9 more killed in ‘gunfights’

Banglapress Online: Nine more alleged drug traders were killed in reported gunfights with law enforcers early yesterday during the ongoing anti-narcotics drive across the country, reports UNB. Of them, three were killed in Dhaka city while one each...

Top criminal Joseph freed from jail on presidential mercy

Banglapress Online: Tofael Ahmed Joseph, a criminal who rose to infamy in the 1990s, has been freed on presidential mercy. "We freed him after receiving the order on Sunday,” said Md Jahangir Kabir, senior jail superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail...

Minimum Fitra fixed at Tk 70

Banglapress Online: Fitra has been fixed at minimum of Tk 70 per person this year. Islamic Foundation fixed the amount at a meeting chaired by Maulana Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, senior pesh imam of Baitul Mukarram national mosque and president of the...

Arrest warrant against Giasuddin Quader Chy

Banglapress, Dhaka: A Chittagong court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, also younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in a defamation case filed...

Khulna road crash kills 5 & 20 injured

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.Dumuria Police OC M Habil Hossain said 20 more passengers were also injured in the accident that took place in Atolia on the Khulna-Satkhira road at about 1pm.Quoting passengers, police s...

First Hajj flight leaves Dhaka

Banglapress Online:The first Hajj flight of 2018 left Bangladesh for Saudi Arabia with 419 pilgrims aboard on Saturday morning. A total of 126,198 Bangladeshis will be allowed to make the pilgrimage this year, according to the agreement with Saudi A...