News Desk :Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday said that well-off individuals as well as journalists and police are also involved in drug trade, and they too face justice without exception.The minister made the remark while speaking at a roundtable meeting in Dhaka’s CIRDAP auditorium.“In prison, you will find police, Rab personnel along with businessmen in narcotic cases. Law is not different for policemen,” he said, reports UNB.Regarding dope test, the home minister said police are going under dope...
Day: September 27, 2022
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The production of jute textiles has fallen significantly over the past two years due to a drop in exports and...
Staff Reporter :At least 25 people were injured in a clash between the activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist...
Staff Reporter :The death toll from the engine-run boat accident in the Karatoa River rose to 50 from the previous figure 24 while over 40 people were missing till Monday. Local administration and police sources said that over 40 other people were missing after the accident as per the report of the family members and relatives and the death toll may rise. Hundreds of local people along with family members and relatives were seen standing on the banks of the...
Gulam Rabbani :The distribution process of the money given from the prime minister’s relief fund for the lawyers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic has become questionable as millionaire lawyers are also getting this relief money along with the poor and affected lawyers.The authorities have taken decision to distribute the money to all the lawyers equally. However, the insiders said that the lawyers who were in good financial condition might not take the money. Lawyer Md Muklesur Rahman Badal, one of...
Reuters :A gunman with a swastika on his t-shirt killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded more than 20...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh Competition Commission has filed a case against 36 companies and businessmen including Bashundhara, S Alam, Square, Pran, ACI, City, Akiz, Meghna and other leading industrial groups of the country for creating instability through increasing ‘abnormal price and artificial crisis’. The commission alleged that they created instability in the market through “abnormal price hikes and artificial shortages” of rice, flour, eggs, broiler chickens and toiletries. The Competition Commission filed the case under its own law last Thursday. On...
Staff Reporter :Expressing deep concern about the landing of mortar shells inside Bangladesh territory by Myanmar during their internal conflicts, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Monday said that he would inform Beijing about the issue. He also said that the violation of international border rules by the Myanmar junta government during their internal conflicts was ‘very unfortunate.’ He said this to the journalists after holding talks with Acting Foreign Secretary Rear Admiral (Retd) Md Khurshed Alam in the...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh is likely to get $600 million budgetary support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the terms of the loan will be finalised later.The proposed loan is still at the discussion stage and it is not been finalised yet.Planning Minister MA Mannan made the statement to reporters after a meeting with the outgoing JICA Country Director Yuho Hayakawa and his replacement Ichiguchi Tomohide in the city’s Planning Ministry on Monday.“We are expecting that the Japan International...
Staff Reporter :Dr Kamal Hossain has said autocrat tries to deprive people of their rights. It is time to protest against that tyrant who ignores people rights. “If it is needed we will sacrifice our life”.He came up with these remarks while discussing on the life and works of the veteran journalist late Ataus Samad’s 10 death anniversary at the Jatiya Press Club’s VIP lounge on Monday. Journalist Shamima Chowdhury presented the brief biography of Ataus Samad.In the discussion Dhaka...