Five ABT activists indicted with blogger Oyasiqur murder
Five members of banned Ansarullah Bangla Team were on Wednesday indicted with murder of secular blogger Oyasiqur Rahman.
Wage social movement against terrorism: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged all to wage a social movement against terrorism and militancy to supplement government’s efforts to eradicate this social menace from the country.
BB asks banks to be more vigilant to check terror financing
Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday asked the scheduled banks to comply with the anti-money laundering rules and regulations properly to tackle terror financing.
30 arrested in anti-militancy drive
At least 30 people, many of them leaders and activists of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chattra Shibir, were arrested in Dhaka and other districts in anti-militant drives on Tuesday.
Japan, Belgium become $1-billion export markets, US $6-billion
Bangladesh got Japan and Belgium as its two new billion-dollar export markets in the just concluded financial year 2015-16, riding on a moderate growth in the readymade garment export.
Thousands marooned by flood
Thousands of people living in different chars and low-lying areas in the country’s northern districts were marooned by floods caused by the on-rush of water from India.
Operation Irene begins at Ctg Port
Customs Intelligence launched a two-day special drive titled ‘Operation Irene’ at Chittagong Port on Monday.
Drop Ramal thermal power plant project
Leaders of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resource, Power and Ports on Monday called on the government to drop the proposed coal-based thermal power plant at Rampal in Bagerhat to save the Sunderbans, the biggest mangrove forest in the world.
Jamalpur war crimes: 3 Al-Badr men sentenced to death, 5 jailed for life
Three absconding Al-Badr men Md Ashraf Hossain, 64, Md Abdul Mannan, 66, and Md Abdul Bari, 62 were on Monday handed death sentences and five others to jail terms until death for the war crimes they committed in the then Jamalpur sub-division during the Liberation War.
City tanners’ daily fine cut to Tk 10,000
The Appellate Division on Monday reduced daily fines to Tk 10,000 from Tk 50,000 the High Court earlier imposed on each of the 154 errant tannery owners until they shifted their factories from Hazaribagh to tannery park at Savar.
