DIG Mizan shown arrested in bribery case
A Dhaka Court on Sunday asked police to show suspended deputy inspector general of police Mizanur Rahamn arrested in a case filed in connection with bribing Tk 40 lakh to suspended Anti-Corruption Commission director Khandakar Enamul Basir.
Rivers around capital swell
There is no possibility of flood waters entering the capital though all the rivers flowing by it are swelling, the Water Development Board told New Age Sunday.
Urban bias keeps doctors off villages: study
Doctors in Bangladesh are highly urban centric while majority of the population live in rural areas, says a study of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh.
Bangladesh fails to find new overseas job markets for workers
Bangladesh could not yet find new markets for its unskilled workers though the job opportunities drastically shrank at traditional destinations in the Middle East and South-East Asia.
3 lynched on child lift suspicion
Three people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured in beating by angry mobs in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Pabna and Gazipur on Saturday after they were suspected to be child lifters.
Chief admits crisis of public trust in ACC
The Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Saturday admitted that the commission has a crisis of public trust as most of the steps, about 70 per cent, taken by the graft watchdog were against petty suspects.
Floods kill 10 more, maroon thousands afresh
At least nine villagers drowned in flood waters in Jamalpur, Netrokona and Sirajganj while one died of snake bike in the worst flood hit Gaibandha district in 24 hours ending Saturday morning, according to the Health Emergency Control Room.
Public health in jeopardy
Public health in Bangladesh has become highly vulnerable in the face of phenomenal rise in adulteration of foods, serious contamination of drinking water, substandard and date-expired medicines and air pollution.
BNP for national consensus on law and order
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday expressed deep concern about deteriorating law and order situation and said that the party was giving priority to create a national consensus on the issue.
Minni lands in jail after making statement
Aysha Siddika Minni, widow of Rifat Sharif who was hacked to death in front of her in Barguna district town on June 26, made a statement before Barguna senior judicial magistrate on Friday.
