Police have recovered a brass bell weighing about 70 kilograms that was stolen from Saint Paul's School and Church in the capital's Mohammadpur. The bell was found abandoned beside a garbage bin on Zakir Hossain Road under Mohammadpur Police Station around 2:50am on Thursday.
Jamaat-e-Islami leader and former lawmaker Major (retd) Mohammad Akhteruzzaman has been sued over alleged threats to the executive director (ED) of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and the physical harassment of a security official.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has sealed four warehouses of TOSS Bond Private Limited in Dhaka’s South Gulshan over alleged irregularities involving duty-free alcohol stored at unauthorised facilities.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has temporarily suspended two officials and launched departmental proceedings against them over delays in delivering Zamzam water to Umrah pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia.
Although an order was issued on Thursday morning transferring four officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, including three directors, and giving additional charge, that order was stayed on the afternoon of the same day.
The Port Bachao Sangram Parishad and the Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SKOP) have protested the approval of a draft agreement handing over the operation of the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) of Chattogram Port to an international operator. The two organisations said the government took this decision "keeping the nation in the dark" amid their ongoing movement.