Staff Reporter :Former Chittagong Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter lodged a complaint with a court against six officials of Police Bureau of Investigations (PBI) including PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumder for torturing and attempting to kill him in police custody.Babul, who is now in jail in a case over the killing of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, lodged the complaint against the six PBI officers with the court of Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge Jebinnessa on Thursday, said Monir Hossain,...
Day: September 9, 2022
Al Amin :The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to issue Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) to give legal base for the newly introduced electronic tax deduction at source (e-TDS).Tax at source is, currently, contributing around 64 per cent to the county’s direct tax and the NBR collects source tax from 53 sectors including banks, multinational companies and universities. NBR introduced e-TDS, a taxpayer-friendly and time-befitting system, in last October to facilitate some 350,000 corporate companies as per the income...
BSS :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Dhaka on Thursday evening after wrapping up her four-day state visit to India.“A VVIP chartered flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 8:05pm (BST),” Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS.Earlier, the premier departed from the Jaipur International Airport, Rajasthan, at 5:30 pm (local time) as Education Minister of Rajasthan BD Kalla and Bangladesh High Commissioner to India...
Staff Reporter :About nine farmers including a teenager girl were killed and six others injured in lightning in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district on Thursday afternoon.Ullapara Upazilla Nirbhahi Officer (UNO) Uzzal Hossain and Panchkroshi Union Parishad chairman Touhidul Islam Feroz confirmed the matter.The deceased were identified as Mokam Hossain, 60, Monnaf Hossain,18, Shamsher Ali,62, Shahin ,32, Akter Hossain ,60, of Shibpur village, and Abdul Quddus, 60, and Shah Alam, 42, Ritu Khatun, 14,from Matikora village in the upazila.Panchkroshi Union Parishad...
Staff Reporter :The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed the High Court (HC) order that asked authorities concerned to dispose of the application filed by 26 employees, who were reportedly forced to resign from the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), for reinstating them in their service within three months. At the same time, the court has fixed November 7 in 2022 for the detail hearing on the issue in the regular bench of the...
Staff Reporter :Any student who will obtain certificate from America Bangladesh University will be invalid and illegal as the institution does not have any legal base on account of violating the Private University Act, 2010. University Grants Commission (UGC), the apex regulatory body of the universities, suggested the students not to take admission into the university in order to avoid the legality of the certificates. UGC has given this recommendation following a thorough investigation about the university and submitted a...
Staff Reporter :The newly elected committee of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) took its official responsibility on Thursday. Mohammad Abul Bashar and Shamim Ahmed Chowdhury Noman, the newly elected President and Secretary General respectively of BAIRA took responsibility in a function in its office on the New Escaton Road in the capital.The new committee was elected on September 3 through election in Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel.BAIRA former President Mohammad Noor Ali was the Chief Guest in the programme.Noor...
Staff Reporter :A young Kashmir girl Khusboo Manzur (19), a student of Khwaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital, has died jumping from the roof top of a guest house while on a study tour. She breathed her last while undergoing treatment at the Khawaja Yunus Ali Medical College and Hospital in Sirajganj on Wednesday morning.Our Shahjadpur Correspondent reports: The deceased Khusboo Manzur is the daughter of Manzur Ahmed Tarai in India’s Kashmir State. Khusboo was a third year student...
Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court yesterday placed three people including Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Pallabi Police Station Mahbubul Alam on a two-day remand each in a case filed about their alleged attempt to frame one innocent man in a drug case by putting Yaba tablets into his pocket.Two others put on remand are- Md Rubel and Md Sohel Rana, informants of ASI Mahbubul Alam.Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Sheikh Sadi of Dhaka CMM Court passed the order as police produced the trio...
Court Correspondent :The Special Judge Court-10 of Dhaka on Thursday framed charges against former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, and 13 others in a case filed over laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally.Sukumar Mridha, his daughter Anindita Mridha, Abantika Baral, Shankha Bepari, now in the jail, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after Judge Mohammad Nazrul Islam of the court read out the charges to...
DU Correspondent :Dhaka University Model United Nations Association begins its 9th session on the theme of “Endorsing Freedom Through Consolidating United Efforts Towards Global Consonance” on Thursday.The conference will continue for three days till 10th September at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of the university.Professor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman, Vice-Chancellor of the university inaugurated the ceremony as chief guest presided over by Mohammad Ashiqul Islam, Secretary-General of DUNMUN.UN Resident Coordi-nator in Bangladesh Gwyn Lewis and Dr Delwar Hossain, Moderator of...
Staff Reporter :Police have recovered the stolen mobile phone set of Jatiya Party Chairman and Deputy Leader of the opposition in Parliament GM Quader.The Airport police recovered the cell phone on Wednesday morning. They also arrested the mugger and his five accomplices in this connection.The cell phone worth Tk 1.5 lakh was sold at Tk 18,000 only by the muggers, police said. The Airport police officer-in-charge Aslam Uddin said GM Quader’s stolen mobile phone was recovered. The mugger who had...