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UNODC assures Bangladesh in controlling drugs
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has assured of providing all kinds of assistance to Bangladesh in controlling drugs and preventing crimes and corruption.
29 May 2019
40 judges transferred in judiciary resuffle
The government has brought a reshuffle in the judiciary through transferring 40 assistant and senior assistant judges.
29 May 2019
Bangladeshi peacekeepers make heroic contribution in Africa
Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been working relentlessly to establish peace and harmony in various conflict zones in the world and are highly praised worldwide for their outstanding contribution.
29 May 2019
Raudha gave in to her despair: PBI final report
The Maldivian model and medical student Raudha Athif gave in to her despair when she discovered her boyfriend was cheating on her, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) says in the final report into her death.
29 May 2019
Man gets 30yrs in jail for carrying heroin
A Dhaka court sentences a man to 30 years in jail for possessing 80 grammes of heroin when he was held in June 2017.
29 May 2019
Nusrat murder: Sonagazi ex-OC Moazzem seeks anticipatory bail
Former officer-in-charge (OC) of Sonagazi Police Station Moazzem Hossain files a petition with the High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case filed on charges of filming a statement of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi and circulating the clip on social media.
29 May 2019
Tokyo stands by Bangladesh over Rohingya repatriation issue
Japan extends its full support to Bangladesh’s call for safe and dignified return of Rohingyas to their homeland as the two countries came up with a joint press statement following talks between Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina and her counterpart Shizo Abe.
29 May 2019
Nusrat murder: Charges pressed against 16
Police Bureau of Investigation presses charges against 16 accused including Sonagazi Senior Fazil Madrasa Principal Siraj Ud Doula in the Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case.
29 May 2019
‘BCL trying to kill me by launching planned attacks’
Vice President of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur alleges that the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League are launching planned attacks on him one after another in a bid to kill him.
29 May 2019
2 children die of pneumonia every hour in Bangladesh: Report
Two children die of pneumonia every hour in Bangladesh, according to the National Situation Analysis Report of Pneumonia 2018.
29 May 2019
‘Non-communicable diseases cause 60% deaths every year in Bangladesh’
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) cause sixty per cent deaths every year in Bangladesh, Health Minister Zahid Malik says.
29 May 2019
Top US security aide: Iranian mines likely caused UAE tanker blasts
US National Security Adviser John Bolton said today that naval mines "almost certainly from Iran" were used to attack oil tankers off the United Arab Emirates this month, and warned Tehran against conducting new operations.
29 May 2019
Mamata refuses to attend Modi swearing-in
Making a U-turn in less than 24 hours, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says she would not attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath-taking ceremony in New Delhi tomorrow.
29 May 2019
WB to help improve 4 large neighborhoods in Dhaka
The government has signed a $100.5 million financing agreement with the World Bank to improve the condition of living of four large neighborhoods in Dhaka city, benefitting about a million residents.
29 May 2019
Midday Brief, Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on May 29, 2019
29 May 2019
‘Malibagh bomb attack a conspiracy against cops’
The May 26 bomb attack on a police van in Dhaka’s Malibagh area was a “conspiracy” against police to turn them into a weak force, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said today.
29 May 2019
Hasina at Abe’s office: Guard of honour given
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives at Japanese Prime Minister's Office to hold a bilateral meeting with her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe at his office.
29 May 2019
6 killed in Cumilla and Sundarbans ‘gunfights’
Two alleged drug traders and four suspected robbers are killed in separate incidents of what law enforcers claimed to be gunfights with Border Guard Bangladesh(BGB) and (Rapid Action Battalion) Rab in Cumilla and Sundarbans.
29 May 2019
Summit, JERA Asia ink deal for Matarbari energy project
Bangladesh and Japan sign a deal which will initiate a large energy infrastructure project in Matarbari area of Cox’s Bazar.
29 May 2019
Islamic State cases: Indian investigators in Sri Lanka
Reflecting enhanced bilateral security cooperation, a team of India's counter-terror agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials is in Sri Lanka to probe two Islamic State (IS)-related cases which could have possible links to the April 21 Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people in the island nation.
29 May 2019