Inspector General of Police Hasan Mahmud Khondker yesterday denied allegations of torture on detained BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury under police remand.
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The certificate award ceremony of No. 73 Junior Command and Staff Course of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) was held at BAF Command and Staff Training Institute in Dhaka cantonment yesterday....
Police recovered the body of a havildar from city's BSCIC Industrial area yesterday morning.
The deceased was identified as Mohammed Idris, 37, son of one Sahar Mulluk of village Khilmogol under Rangunia upazila.
Police could not trace how Idris was killed. The body was sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) morgue for autopsy, sources said.
Idris was returning his village home in Rangunia on the occasion of Eid from his working place Noakhali, sources added.
Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed five separate cases against six people, including five employees of Agrani Bank, on charge of misappropriation of funds from Green Road Branch of the bank, says a press release.
The defendants of the cases are Principal Officer Muhammad Ullah, Officer Muhammad Salim Ullah, former Senior Officer Ikhwanul Islam, Senior Principal Officer Muhammad Amjad Hossain, Store Keeper Md Hafizur Rahman and Md Nurul Huda, a subscriber.
ACC Assistant Commissioner Abu Bakar Siddiquee filed the cases against the people for their involvement in drawing Tk 40 lakh from a fake bank account.
Several labour organisations yesterday held rallies in separate places of the city demanding salaries and bonus ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha....
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive seized 2,904 can foreign beer and 48 bottles of liquor worth around Tk 7 lakh and arrested two traders from city's Jakir Hossain Road in the early hours of yesterday.
Sources said that a squad of Khulshi Police Station seized the liquor and beer searching a city-bound covered van at around 5:30am.
They arrested Nurul Islam, driver of the covered van and his helper Mohammed Selim in this connection, sources said.
Sir Salimullah Medical College will start introductory classes for the students of the first year MBBS course (2006-2007 session) at 10:00am on January 10 next year.
Other classes of the course will begin the same day.
All students of the course have been asked to attend the classes in time.
Hundreds of workers of four jute mills put a barricade on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Baro Awlia under Sitakunda upazila for three hours yesterday demanding implementation of their eight-points, including payment of arrears and Eid bonus....
Islami Shashantantra Andolon yesterday protested the media report that the Awami League-led grand alliance had allocated Barisal-5 parliamentary seat to the party for the forthcoming elections following an electoral understanding between them....
Leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday urged the Election Commission (EC) to follow the electoral procedures strictly to stop money game in the upcoming election.
They also said it is essential to stop the money game in the election to ensure participation of the honest politicians in the election.
A total of 32 CPB candidates so far have submitted nomination papers, according to CPB central office.
A Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate on Monday found his name struck off and mentioned as dead in the voter list.
Shahidullah Shaheed, joint organizing secretary of LDP, went to the returning officer's office here to file his nomination paper for contesting the election from Phulpur (Mymensingh-2) constituency. But he found his name struck off and mentioned as dead.
He immediately protested and applied for correction. The nomination paper was submitted after correction of the voter list.
Election officials explained that the name of Shaheed was struck off the voter list by mistake during the recent correction. The Awami League-led alliance had insisted on correction of the voter list that reportedly included 1.4 crore fake voters.
