Bangladesh hands another list of secret yaba labs to Myanmar

The Department of Narcotics Control handed over a list of 49 clandestine labs in Myanmar to that country’s Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), hoping that they would take stern actions to stop yaba smuggling into Bangladesh.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Rohingya Trafficking Network: They sell dreams, deliver violence

Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world’s biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Gang-rape in Noakhali: PBI charges Delwar, 13 others

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted charge sheet before court against 14 persons in a case filed over gang-rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Recruitment Suspension: RU will want to know why

Rajshahi University authorities would want to know from the education ministry the reasons for postponing all kinds of appointments to the university until further notice.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Journo Kajol Probe: HC unhappy with cyber tribunal, IO over delays

The High Court yesterday expressed grave dissatisfaction that neither the investigation officer nor the cyber tribunal has explained the delay in concluding investigations into two cases filed against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol under the Digital Security Act.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Democracy prevailed’

President-elect Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke on Monday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of his victory, hours after winning the state-by-state Electoral College vote that officially determines the US presidency.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Bangabandhu Killers: Suspend their gallantry awards

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to suspend the state gallantry awards for four convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM

facebook.com.bd: Court stops domain use as facebook files case

Following a hearing of a case filed by the authorities of social media giant Facebook against a Bangladeshi firm called A1 Software, a Dhaka court has banned the “facebook.com.bd” domain in Bangladesh.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

37 more die, 1,799 infected

At least 37 people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the DGHS.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

8 to die for murder, rape of 9-yr-old

A court in Chattogram yesterday sentenced eight people to death and fined them Tk 1 lakh each for murdering a nine-year-old girl after gang-raping her in the port city’s Akbar Shah area in 2018.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

US Elections: Electoral college votes to confirm Biden win

Electors gathered in state capitols across the country yesterday to formally vote for Joe Biden as the next US president, effectively ending President Donald Trump’s frenzied but failing attempt to overturn his loss in the November 3 election.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Govt plans to evict forest grabbers

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change yesterday decided to conduct drives to evict illegal grabbers of protected forest land.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Farming After Floods: Battered, they keep on trying

Abdus Samad could not harvest a single grain of coriander (dhoney) or sesame (til) or an ounce of jute from his five bighas of land due to this year’s prolonged flood.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Indira felicitates Bangabandhu

Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi has sent a message today felicitating Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Healing is coming’

An intensive care unit nurse became the first person in the United States to receive the newly authorized Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine yesterday, calling it a sign that “healing is coming” as the US coronavirus death toll approaches 300,000.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

5 sentenced to death get acquitted

The High Court yesterday acquitted all five people, who were sentenced to death by a lower court in Netrokona, in a case filed for the abduction and gang rape of a teenage girl in 2002, as the allegations brought against them were not proved beyond reasonable doubt.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Two die after falling sick in shipbreaking yards

Two employees, including a security guard, of two shipbreaking firms in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila died yesterday morning after falling sick at their workplaces.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

A teacher at last

Five government officials yesterday apologised to the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division for failing to comply with its order to appoint a woman as a primary school teacher in 15 days.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Canada begins vaccine roll-out

Canada yesterday began a roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, just days after becoming one of the first countries to approve the treatment.
14 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Virtual book fair plan scrapped

Amar Ekushey Boi Mela-2021 will be held as usual, not virtually as previously reported, but will start later than the scheduled February 1.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM