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As part of the ongoing crackdown against gambling rings or casinos, police on Sunday raided four sporting clubs at Motijheel area in the city. Separate contingent of police equipped with sophisticated firearms raided Mohammedan Sporting Club, Arambagh Krira Sangha, Dilkusha Sporting Club and Victori...
The World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region, Hartwig Schafer, and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Road Safety, Jean Todt will arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow to discuss the challenges and opportunities to improve road safety in the country. During the two-day ...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Sunday instructed the commercial banks to invest its idle money in the capital market to tackle liquidity crisis It also asked commercial banks to invest directly in the portfolio of the capital market or lending to a subsidiary company. In these regards, BB has sent a notifi...
The United Kingdom will give an additional 87 million pounds for sustaining the Rohingya operation in Cox's Bazar, lifting their contribution to a total of 226 million pounds since the start of the Rohingya crisis in August 2017. The additional funding will help provide food, healthcare, water, ...
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Number of the country’s internet users increased by 19.60 lakh in August, which is the highest compared to other months of recent years. Now the total number of internet users of the country is 9.8136 crore. A report published by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) re...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Sunday started drive against encroachers at city's Uttara area in order to free roads and footpaths. The eviction drive started from Sonargaon Janapath Road in the morning where DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam joined around 1pm. A number of structures that encr...
The government is implementing Ashrayan Project-2, a rehabilitation endeavor for the homeless across the country. The Prime Minister Office (PMO) has undertaken the massive project in 2010 to rehabilitate 2.50 lakh people across the country.A total of 2,97,886 families have been rehabilitated under ...
Internet service providers and cable TV operators are stringing up illegal overhead cables using electric poles on the streets and elsewhere of the capital Dhaka. The illegal activities is risking lives of the city dwellers. The messy tangle of these cables, along with the wires of telephone an...
Stocks fell for a fourth straight week as investors are yet to gain their confidence on the market despite the government's steps to improve the market condition.Market analysts said the government's recent market-supportive measures could not bring the worried investors back to the market. ...
Two cases were filed against Kalabagan Krira Chakra President Safiqul Alam Firoz and four of his office staff on Saturday under narcotics control and arms acts. Md Abdul Latif, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi Police Station, said they will be produced before the court later in the day. Members ...
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US Ambassador Earl R Miller reiterated the United States’ commitment to supporting Bangladesh in its efforts to tackle money laundering and terrorism financing, and to strengthening the rule of law here, said US Embassy handout on Saturday.The US Ambassador reiterated the commitment while spea...
The countrywide crackdown by different law enforcement agencies on casino operators and drug dealers, as part of anti-drug and anti-terror campaign, will continue. A large number of senior leaders of ruling Awami League and its associate organisations are under close monitoring, said AL genera...
At least 15 illegal casinos in capital Dhaka were being run under the shelter of Ismail Hossain Somrat, president of Dhaka City (South) Unit of Jubo League. He had an income of Tk 40 lakhs every night from the casinos. Intelligence sources said the casinos were being run at capital’s Mot...
The legacy of crime has surprised the nation that three powerful leaders of BNP introduced casino and other illegal activities in the country, though no name of any leader from the ruling party behind this crime has yet been found. It is found that casinos and other illegal activities were fir...
Planning Minister MA Mannan on Friday said the government is working to provide better cancer treatment in the country. The minister said this while addressing at Dhaka Cancer Summit 2019 titled 'Sharing the experiences, Making the differences' organised by Medical Oncology Society in Bangla...
A large number of visitors thronged at the 2nd edition of Bangladesh International Marine and Offshore Expo 2019 (BIMOX) at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital on Friday, the second day of the expo. The international exhibition on ship building, repairs, maritime engineer...
The two-day national conference of the Kendrio Khelagrah Ashor began at Shisu Academy in the capital on Friday. The motto of the conference is ‘Let us love the country and open the door of peace and happiness, to build a new generation imbued with the spirit of Liberation War’.National P...
All development partners at home and abroad must come forward in order to support the country to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said “We are hopeful that we are on the right track and will overcome our challenges as we did in th...
The government is going to set up special tribunals in eight divisional cities to speed up trial of human trafficking crimes. Sources said the Ministry of Public Administration has already approved the proposal of the Law Ministry regarding the creation of 48 posts, including judges, for the formati...
Two Dhaka city corporations’ licensing supervisors are unscrupulously outsourcing their jobs by engaging outside employees, who are being paid by the supervisors, smelling foul in the designated activities of city corporations’ employees. As usual, a licensing supervisor of the city corp...
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