Govt faces challenges in sorting out disparities  The government is finding it difficult to sort out the disparities in the new pay structure for its employees which could delay its announcement by at least another three months. Finance ministry officials said they were now scrutinizing the recommendations from the secretary-level committee as well as the […]

Chittagong City Corporation, the police and Chittagong district administration on Tuesday jointly evicted a vegetable market built illegally encroaching local canal in Amin Jute Mill area under Bayezid police station. Led by executive magistrate Tamim Al Yamin, the eviction drive was conducted for two hours from 11:00am. Officials who evicted the market said that the […]

Blackmailing of men by luring them into ‘friendship’ with women on mobile phone with extraordinary ease has gone up in Chittagong. People responding to calls for help from women in public places are also being duped by these gangs. Police say they have information about some of those groups doing the shadowy business in the […]

Police have filed chargesheet accusing only Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of MP Pinu Khan, for the Apr 14 murder of two at Eskaton. The investigating officer, Detective Branch SI Dipak Kumar Das, submitted the chargesheet in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday noon. He told bdnews24.com, “37 prosecution witnesses have been identified in the […]