The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers over letting a gunman at Robb Elementary School remain in a fourth-grade classroom for more than an hour wit…
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said on Thursday that four members of a gang involved in swindling money from mobile banking users through cloning SIM cards have been arrested from Dhaka, Jamalpur and Faridpur.The arrestees have been identified…
Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has received USA visa to join a 2-day United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS 2022) scheduled from August 31 to September 1.The IGP is included in a 6 -member delegation slated to participate at the meet…
The number of yaba pills ( a contraband drug) smuggled into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar has surged by two and a half times under the current military regime compared to the amount reported during the rule of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.This…
Two bikers were killed after police said a speeding truck ran over them on Radipara highway in Khulna’s Fultola upazila Thursday.The identities of the deceased could not immediately be confirmed.The accident happened around 7.15pm when the Khulna-bound…
Rohingyas of Ukhiya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar staged a rally with seven demands including repatriation marking five years since the genocide in Myanmar and their forced relocation in Bangladesh.Some 12 rallies were held in Lambashia, Shafiullah Kata…
Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl.The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian force…
The recent strike by the tea workers has brought national attention to a largely forgotten community of Bangladesh. Very little is known about their ethnic identity, culture or what they think about their lives in general. Although several studies have…
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has summoned the bank accounts of Taqsem A Khan, managing director (MD) of Dhaka WASA, and his family members, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.Amid growing public concern over alleged …
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Thursday said the government has no restrictions on importing food products from Russia and Ukraine or any other country.The minister was talking to the media after a top level government meeting on import of food grain…
A half-day nationwide general strike enforced by the Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) in protest against the rising prices of fuel, fertilizers and daily essentials was observed almost peacefully on Thursday.The strike began around 6am and ended at 12 no…
Lalamove, one of the on-demand delivery platforms, has launched its operations in Bangladesh.“Approaching our ninth anniversary in October, we are pleased to have arrived in Bangladesh,” said Paul Loo, Chief Operating Officer at Lalamove on Thursday.Th…
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