Khaleda Zia sends legal notice to home secretary

Former prime minister Khaleda Zia on Tuesday sent legal notices to five officials, including the home secretary, for not allowing her to sign the power of attorney.

HC rejects detained OC Mouazzem’s bail appeal

The High Court Division on Tuesday rejected appeal for bail of detained suspended Sonagazi police station officer-in-charge Mouazzem Hossain.

30 Lalmonirhat villages flooded as India opens barrage

At least 30 villages in five upazilas in the northern district of Lalmonirhat went under water in a matter of minutes Tuesday afternoon after India opened 54 gates of the Gajoldoba barrage upstream amid heavy rains.

6 children raped a day

Rape of children is on the rise with about six children raped in a day on an average in the first seven days of July.

GD filed for safety of Ershad’s son

A general diary was filed on Monday with the Gulshan police station seeking safety for Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad’s son Shahata Zarab Ershad Eric.

Mahbub complains to EC against Regent Airways over VIP seat

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has complained to the chief election commissioner that he and his wife were not given business class seats during their travel to Chattogram on a Regent Airways flight on June 27.

Onion price shoots up

The price of onion shot up to Tk 50 a kilogram in the city’s kitchen markets in two days due to a sharp increase in wholesale prices of the item.

Rains paralyse Ctg life, 2 killed in Rangamati landslide

A landslide killed at least two people, one woman and a child, on Monday in Kaptai of Rangamati as torrential rains paralysed the life in the whole Chattogram division.

Enam Ahmed inducted into AL advisory council

Enam Ahmed Chowdhury, who joined Awami League in December last parting his ways with BNP, has been made an advisory council member of the ruling party.

Only crimes that go viral are investigated: Rumeen

Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Rumeen Farhana on Sunday said in parliament that the police were investigating only the crimes that went viral as the prime minister ordered them to investigate those cases.