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Medical College Entry Test: Questions leaked 10 times in 16yrs since 2001

Twelve members of a racket involved in leaking question papers of the centralised medical college admission tests were arrested recently by the Criminal Investigation Department of Police.
13 August 2023, 18:00 PM

They invoke ‘hijrat’ to entice recruits

Farhad suddenly left his home in Meherpur in June this year. Having “driven by extremist beliefs,” he associated with new a militant outfit called “Imam Mahmuder Kafela.”
13 August 2023, 18:00 PM

55 BCL men sued over assault on prosecutor

A case was filed yesterday against 55 Chhatra League leaders and activists over the assault on an assistant public prosecutor (APP) of the Sylhet Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court.
13 August 2023, 18:00 PM

2 arrested for impersonating Rab members, raping tourist

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday said they arrested two persons involved in raping a tourist and mugging others while impersonating the elite force members.
13 August 2023, 18:00 PM

HC forms committee to probe irregularities

The High Court today formed a three-member committee to probe the allegation of irregularities in pilot recruitment and flight operations by Biman Bangladesh Airlines
13 August 2023, 14:37 PM

S Alam’s ‘properties abroad’: HC declines to recall its probe order

The HC order came after The Daily Star published an investigative report on August 4 on S Alam's business empire worth at least about $1 billion in Singapore
13 August 2023, 12:23 PM

Medical admission test: Questions leaked 10 times in 16 years

A racket has leaked medical college admission test question papers at least 10 times in the last 16 years, said Criminal Investigation Department today.
13 August 2023, 08:42 AM

Medical admission: CID arrests 12 over question leak

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested 12 people, including seven doctors, in connection with leaking question papers of the centralised medical college admission test.
12 August 2023, 18:00 PM

BGB recovers Indian sarees, cosmetics worth Tk 4cr along Sylhet border

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have said they recovered a huge amount of Indian sarees and cosmetics worth Tk 4.10 crore along the Jaintiapur border in Sylhet last night
12 August 2023, 16:53 PM

Illegal sand lifting: 3 held in Jamalpur

A mobile court today arrested three people and sentenced them to various terms of imprisonment and fined them for illegally lifting sand from Brahmaputra river in Jamalpur
12 August 2023, 16:53 PM

Medical admission: CID arrests 12 over question leak

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested 12 people, including seven doctors, in connection with leaking question papers of the medical college admission test
12 August 2023, 16:36 PM

'13 Jamaat men' held in Pabna

Police arrested 13 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami while they were allegedly holding secret meeting in Faridpur upazila of Pabna today
12 August 2023, 15:32 PM

3 arrested over murders of mother, daughter in Bagerhat

Police arrested three brothers from Bagerhat's Sharankhola upazila early today over their alleged involvement in the killing of a woman and her daughter
12 August 2023, 14:19 PM

10 held from Moulvibazar 'militant hideout', explosives recovered

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 10 people -- four male and six women -- from a "militant hideout" in the remote hilly area of Kulaura in Moulvibazar today
12 August 2023, 06:13 AM

Suspected militant hideout: Police raid remote hilly area in Moulvibazar

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is conducting a raid in a remote hilly area under Kulaura Police Station in Moulivibazar suspecting it to be a militant hideout
12 August 2023, 04:28 AM

S Alam serves legal notice on govt, four newspapers

A legal notice was served on the government, four editors of national newspapers, including The Daily Star, and seven journalists of the dailies on Thursday for reports the dailies published on Mohammad Saiful Alam and S Alam Group.
11 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Youth beaten to death on suspicion of theft

A youth was beaten to death by a mob over an allegation of theft in Kushtia’s Bheramara upazila on Thursday night.
11 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Mother, daughter murdered in Bagerhat

A 38-year-old woman and her daughter were reportedly hacked to death by some miscreants in Bagerhat’s Sharankhola upazila yesterday.
11 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Karnaphuli Express robbed in Tongi, nine arrested

Robbers boarded the Dhaka-bound Karnaphuli Express train when it was stopped near Gazipur’s Tongi last night and robbed its passengers.
11 August 2023, 09:01 AM

Botched C-Section: Doctor failed to assess patient’s condition

The death of a newborn and her mother at the capital’s Central Hospital in June occurred primarily due to the duty doctor’s failure to assess the patient’s condition, and the patient and her husband’s insistence about normal delivery instead of a C-section, an investigation by the health ministry has found.
10 August 2023, 18:00 PM