HSC, equivalent exams get underway

The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations started simultaneously across the country on Sunday.

SC to hear Nizami’s review petition next week

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Sunday said that the hearing of the review petition filed by death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami will be heard next week.

BAN ON ENTRY OF RAWHIDE : Lax monitoring on first day, mobile courts from today

The government will use mobile court to implement its decision to not allow entry of rawhide to the tanneries at Hazaribagh from April 1.

3 held over gang-rape of apparel worker on running bus

An apparel worker was allegedly gang raped by driver and staff on a running bus at Madhupur in Tangail on Friday morning.

BB RESERVE THEFT : Sri Lankan says she was set up by friend

When Hagoda Gamage Shalika Perera, a small Sri Lankan businesswoman, got a deposit of $20 million in her account last month, she said the funds were expected but had no idea they were stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank in one of the largest cyber heists in history.

Khaleda calls for ‘dialogue’ again

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday urged the government to resolve the present political problem through dialogue, shunning the path of confrontation.

TONU RAPE, MURDER : Protests continue

Protests continued on Thursday in the capital and elsewhere in the country as the police failed to make any headway in the investigation into the rape and murder of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu on March 20 night.

Wong returns $4.63m of BB money

Philippine casino businessman Kim Wong on Wednesday returned $4.63 million of the Bangladesh Bank’s stolen money to the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) office at the Philippines central bank headquarters in Manila.

Nine killed as violence, rigging mar UP polls

At least nine people were killed and several hundred were injured as violence, stuffing of the ballot box and capture of polling stations and intimidation mostly by ruling Awami League activists marred the second phase of the maiden partisan elections to union parishads on Thursday.

5 killed as UP polls ends amid violence

At least fivepeople were killed in election violence as voting in second phase of union parishad election ended at 639 unions across the country.