'BCL attacks' participants for second time

Government Titumir College students allegedly attacked by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists on Wednesday while protesting charging of “excessive fees” for the registration of the honours final year exam claimed to have faced another onslaught yesterday.
25 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Once again man held at Dhaka airport smuggling gold in rectum

Customs Intelligence (CI) last evening detained a person with gold bars weighing over one kilogramme inside his body at the capital's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
9 February 2016, 18:00 PM

6kg gold found under plane seat at Dhaka airport

Customs officials yesterday found 60 small gold bars, worth Tk 3 crore and weighing 6kg, from underneath the seat of a plane of Biman
2 February 2016, 18:00 PM

6kg gold seized under plane seat at Dhaka airport

Customs officials seize gold bars weighing around 6 kilograms from underneath the seat of a flight coming in from Doha at Dhaka airport.
2 February 2016, 11:36 AM

Raise tax to discourage tobacco use

Speakers at an international summit yesterday stressed the need for increasing tax on tobacco items, with one participant demanding it be by 200 to 300 percent, to control and discourage tobacco consumption in Bangladesh.
31 January 2016, 18:00 PM

New IDs coming for holding taxes

The government has adopted a plan to attach a unique index number to the holding numbers of all city corporations to ensure civic
26 January 2016, 18:00 PM

NBR to boost collection of tax at source

Aiming to increase revenue earnings from tax at source, also known as tax deducted at source (TDS), the National Board of Revenue (NBR)
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

100 gold bars seized at Dhaka airport, two held

Customs officials seized 100 gold bars weighing 12kg, worth Tk 6 crore from a toilet of an aircraft and detained two persons at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday evening.
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM

12kg gold seized at Dhaka airport

Customs officials recover approximately 12 kilogrammes of gold bars, worth Tk six crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
19 January 2016, 13:53 PM

One held with 1cr Indian rupees at Dhaka airport

Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested a passenger along with 1.04 crore Indian rupees at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday.
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Illegal saris, drugs seized at airport

Customs officials yesterday seized a huge amount of illegally imported saris and medicines worth Tk 2 crore at the capital's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
10 January 2016, 20:50 PM

Tk 2cr sarees, medicine seized at Dhaka airport

Customs officials seize a huge amount of sarees and medicine from two flights of Regent Airways at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka today.
10 January 2016, 16:06 PM

Caab, customs at loggerheads

Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (Caab) and Bangladesh Customs are at loggerheads over whether the latter's
31 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Iskcon temple attack case sent to DB

The case for attack on Iskcon temple in Kaharol upazila of Dinajpur was transferred to Detective Branch (DB) of police on Saturday.
13 December 2015, 18:00 PM

PM shocked at loss of lives, property in Chennai flood

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses her profound shock at the loss of lives and damage of property in southern India due to the terrible flood.
4 December 2015, 12:21 PM

6 charges pressed against 2 Kishoreganj war ‘criminals’

Prosecution presses six specific charges against two persons of Kishoreganj for their involvement with crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
3 December 2015, 05:54 AM

UP chairman aspirant found killed

Police recovered the body of an aspirant for union parishad (UP) chairman from Hingerpara village in Sadullapur upazila of the district
1 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Online media can run under existing laws: NOAB

Newspaper owners demand that the online media is run under existing laws instead of a mandatory separate registration for such outlets.
24 November 2015, 15:14 PM

3 gamblers sent to jail, 4 others fined

A mobile court sentenced three gamblers to one month's imprisonment at Sarpukur village in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat district early yesterday, reports our correspondent.
2 September 2015, 18:00 PM

Madrasa super removed for selling govt books

Md Tazammul Hossain, superintendent of Pattashi S Dakhil Madrasa in Zianagar upazila under the district was removed from his post
12 August 2015, 18:00 PM