Dhaka, Ottawa agree solution to Noor Chy’s extradition
Bangladesh and Canada have agreed to find out a solution to the extradition of Noor Chowdhury, the self-confessed killer of Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, through discussion.
Work together to prevent world’s most devastating diseases: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has urged the international community to work together to prevent three of the world’s most devastating diseases — AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
PM in Montreal to attend GF confce
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Montreal on Thursday afternoon on a four-day official visit to Canada at the invitation of her Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau to attend the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund.
Major central banks seek global standards in wake of BB theft
The world’s major central banks, stung by this year’s $81-million heist in Bangladesh, have launched a task force to consider setting broad rules to protect the vast network of cross-border banking from cyber attacks, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
Capital’s heritage sites, buildings endangered
Unauthorized structures are rapidly replacing heritage sites and buildings in the capital, due to gross negligence of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha.
TONGI FACTORY FIRE: None of accused arrested yet
Police could not arrest any of the eight accused named in the murder case with Tongi police station in Gazipur in connection with the September 10 factory fire at Tampaco Foils Limited at Tongi BSCIC industrial area in the district that left so far 34 dead, 10 missing and dozens injured.
One killed, four injured in helicopter crash in Cox’s Bazar
A helicopter that dropped cricket all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, his wife Umme Ahmed Shishir and daughter Elina Hassan Avree at a resort at Inani, crashed on the beach in the Bay of Bengal, on Friday morning.
TONGI FACTORY FIRE: Death toll rises to 29
The death toll from Tongi factory fire rose to 29 as one succumbed to burn injury at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and bodies of four others were recovered from the debris of the building until Sunday 10:30pm.
AL announces full-fledged committees of Dhaka city units
The ruling Awami League announced full-fledged executive committees of its Dhaka North and Dhaka South city units on Sunday.
‘Extremist’ kills himself: forensic official
The coroner at Dhaka Medical College Hospital said that one of the suspected extremists, who was reportedly killed during a drive at a ‘den of extremists’ in the city’s Lalbagh area on Saturday evening, had killed himself slitting his own throat with a sharp weapon.
