Gulam Rabbani :Advocate Md Eunus Ali Akond is a well-known name in the Supreme Court of the country. He files public interest litigations regularly along with his other cases. But the level of his interest in filing the public interest litigations is always much more. Some people think that he files more and more public interest litigations to get media coverage easily or to present himself as a celebrity lawyer to the justice-seekers through media coverage. However, in most of...
Ahmed Reza Farooqi, son of slain media personality Maulana Nurul Islam Farooqi, claimed that extremists might have hands with the killing of his father.“It is totally false and misleading information that the family members of Farooqi killed him,” Reza said.Ahmed Reza disclosed these on behalf of the family at a press conference in their residence in the city’s East Razabazar on Wednesday. Farooqi’s two wives and two daughters were present.Different media and newspapers have been publishing fabricated news for the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair, a yearly event of booklovers and publishers, on Sunday.The month-long book fair is arranged every year in February commemorating the sacrifices of eight people who laid down their lives on February 21, 1952 for establishing Bangla as the mother tongue.Both President Abdul Hamid and the Prime Minister issued separate messages for ‘Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2020’ and wished its success.The Bangla Academy Literature Award will also be distributed...
Reckless driving has claimed yet the life of another private university student in the city. Sadi Morshed, 20, a BBA second year student of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), was killed as a bus crashed into this motorcycle in the city’s Merul Badda area on Tuesday afternoon. Son of SM Alam, Sadi was residing with his parents at 42 North Kamalapur in the city. Quoting witnesses, police said a ‘Falgul 8’ bus hit the bike of Sadi in front of Asian...
Staff Reporter :Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor on Monday placed a Tk 4,506.75 crore budget for 2020-21 fiscal year.The budget is Tk 1,449.51 crore higher than that of last fiscal.The budget was placed at the second board meeting today — held at a community centre in Mirpur — and was approved by the board members unanimously.However, like other years, the DNCC mayor did not hold any press conference after the approval of the budget, rather he is planning to...
Shakir Ahamd :A special intelligence team, including members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), has prepared a list of 1,470 masterminds of the BNP-led 20-party alliance for their alleged involvement in violence across the country during the nonstop nationwide blockade and hartal programme.Sources at the law enforcement agencies said that the team has already started work to arrest them. “The operation underway will be known as `Operation for bombers.’ The activists of the 20-party alliance, including Jamaat-e-Islam, have been attacking the law...
UNB, Chittagong :A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal was hacked to death by some miscreants at Bhorerbazar in Mirsarai upazila on Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Adil Mahmud Chowdhury, convener of Mirsarai upazila unit of JCD and a resident of Bhorerbazar.Mirsarai upazila BNP convener Nurul Amin said a group of miscreants, numbering 7-8, picked up Adil while he was going to a local bazar from his house around 7:45 pm and took him to a place near the...
UNB :State Minister for public administration Farhad Hossain on Tuesday said that the Rules of Business did not allow addressing the government officials in Bangladesh as sir or madam.‘There is no directive to address the government officials as sir or madam as it is against the Rules of Business. The Father of the Nation’s directive to government officials had been to become the service provider of people,’ he said. Farhad said this while speaking at a dialogue organised by the Bangladesh...
banglanews24.com :A total of nine people have been reportedly killed by road accidents in Bhola, Dhaka, Khagrachhari and Khulna districts on Thursday.In Bhola, a face-to-face collision between a trolley and an auto rickshaw caused deaths of two persons, including a child in Char Fasson upazila.The deceased were identified as Sayem, 12, from Aligaon village, and Monsur, 45, from Aslampur area.2 occupants of auto rickshaw died instantly at Helipad area in the morning, quoting Anamul Haque, Officer-in-Charge of Char Fasson Police...
BSS :Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will be arranged at 30,225 puja mandaps across the country this year.In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the number of puja mandaps decreased by 1,173 as Durga Puja was arranged at 31,398 mandaps across the country last year, Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad general secretary Nirmal Kumar Chattarjee told BSS.He said a total of 233 puja mandaps will arrange Durga Puja in the capital while the number was...