Staff Reporter :Researcher and Writer Syed Abul Maksud said that candidacy rejection for minor mistakes exposes that it will be hard for the oppositions to stay in the pollsHe said, it in an interview with a national daily on Wednesday.He said, nearly all political parties are participating in the national polls. This is very positive.“It is the liabilities of the EC to create level playing field for all so that every party can participate in the polls without any obstacle,”...
UNB, Chittagong :A court here on Wednesday placed five students, arrested in connection with the killing of Premier University student Nasim Ahmed Sohel, on a three-day remand.Chittagong Metropolitan Judge Farid Alam passed the order when police produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand for each. Those remanded are-Ziaul Hasan Chowdhury, Wahiduzzaman, Ashraful Alam, Tamimul Alam Tamim and SM Golam Mostafa.Earlier, Nasim, 21, a Premier University student, was killed and two other students-Imtiaz and Rony Chandra Sheel-were injured in...
Al Jazeera :Gold hit an all-time high on Monday as tit-for-tat consulate closures in China and the United States rattled...
AFP :A Brussels district has suspended a teacher who showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) while discussing the murder of a French teacher who had used the same image, its spokesman said Friday.The Belgian teacher, who works in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, showed one of the cartoons previously published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo while explaining Samuel Paty’s death.“Our decision is uniquely based on the fact that these are obscene images. If it had not been of...
Identifying 19 areas of corruption in Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has put forward a number of recommendations to check the ill practice.ACC Commissioner Dr Mozammel Haque Khan handed over a report on corruption and irregularities in Biman and CAAB to State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbub Ali at the Secretariat on Sunday.The report prepared by an ACC institutional team found corruption and irregularities in eight areas of...
Three people, including two suspected kidnappers, were killed in separate incidents of ‘shootout’ in the city and Savar on the outskirts of the capital on Monday.In the capital, two alleged kidnappers were killed in a ‘shootout’ with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in Kadamtali area in the afternoon. The deceased were identified as Washim, 55, and Sangram, 45. Tipped off that a gang of kidnappers was torturing two victims after abducting several people at the house at Alambagh, a team...
BBC Online :The US government has said it is “deeply disturbed” by a BBC report detailing allegations of systematic rape of Uighur women in Chinese camps.“These atrocities shock the conscience and must be met with serious consequences,” a spokesperson said.In the UK parliament on Thursday, government minister Nigel Adams said the report showed “clearly evil acts”.According to estimates, more than a million Uighurs and other minorities have been detained in camps in China.An investigation published by the BBC on Wednesday...
Bangladesh aim at hitting back into winning way to keep the three-match ODI series alive as they take on Sri Lanka in the second match today (Sunday) at the R Premadasa Stadium.The match starts at 3 PM (Bangladesh Standard Time). BTV, GTV and Maasranga TV will telecast the match live.With 1-0 behind the series following a 91-run drubbing, the Bangladesh team will be keen to take the advantage of the loopholes in Sri Lankan bowling, created by the retirement of...
Staff Reporter :Unusual price hike of essential commodities has severely affected the country’s cooked food suppliers, including hotel and restaurants.Meanwhile, this sector has already been suffering from various problems like huge losses due to the ongoing Covid-19 for the last two years. As a result, hotel-restaurant sector is still struggling to recover from the financial losses caused by the long closure for the pandemic.Leaders of the Bangladesh Restaurant Owners Association (BROA) came up with the remarks while speaking at its...
Staff Reporter :Independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul and his family have earned over Tk 355 crore mainly through human...
Staff Reporter :The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested five gang members from different districts, including Dhaka, for alleged involvement in tricking people under the guise of selling highly valuable wooden coins.The gang embezzled crores of taka from various people, including businessmen.Banaj Kumar Majumder, chief of PBI, disclosed this to reporters at PBI Dhanmondi headquarters in the capital on Thursday. The arrestees are Aktaruzzaman, Salam, Moniruzzaman Kamrul alias Jaman, Abu Taher Joba and Safiqul Islam Sapon. Police recovered two wooden...
Trashing the rumour of entente with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Awami League always does politics for people, never of any entente.She said this while responding to a question at a press conference which was organised to brief the media about the outcome of her recent London visit at her official residence Ganobhaban.“We never do politics of entente… what agony do we have for which we’ ll have to pursue the politics of entente with Jamaat,”...