Dhaka

Cabin crew held with gold at Dhaka airport

Customs intelligence detain a cabin crew of Kuwait Airways with over 500 grammes of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
4 April 2015

Biman gets 2 aircraft for domestic operation

Two turbo-prop Dash 8-Q 400 aircraft that Biman Bangladesh Airlines leased to resume its domestic operation arrived in Dhaka.
3 April 2015

12kg gold seized at Dhaka airport

Customs officials seize 12 gold bars, weighing around 12 kilogrammes and worth around Tk 6 crore, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
3 April 2015

Traffic constable ‘beaten up’ by auto-rickshaw drivers

A group of auto-rickshaw drivers beat up a traffic police constable allegedly for seizing a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Meradia of Khilgaon in Dhaka
2 April 2015

Dhaka to send a team to repatriate Bangladeshis from Yemen

Dhaka is sending a two-member team, comprising of the counsellor at Bangladesh Embassy in Kuwait and a staff, to Yemen today to help repatriate the Bangladeshi nationals trapped in the war-torn country.
2 April 2015

100 workers sick after eating Gazipur factory food

At least 100 workers of a readymade garments factory fell sick and were hospitalised after eating the food provided to them in Gazipur’s Kashimpur.
2 April 2015

Rajshahi plane crash: Injured instructor flown to Singapore

Chief instructor of Bangladesh Flying Academy, who was wounded in a plane crash in Rajshahi yesterday, was flown to Singapore from Combined Military Hospital of Dhaka for better treatment.
2 April 2015

Plane crash in Rajshahi kills female pilot

A female trainee pilot dies as a training aircraft of a flying institute crashed on the runway of Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi this afternoon.
1 April 2015

Tribunal initiates contempt proceedings against 23

A tribunal in Dhaka initiates contempt of court proceedings against 23 eminent persons for a statement they issued expressing concern over sentence of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman for demeaning it.
1 April 2015

Nor’wester beats down heat in Dhaka

A nor’wester hit Dhaka triggering a thunderstorm accompanied with sudden torrential downpour that beat down heat in the city ahead of summer.
1 April 2015

‘Guest' kills top BRTA official’s wife in Dhaka

Posing as guest, a man enters the house of BRTA deputy director in Mohammadpur and attacks the family members, leaving the official’s wife dead. The severely injured BRTA official and their two daughters are now undergoing treatment at hospital.
31 March 2015

France condemns blogger Oyasiqur killing

France condemns the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who was brutally hacked by cleaver-wielding youths under broad daylight in Dhaka.
31 March 2015

3.24kg gold seized at Dhaka airport

Customs Intelligence seize 3.24 kilogrammes of gold from the possession of two Bangladeshi passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
31 March 2015

7,500kg jatka seized at Karwan Bazar

Rapid Action Battalion seizes 7,500 kg of jatka and fined 11 people Tk 5000 each for selling those at Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market in Dhaka, Rab sources say.
31 March 2015

Knife attack kills Bangladesh blogger Oyasiqur Rahman

Barely a month after the brutal murder of Avijit Roy, another blogger and online activist was hacked to death in broad daylight yesterday. Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, 27, was attacked by three cleaver-wielding youths in the capital's Tejgaon Industrial area around 9:00am.
30 March 2015

Free thinkers targeted repeatedly

Free thinkers have been repeatedly targets of extremist groups throughout Bangladesh and the trend set in motion is a matter of grave concern
30 March 2015

ICT seeks formal charge against 8 Jamalpur ‘Al-Badr’ men

A tribunal in Dhaka asks prosecution to submit on April 13 the formal charges against eight suspected war criminals for their crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.
30 March 2015

7 to die for killing AL man

Seven people are sentenced to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an Awami League man in 2006
30 March 2015

Another blogger stabbed to death in Tejgaon

A blogger is stabbed to death in broad day light in Tejgaon Industrial area of Dhaka. Police detain two of the three killers red-handed.
30 March 2015

Horse cart riding mayor aspirant fined

A mayor aspirant has been fined for riding a horse cart wrapped in campaign banners and posters in violation of the electoral code of conducts.
29 March 2015