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19 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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Rubaiya Murshed’s ‘Nobody’s Children’: UPL publishes book on struggles of street children
2 July 2022, 13:13 PM
Culture
Latifur Rahman’s 2nd death anniv today
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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ACC looking into procurement anomalies at BR
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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Dhaka Airport: Passenger leaves behind Saudi riyal worth Tk 6cr
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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70 died in political clashes this year
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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101st birthday of DU
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Youth
‘Enough with mere formalities’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
What steps taken for their birth certificates?
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
‘Corruption, anarchy the new norm’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
From retired educator to auto-rickshaw driver
As a 65-year-old retired school teacher, Md Abul Kalam Azad was looking forward to a relatively comfortable ride into the horizon. While he wasn’t expecting a life of grandeur and indulgence, he wished to see out his last days finally free from the grips of poverty.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
CVF Presidency: Abul Kalam Azad named special envoy
Abul Kalam Azad, former principal secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, has been appointed as special envoy of Climate Vulnerable Forum’s (CVF) presidency.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
HC petition filed against Wasa’s 25pc tariff hike
A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its order of injunction on the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority’s (Wasa) decision to hike the water price by 25 percent from April 1 this year.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Fake medicine, cosmetics worth Tk 10cr destroyed
A mobile court of Barishal district administration yesterday found a makeshift factory running inside a residence, and seized fake medicines, cosmetics and sanitiser worth Tk 10 crore at the city’s Sagardi Darga Bari.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
4 held for selling doctored Covid-19 certificates in capital
Rapid Action Battalion yesterday raided a photocopy shop in the capital’s Mugda area and recovered a huge number of fake Covid-19 certificates.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
52 held in cases over Libya killings
Bangladesh Police have so far arrested around 52 people in 26 cases filed across the country over the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya on May 28, Police Headquarters (PHQ) said in a statement yesterday.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 Response Efforts: US declares $173m fund
The US has announced $173 million in new funding to support Bangladesh’s Covid-19 response efforts and the development and economic recovery plan in the aftermath of the pandemic.
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Suspended DNCC ward-33 councillor Rajib’s bail plea rejected
A virtual court in Dhaka rejects the bail petition of Tarequzzaman Rajib, a councillor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) now suspended, in connection with a charge of amassing Tk 26,16,3600 illegally.
15 June 2020, 15:53 PM
1,000 litres of adulterated hand sanitiser seized in Chattogram city
Local administration seizes around 1,000 litres of adulterated hand sanitiser and fined tradersTk 75,000 for running their businesses illegally at different parts of Chattogram city.
15 June 2020, 14:13 PM
Rab arrests 3 for making fake Covid-19 certificates
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has detained three people from a photocopy shop in the capital’s Mugda for making fake negative and positive Covid-19 certificates.
15 June 2020, 12:27 PM
Virtual court to hear petition seeking remand for cartoonist, 3 others tomorrow
A virtual court in Dhaka has finally decided to hold hearings on remand prayers of four accused including cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore without their presence before it,in a case under the Digital Security Act.
15 June 2020, 10:47 AM
Rab seizes 500 grams of heroin from Mango basket in Dhaka courier service
Rapid Action Battalion seizes 500 grams of heroin hidden inside a basket of mangoes and a pressure cooker from a courier service centre in Dhaka’s Elephant Road area.
15 June 2020, 09:05 AM
Ex-PMO principal secretary made special envoy to Climate Vulnerable Forum’s Presidency
Abul Kalam Azad, former principal secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), has been appointed as a special envoy to the Climate Vulnerable Forum’s (CVF) Presidency.
15 June 2020, 08:30 AM
Raise awareness on pandemic
The High Court yesterday requested lawyers, who are connected with virtual court functions, to work towards increasing awareness among people about the coronavirus pandemic.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM
2 community centres in Ctg turned into isolation units
Amid a worsening healthcare crisis in the city, Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) and community leaders have teamed up to turn two community centres into isolation centres, in a bid to deal with the increasing number of Covid-19 patients.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM
A long-planned heist
Rapid Action Battalion yesterday claimed to have arrested five members of a gang who robbed Tk 80 lakh from a vehicle in Gazipur recently.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM
People have lost trust in DSCC: Taposh
Mosquito menace, waterlogging, inefficiency in garbage collection and some other burning issues remained unresolved due to a lack of coordination among the inter-connected departments of the Dhaka South City Corporation, said Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Sultan Bhuiyan no more
Sultan Uddin Bhuiyan, former lawmaker of Narayan-ganj-1 constituency and son of late Gul Baksh Bhuiyan, passed away on Saturday morning.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Another elephant found dead in Ctg
For the third consecutive day, an elephant has died in the country from human-made objects, as a juvenile elephant was found dead at a village in Banshkhali upazila yesterday.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Decision on closure of schools, colleges today
The government is going to extend the closure of all educational institutions in the country in a bid to curb further spread of Covid-19.
14 June 2020, 18:00 PM