The first day of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination in five districts under Chittagong Education Board (CEB) was held peacefully yesterday.Control room sources said there was no expulsion of candidates from any centre on the first day in Chittagong, but 279 students were absent from Bengali First Paper examination today.A total of one lakh one thousand 143 out of one lakh one thousand examinees from 1,007 high schools participated in 169 centres. A total of 72 vigilance teams including...
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A court in the port city here on Monday remanded in police custody for the second round the owner of a company accused of importing edible oil mixed with cocaine in the country’s biggest drug haul as investigations into the bust is underway.Police and lawyers said the court granted police two days to interrogate chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Limited Nur Mohammad in their custody for the second time since his arrest on January 15 suspecting his links to the...
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has chalked out fool-proof security arrangement in two stadiums of the port city to ensure smooth...
President Abdul Hamid underscored the need for giving priority to training for achieving the highest standard of professionalism by each member of Bangladesh Army and said strict discipline along with training can take a member of the army to the zenith of professional excellence. “There is no alternative to training for the development of a disciplined force as an ordinary youth becomes a bright soldier through proper training and hard work,” the President said this on Tuesday while addressing the...
South African captain Hashim Amla said it was a good Test for them so far as the batsmen and bowlers did their job as per accordingly. He was talking to at the post match press conference held on Saturday at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. “It has been a good Test, actually. We had around three days and it has been an up-and-down Test. It was evenly poised going into the final day. Temba batted exceptionally well. Whoever gets in...
Boosted by the recent performance of team Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahgim expects positive result in Test series against visiting South Africa starting from today (Tuesday) at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. He was talking to the reporters at a pre-match press conference held on Monday at the match venue.After the Eid holyday, the Tigers backed to business today (Monday) through rigorous training. The Tigers captain thinks that their consistent performances in the last eight months help them to bring a...
Chittagong district police arrested an alleged robber from city’s Chandgaon area on Saturday night.The arrested person was identified as Abdus Samad, hailed from Raichhata village under Banshkhali upazila of the district.Acting on secret information, a team of Banskhali police apprehended him from the said area around 11.30pm last night, said Swapon Kumar Majumdar, Officer-in-Charge (OC) Banshkhali police station. Samad was wanted in many robbery cases and sent to the court, the OC added....
West Indies (WI) team beat Zimbabwe by a tense two-run to move quarter-final of ICC U-19 World Cup (WC) held on Tuesday at the Zahur Ahmed Chhowdhury Stadium. Chasing a winning target of 227 runs set by West Indies, Zimbabwe managed to score 224 for all in 49 overs.The tense result looked a far cry, though, when Zimbabwe were cruising at 143 for 3, with Shaun Snyder doing the early running with a belligerent 52 in reply to West Indies’...
Chittagong District Police in overnight special drives arrested 66 people including two Jamaat activists from different upazilas of the district on Monday night.Abdul Awal, Additional Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) ofChittagong district, said police detained two Jamaat activists fromChittagong University area for their alleged involvement in sabotage acts and vandalism.Rest of the detained, including 51 warranted, 13 accused in regular cases, he said, adding that 20 litres of country-made liquors and three country-made LG guns were also recovered during the...
Chittagong district police in a series of special drives arrested 89 listed accused from different upazilas of the district on Monday night.The law enforcers also seized 2,400 pieces Yaba tablets, 129 litres of liquor during the night-long drives.In addition to upazila police, nearly 220 additional policemen participated in the drives that were conducted in different parts of the district including in the upazilas of Satkania, Lohagara, Sitakunda, Boalkhali and Chandanaish.Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of district special branch Naimul Islam...
Allrounder Mahmudullah still hopeful to get a result of the first Test by saying that they have still fair chance...
Police yesterday arrested three alleged terrorists with a single barrel gun and 16 cartridges as they opened fire at Karaldanga Union Parisad (UP) chairman of Boalkhali upazila Hamidul Hoque Mannan yesterday.A pedestrian Mohammad Ishak received the bullet injury during the shooting, police said. Liton Das, 38, Farhad Alam, 26 and Balaram Das, 29, of Karaldanga union were arrested for the shootout when local people caught them red handed with the gun and cartridges and handed over them to the police.Shamsul...
