The ancestral land of novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay has been reclaimed through administrative intervention in Madaripur, following a three-day occupation by a local BNP leader.
The property, located in Purba Maizpara village in Dasar upazila, was freed on Tuesday after intervention by the upazila administration, with support from the Bangladesh Army, said Acting Upazila Nirbahi Officer Uttam Kumar Das.
Despite the recovery, the accused, Sohel Hawlader, remains at large.
A five-member delegation from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) met with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today to strengthen cooperation on recovering embezzled funds.
Led by Marco Teixeira, the Regional Head for South Asia at UNODC, the delegation visited the ACC headquarters, where they were briefed on the commission ongoing activities.
The meeting focused on enhancing ACC ability to prevent money laundering and recover stolen funds, with the UNODC offering its full support in these efforts.
Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Affairs Syeda Rizwana Hasan today said surrounding areas of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) will be declared as a silent zone soon.
"Measures will be taken to make surrounding areas stretching one kilometre north and one kilometre south of the airport horn-free since no vehicles will be allowed to use the horn while passing these neighboring areas of the airport from October 1," she told a virtual meeting organized with a view to stopping single use of plastics and horn in airport area, said a release.
Rizwana said that steps would be taken to encourage people so that they use alternative goods instead of plastic in the aforesaid areas.
Load shedding has been increasing across the country as power generation from gas-based stations is still below the expected level.
According to official sources, the country had to experience a load shedding of 1,874 MW at 3 pm to meet the demand of 14,750 MW on Monday.
The Power Grid Bangladesh PLC official statistics show that the country was generating 12,788 MW at that time.
Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) forecast reveals that load shedding will go up in the evening with the increased demand of 15,900 MW on the day.
Residents of many areas in Dhaka city had to experience power cuts for several spells in the hot weather.
Abdur Rashid, a resident in the city Uttara area, informed that his day started with an hour-long load shedding at 11 am.