NEPAL PLANE CRASH Families wait for bodies to arrive soon
Families now wait for the 26 bodies of Bangladeshis who died in US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Kathmandu on Monday that left 51 people dead.
SC stays Khaleda’s bail till Sunday
The Appellate Division on Wednesday stayed until Sunday a bail the High Court granted on Monday to opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, jailed for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8
Zafar Iqbal returns to SUST
Popular author and professor of computer science and engineering at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Muhammad Zafar Iqbal on Wednesday returned to the campus after he was released from hospital
Mushfiq’s fifty not enough
Skipper Rohit Sharma and off-spinner Washington Sundar helped India enter the Twenty20 tri-series final with a 17-run win over Bangladesh in Colombo on Wednesday
Dhaka waits for black box to be decoded
Bangladesh authorities are waiting for the black box of the crashed US-Bangla Airlines plane to be deciphered to come to a conclusion over the cause of the accident while the death toll from the crash at Kathmandu airport rose to 50 on Tuesday.
SC stays Khaleda’s bail until Sunday
The Appellate Division on Wednesday stayed till Sunday the bail granted to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case
PM returns home from Singapore
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Tuesday, cutting short her official visit to Singapore by a day, following Monday’s US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal.
Eight DB men closed over torturing journalist
Eight members of the Detective Branch of police have been closed to the district police lines over torturing a cameraperson of a private television channel in the city. Deputy Commissioner (South) of Barisal Metropolitan Police Golam Rauf said they also formed a probe committee to look into the incident
Fire at Shyambazar onion wholesale market
Fifteen shops were burnt in a fire that broke out at an onion wholesale market at Shyambazar in Sutrapur area of the capital on early Wednesday.
39 to die for killing Ekramul in Feni
A Feni court on Tuesday sentenced 39 people to death for killing Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque in Feni in 2014.
