A high-powered government committee, which was formed at the directive of the High Court to inquire into the seven-murder in Narayanganj, will interrogate Director General of Rapid Action Battalion [RAB] Mokhlesur Rahman today [Monday]. The inquiry committee of the Ministry of Public Administration on Sunday asked RAB DG to be present personally at Secretariat [Eden Building] at 2:30pm. “We [the committee] will take the statement of RAB DG over the incident,” Shahjahan Ali Mollah, Head of the Inquiry Committee and...
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Special security measures have been taken ahead of Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja in the capital and elsewhere in the country.This year, the Eid-ul Azha will be celebrated on October 6 or 7 depending on sighting of the moon. Besides, the Durga Puja will begin in the country’s over 28,000 mandaps, including 200 in Dhaka, from October 1. The security measures would be tightened during the festivals following an intelligence report apprehending possible ‘sabotage’ activities of some militant groups, including banned...
Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad [BMS], a non-political welfare association of the freedom fighters of Liberation War, is now in deep trouble due to conflict between two groups over taking control of Central Command Council [CCC].The new controversy cropped up when a new group, led by Major General Helal Morshed Khan Bir Bikram, took hold of the BMS bagging all posts of CCC defeating Abdul Ahad Chowdhury panel through election held on June 4.There is a widespread allegation that several office-bearers of...
Intelligence operations have been stepped up across the country to gather advance information of Islamist militants in the wake of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiris announcement about spreading its wing in Indian sub continent.Zawahri on Wednesday in an online-posted video announced the formation of an Indian branch of his militant group that would spread Islamic rule and “raise the flag of jihad” across the sub-continent, including Bangladesh, Myanmar and some parts of India.The al Qaeda leader also said he seeks...
The Yaba smugglers have changed their route. They are now using small boats and fishing trawlers through the Karnaphuli waterways to transport the narcotics inside Bangladesh.In the latest incident, the members of the Bangladesh Coast Guard [BCG] recovered 2 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets worth about Tk 10 crore from a small boat in the estuary of the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong in the small hours of Sunday.It was the largest ever cache of drugs seized by the BCG on...
Rescued UK expatriate BNP leader Mujibur Rahman was undergoing treatment at a city hospital on Tuesday night, but his car driver Rezaul Hoque Sohel did not reached home even after 24 hours of their rescue. Earlier on Monday evening, Mujibur Rahman and Rezaul were reportedly rescued from Tongi in Gazipur near the capital city Dhaka after they went missing from Sunamganj over three months ago on May 4. They were found wearing veils of women. Adhesive tapes were stuck on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now in New York to attend the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly [UNGA] apparently with a view to consolidating her new government’s image in the international arena.But during the visit, which is tight scheduled along with a gorgeous birthday party of her own, she will accompany an entourage of at least 180 members, mostly of her own hand-picked persons, or nominated by her close associates. Questions have been raised why the PM,...
Dhaliwood gets new cine-star when model Sonia Hossain, who’s gained widespread recognition recently for her dazzling performance in television drama...
Illegal migration to Malaysia still continues while thousands risk their lives illegally voyaging through the high sea to seek work in plantations, construction sites and factories there. The illegal migrants often take risky wooden boat journey to go to Malaysia, which also results death of dozens of people every year when boats carrying, mostly Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslim refugees, keel over in the deep sea.More than 100 illegal migrants have been arrested by the Bangladesh Coast Guard [BGB] in the...
Bangladesh Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust [BMKT], the country’s lone freedom fighter welfare organisation, now has been facing serious set back due...
The government is yet to take any planned step for distributing relief to the flood-affected people in the country’s northern regions while the effort of local administrations in this regard is also very poor. There is widespread allegation that the authorities still could not address the issues of flood-hit people providing food items, clothes, medicines and other items that are need of the moment.Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya Bir Bikram, Minister for Disaster Management and Relief, however, has refuted the allegations....
Carjackers have become desperate in the recent days. They are lifting mainly cars, CNG run auto- rickshaws and motorbikes from parking lots, private or official garage and even sometimes from highways despite vigilance of law enforcement agencies. Not only in Dhaka, the lifting of vehicles is also a common phenomenon in other metropolitan cities, including Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet. In the latest incident, the criminals snatched away a CNG auto rickshaw from the busy road at Merul Badda...
