Current Affairs
Hamza leaving Leicester, going to Sheffield
Sheffield United is advancing on the path of permanently bringing Bangladeshi-origin English midfielder Hamza Choudhury into the team. England’s media The Star has informed that the contract of returning to Sheffield from Leicester City is almost final.
Poet Dipankar Dipak receives Bachsas honour
Journalist-litterateur Dipankar Dipak has received the honour of Bangladesh Film Journalists Association (Bachsas ). He was given this honour at the Chitrashala auditorium of Shilpakala Academy in the capital last Friday evening. President of the organisation Kamrul Hasan Darpan, General Secretary Rahat Saiful and members of the committee handed over a crest and a special magazine to him as the honour souvenir.
Battery-powered autorickshaws being banned on main roads of capital
The government is planning to ban the movement of battery-powered and electric autorickshaws on the main roads of the capital. However autorickshaws carrying a maximum of four passengers will be given registration for movement on the internal roads. No e-rickshaw carrying six passengers will come under the registration of the two city corporations of Dhaka.
Teacher killed during snatching: 2 arrested, ‘doubt’ over color, model of recovered bike
RAB has arrested two persons in the incident of a teacher dying after falling from a rickshaw due to the pull of the snatchers in front of the National Parliament Bhaban. However questions have arisen over whether the motorcycle recovered by RAB and the motorcycle used at the time of the snatching are the same.
3 injured in indiscriminate firing by miscreants in capital
Three people have been shot by the indiscriminate firing of miscreants in Samibag Munshirtek area of Gandaria in the capital.
Fatema Akhtar becomes first Bangladeshi woman surfer to qualify for Asian Games
Fatema Akhtar has become the first Bangladeshi woman surfer to qualify for the Asian Games. Hailing from Maheshkhali, her family moved to Cox's Bazar town due to financial constraints. Her father sells betel leaf in Kalatali on the outskirts of the city to make a living.
Why did Ganapati Chakraborty withdraw Tk1.4 million before murder?
The withdrawal of Tk1.459 million from Treasury by Ganapati Chakraborty, who was later killed along with three members of his family in Rangpur, has emerged as a new point of interest in the investigation.
Woman entrepreneur publicly humiliated, assaulted in Rajbari
A video showing a woman entrepreneur being publicly humiliated and assaulted in Rajbari over a business dispute has gone viral on social media. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon (August 29) in the Kapar Bazar area of Rajbari town. The victim, Jakia Sultana, is the director of 'Aastha Poshak Shilpa', a garment manufacturing unit on the third floor of Kaderia Market in the city.
Over 150,000 women and girls at risk in Nepal floods: UN Women
A large number of women and girls have been affected by the devastating flash floods and landslides in Nepal, with the UN's gender agency warning of increased risks of violence, exploitation and lack of access to essential healthcare. The first gender alert published by UN Women on Sunday, August 30, said an estimated 157,050 women and girls in Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts have been directly and indirectly affected by the flash floods and landslides of August 26 .
Father sold one-and-a-half-year-old child to buy iPhone
Father Md Maruf had told grandmother Mahfuza Begum in the morning to dress the grandchild in clothes as he will take him to the market for a walk. After dressing the one-and-a-half-year-old child Musa Maruf left the house with him. But neither the father nor the son returned home even after the evening passed.