‘We have responsibility to materialize Sonar Bangla’: CJ
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain said Wednesday, ‘The Father of the Nation would get eternal peace if his dream is materialized.’
Family denied permission to meet Khaleda on birthday, says BNP
Family members of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia were denied permission to meet her at the jail to wish her on birthday on Wednesday.
National Mourning Day today
The nation observes National Mourning Day today marking the 43rd anniversary of the death of the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Govt expects to bring back Rashed from US
The government is expecting a ‘good outcome’ in its diplomatic and legal efforts for bringing back MA Rashed Chowdhury, one of the six condemned fugitive convicts of the killing of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from the United States, officials have said.
DU female student briefly detained by DB
A Dhaka University female student, also a quota reform movement activist, was briefly detained by Detective Branch of police on Tuesday for her alleged involvement in spreading rumour during the recent student protest.
7 killed in road accident
At least seven people, including three children on their way to a wedding party, were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Sonaimorirtak of Shibpur in Narsingdi on Tuesday morning.
Hearing on Shahidul’s bail petition on Sept 11
The counsel of acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam on Tuesday filed bail petition before a Dhaka court in a case filed under the ICT Act and the court set September 11 for hearing the petition.
Committee for abolishing almost all quotas
Cabinet secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said on Monday that ‘almost all quotas’ in public service recruitment might be abolished, but the government would seek Supreme Court’s opinion on the 30 per cent quota for freedom fighters’ children and grandchildren.
Myanmar needs to earn trust of Rohingyas: FS
Myanmar would need to take adequate measures for building confidence among the forcibly displaced minority Rohingya community so that they would want to go back their homes in Rakhine, foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque said on Monday.
Nawshaba denied bail again
Actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed’s bail application was rejected by a court in the capital on Monday afternoon when the Cyber Crimes Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police produced her in it after interrogating her for six days in two phases in a case under Information and Technology Act
