A Chittagong court on Sunday sentenced two drug traders to different terms of rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a case filed for possessing and trading contraband Yaba tablets in 2016, court sources said.The Metropolitan Session Judge Moha-mmad Shah-e-Nur, sentenced seven years imprisonments to Mohammad Shamim, 32, hailed from Petanga thana and six years imprisonment to Abul Kalam Azad, 28, hailed from Karnaphuli thana in the city.The court also fined the convicts Taka 5000 each, in default to suffer one month more...
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Awami League (AL) backed Chattagram Sommilito Ainjibi Somonnoy Parishad candidates Advocate Ratan Kumar Roy and Advocate Abu Hanif have been elected president and general secretary (GS) respectively of Chittagong District Bar Association (CDBA).Chief Election Commissioner Advocate Ferdouse Ahmed tonight declared the polls results of Chittagong District Bar Association (CDBA), country’s second largest professional body of the lawyers.In the election, the two contestants for the post of Senior Vice President got equal votes.According to election results declared after recounting the votes...
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) destroyed huge quantities of contraband drugs worth about TK 181.48 crore after bulldogging the illegal drugs at RAB-7 headquarters at 11-30 am yesterday.The damaged drugs included 45,29,200 pieces of contraband sex stimulating Yaba tablets, 4,319 bottles of contraband Phensidyle, 152.7 kilograms of ganja, 239 bottles foreign made wine and 314 cans foreign made beer.RAB source said, the damaged liquors recovered the contraband drugs in a series of drives from January o1 in 2015...
Sroat, a social organization in the port city working for the physically-challenged people, observed the Valentine’s Day with those visually-impaired at the Concord Amusement Park and Foy’s Lake on Sunday morning.Organisers said love is a four-letter magic word with immense power of removing all kinds of pain.Like other people around, they also observed February 14 as Valentine’s Day albeit with a bit difference. There are some people in the world, who believe that love in the Valentine’s Day is not...
Students, youths and elderly people of Chittagong today paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by offering flowers at his portrait.Jagroto Chhatra Jubo Jonota (JCJJ) organised the extraordinary program titled “Our Love, Our Father of the Nation” by placing flowers on the huge portrait erected near Chittagong Press Club (CPC).A makeshift stage was also erected near CPC by installing a eight-feet long portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman lanced by eminent photo-journalist...
Chittagong district police in a series of overnight drives arrested 104 persons including two Jammat Islami activists with Yaba tablets and liquor from different upazilas of the district on Tuesday night.Abdul Awal, Additional Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) of Chittagong district, said police detained 104 persons including two Jammat Islami activists with 2,130 pieces of contraband sex stimulating Yaba tablets and 40 litres of country made liquor from different upazilas of the district. The arrestees were also allegedly involved in...
Bakalia Thana Police arrested four men for their alleged involvement in snatching from different areas in the port city on Wednesday. The arrested were identified as Akter Hossain, 22, Indrojit Shah, 35, Badsha Mia, 31 and Liton, 20. Police arrested Akter and Indrojit following an allegation filed by a tea stall worker Tarekul Islam.The snatchers snatched cash money and two mobile phone sets from Tarekul in Shah Amanat Bridge area under Bakalia thana while he was returning from his residence...
Activists of different political parties and cultural organisations yesterday brought out jubilant processions over upholding the death sentence of Jamaate Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali for his crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s War of Liberation in 1971.Soon after a five-member Appellate Division bench of the Supreme Court led-by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict, hundreds of people brought out processions from different parts of the city and started to gather at the central Shahid Minar premises.Quasem Ali, 63,...
All are set and a four-tier security measures have been ensured for observing the International Mother Language Day-2016 in a befitting manner in the city.Hundreds of organisations and individuals have been taking preparations to pay homage from Saturday midnight to the Language Martyrs who made supreme sacrifices for establishing the rightful place of the mother language in 1952 and inspired the nation to launch struggle for an independent Bangladesh.Different political parties including Bangladesh Awami League and its front organizations, BNP,...
A mobile court of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) on Sunday fined five restaurants TK 73 thousand at city’s Khulshi and Kotwali areas as per Consumer Rights Protection Act 2009.Assistant Director of DNCRP, Chittagong District Office, Mohammad Foyez Ullah along with other DNCRP officials conducted a drive at city’s Khulshi area and fined Jilani Hotel Tk 18 thousand and Ruhul Amin Hotel and Restaurant Tk 10 thousand for producing food in unhygienic environment and for using burnt...
A mobile court of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) in a drive yesterday fined Taka 2.15 lakh to seven ships for running without licence.CPA Executive Magistrate Mohammad Abul Hashem along with police and CPA Ansar members conducted the drive at the estuary of Karnaphuli River and fined the ships....
Chittagong District Police arrested former Private Secretary (PS) of Chittagong City Jamaat leader and former lawmaker ANM Shamsul Islam Chowdhury from city’s Laldighi area on Monday.The arrestee was identified as Jasim Uddin Sarkar, hailed from Lohagara Upazila of the district.Mohammad Shahjahan, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Lohagara Thana, said Jasim was again arrested while coming out of the Chittagong Central Jail around 4.30pm after getting bail....
