Enclave swap: Joy beyond boundaries for thousands
It is a celebration time for thousands of people living in the hitherto India-Bangladesh enclaves as they are awaiting the much-sought enclave swap between the two countries at one minute past midnight on Saturday, breaking the shackles of separation from their homelands.
Deep depression turns cyclonic storm Komen: Danger signal No 7 in 7 districts, 2 ports
All maritime ports in Bangladesh have been asked to hoist danger signal number 7 as cyclonic storm Komen is likely to hit six southern districts by this afternoon, a special weather bulletin of the Met office said Wednesday night.
NBR to facilitate e-payment of large tax thru banks
The National Board of Revenue is going to introduce a new e-payment software, replacing the old one to facilitate large taxpayers to pay any amount of tax online through their bank accounts, officials said.
MILKY MURDER: Little progress in two years of investigation
Investigation into the murder of Juba League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milky murder is progressing at sluggish pace as the Criminal Investigation Department, charged with further investigation, failed to make any noteworthy development although two years have elapsed since the murder.
BNP unhappy over SQC verdict
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said the party was ‘disappointed, surprised and saddened’ at the Supreme Court Appellate division holding up the International War Crimes Tribunal’s verdict of death sentence against party standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury for war crimes.
SC upholds SQC’s death sentence
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in war crimes in Chittagong region during the Liberation War of 1971.
Southeast people continue to suffer
People of different waterlogged areas of the south-eastern part of the country continued to suffer as their homesteads, crops and roads were still under water on Tuesday while water began to recede from some places and the situation remained unchanged at some other places.
SQC’S APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE: SC verdict today
The Appellate Division will deliver today its verdict in the appeal of war crimes death row inmate Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
DCs for building ring road to tighten border security
Several deputy commissioners at their annual conference in Dhaka proposed setting up ‘ring road’ along the border with India to strengthen security and check smuggling as a vast area along the frontiers in Chittagong Hill Tracts and the country’s north remained unprotected.
MURDER CASES AGAINST KHALEDA: Court asks for police report by Oct 13
A metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on Monday asked the police to submit report on a petition filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other leaders over the killing of at least 42 people during non-stop blockade and general strikes by October 13.
