BANGLADESHI LINKS : ACC launches probe after Panama scam
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday launched a probe into involvement of Bangladeshi people, if any, in illegal investment in offshore companies in the secretive tax haven of the British Virgin Islands.
TONU RAPE, MURDER : 5 army men quizzed, protests continue
Several thousand people took to the streets on Thursday in the city demanding justice for the killing of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu and threatened to call a countrywide general strike.
Hundreds protest at murder of online activist
Strong protests were launched on Thursday against killings of secular writers, bloggers and publishers in the country as a Jagannath University law student and secular online activist was hacked and shot to death in the Old Dhaka on Wednesday night.
Customs intel seizes Porsche car
Customs intelligence on Wednesday seized a Porsche Cayenne jeep from Dhaka’s Gulshan area on charge of customs duty evasion.
GP yet to allow BTRC auditor after five months
The country’s leading mobile phone company Grameenphone has yet not allowed the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to audit its accounts five months into the appointment of the auditor.
No improvement in arsenic situation: HRW
There is no improvement in arsenic situation in Bangladesh in comparison to the mid nineties when the presence of arsenic in the country’s rural groundwater drew attention of international community, said US-based rights organisation Human Rights Watch in a report published on Wednesday.
TONU RAPE, MURDER : CID says motive identified, none held
Criminal Investigation Department officials said they had established the motive for the killing of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu and would come up with ‘good news’ shortly.
Revised ADP at Tk 91,000cr, GDP growth 7.05pc
The planning minister, AHM Mustafa Kamal, on Tuesday said the country was going to achieve seven per cent growth for the first time in the country’s history.
Fire guts 60 rooms in city
At least 60 rooms of tin-shed structures at capital’s Konipara adjacent to Hatirjheel were gutted in a fire that broke out on Tuesday afternoon.
Khaleda gets bail in five cases
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia was granted bail on Tuesday in five cases on various charges including sedition, sabotage and graft.
