Food adulteration starts at factories
Food adulteration in Bangladesh starts at factories with rampant use of non-food grade and date expired and low quality chemicals to process them.
‘Deprived’ BCL faction seeks fresh committee in 48 hrs
Leaders of Awami League-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League who failed to make room in newly announced central committee on Tuesday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to reconstitute the committee dropping the ‘non-eligible’ ones.
6 get life term for gang rape in Sirajganj
A Sirajganj court on Tuesday sentenced six people to life imprisonment for raping a woman confining her husband at Dargar Char of Shahjadpur in Sirajganj in 2016.
Khaleda to be shifted to Keraniganj jail: HM
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Tuesday that the jailed Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia would be shifted to Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj after her release from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital.
Five killed in ‘gunfights’ in Jashore, Cox’s Bazar, Pabna
At least five people, including two suspected robbers and two Rohingya men, were killed in ‘gunfights’ in Jashore, Cox’s Bazar and Pabna on Tuesday.
130 Bangladeshis killed in S Africa a year
About 130 Bangladeshis are killed on an average every year in South Africa mostly due to conflict among compatriots as well as conflict with local South Africans.
15 injured in factional clash as BCL gets committee
At least 15 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were injured in a factional clash following announcement of its 301-member full-fledged central committee on Monday.
Jute mill workers’ fresh nationwide indefinite strike begins
Around 80,000 workers of 26 state-owned jute mills on Monday began nationwide indefinite strike to realize arrear wages, implementation of National Wage and Productivity Commission Award 2015 and seven other demands.
MEDITERRANEAN BOAT CAPSIZE 27 Bangladeshi deceased identified
Five bodies of Bangladesh nationals drowned in the Mediterranean Sea were recovered and identities of 27 of the 37 Bangladeshis, feared dead in the boat capsize, were confirmed, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society said on Monday.
Khaleda to be tried inside Keraniganj jail
The government has shifted a makeshift court trying the jailed Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia from the old Dhaka Central Jail to newly built makeshift courtroom inside the Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital.
