The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned former director general of the DGHS Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad for quizzing over allegations of corruption.

In a rare instance, law enforcers involved in a “shootout” or “gunfight” have been sent to jail. Seven policemen were sent to jail and three of them placed on remand yesterday in the ex-Major Sinha murder case.

The killing of ex-major Sinha Md Rashed Khan is an isolated incident and it will not cause a rift in the relationship between the army and police, said Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed and Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed yesterday.

The High Court does not have the jurisdiction to ask parliament to enact or amend any law, said the Supreme Court in the full text of a verdict regarding river grabbing and pollution.

At least four Bangladeshis have been killed and around 100 others, including Bangladesh Navy officials, have been injured in a deadly warehouse explosion in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought more investment from Japan to further bolster economic ties as well as put emphasis on further strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two friendly nations.

Around 9:25pm on Friday, Inspector Liaqat Ali of Baharchhara Police Investigation Centre and Sub-inspector Nandadulal Raxit of Teknaf Police Station stopped Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan’s car at Shamlapur police checkpost on Marine Drive in Teknaf.

At least 17 people drowned as a boat capsized in Gobindasree Haor in Madan upazila of Netrokona yesterday.

Some large towns and cities have been witnessing a spike in Covid-19 cases.

At least 87 people have been killed in 48 incidents of “gunfights” involving Teknaf police alone between August 1, 2018 and August 1, 2020.

The government on Monday issued an order extending countrywide restrictions on public activities and movements until August 31 to contain spread of novel coronavirus.

Amnesty to black money has always been a nonstarter, so Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s move to tuck in the facility with added benefits in this fiscal year’s budget has left many scratching their heads.

Bangladesh is likely to allow the phase three trial of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac.

July, it seems, will go down the annals as the month in which the Bangladesh economy lifted the pall of gloom brought on by the global coronavirus pandemic.

Though the number of tests dropped significantly in the last five days, including the Eid holidays, the country witnessed a spike in the rate of daily Covid-19 positive case.

“Why was my son killed? If he had broken any law, they could have shot him in the leg or injured him or made him surrender or taken him to the police station for interrogation. But why was he murdered?”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said persons responsible for the killing of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed would be brought to justice after a proper investigation when she talked to his mother over phone.

The first information report and the inquest report prepared by police over the death of Sinha Md Rashed Khan contradict each other, raising doubts about the precise sequence of events that led to the former army officer’s death.

A huge explosion near the centre of Beirut killed at least 10 people, injured hundreds and sent shockwaves across the Lebanese capital yesterday, shattering windows and causing apartment balconies to collapse.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday formed a three-member committee to investigate the explosion incident inside the capital’s Pallabi Police Station on early Wednesday.