Bhuiyan’s condition did

DHAKA: The Postal Department is going to sign a deal with the Passport Department this week for issuing machine-readable passports (MRP) through post offices from August 1. “In the first phase, three post offices in Dhaka will introduce the service which will later be implemented at 81

CHUADANGA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) held a man and recovered a revolver and two sharp weapons from Bakshipur Sakin village in Alamdanga upazila early Monday.Acting on a tip-off, a special team of RAB-6, led by DAD HM Nurul Islam, raided the house of Khabir Uddin at the

DHAKA: Do as I preach, not as I practise. Many officials leading government campaign for family planning of the public are blessed with families large enough to make one raise their eyebrow. Most officials of the Family Planning Department have a good number of children in their own

NATORE: The district and session judge’s court Sunday sent 11 policemen to jail in connection with the killing of a businessman in so-called ‘crossfire’. They are former office-in-charge of Singra thana Abu Bakkar, SI Liakat Ali, ASI Praddyut Kar, constable Jasim, constable Asir

DHAKA: The Mawa-Kaorakandi channel that was closed for dredging will be opened within a week. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan Sunday told journalists that a dredger would reach there in a day or two. “Dredging of necessary points of five emergency channels will then take place as

DHAKA: Norway will provide Tk 116 crore to Bangladesh for community-level disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change under the Comprehensive Disaster Management Program (CDMP). Norwegian Ambassador to Dhaka Ingebjorg Stofring and UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Prisner

DHAKA: The government has appointed Muhammad Ali Sarker as the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Netherlands. A Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Muhammad belongs to the 1986 batch of BCS (Foreign Affairs) Cadre. He joined the service in 1989, said a press release of Foreign

BRAHMANBARIA: Yet another death in police custody was reported in the district Sunday, after last week’s High Court order for the government to punish such excesses following a number of custodial deaths in the capital.This time the deceased is a poor rickshaw-puller, Nurul Haque,

DHAKA: The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) received 100 containers for recycling waste with support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) “The Prime Minister will inaugurate the containers soon,” Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan told journalists.Ending a meeting with

DHAKA: Bangladeshi-made sleeping bags retained the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) on the US market.A government handout on Sunday said the Obama administration on July 1 turned down an appeal by US manufacturing company Excel Outdoor in this regard. Excel filed the writ with

DHAKA: When the law-enforcing agencies are on high alert to thwart any apprehended sabotage following the arrest of top Jamaat trio, there is no trace of over 40,000 licensed firearms, competent sources said, indicating it as a major threat to country’s internal security. All these

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday issued a rule upon the government to explain within two weeks why it should not be asked to preserve the 30 percent quota fixed for the children of freedom fighters in police Sub-Inspector recruitment.Eight government high officials have been made respondents.

COMILLA: Rail communications on 30 routes to the capital, Dhaka, and country’s eastern part halted as a passenger train derailed near Lalmai station here Sunday afternoon.Railway sources said three compartments of Chittagong-bound ‘Mahanagar Provati’ from Dhaka fell off the tract at