HAJJ TRAVEL CRISIS Minister flies to Makkah leaving pilgrims in uncertainty
The religious affairs minister, Motiur Rahman, his wife and entourage left Dhaka for Saudi Arabian city Jeddah on Saturday evening to perform hajj this year, leaving hundreds of aspirant pilgrims in uncertainty on their travel to the Middle Eastern country.
Rohingyas flee Myanmar as violence escalates
Thousands of Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar crowded along the Bangladesh border on Saturday as clashes in Rakhine State between suspected Rohingya extremists and Myanmar security forces continued for the second day.
SC asks Dhaka CMM to return Manna’s passport
The Appellate Division on Thursday directed the chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka to return passport of Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna for three months to facilitate his treatment in abroad.
B’desh risks ‘devastating’ hunger after major floods: UN
As food aid rolls out to more than 200,000 people in flood-hit Bangladesh, the United Nations said on Wednesday that long-term food supplies were at risk with so much farmland now ruined.
SAGAR-RUNI MURDER RAB misses 50 deadlines for probe report
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate’s court on Wednesday asked Rapid Action Battalion to submit by October 8 its report on the investigation into the sensational murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi
PP’s daughter poisoned
Narayanganj public prosecutor SM Wajed Ali’s teenage daughter was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after she was allegedly poisoned at Chashara in Narayanganj Wednesday evening.
Eid-ul-Azha on Sept 2
Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on September 2 as the new moon of the Arabic month of Zilhajj was sighted in Bangladesh sky on Wednesday.
N’GANJ SEVEN-MURDER CASE Deaths for Tarek Sayeed, Noor Hossain, 13 others upheld
The High Court Division on Tuesday upheld death sentences of local Awami League leader Noor Hossain and the Rapid Action Battalion’s 14 men for brutally murdering seven people in Narayanganj in April 2014.
Flood causes fisheries losses worth Tk 723.44cr
The devastating floods washed away fish and its farming facilities worth Tk 723.44 crore in 32 districts, mostly in the north, Fisheries Department officials told New Age quoting initial estimates.
BNP trying to create distance between judiciary, executive: Quader
Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said that BNP was trying to create distance between judiciary and executive to save their leaders from conviction and sentence.
