Court orders Nestle to withdraw batch of KitKat chocolates from market over 'health concerns'

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- A Pure Food Court in Dhaka has ordered Nestle, the Switzerland-based food and beverage company, to withdraw a batch of KitKat chocolate from the Bangladesh market, declaring it "unsa... Read More

Withdraw remarks and apologise over Hadi shooting, DUCSU VP Shadik tells CEC

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Vice-President Abu Shadik Kayem has demanded that Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin apologise for his remarks over the shoo... Read More

Detective Branch takes over probe into Hadi shooting

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been tasked with investigating the attempted killing of Inqilab Moncho Convenor Sharif Osman Hadi. A case over the s... Read More

NBR says 'tax exemption' on handset import, production to lower prices

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is prepared to offer "tax exemptions" on both the import and local production of mobile phones in a bid to reduce prices and bring high-end device... Read More

Fake news site uses name of bdnews24.com, identity of editor-in-chief to spread 'scam'

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- A fake news website that uses a logo nearly identical to that of bdnews24.com is being used to spread a fake interview with bdnews24.com's Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi. I... Read More

'If Yunus wants to turn country into a prison, he can do it': journalist Anis Alamgir tells court

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Journalist Anis Alamgir has told a Dhaka court that the allegation against him, that his "incendiary" statements have endangered "public safety", is "false" and a "staged drama". Sa... Read More

Anis Alamgir arrested in anti-state conspiracy case, actress Shaon accused

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Journalist Anis Alamgir, actress Meher Afroz Shaon, and four others have been named in a case filed at Uttara West Police Station, accusing them of conspiring to destabilise the stat... Read More

Fraud allegations filed against 5 over cancelled Atif Aslam concert in Dhaka

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- A fraud complaint has been filed in a Dhaka court against five people, including organisers of a cancelled concert by Pakistani singer Atif Aslam, over allegations that ticket money ... Read More

Student protesters leave Shahbagh after three hours

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The Jatiya Chhatra Shakti, the student wing of National Citizen Party (NCP), has suspended the blockade at the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka demanding the resignation of the home af... Read More

EC warns of 'saboteurs and infiltrators posing as allies' as shooting stirs polls jitters

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The Election Commission (EC) has long said it wants the election climate to remain "tolerable" and under control. After the schedule was announced, the question now is whether that h... Read More

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