Current Affairs
Tk 3 crore looted in two minutes by shooting at private car in Sreepur, 4 injured
Miscreants have looted Tk 3 crore from the workers of a distributor of the mobile financial service organisation bKash by opening fire on a private car in Sreepur of Gazipur. Four people including those hit by bullets have been injured at this time. This incident took place in the Karnapur area of the Sreepur-Gosinga regional road on Friday evening.
Bangladesh condemns Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia
Bangladesh has strongly condemned the attacks by the Houthi group on civilian infrastructure including airports of Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the government has called for immediately stopping these attacks.
Funeral of Toufique Imrose Khalidi to be held in Banani, burial at Mirpur Intellectuals’ Graveyard
The funeral of the late chief editor of bdnews24.com Toufique Imrose Khalidi will be held at the Old DOHS playground in Banani of the capital. Later he will be buried at the Mirpur Shahid Intellectuals’ Graveyard.
42 unexploded cocktails recovered from mango orchard in Rajbari
Special Response Battalion-10 (SRB-10) has recovered 42 unexploded cocktails by conducting a drive in Pangsha of Rajbari. These cocktails were recovered in an abandoned condition from a mango orchard of Bishnupur area of Ward No 6 of Pangsha municipality at dawn on Friday (October 9).
Four Durga Puja idols vandalised in Kushtia
Miscreants have vandalised four idols made on the occasion of Durga Puja at Khayerchara Sarbojonin Matrimandir of Kumarkhali municipality of Kushtia. The temple authorities have informed that the heads of the idols were broken after entering the temple late at night on Thursday.
RU probe recommends temporary expulsion of four students over attack on hournalists
A probe committee at Rajshahi University (RU) has recommended the temporary expulsion of four students over an attack on journalists at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Hall, while calling for further investigations into four others and warnings for three more.
‘Mancha 24’ convener forced out of Baitul Mukarram amid anti-Jamaat protests
Tensions flared at the national mosque, Baitul Mukarram, after Friday prayers as a group of worshippers staged a protest in support of Khatib Mufti Abdul Malek, alleging that Jamaat-e-Islami was seeking to remove him from his position.
South Africa's Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to South Africa's Navi Pillay, a human rights champion who headed the Rwanda genocide tribunal and last year accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, the prize committee said.
Schoolgirl Tajmin had tried to save her life by running in paddy field
Police have recovered the naked body of a schoolgirl named Jannatul Tajmin, 14, from a paddy field in the Jatrapur area of Lalmai upazila in Cumilla. Marks of scuffle and running have been found in the spot and four-five surrounding paddy fields. From these marks, it is being assumed that the adolescent girl had tried to escape from the hands of the attackers before death.
Bangladeshi student killed in Perth road accident
A Bangladeshi student at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia, has been killed in a road accident in the Austrian city.