Crime & Corruption

Ex-land minister’s son held with firearms, drugs

TDS Desk: Shirhan Sharif Tomal, son of former land minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif, has been arrested with firearms and drugs. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him from Ishwardi upazila

Bashundhara chairman, MD face CID probe over money laundering, land grabbing allegations

TDS Desk: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has decided to launched an investigation against Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and his son and also the group’s Managing

HC orders exhuming body of BNP leader Hariss Chowdhury to do DNA test

TDS Desk: The High Court has ordered exhuming the body of BNP leader Hariss Chowdhury and performing DNA test. The High Court bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Muhammad

BB seeks bank information of ex-speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, family

TDS Desk: The Central Bank’s financial intelligence unit has sought the bank account information of former speaker of parliament Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, her husband and children. Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit

Agarwala put on 3-day remand in teenager murder case

TDS Desk: Diamond World Managing Director Dilip Kumar Agarwala has been put on a three-day remand in a case of teenager murder during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in Badda area

Mobile court sends 2 to jail for lifting sands illegally

Selim Talukder from Shahzadpur: A mobile court on Wednesday arrested two dredger workers and sentenced them to a month of imprisonment for extracting sands illegally from Karatoa river nearby Badalbari