UNB, Chattogram : A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Chittagong University unit on Monday enforced a blockade on the...
Day: September 19, 2022
Staff Reporter :Amid the escalating tension on the Bangladesh-Myanmar borders, Dhaka has summoned the Myanmar envoy for the fourth time in a month to lodge a strong protest note to maintain territorial integrity by stopping firing mortar shells and bullets. Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned Myanmar Ambassador Aung Kyaw Moe to serve a ‘protest note’ to stop the firing of mortar shells inside Bangladesh territory while containing their internal issues. Over the last one month, Myanmar has been breaching the...
Staff Reporter :The High Court on Sunday commuted the death sentence of three convicts awarded by a trial court to life time rigorous imprisonment in a murder case. The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain and Justice A K M Zahirul Huq delivered the verdict after hearing the death references and the appeal petitions filed by the convicts against the trial court verdict. The three convicted persons are— Md Jamir Ali alias Jaber, Md Enamul Kabir and...
Staff Reporter :The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has relaxed provision of submitting proof of documents of income tax return for taking loans and credit cards from banks.According to a circular issued on Sunday, the revenue board said that the proof of documents of income tax return submission will not be mandatory for taking loans up to Tk 20 lakh from banks, if the loan taker has not taxable income.“The obligation to submit proof of income tax return submission to...
DU Correspondent :A Dhaka University (DU) student was allegedly shown absent despite her presence in viva of Bangla Department for not showing her face for maintaining veils. The accident took place on September 14 when the viva board members asked to see her face, but the student disagree showing religious taboo.“When I went to the viva voce board with wearing nikab, teachers asked me to sign my presence after removing the nikab. I repeatedly request them that I do not...
Staff Reporter :BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia gets her jail sentence’s suspension period extended for another six months.The Ministry of...
News Desk :Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury has said the dependence on imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) would continue some more time as there is no immediate possibility of gas exploration from the country’s offshore areas.“So, the government has taken an initiative to set up more floating storage and re-gasification units (FSRUs) across the country”, he told a webinar, organised by the Bangladesh Energy Society (BES), on Sunday in the city, reports UNB. FSRU is an LNG terminal used...
Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court yesterday summoned book trader Manzurul Azim Palash and his wife Ruma Chowdhury, and asked them to appear in the court on October 25 in a case filed about stealing some paintings of celebrated novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed.Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain passed the order accepting the probe report submitted by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on June 23 of this year. On June 29, last year, Humayun Ahmed’s wife...
Court Correspondent :The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday placed former chairman of Fareast Islami Life Insurance Company Limited Md Nazrul Islam on a four-day fresh remand in a case filed against him for embezzling depositors’ money.Magistrate Shahidul Islam of Dhaka CMM Court passed the order after police produced Nazrul in the court on completion of his one-day remand in the case and the prosecution’s plea to place him on 12-day fresh remand.Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam of the...
JnU Correspondent :A pedestrian named Bulbul (60) was killed when a Savar Paribahan bus ran over him near TSC of...
Staff Reporter :The Election Commission (EC) has decided to remove Chattogram’s Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Mominur Rahman from the post of returning officer in zila parishad election.The decision has been taken on charges of playing a biased role.Election Commissioner Rasheda Sultana disclosed it to journalists at her Nirbachan Bhaban office in the city’s Agargaon on Sunday.It has been alleged that the DC, who is also the returning officer, sought vote and prayed for victory of Awami League candidate ATM Peyarul...