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DSCC councillor Manju held for extortion
Rapid Action Battalion detained Moinul Haque Manju, councillor of ward No 39, along with alcohol and firearms during a raid at his office in Tikatuli area of Dhaka.
31 October 2019
Release children convicted by mobile courts and kept in correction centres
High Court orders the authorities concerned of the government to immediately release the children under 12 years, who were convicted by the mobile courts on various times and kept in the Children Development Centre.
31 October 2019
Cylinder blast: Death toll reaches 7 after 8-yr-old succumbs
An eight-year-old boy who was injured in the gas cylinder blast in Dhaka’s Rupnagar area, succumbs at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), raising the death toll to seven.
31 October 2019
Fire sweeps Pakistani train, killing 73, after cooking fire
A fire swept through a Pakistani train, killing 73 people and injuring nearly 40 after a gas canister that passengers were using to cook breakfast exploded, the minister of railways says.
31 October 2019
India formally divides Jammu and Kashmir state
At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, Jammu and Kashmir has ceased to be a state and became India’s newest federally-ruled territory which gives Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government direct control to run its affairs.
31 October 2019
Azhar to be executed on completion of legal process: Minister
Law Minister Anisul Huq has said that the government will execute the Supreme Court verdict which, upheld the death penalty of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam in a war crimes case, on completion of all the legal procedure.
31 October 2019
Twitter to ban political ads worldwide on its platform
Twitter says it would stop accepting political advertising globally on its platform, responding to growing concerns over misinformation from politicians on social media.
31 October 2019
Pentagon releases video, photos of Baghdadi raid
The Pentagon releases video and photos of the US special forces raid that resulted in the death of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
31 October 2019
War crimes: SC upholds Azhar’s death penalty
The Supreme Court upholds the death sentence of ATM Azharul Islam, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, for his crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Liberation War of the country in 1971.
31 October 2019
Land official held while taking bribe
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrest an official of Banshkhali upazila land office while he was taking bribe.
30 October 2019
Calling 999 possible if mobile network destroyed
A joint team of disaster management division, telecom regulator and arm forces division has successfully tested a system where mobile phone users can call to the emergency number ‘999’ if their own mobile network destroyed.
30 October 2019
Star day at a Glance, Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Hello dear readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the news headlines so far on October 30, 2019
30 October 2019
$100m deal signed to ensure sanitation, drainage system in 30 municipalities
The government has signed a $100 million agreement with the World Bank to ensure improved water supply, sanitation, and drainage system in 30 municipalities, benefitting around 600,000 people.
30 October 2019
Daraz hosts World’s Biggest Sale day “11.11” campaign for second time
Online shopping platform Daraz Bangladesh is going to arrange the World’s Biggest Sale day “11.11” campaign for the second consecutive time on November 11.
30 October 2019
144 passengers suffer for Air Asia’s flight delay at HSIA
Some 144 passengers of Air Asia face untold sufferings as the Malaysia-based budget airlines made around 24 hours delay for the technical glitch, sources at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport says.
30 October 2019
War crimes: SC verdict on ATM Azharul’s plea against death penalty tomorrow
The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict tomorrow on the appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam against the death penalty handed to him by a war crimes tribunal.
30 October 2019
CU ‘D’ unit test result postponed
The Chittagong University (CU) authorities has postponed the result of ‘D’ unit admission test for 2019-20 academic session citing technical glitches.
30 October 2019
Don’t destroy bird nests at mango orchard in Rajshahi: HC
The High Court directs the authorities concerned not to damage the nests of birds at a mango orchard in Khordh Bausa village under Bagha Upazila of Rajshahi.
30 October 2019
Sharp weapons found at DU Mohsin Hall roof
A packet containing 12 sharp weapons have been recovered from the roof of Dhaka University’s Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall.
30 October 2019
5 children killed in gas cylinder blast in Dhaka's Rupnagar
At least five children are killed and seven others injured critically as a gas cylinder, used for inflating balloons, exploded near a school in Rupnagar Residential area of Dhaka.
30 October 2019