The Supreme Court fines 10 private medical colleges Tk 1 crore each for admitting 153 candidates who failed to fulfill the relevant requirements in admission tests.
Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology forwards a letter to the home ministry for a drive against noncertified SIM cards.
The Supreme Court upholds a decision to hike the tariff on international incoming calls from 1.5 cents to 2 cents (Tk 1.60) per minute.
A local Jubo League leader is found dead with throat slit in Natore Sadar upazilla early today.
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan today slams the law enforcers for arresting veteran journalist Shafik Rehman in a “dirty trick”.
Workers Party, key ally of AL led 14-party alliance, reacts against restriction on celebrations of Pahela Baishakh after 5:00pm, demands withdrawal of restriction.
The United States is going to honour 14 women across the world, including barrister Sara Hossain, for their exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The government decides to curb the issuance of official passports for its employees across the country in view of allegations of human trafficking in disguise of government officials.
A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband for dowry at Zhawram village in Sadar upazila yesterday.
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Police arrested Kendua upazila unit ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami from his relative's house at Purbadhala upazila on Saturday.
The arrestee was identified as Shamsuddin, upazila unit ameer of the party and resident of Goradoba village of Kandua upazila.
Purbadhala police said a team of police raided the house of his son-in-law on Rawshanara road in Purbadhala upazila and arrested him at about 10am.
The Jamaat leader was hiding there apparently to avoid arrest, said police.
Criminals killed a Jubo League activist at Amdabad village in Rupsha upazila yesterday afternoon.
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Criminals hacked to death the president of Sariakandi municipality unit committee Chhatra League at Public Mat near press club in the town on Wednesday night. The deceased is Bijoy Rahman Babu, 25, son of Nuru Mia of Dhap (Baluahata) area of the municipality. Officer in-charge (OC) of Sariakandi PS Faisul Islam told this correspondent that the victim was hacked at 7:30pm. He was rushed to the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital (SZMCH) where he died at around 8:30pm the same day. The cause of his killing could not be known immediately, police said.
Several business establishments, vehicles and a bank's booth in the town were vandalised allegedly by Jamaat-Shibir activists yesterday. Witnesses said, they brought out a procession from Kandirpar Pubali Chhatar premises at about 9:30am. Then they vandalised an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) booth of local Pubali Bank branch in the area. The activists later vandalised two hospitals, a petrol pump, two buses, a truck and an ambulance on Laksam Road. They also vandalised the house of Saiful Islam, president of town unit Bangladesh Chhatra League.
