Current Affairs
11 police officers suspended over assault on Swecchasebak Dal leader in Rangpur
11 policemen have been suspended on charges of negligence of professional duty and unprofessional behavior in the incident of beating of a leader of Swecchasebak Dal at the Kotwali police station of Rangpur Metropolitan Police. The investigation committee has recommended taking departmental action against them.
6 Dhaka hospitals directed to treat Ad-Din patients
The Directorate General of Health Services has issued special instructions to six hospitals in the capital to ensure proper treatment of patients referred from Ad-Din Women's Medical College Hospital after the license of the hospital was cancelled following the unnatural deaths of six newborns.
Technical fault delays flight to London by 4 hours
Biman's Dhaka-Sylhet-London flight was delayed by nearly four hours due to a technical glitch. The flight was scheduled to take off at 10am but left Dhaka at 1:50 pm.
Facebook, Messenger gradually recovering after global outage
Facebook and its messaging service Messenger are gradually returning to normal operation following a service disruption that affected users in Bangladesh and several other parts of the world on Friday evening, June 12 .
Belfast riots: 5,000 Bangladeshis confined to homes amid racist attacks
An estimated 5,000 Bangladeshi nationals are living in a state of siege in their homes in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, following days of violent anti-immigrant protests sparked by a stabbing incident .
Bangladeshi shot dead by BSF along Moulvibazar border
A Bangladeshi man, Mujibur Rahman, was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel along the Duttagram border in Kulaura upazila, Moulvibazar, on Friday afternoon, June 12. The incident occurred in the Nishchintapur area of Sharifpur union.
Shahjalal, Shahparan shrines to get financial transparency, modern complex
The government has taken initiatives to ensure financial transparency at the Hazrat Shahjalal (Rah.) and Hazrat Shah Paran (Rah.) shrines in Sylhet, which are over 700 years old. Both shrines will also be transformed into modern Islamic complexes, the district administration announced on Friday, June 12.
Banned Chhatra League stages protest march in Chattogram demanding case withdrawal
A group of activists of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League staged a protest march under the banner of the organisation in Satkania upazila, Chattogram . The programme was carried out on Friday morning, June 12, demanding the withdrawal of cases filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the cancellation of punishments imposed on students.
Cleaners to work in two shifts: DNCC Administrator
Sanitation workers will now work in two shifts—day and night—across 10 zones of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) to make the capital cleaner and more liveable, the corporation's administrator said on Friday, June 12.
New pay scale to be implemented to reduce corruption: Finance Minister
A new pay scale is being implemented to curb corruption, Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has said.