GRP Station Rape OC, SI withdrawn
Khulna Government Railway Police station officer-in-charge and a sub-inspector were withdrawn on Wednesday following allegation of rape of a detained woman at the police station by five cops.
Ministers divided over dengue intensity
At least two ministers were divided over the intensity of the country’s dengue menace as the mosquito-borne viral fever claimed eight more lives and forced 2,348 new patients to be
Mosquito control office chief absent, mosquitos hum in store: ACC
Mosquito Control Office chief was on Tuesday found absent at his office but mosquitos were humming at its store room by an Anti-Corruption Commission team.
Two killed, seven hurt in Habiganj road accident
Two people, including a college student, were killed and seven others were injured when a motorcycle hit an auto-rickshaw at Atukura in Baniachang upazila on Tuesday night.
Air strike on south Libyan town kills 43
A drone air strike by eastern Libyan forces on the southern Libyan town of Murzuq has killed at least 43 people, a local official said on Monday.
Rabindranath’s 78th death anniversary today
The 78th anniversary of death of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore will be observed today.
Arrest warrant issued against Tarique, Fakhrul
A Dhaka court on Monday issued warrant to arrest nine leaders and activists of BNP including party’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman and its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for
City corporations test adulticide on culex, not aedes
The authorities of the two city corporations in the capital are testing the efficacy of adulticide samples on culex mosquito although this insecticide was imported to eradicate aedes mosquitos that spread dengue across the country.
Taxes, duties on dengue test kits waived
The government has waived all kinds of import tax, value added tax and other duties on the dengue test kits, dengue reagents and test kits for counting platelet and measuring plasma in blood as the hospitals across the country are plagued by shortage of the tools.
DENGUE MENACE At least one hospitalised a minute
Five people including the wife of an additional inspector general of police and an Eden College student died of dengue on Sunday in the country, as the disease continued to kill people with hundreds of cases being hospitalised every day.
