NDTV, Srinagar :Nearly 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and many others injured when terrorists targeted a convoy with a car bomb at Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, in what is the worst attack ever on security personnel in the state. Reports suggested that the vehicle used by the terrorists was a Mahindra Scorpio carrying more than 350 kg of explosives. The injured have been moved to the army base hospital in Srinagar,...
The confrontational attitude of the Trump Administration towards Iran in recent days adds much to the heightened tensions in the Gulf Area. It is possible that Mr Trump is just staging a confrontation to force Iran to negotiate a new deal. This week, he said he wanted to talk to Mr Rouhani. But the initial reaction from Iran was underwhelming. No doubt Iran has observed US interactions with North Korea. Initially Trump was full of fire and fury but as...
Staff Reporter :Police recovered the bodies of a couple from a ceiling fan of a house on the Titas Road in the city’s East Rampura on Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Jewel, 28, son of one Azadur Khandakar in Kurigram, and his wife Nasrin, 22, hailing from Nikli of Kishoreganj.Jewel used to work as a day labourer, while Nasrin worked as a domestic help in the area. Police and family suspect that they might have committed suicide due to poverty....
Staff Reporter :The government has increased fees for most of the services provided by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), putting additional burden on private and commercial vehicles owners.Currently, BTRA has been providing 87 services and fees for 75 services, like registering vehicles and issuance of fitness certificate, route permit, and driving licence, has gone up to 233 per cent following the government move.BRTA has started collecting fees at new rates from vehicle owners and drivers from Sunday.Sheikh Mohammad Mamub-E-Rabbani,...
News Desk :At least ten people were injured as the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jubo League (JL) locked in a clash at Jubo League’s golden jubilee rally in the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan on Friday.The clash broke out at noon. Hundreds of people flocked to the rally, which was scheduled to begin at 2:30pm.Leaders and activists in small processions came to the venue from various parts of the capital.Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took part...
News Desk :Eight people were killed in three road crashes across the country on Sunday morning.In Dhaka, Four people were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Nawabganj road. One of the deceased was identified as auto-rickshaw driver Uzzal, 27, of Mugarchar of Keraniganj and the identities of three auto rickshaw passengers, aged between 25 to 40 years, could not be known yet, reports UNB.The accident took place as a covered van of Butter Bond Company hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw from...
Sports Reporter :Bangladesh fought back scoring 322 runs for the loss of six wickets in the first innings against the powerhouse of world Test cricket India on the third day of the lone Test match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday.Earlier, India declared their first innings making a mammoth 687 runs for the loss of six wickets on the second day (Friday).Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim led the team from the frontline with the help...
Staff Reporter :Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed said, election schedule for the next Parliamentary Polls will be announced in the first week of November.The EC Secretary said it in a press briefing after emerging from a meeting with a European Union (EU) team at the EC office in Dhaka’s Agargaon on Thursday.In the meeting Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda disclosed that the polls schedule would be announced in the first week of November, Helal Uddin said.On September...
Staff Reporter :The High Court has declared the actions under the three-month ‘Operation Clean Heart’ in 2003, and the indemnity law that legitimised the actions ‘ultra vires’. The High Court in its verdict said that the law providing indemnity to security force personnel violates the provisions of the Constitution, as the actions and the indemnity were contradictory to the constitutional provision of Articles 26, 27, 31, 32 and 35. The bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful...
Noman Mosharef :Covid-19 has so far claimed 2,052 lives so far in Bangladesh. The death rate was slow in the first 85 days since the virus was detected on March 8 and death on March 18. But it accelerated later as 2nd 1000 died in 25 days only. The health specialists have expressed their grave concern over raising the Covid-19 fatalities across the country. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University’s (BSMMU) former Vice-Chancellor, Virologist and also member of National Technical Advisory...
UNB, Dhaka :Thirteen Ambassadors and High Commissioners stationed in Dhaka on Friday urged the government of Bangladesh to conduct a “swift, transparent, and independent inquiry” into the full circumstances of writer Mushtaq Ahmed’s death in police custody.The diplomats of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries with missions in Bangladesh made the call in a joint statement expressing their grave concerns over the death. The OECD is a grouping of 37 advanced economies.“The undersigned Heads of Mission...
