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Staff Reporter :Country’s left leaning parties have demanded the cancellation of the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the upcoming parliamentary polls next year. They said that the overwhelming population of the country believed that EVMs would be used as a tool for rigging votes in the national election. Their demands sprang in a meeting in the central office of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) in the capital on Friday. They demanded the cancellation of the EVM project of...

News Desk :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed five proposals at the United Nations to support the Rohingya politically, financially and legally for their sustainable repatriation to Myanmar from Bangladesh.Speaking at a side event on the Rohingya crisis at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Hasina pointed out previous attempts to send back the Rohingya, even with China-brokered talks, failed, reports bdnews24.com.Now the adverse impact of the ongoing internal conflicts in Myanmar has kept “us deeply concerned, as this might...

Staff Reporter :The United States on Friday announced more than $170 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Rohingya inside and outside Myanmar, as well as for host communities in Bangladesh. With this new funding, US total assistance in response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis has reached nearly $1.9 billion since August 2017, when over 740,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to safety in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.This additional humanitarian assistance includes more than $93 million through the State Department and more...

News Desk :A Bangladeshi teenage boy was killed by the tortures of Indian Security Force (BSF) along a border of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district after being picked up to their camp.The victim was identified as Abdur Rahim Masud, 18, son of Bablu Rahman, a resident of Kamarpara village in the upazila.Locals said Masud along with three others were working at an agricultural land adjacent to the barbed wire fence of the border. At that time the BSF personnel took...

News Desk :Faidpur’s Padma and Madhumati rivers are swallowing farmlands and houses, leaving hundreds of villagers in panic.The erosion of the river banks has been going on in Alfadanga Upazila over the last 15 days, putting the district’s largest housing project, named Swapnanagar at risk, reports bdnews24.com.The homeless people in the region had received houses under the government’s Ashrayan project. But they are now afraid of losing their houses again to the mighty Madhumati River, according to villagers. “River erosion is...

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 :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...

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...

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...

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...