August 25, 2024

Dry landslide obstructs two highways

Araniko and Helambu highways have been obstructed due to dry landslide occurred at Bhumlu rural municipality-8 of Kavrepalanchowk along Araniko highway and Panchkhal municipality-4 along Araniko highway.

According to the District Police Office, both…

Firearm licences issued to civilians in 15yrs suspended

The government has suspended the license of firearms issued to civilians.

A government notification, signed by Md. Zahirul Haque, Senior Assistant Secretary, Public Security Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, said that the firearms licenses issued …

Ex-minister Golam Dastgir Gazi arrested in murder case

A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested former Jute and Textiles Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi from a house in Shantinagar of the capital on Saturday night.

Paltan Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Molla Md Khalid Hossain told BSS that…

BB asks banks to freeze accounts of Nafeez Sarafat, his family

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) today asked banks to freeze the accounts of Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat, his wife Anjuman Ara Shahid and son Rahib Safwan Sarafat Chowdhury.

The BFIU has also asked banks to suspend all transactions con…

Hasina, Gen Aziz sued over custodial death of BDR carnage accused

Thirteen people,, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former director general (DG) of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) General Aziz Ahmed were sued today over the death of BDR carnage case accused Abdur Rahim in jail.

Abdur Rahim, then…

Legal notice seeks list of Presidential pardons from 1991 to 2024

A legal notice has been sent to publish and provide a list of the number of persons whose sentences have been remitted, suspended or commuted by the President from January 1991 to July 2024.

Copies of the notice were sent to Home Secretary, Law Secr…

Palak, 5 others remanded over Ideal college student killing

A court here today placed six people including

former state minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak on seven-day remand

in a case lodged over Ideal College student Khalid Hasan Saifullah during

recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

Th…

Debapriya meets finance adviser over white paper

The chief of the White Paper Drafting Committee and distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Debapriya Bhattacharya today met Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed at the Secretariat here to discuss the committee’s activities in prepa…