Eid Shopping Festival–2019

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has cancelled the licences of seven products of seven companies for producing substandard foods.

Police are trying to find out the guardians of a 3-days-old baby girl who has been abandoned in a toilet of Dhaka Shishu (Children's) Hospital in Dhaka.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) approves charge-sheet against 391 persons including a clerk at the office of Rangpur deputy commissioner (DC) in a case filed over fake licences of firearms.

Green Line Paribahan has been ordered to pay remainder of the Tk 45 lakh compensation to Russel Sarker, the man who lost a leg under a bus of the company back in April last year.

A section of Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders, who could not make it to the new central committee of the pro-Awami League student body, demonstrates at Dhaka University.

Journalists stage a demonstration in Dhaka demanding payment of arrears, pay and the festival bonus of all media employees by May 30.

Dhaka city corporation authorities are negligent in curbing pollution and mosquito menace, the High Court says in an observation.

Doctors have demonstrated in Dhaka demanding recruitment of all those who passed the 39th special Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) tests.

A teenage boy was stabbed dead, allegedly by several teenagers, in Cumilla city on Monday night.

Unidentified criminals stabbed a rickshaw-puller to death in Chattogram yesterday.

Founder and Chairman of Canadian University of Bangladesh Dr Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat recently organised a meeting between high level diplomats, eminent businessmen and key stakeholders focusing on Student Partnership Program (SPP) between Bangladesh and Canada, said a press release.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a madrasa teacher yesterday for allegedly raping a minor at Banshkhali of Chattogram.

The High Court yesterday cleared way for the lower court concerned to resume trial proceedings of a corruption case against BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie.

The High Court yesterday observed that the word “fake” cannot be used before the term “freedom fighter”.

Ridesharing service Shohoz partnered with Brac to organise a road safety and defensive driving training session for motorcyclists from May 12 to May 15 at Brac Learning Center in Ashkona, said a press release.

Election Commission (EC) enumerators will start door-to-door visits from June 23 to update the voter list of Dhaka dwellers.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday could not submit the charge sheet against eight suspected militants of Ansar al-Islam in the Xulhaz-Tonoy murder case as they were yet to get approval from the home ministry.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that cleared the way to continue the trial proceedings of a corruption case against BNP’s standing committee member Moudud Ahmed.

The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR) yesterday called for strengthening mobile court drives against irregularities and mismanagements at launch terminals and waterways ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.