The polytechnic has a 260-bed facility, Shaheed Principal Sultan Uddin Hostel, for students. The authorities closed the hostel in 2008 due to drugs, student politics and dominance of outsiders. After a dozen years, the hostel was reopened in December last year. Currently more than a hundred students live there, but already outsiders have started to […]
A research by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) shows that 10.59 billion taka (1,059 crore) is collected annually from private buses and minibuses in the country. Meanwhile, individuals or groups associated with the party, traffic and highway police, officials and employees of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), owners and labor unions and representatives of the municipality […]
The prices of everyday essentials have increased in another phase before the holy month of Ramadan. Businessmen have identified four reasons behind this increase in prices of daily essential commodities – high price and dollar crisis, extortion, syndicates and high tariff rates. Common traders involved in the business of daily essential commodities met on Wednesday […]
In his speech before representatives of various companies, wholesalers, retailers, market committee leaders and government officials, the FBCCI President also said that he would take up the issue at the highest level of the government if necessary. FBCCI organized the event focusing on production, imports, stocks, supply and price situation of daily necessities.
Participating in an unscheduled discussion, another MP from JAPA and opposition chief whip Mujibul Haq drew the attention of Parliament to a media report which said that money received from the sale of forms was being used by the Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and other teachers. Was divided between. CU. “The CU unit of the Student League […]
No wholesaler or retailer is untouched by this extortion. Tk 2,000 to 5,000 is charged from each vehicle depending on the quantity of luggage. This correspondent has spoken to ten businessmen who were victims of extortion. They alleged that they were forced to pay extortion money while traveling with trucks loaded with goods. However, they […]
JU: BCL seizes 20 buses, recovers Tk 20,000 in ransom
According to Rohingya leaders and police, at least 40 Rohingya have been killed in several incidents of clashes and shootings over the past five months. Among the dead were 15 Rohingya leaders (Majhi), 10 ARSA members and one volunteer. The rest of the dead were Rohingya people. Police say that finally a Rohingya leader named […]
Talking about Saeed’s return to the country, Saeed’s lawyer Shahinoor Islam said, “He was present in the court during the hearing of his bail plea. However, I do not know how he returned to the country. However, according to a source in the police and the Jubo League, Saeed returned to the country via India. […]
Police arrested both from Suhrawardy Udyan on Thursday night. A case was registered regarding the incident, he was shown arrested, and sent to court. Shahbag police station chief Noor Mohammad said that the duo had extorted Tk 1,500 from four people who came to the book fair from Chandpur, posing as police. He then returned […]
Those suspended include Najmul Hasan Rupu, former deputy secretary of human resource management of Dhaka University, Tanzeer Arafat Tushar, joint general secretary of Kabi Jasimuddin Hall, Asadullah Asad, social welfare secretary of Fazlul Haq Muslim Hall, environment secretary Mahidur Rahman Badhon. same hall, Riyaz Ahmad Palak, Mass Communication Development Secretary, Jihadul Islam, Deputy Office Secretary, […]
Mohammad Ismail says four of his relatives were killed by gunmen in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh between April and October last year. He recalls a September night when, he says, he almost met the same fate: masked men abducted him, chopped off parts of his left arm and leg, and dumped him in a […]
In the Companyganj Upazila of the district, two policemen were locked up from the Companyganj police station on Friday night on the charges of extorting money from stone-laden truck drivers. The policemen are MD Suman Miya and Shahryar Hussain of Companyganj police station. According to a letter signed by Sylhet Additional Superintendent of Police Shahryar […]
Shipping minister Shahjahan Khan on Monday said the government had failed to curb extortion in the transport sector due to intervention of the Jatiya Sangsad oversight body on communications ministry. ‘We have already controlled extortion in Dhaka. But, due to intervention of the parliamentary standing committee on communications ministry we have failed to curb extortion […]