Staff Reporter :At least 90 people including police personnel were injured, with three in critical condition as police tried to...
Staff Reporter :Killing incidents, drug dealings and human trafficking which have been taking place in the Rohingya camps in different times are breaching the internal security issues since their arrival in Bangladesh in 2017. It is reported that a Rohingya volunteer was killed by the miscreants in the dead of night in the Ukhiya camp on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Zafor Alam, Armed Battalion spokesperson Faruk Ahmed of the camp No. 18 confirmed it. He said that the...
Staff Reporter :The international voices on the alleged incidents of the enforced disappearance in the country are becoming louder and the government of Bangladesh has been urged to investigate it by an independent mechanism. The issue took the centre stage during a dialogue on the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance during the 51st regular session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 20 September. The meeting called upon the government of Bangladesh to implement the recommendations...
Staff Reporter :The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will support an innovative new programme from the Centre for Child Rights and Business (The Centre) to create decent work for young in the apparel industry. BGMEA President Faruque Hassan made the announcement in a meeting with Ines Kaempfer, CEO of The Centre at the BGMEA Complex in Dhaka on Wednesday.The Centre’s innovative Youth Development Programme combines activities to help out-of-work or disadvantaged youth in Bangladesh to access decent work...
Staff Reporter :The High Court on Wednesday upheld death sentences of four members of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in a case filed in connection with the murder of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi in 2015. The convicts are— Rangpur region military commander of the JMB Masud Rana Mamun, Liton Mia Rafiq, Shakhawat Hossain, and Ahsanullah Ansari Biplob.However, the court acquitted other JMB member Ishaque Ali who also got death sentence in the trial court. The HC bench...
Sabbir Hossain :Thousands of sports lovers of Dhaka City gave a warm reception to the members of Bangladesh Women’s Football...
UNB :Despite reduced instalment facilities in term loans, banks have rescheduled loans worth Tk5960 crore and waived interest amounting to Tk2816 crore of interest waived in 6 months (January-June), revealed latest data of Bangladesh Bank (BB).According to the BB data, state-owned banks rescheduled loans worth Tk 1,300 crore, while private banks Tk 4,150 crore. The remaining Tk 779 crore has been rescheduled by specialized banks.The BB introduced a loan moratorium and reduced instalment facility during the Covid pandemic to avert...
Staff Reporter :Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Country Director Edimon Ginting said that Bangladesh would receive $ 200 crore as loan for various development projects under the current 2022-23 financial year, which is under process.It was disclosed after a meeting with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and ADB Country Director Edimon Ginting held at the Secretariat on Tuesday, said a Finance Ministry press release. “ADB has a strong relationship with Bangladesh. ADB will keep continue to support rural and urban development...
UNB :A court in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday sentenced seven policemen, all detectives, to seven years in jail for kidnapping a trader and demanding a ransom of Tk 17 lakh for his release.Cox’s Bazar District and Sessions Court judge Mohammad Ismail handed down the judgment in the presence of all the suspended cops.The judge also imposed a fine of Tk 1 lakh on each of the convicts and ordered them to undergo an additional one year in prison for non-payment...
Staff Reporter :The Rohingya living in the no-man’s land near Tambru area of Bandarban’s Naikhyanchhari Upazila on Tuesday wrote to the United Nations to take immediate measures for their protection and safe return to Myanmar’s Rakhine State as their lives are at stake.They requested in an open letter by forming a human chain in the no-man’s land in the wake of the continuous violence along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border recently.On behalf of around 4500 Rohingyas staying in the no-man’s land, Dil...
Al Jazeera :The United Nations’ annual summit returned in person for the first time in three years on Tuesday, with UN chief Antonio Guterres warning in his opening speech of an upcoming “winter of global discontent” from rising prices, a warming planet and deadly conflicts. The 77th General Assembly meeting of world leaders convenes under the shadow of Europe’s first major conflict since World War II – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has unleashed a global food crisis and opened fissures...
Staff Reporter :The court rejected the plea of filing cases against four to five hundred unidentified persons including Jubo League General Secretary Mainul Hossain Khan in connection with the attack on the leaders and workers of Dhaka North BNP in Mirpur area of the capital.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court ordered to dismiss this application filed in the court of Tofazzal Hossain.Lawyer BNP leader Masud Ahmed Talukdar confirmed this information to the media. Earlier,...