DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed deep condolence in casualty and damages caused by flood in southern region in India.She also assured of standing beside India as neighboring and friendly country during the disastrous time.The premier sent a letter to her Indian counterpart

BENAPOLE, JESSORE: A 30-member delegation of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) arrived in Bangladesh on a 12-day visit to participate training on joint Border Control Management (BCM).The team led by BSF training academy officer lieutenant colonel Gurbindar Singh crossed border 1:00pm

DHAKA: A few workers of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) were found cutting down billboards with the help of oxyacetylene burner in presence of an executive magistrate, senior officials and police at Mahakhali rail crossing area in city early Friday.The officials and the employees of

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained six members of international currency smuggling gang, including a Pakistani citizen, with 1 crore fake Indian rupees, 21 Pakistani passports and countless fake seals.On Thursday (3rd December) night, RAB conduced raids in two different areas

GOPALGANJ: Miscreants strangled to death to two minor siblings at Bhojergati village under sadar upazila of the district Thursday night.The deceased were identified as Raihan Sardar, 10 and his younger brother Rois, 4, sons of one Yusuf Sardar, teacher of Gauhardanga Madrasa in Tungipara

DHAKA: Following the presentation of his credentials to the foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali as His Highness the Aga Khan’s Personal Representative to the Government of Bangladesh, Prince Amyn Aga Khan welcomed the state minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam to the opening ceremony

DHAKA: Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha opined that Bangla should be used in Supreme Court (SC) activities.He made this observation at a discussion titled “Mother Tongue and National Culture”, organized by ‘Deshiya Sangskritik Ainjibi Parishad’ at SC bar council’s Shaheed

FROM ICCB: Housing and public works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain informed the audience that a 130-storey icon tower will be constructed at Purbachal in city.A US-based company has shown their interest in building the skyscraper, he added.‘We have accepted the proposal, and hope

DHAKA:  Customs preventive team recovered 37 kilograms of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city on Thursday evening.The big consignment of smuggled gold was seized from a fight of Emirate Airlines EK-586.Dhaka Customs assistant commissioner (AC) Shahiduzzaman Sarkar

DHAKA: A total of 20 mobile therapy vans have been introduced across the country on Thursday to provide 10 kinds of services to the autistic and other people with disabilities.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the countrywide services at Bangabandhu International Conference Center

DHAKA: A court in Dhaka placed six members of a newly formed extremist outfit, Al-Mujahid of Bangladesh, on six-day remand for each to grill them in a case filed under anti-terrorism act.Magistrate of chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) court Rashed Talukder passed the order after hearing

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of police detained six members of a newly formed extremist outfit, Al-Mujahid of Bangladesh, from Shapla Chattar in Motijheel area in city early Thursday.The detainees were identified as Zahirul Islam, Khandaker Rajes Sobhan, Abubakar Siddique, Abraham Ahmed,

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday announced that from this time forth, all of her greetings cards on occasions of eid, new year and other state affairs will contain paintings by specially abled people.The premier came up with the announcement at a program marking the

LONDON: Three Bangladesh-origin UK parliamentarians did not cast their votes in support of air strike in Syria though 66 Labour MPs backed the UK government in a bill to strike in the civil war-torn country.After a 10-hour debate session in the House of Commons on Wednesday (local time),

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of police detained six people from various areas in city on suspicion of their involvement with militant activities.Deputy Commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Muntasirul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews on Thursday morning.He

KOLKATA (INDIA): Bangladeshi citizens follow the same border for entering and leaving India.Due to the fact that it is written in the visa, the green passport holders of Bangladesh cannot exit through Tamabil or Bilonia border if they enter India using Benapole border.Bangladesh Home

DHAKA: Election Commissioner Brigadier General Jabed Ali (Retd) on Wednesday said the commission (EC) will extend its support to any candidate in the forthcoming municipal polls if anyone applies.He was talking to journalists at his Election Commission office in the afternoon.The

FROM KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL: The Nepal participants in Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) friendship motor rally expressed their happiness for the sincerity, food and goodwill that Bangladesh provided to all.On the top, they appreciated the security measures taken for them.A member of the

COX’S BAZAR: In the seventh phase, 48 more Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who were rescued from Myanmar maritime boundary, returned home on Wednesday.The illegal migrants were brought back through Ghum Dhum frontier around 2:35pm.Of the returned, 19 were from Cox’s Bazar while rest

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated the anti-terrorism stand of Bangladesh saying that ‘no terrorist will be allowed to use the land of Bangladesh’.She also said, ‘We want peace’.The premier made this assertion when the outgoing India High Commissioner to