SATKHIRA: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel arrested 10 Bangladeshi nationals who were trying to enter Bangladesh illegally from India through Kolaroa border area in Satkhira district.They were held at around on Wednesday morning (December 23).The arrestees included Shakil Hossain

DHAKA: The US Ambassador to Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat has praised the measures, taken by the law enforcers for the security of diplomats and foreigners residing here.She made the remark to reporters after separate meetings with state minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam

DHAKA: Customs officials of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport detained four persons, including two women, along with 14.5-kg gold bars on Wednesday.Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate director general Dr Moinul Khan confirmed the matter to banglanews.The arrestees have

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dreamt of a strong navy for the country.He also demanded to set up naval headquarters in Dhaka in the historic 6-point Demand during Pakistan rule, the PM added.The PM made this

BAGERHAT: Ringleader of a gang of sea robbers was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with a combined force of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-8 and Detective Branch (DB) of police at Panirghat area of Sharankhola Range of the Sunderbans on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Sagir Bhandari, 35,

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in the port city on a five-hour visit Wednesday.She has attended the Winter Presidential Parade of newly commissioned officers at Bangladesh Naval Academy at noon.During the short visit, the Premier will handover the authorities of

DHAKA: Hatirjheel project authority has started the circular bus service on Wednesday.Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain inaugurated the bus service at Sonargaon Railroad crossing of the route in the morning.Primarily, four buses configured with seating for 27

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to arrive in the port city on a five-hour visit Wednesday. She will attend the Winter Presidential Parade of newly commissioned officers and take salute at Bangladesh Naval Academy in the noon.The premier is expected to arrive here around

DHAKA: A fire broke out at a slum adjacent to Beribandh area of Mohammadpur in city early Wednesday.On information, seven units of fire service doused the blaze after trying for one and a half hours.Fire Service headquarters deputy assistant director Mamun Mahmud told banglanews that they

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday evening said that her aim is to serve people.She made this assertion at a meeting with country’s Christian community at her Ganabhaban residence in city.‘The post of Prime Minister is temporary. My aim is to serve people and I always try

BRAHMANBARIA: Rashidul Hossain, honored as a shabda sainik of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, was buried at his family graveyard at Uttar Mourail in Brahmanbaria district town Tuesday evening.He was buried under state honor after the second namaj-e-janaza at Mourail Jame Masjid after asr

DHAKA: The six-day director general-level conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has been postponed on Tuesday.The announcement was made following a tragic crash of a BGB plane in Delhi that killed ten people including three BGB Jawans

DHAKA: A two-day competition on mobile and web application development ‘Election Hackathon’ was organized from December 20 at Six Seasons Hotel at Gulshan-2 in city.Team Static won the championship by developing an app ‘Election Bangladesh’ in the context of approaching municipal

RAJSHAHI: A Speedy Trail Tribunal awarded life imprisonment to 18 people in Abdul Karim murder case of Chapainawabganj district.Judge Golam Ahmed Khalilur Rahman passed the order Tuesday.He also fined each accused Tk 10,000, in default, ordered to serve six more months in jail.BDST: 1746

THAKURGAON: Dead body of Bangladeshi cattle trader Hemanta Kumar, who was shot by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) early Tuesday, will be handed over to the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Wednesday evening.The deceased Hemanta Kumar (30) was a cattle trader and son of

DHAKA: Special security measures have been taken in all Churches and Diplomatic areas ahead of Christmas Day.Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal made the remark at his secretariat office in the capital on Tuesday.Prior to it, a meeting was held in this regard. High ups of law enforcing

DHAKA: A speedy trial tribunal of Dhaka fixed December 24 (Thursday) as the starting date for recording arguments in a case filed over the murder of blogger and also one of Ganajagaran Mancha organizers Ahmed Rajib Haider.Judge of Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 of Dhaka Sayeed Ahmed fixed the

DHAKA: The first namaz-e-janaza Rashidul Hossain, a shabda sainik of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, was held at Jatiya Betar Bhaban in city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area Tuesday morning.Noted cultural personalities including Kamal Lohani, Gazi Mazharul Anwar, the deceased’s son Monir

DHAKA: Police detained 23, including 10 outsiders, from the residential halls of Dhaka College in city early Tuesday.A few locally made weapons also were seized from the halls and its adjacent areas.Assistant Commissioner (AC) of Dhanmondi Zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Ruhul

THAKURGAON: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi on Boshalgaon border under Haripur upazila of the district early Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Hemanta Kumar, 30, a cattle trader, son of one Jitendranath of the same upazila.Locals said, he went to bring