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Ziaur Rahman assassination convict Mozzafar arrested after 45yrs

Staff Reporter: Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch (DB) has arrested Major (retd) Md Mozzafar Hossain, a convicted assassin of former President Ziaur Rahman, after he remained a fugitive for more

More than 500 feared dead after boats carrying refugees sink off Myanmar: UN

Reuters: Two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off Myanmar’s coast in recent days, UN agencies said on Thursday, as refugees from the war-torn country made perilous

Pay scale faces further delay

Staff Reporter: The full implementation of the ninth national pay scale is likely to be delayed further as the secretarial committee has yet to finalise its recommendations. A closed-door meeting

July Uprising murder probes expose fake plaintiffs, ‘dead’ man alive in Saudi Arabia

Investigators have also found cases naming people as suspects despite evidence they were nowhere near the crime scenes Online Desk: Police investigations into several murder and attempted murder cases filed

Govt plans to expand strategic fuel reserves to 90-day capacity

According to the National Energy Policy-1996, it required the country to maintain strategic petroleum reserves for 60 days BSS, Dhaka The government has undertaken a comprehensive initiative to raise the

PM calls for national unity to prevent return of fascism

TDS Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday called for maintaining national unity among the ruling and opposition parties to prevent a return of fascism and foreign interference in the