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North Korean women arrested in Dhaka for selling Viagra

A North Korean restaurant manager in Bangladesh was arrested in connection with illegal sales of Viagra and alcohol on Friday. The supervisor of Pyongyang Restaurant in Dhaka, identified as a North Korean woman, had been secretly selling the impotence drug alongside other pharmaceuticals, reported South Korean news agency Yonhap. ARREST_2540291bBangladesh’s Customs Intelligence Investigation Department was tipped off about the illegal sale of alcohol – and a raid on Friday uncovered 210 pills of Viagra, other medications, 94...

Stop pornography in social media: HC

The High Court today (Sunday) directed the government to stop uploading and sending pornography, vulgar picture and video by service providers through mobile phones and social media including Facebook and Tweeter in seven days. say_no_to_pornIn response to a writ petition, the court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why its inaction to stop such activities in the social media should not be declared illegal. Chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and secretary to the M...

Death, life top penalties for rape, killing

Both death and life term can be awarded as highest punishment for rape and killing, the Supreme Court ruled today. The judgement upheld a High Court verdict that scrapped the provision of single punishment in the concerned law – which was death. supreme court_0Now, Section 6(2) of Women and Children Repression Prevention (Special) Act 1995 will become void. The amendment made later in 2000 which offers life sentence as alternative punishment along with the death penalty will take effect. On March 2, 2010, High Court ann...

Indian agents in city to discuss regional terrorism

A team of agents from the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has landed in Dhaka on Monday. NIA agents previously visited Dhaka after the bomb explosion in Bardhaman of India. This time a high-level three member team of national-investigating-agencyNIA led by its Inspector General Sanjib Kumar Singh came over to Dhaka on Monday just two days after the South Asian Al-Qaeda acknowledged its responsibility over the Avijit Roy murder. Joint Commissioner of Bangladesh Police Detective Branch, Mo...

ATM booth robbed in Kushtia

A DBBL ATM booth was robbed in Kushtia early Tuesday. Police said that two robbers beat up security guards Kabir and Jamal and broke into dbbl-450x321the booth at Panchrasta intersection around 1:30am on Tuesday. They vandalized 10 close circuit TV cameras and other equipment at the booth. DBBL Fast Track official Mohammad Selim said there was Tk 318,400 in the cash box and the entire amount was robbed. DBBL Kushtia branch manager Nazrul Islam said a case was being filed.

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Swimming lessons made law to stop drownings

The government has made swimming lessons compulsory in schools, to reduce the number of children who drown in the country’s many waterways. According to UN figures, about 18,000 children between five and 17 die each year because they cannot swim. The education ministry says rural ponds and lakes will be made suitable for lessons and university pools opened up. swimmingBut some say the directive will be hard to implement because of a lack of pools in urban areas. Drowning has been described as a hidden epidemic in Bangladesh, one of th...
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