Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd and Social Islami Bank Ltd came to the spotlight on Tuesday for their alleged links to terror financing after a US Senate report exposed British banking giant HSBC’s failure in forestalling dirty flows of funds. According to the report, HSBC, Bank USA (HBUS), the US affiliate of the Asia-focused bank, supplied [...]
A female witness gave her testimonies behind closed doors against Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah for his alleged crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. It is the maiden incident of in camera trial at the war crimes tribunal. The closed doors trial was organised to protect the ‘identity and privacy’ of the witness. [...]
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said two alternative roads would be opened soon for Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet routes on the occasion of the month of Ramadan and the Eid-ul-Fitr. These roads would be opened to ease traffic jam around the under-construction Jatrabari flyover, he said while visiting the Dhaka-Keraniganj-Narayanganj (Pagla) road, said an official [...]
Bangladesh will experience an internet connectivity blackout for about four hours early Wednesday due to submarine cable maintenance and repair, an official said. There will be no internet connectivity all over the country from 1:00am to 5:00am due to maintenance work at the submarine cable that connects Bangladesh with the world, said Monowar Hossain, managing [...]
Expressing concern over the recent Buet crisis, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Tuesday said the teachers association does not want a peaceful solution to it. Mentioning their threat of en masse resignation, the minister said the threat of the teachers put barrier on way to a peaceful solution when he was about to meet [...]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken a new cellphone number to increase her interaction with the mass people. The new number is +88 01555 888 555, said PM’s Special Assistant (Media) Mahbubul Hoque Shakil. He said the old two numbers +88 01711 520000 and +88 01819 260371 will also remain active for the interaction. After [...]
HSBC provided a conduit for “drug kingpins and rogue nations”, according to a US senate committee investigating money laundering claims at the bank. A Senate report said suspicious funds from countries including Mexico and Syria had passed through the bank. HSBC is set to apologise for its wrong-doing. Its officials are giving their evidence at [...]
The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations will be published on Wednesday. The results will be published through the respective centres, educational institutions, websites of all education boards and also short message services (SMS) of different mobile phone operators, officials said. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will announce the results at [...]
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Tuesday sent back 16 more Rohingya people following a short detention for trespassing on Bangladesh territory. Fourteen of the refuge seekers, all hailing from Myanmar’s Maungdaw area, were sent back around 5:30pm while two others a little earlier. The border patrolling force of Bangladesh, in separate drives, had detained the [...]
Another bullet-wounded worker of Akij Bidi Factory succumbed to his injuries at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital early Tuesday raising the death toll there to three. Earlier, on Sunday two workers of the factory were shot dead and 35 wounded as the factory security personnel opened fire on them during a demonstration demanding pay hike in [...]