Staff Reporter (Kishoreganj) :A young man was killed by his rival groups at Char-Sholakia in Kishoreganj sadar over supremacy on Wednesday noon. The victim was identified as Shafiqul Islam (32) , son of Abdul Hakim in char-Sholakia village. Soon after the incident, the locals held the murderer Rajon.The locals and Police sources said, there was a dispute for quite long time. On Wednesday noon, Shafiul went to his agricultural farm, Rajon went and got into an argument with him. At...
Day: September 15, 2022
Reza Mahmud :A large number of Titas Gas officials become reckless as the authorities are yet to take strict action against them thought they are involved in a range of corruption for long. In league with certain dishonest industrials, these officials have been taking away with huge amounts of public funds, sources said.Titas Gas is a company under Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Minerals Corporation (Petrobangla). The corrupt syndicate within the organisation targeted the different industrial zone, in and near Dhaka, for...
BSS :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the people of both countries would be benefited from the cooperation in all the areas identified during her India visit and the decisions taken to solve the existing bilateral problems.‘I think that my visit, after a long break of three years due to the Covid pandemic, has opened a new horizon in Bangladesh-India relations. All aspects of Bangladesh-India relations were discussed during my visit,’ said the prime minister in her written...
Staff Reporter :Dhaka residents face severe troubles as rainfall continued on Wednesday. Intermittent rains over the last few days have been disrupting city life – whether officer-goers and students. It was like the previous day. The frequent rain triggered by a depression over the Bay of Bengal.The rainy weather created huge traffic gridlock across the country which made office and workplace bound commuters’ agony.Meanwhile, number of foreign bound passengers also missed their flights due to acute traffic gridlock on the...
Staff Reporter :Jatiya Party (JaPa) Presidium Member and lawmaker Moshiur Rahman Ranga has been relieved of all posts of the party including presidium membership.JaPa Chairman Golam Mohammad Quader, with the powers given by the party constitution, has removed Mashiur Rahaman Ranga from all positions including being the party’s presidium member, said a press release signed by JaPa joint office secretary Mahmud Alam on Wednesday.This order has already been implemented.“The former Secretary General Ranga has been relieved of the party, but...
Diplomatic Correspondent :Bangladesh will not allow any Rohingya infiltration any more even though fresh violence has erupted inside the Rakhaine State due to the fighting between Myanmar Army and Arakan Army. Bangladesh has sealed the border preventing any Rohingya entry inside the country’s territory and taken all necessary in this regard, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said on Wednesday. While addressing a press briefing in the Foreign Ministry on the occasion of the upcoming 77th session of United Nations...
Staff Reporter :Election Commissioner Ahsan Habib Khan has said that the commission is facing a lot of questions on confidence lost He came up with the statement while unveiling the roadmap for the 12th national parliamentary election at Nirbachan Bhaban on Wednesday. The election commissioner, however, claimed they had advanced to some extent in gaining trust through their activities. According to the constitution, the election commission is supposed to hold election between November 2023 and January 2024.Chief Election Commissioner Kazi...
Anisur Rahman Khan :The depression induced heavy rainfalls across the country have wreaked havoc in different districts, specially the southern ones, by flooding hundreds of shrimp enclosures, destruction of houses and large-scale river erosions.The consecutive rains caused by the low pressure in the Bay of Bengal have put the livelihood of people in disarray while hundreds of acres of paddy saplings have been submerged with fear of crop loss. The heavy shower has brought lives to a standstill across the...
Al Jazeera :Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, has unveiled a legislative proposal to impose windfall levies worth $140bn on energy companies, in a bid to lessen the effects of surging gas and electricity prices that threaten economies and households this winter.In her State of the European Union speech addressing the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, von der Leyen outlined a structural reform of the European energy market that has been under serious...
Staff Reporter :Dr. Shakir-bin-Wali, newly passed MBBS doctor, missing recently was shown arrested by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit. Earlier on Tuesday night, the police registered a case against this doctor under the Anti-Terrorism Act with Rampura Police Station.In the case statement, counterterrorism officials claimed that the accused doctor had link to the banned militant group Ansar al Islam.Kazi Mizanur Rahman, an inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of DMP, mentioned in the case statement...
Staff Reporter :The High Court has issued a rule upon the concerned bodies of the government to explain as to why they should not be directed to give retirement benefits to the teachers and employees of the private educational institutions against 10 percent deduction instead of 6 percent from their salaries to pension and welfare trust fund. It also asked the authorities to explain as to why they should not be directed to pay the retirement financial benefits to the...