A Dhaka court yesterday appointed administrators to look after some of the immovable properties of Benazir Ahmed and his family members.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Bangladeshis were found to be the highest number of irregular migrants reaching the shores of Italy in the first six months of this year.
Police in Manikganj are trying to arrest five men accused of raping a schoolgirl.
A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others were injured while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj yesterday morning.
Two patients with Covid-19 died and at least 620 new Covid-19 cases were recorded by the health directorate in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared the main protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early yesterday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.
The trial of the money laundering case filed against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others started at a Dhaka court yesterday with deposition of the complainant.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, many of whom were unaware they were infected, posing a danger to vulnerable groups.
A mother of three was confined to a house for three days and gang-raped in a village in Sirajganj’s Ullapara, police said yesterday.
The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of Harun Ur Rashid’s parliament membership as the BNP leader has been convicted and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in a corruption case.
New areas in the southern region have been inundated, while the flood situation remains unchanged in the northern part of the country and some other districts.
For half a century scientists feared that the Somali elephant shrew had vanished from the face of the Earth. No one had seen so much as a whisker.
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been keeping well for the last few days after undergoing gallbladder surgery in London on July 30, a health bulletin issued by his personal physician Dr Nurul Islam says today.
The BNP yesterday alleged that the government has chosen the path of “nasty politics to distort history” in order to cling to power.
Bus owners now want to operate their vehicles at full capacity despite the fact that the numbers of new infections and deaths from Covid-19 are still on the rise in the country.
British Prime Minister Edward Heath calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the latter’s hotel suite today. Coming out of Bangabandhu’s room at Hotel Claridges, Heath tells newsmen that he has had ‘very good talks’ with the Bangladesh prime minister.
