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Gazipur Mayor MA Mannan suspended again

Gazipur City Corporation's Mayor MA Mannan was suspended again yesterday, five days after the Supreme Court upheld the High Court order that stayed his earlier suspension in an arson case.
19 April 2016

Cop gets shot during raid in capital

A sub-inspector of Detective Branch of police was shot by miscreants during a drive to nab criminals in Tantibazar of Dhaka yesterday.
19 April 2016

Country's first ever online reproductive, sexual health master's prog launched

The first ever online master's programme on sexual and reproductive health was launched for the midwives in Bangladesh.
19 April 2016

Man's hanging body found in Dhaka hotel

A trader was found dead in a hotel in the capital's Farmgate yesterday.
19 April 2016

ACC arrests 13 for stealing Tk 9.5cr

The Anti Corruption Commission yesterday arrested 13 persons across the country in 10 separate cases filed between 2014 and 2016 for misappropriating over Tk 9.5 crore.
19 April 2016

Businessman found dead in a Dhaka hotel

Police recover the body of a businessman from a residential hotel in Tejgaon area of Dhaka.
19 April 2016

Cop shot in Dhaka

Sub-Inspector of Detective Branch of Police is shot by miscreants when he was raiding in Tatnibazar area of Dhaka to nab criminals.
19 April 2016

Gazipur city mayor Mannan suspended, again

Gazipur city’s mayor MA Mannan has been suspended again, days after the Supreme Court validated his position in respect to implication in a case.
19 April 2016

JnU students vandalise vehicles

Students of Jagannath University (JnU) vandalise at least seven vehicles including buses in front of the campus in old Dhaka.
19 April 2016

EC commissioners should quit, Shujan demands

Reflecting on the “poor performance" during the recent union parishad elections, a civil society platform has demanded that Election Commissioners “should quit” immediately.
19 April 2016

Baby killed at Uttar Khan, mother under scanner

A one-and-a-half-year old boy has been stabbed to death at Uttar Khan in Dhaka. Police are primarily suspecting the mother to be the killer.
19 April 2016

5 ‘kidnappers’ held from Mohakhali, 1 rescued

Law enforcers claim to have detained five kidnappers from Dhaka’s Mohakhali area. One victim is said to have been rescued from their grasp.
19 April 2016

CDA inspects three tilted buildings

A five-member technical committee of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) yesterday afternoon inspected three buildings out of nine that tilted more or less during Wednesday's earthquake, in the port city.
18 April 2016

Violence undermining women's successes

Despite the progress of women in different fields, violence against them continues to undermine the success, speakers told Bangladesh Mahila Parishad's 46th anniversary programme yesterday.
18 April 2016

Five witnesses give depositions

Five witnesses, including a brother of the complainant, gave depositions in two cases filed over the Narayangan seven-murder, reports our Narayanganj correspondent.
18 April 2016

Nurul re-elected REMA Trust chairman

SM Nurul Hoque, a business leader, was re-elected chairman of Research for Education and Management Academy (REMA) Trust for the 2016-2018 term.
18 April 2016

Road accidents kill three, injure one

A physically challenged auto-rickshaw driver died of head injuries when a vehicle hit the rickshaw from behind near LabAid in the capital's Dhanmondi yesterday.
18 April 2016

Mobile financial service frauds busted

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested 11 members of a fraud gang in the country that steals money from mobile financial service (MFS) agents, after a three-month investigation.
18 April 2016

Mother, son die under train

A woman and her son were crushed under the wheels of a train in Kawtoli Rail Bridge area of Brahmanbaria Sadar yesterday morning.
18 April 2016

Pry school scholarship result today

The list of the students obtaining scholarship from primary schools this year will be published today.
18 April 2016