Ex-lawmaker Mazharul Islam arrested
Rapid Action Battalion claimed that they arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Thakurgaon-2 constituency, Mazharul Islam Suzon, at Nikunja in Dhaka on Wednesday...
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Authorities must be proactive in stopping vandalism
A LARGE fire that burnt Gazi Auto Tyres Factory at Rupganj in Naraynaganj appears to be yet another case of vandalism. Hundreds of people reportedly broke into the factory on August 25, hours after the Gazi Group chair, a former Awami League lawmaker, had been arrested. Fire fighters, who could bring the fire under control in 21 hours, could not...
Many in hiding with聽wealth info unchecked聽
Many former lawmakers and ministers of the ousted Awami League government, who amassed wealth abnormally, have fled or are now in hideouts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina...
Tulip Siddiq investigated over London property income
British minister and Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, also the niece of Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, is being investigated by the United Kingdom parliament鈥檚 standards watchdog over a failure to register rental income on a London property...
2 more found to be directly involved in murder: DB chief
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch chief, Harun-or-Rashid, claimed on Saturday that detectives found two more suspects directly involved in murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata of India...
Jamuka accused of giving fake FF certificates
Independent lawmaker and former Awami League minister Abdul Latif Siddique has raised an allegation that Jatio Muktijoddha Council or Jamuka has given fake freedom fighter certificates...
Report on MP Anar murder Aug 8
A Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday fixed August 8 as the next day for submitting the investigation report in Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar abduction and murder case....
AL MPs blast corruption
Several Awami League lawmakers on Wednesday became scathingly critical of the rampant corruption in the country...
Two arrested from Khagrachhari over MP Anwarul murder: DB
Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested two more suspects at a Kali temple in a remote hilly area of Khagrachari in connection with the murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar...
India lawmakers take oath without duo behind bars
India鈥檚 newly elected lawmakers took the oath of office on Tuesday, but without two vocal government critics unable to take their seats because they are jailed on national security charges...
AL MP for regional security council
Ruling Awami League lawmaker and whip Shaimum Sarwar Kamal told Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday that had there not been a cantonment, the Cox鈥檚 Bazar area would have been occupied by the Arakan Army...
AL MP for legalising money through stock market
A number of ruling Awami League lawmakers on Tuesday spoke in favour of keeping illegal money legalising provisions, taking part in a general discussion on the proposed budget for the 2024鈥�25 financial year in Jatiya Sangsad...
Bail plea of Shimul, Tanvir scrapped
A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday scrapped pleas for bail by accused Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan and Foysal Ali Saji alias Tanvir Bhuiyan in a case lodged over the abduction and murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India...
Indian Sikhs celebrate after Amritpal elected as MP from jail
The face of newly elected Indian lawmaker Amritpal Singh stares out from posters and flutters on flags in his home village 鈥� but the firebrand Sikh separatist remains securely in jail...
Murdered MP鈥檚 daughter yet to get Indian visa
Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin, the daughter of slain ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, did not get an Indian visa till Thursday as she was waiting to go to Kolkata to give a sample for a DNA test to identify her father鈥檚 body who was reportedly killed in a New Town flat...
Rajshahi lawmaker accuses upazila chair, UNO of murder plot
Rajshahi-1 constituency (Godagari and Tanore) lawmaker Omar Faruk Chowdhury accused the Godagari upazila parishad chairman and the upazila nirbahi officer of organising a gathering at the upazila parishad with the alleged intention of killing him...
India extends support to Bangladesh in MP Anar murder case investigation: MEA
India is extending necessary support to Bangladesh in investigating the murder case of Anwarul Azim Anar, a parliament member from Jhinaidah-4 constituency....
Chopped flesh, crime and punishment
THE recent murder of a Bangladeshi lawmaker in Kolkata and the media attention it has drawn should be a lesson for all pondering politics, crime and the role of various institutions in Bangladesh. It is not just criminals who are taking the heat but the system as well...
Motive behind lawmaker Anwar murder not clear yet: DMP commissioner
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman said on Wednesday that the cause of the murder of Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar was yet to be known...
Another Purba Bangla Communist Party leader held over MP Anar murder
Saiful Alam Member, the second-in-command to Shimul Bhuiyan, a leader of the defunct extremist group Purba Bangla Communist Party, has been arrested by Detective Branch of police in connection with the murder of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar...
DMP team visits Kolkata flat, canal
The visiting team of the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has visited Bagjola canal at Polerhat near Kolkata in West Bengal along with Jihad Howladar, the suspected killer of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, to find out remains of the victim...
Reasons behind murder of lawmaker Anwar yet to be found: DB chief
No specific reason has been found yet behind the killing of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, said chief of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Mohammad Harun-Or-Rashid on Saturday...
No trace of India visiting AL MP in four days
Frustration has gripped the family of ruling Awami League Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, who has been missing since May 14, having gone on a medical trip to India on May 12...
Bangladesh lawmaker goes missing after going to India for treatment
Anwarul Azim Anar, the lawmaker from Jhenaidah-4 constituency, has been missing since at least May 14, having gone on a medical trip to India on...
25pc duty for MPs to import cars likely聽
The National Board of Revenue has taken the initiative to impose a 25 per cent duty on car imports by lawmakers, partially withdrawing the duty-free facility for them to import...
Ex-JP lawmaker Kader Khan jailed for 4 years in graft case
The Dhaka Special Judge鈥檚 Court-9 on Thursday sentenced former Jatiya Party lawmaker of Gaibandha-1 constituency, Colonel (retired) Abdul Kader Khan to four years imprisonment in a case filed for amassing wealth beyond known sources of income and concealing information of his wealth....