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Executioners speak: How to carry out an execution

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03 April 2023, Monday

“One day I timed it with my watch during an operation I led. It takes at least 20 minutes, at least 20 minutes. For 20 minutes, the sound of groaning kept coming. Then it ended. The sound of groaning kept coming. As if the heart cannot pump any blood, that sound keeps coming. You will understand that the person is looking for oxygen but cannot find any.” This is how a former commander with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), who was directly involved in the killing of several people in a Detail >>

Politics

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If BNP does excess, Khaleda Zia will be sent to jail again: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday warned that her government will not spare BNP if it resorts to violence in the name of movement. “I told them (BNP) we’ll say nothing if they hold Detail >>

National

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Jail Killing Day being observed

The Jail Killing Day, commemorating the killing of four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail, is being observed on Thursday (Nov 3) across the country in a solemn manner. Different political Detail >>

Metro

Metro

Chief Justice cleans garbage

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha cleaned garbage at the Supreme Court premises and vowed to keep the city clean and pollution free. The Chief Justice picked up trash on Tuesday morning as part of Detail >>

Business

Business

Telenor closes down online platform ekhanei.com in Bangladesh

Telenor, the parent company of market leader mobile operator Grameenphone, is shutting down its online classifieds marketplace ekhanei.com in Bangladesh from tomorrow. The group, one of the world’s Detail >>

Entertainment

Entertainment

Apu alone at divorce arbitration

Apu BiswasActress Apu Biswas appeared at the divorce arbitration alone. Following Shakib Khan’s divorce notice, both Shakib and Apu were due to appear at 10am Monday morning at the Mohakhali Zone 3 Detail >>

Sports

Sports

Tigers beat Zimbabwe by 8 wickets in Tri-Nation series

Tigers beat Zimbabwe by 8 wickets in Tri-Nation series Tamim Iqbal’s unbeaten fifty guided Bangladesh to a comfortable 8 wickets victory over Zimbabwe in the first match of Rocket Tri-Nation Series Detail >>

World

World

Imran Khan sustains bullet injury after unknown gunmen open fire

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday sustained bullet injury when unidentified assailants opened fire on the container-mounted truck carrying him during his protest march in Detail >>

Sci-Tech

Science & Technology

Govt. issues advisory on massive global cyber attack

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division on Tuesday issued an emergency advisory on a rampaging ransomware virus that emerged across the globe on Friday. The ICT suggested all Detail >>

Literature

Literature

142th death anniversary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt

The 142nd death anniversary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, one of the greatest poets in Bangla literature today. Many poets, litterateur and critics term him father of Bangla sonnet and also a pioneer of Detail >>

Health

Health

Doctor 'assaults' patient in Shariatpur, video goes viral

A patient was physically tortured by a doctor at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital in Shariatpur on Sunday (August 14). The video of assaulting the patient went viral on social media. However, the identity Detail >>

Campus

Campus

DU students confine proctor

A group of general students of the Dhaka University (DU) have confined the university’s proctor at his office as the BCL men on Monday foiled a demonstration by the students demanding that the Detail >>

Environment

Environment

320 industrial projects around Sundarbans get nod

The National Committee on Environment has given the go-ahead to 320 industrial projects adjacent to the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. The decision was taken on Sunday at the Detail >>

Religion

Religion

Mohashtami, Kumari Puja observed

The Hindu community observed Mohashtami and Kumari Puja on Wednesday as a part of Durga Puja, the biggest annual religious festival of the community, beginning on Monday across the country. Kumari Detail >>

Kids

Kids

Self-styled 'Pir', his female house help killed in Dinajpur

The 'Pir', Farhad Hossain Chowdhury, 72, is identified as a former president of the BNP's Dinajpur Municipality unit. Superintendent of Dinajpur Police Hamidul Alam said from the scene that “the Detail >>