Day: September 23, 2022
Court Correspondent :A Dhaka Court yesterday sentenced three people to life-term imprisonment and fined them Taka one lakh each in a case lodged about gang-rape of two adolescent girls in 2020.The convicts are- Sohel Byapari, 38, Rana Byapari, 32, and Aktar Ali, 38. But the court acquitted fugitive Sajal of the charges as the allegations brought against him were not proved.Judge Julfikar Hayat of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 of Dhaka pronounced the judgment in presence of three convicts...
AFP :The OVD-Info monitoring group counted at least 1,332 people detained at rallies in 38 different cities across the country...
BSS :Additional Inspector General of Police M Khurshid Hossain has been appointed as the new director general of the Rapid...
News Desk :Power Division or any distributing entity will not take responsibility if any accident occurs when city corporations or municipalities illegally connect their networks to electricity lines.Such a warning was issued by the Power Division through a Facebook post today, mentioning an incident in the West Zone Power Distribution Company Limited (WZPDC) area, reports UNB.The post said that WZPDC served a notice on September 7 to city corporations and municipalities under its areas to pay due electricity bills by...
Court Correspondent :The Special Judge Court-10 of Dhaka yesterday began the trial of a case filed against former Managing Director of NRB Global Bank Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, and 13 others about laundering Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassing about Tk 426 crore illegally.In the case, PK Halder and nine others were shown fugitives and trial was going on in their absence. Four accused- PK Halder’s lawyer Sukumar Mridha, daughter Anindita Mridha, accomplice Abantika Baral and...
New York Times :Attorney General Letitia James of New York filed a sweeping lawsuit on Wednesday that accused Donald J. Trump, his family business and three of his children of lying to lenders and insurers by fraudulently overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars.Ms. James is seeking to bar the Trumps, including Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, from ever running a business in the state again.She concluded that Mr. Trump and his business violated state criminal laws and “plausibly” broke...
Iranian women came to the streets protesting the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police...
Staff Reporter :There have been allegations of stealing dollars from the bags of two players of the SAFF champion women’s football team. After coming from the airport to the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) headquarters building at Motijheel, they opened the bag and found it empty. In Bangladesh currency the amount is Tk two lakh. Bangladesh team coach Golam Rabbani Choton said, “Krishna and Shamsunnahar reported that their dollars were stolen.” Krishna’s 900 dollars and Bangladeshi 50 thousand taka and Shamsunnahar’s...
Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed October 23 to deliver judgment against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in connection with a case filed for amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond his known sources of income.After closing arguments, Judge Md Iqbal Hossain of the Special Judge Court-5 of Dhaka fixed the date for delivery of the verdict in the case. During yesterday’s argument, ACC Public Prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kajol told the court the charges brought against the...
Staff Reporter :The High Court on Thursday rejected a writ petition filed challenging the legality of a government decision that appointed administrator for the Bangladesh Cold Storage Association (BCSA). The High Court bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice K M Emrul Kayesh passed the order after primary hearing on the petition. Earlier on Thursday morning, Eshtiaque Ahmed, Vice-President of the Bangladesh Cold Storage Association, and two other members of the organization filed the writ petition challenging the Commerce...
Agencies :At least 31 civilians have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests that erupted over the...