FROM PATURIA ON WAY TO KOLKATA: The car rally delegates after entering Bangladesh through Bilonia border had started eating mouth watering delicious fish hilsha.The Indian friends, who eagerly wait in Kolkata for long cherished hilsha consignment from Bangladesh, were showing unbounded

DHAKA: After being flagged off at Jatiya Sangsad premises, the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) friendship car rally has started for Kolkata of India.On the way to Kolkata, the riders of the rally paid tributes to the martyrs of war of liberation of 1971 at National Mausoleum at Savar

DHAKA: Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved seven projects worth of Tk 2,037-cr.The ECNEC meeting, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, was held at NEC conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in city.The projects include Bangladesh Small

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to cricketer Shahadat Hossain Rajib’s wife Jesmin Jahan Nitya in the case ‘for torturing domestic help’.Judge Qamrul Hossain Molla of metropolitan session judge court granted the bail after holding a hearing in the morning.Nitya’s

BARISAL: Police recovered bodies of a couple from a rented house at Kaunia thana of Barisal metropolitan city around 10:00am on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Khaled, 35, a mason and his wife Mukuli Begum, 28, who used to work as a muhuri of a lawyer.Kaunia Thana police assistant

DHAKA: President Abdul Hamid left the country on Tuesday morning for Singapore for his medical checkup.A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 10.30am.Finance minister AMA Muhith, commerce minister

DHAKA: The World Aids Day is being observed across the country as elsewhere in the world on Tuesday.The theme of this year’s World Aids Day is “Getting to zero; end Aids by 2030”.Health and family welfare ministry as well as different socio-cultural organizations have chalked out

TDHAKA: he defence lawyers of condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami started placing their arguments at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) for the second day on Tuesday.The 4-member appeal bench, led by Chief Justice SK Sinha is holding the

DHAKA: At least five members of a family sustained burn injuries as a septic tank blasted at Faydabad area of Dakkhinkhan in city early Tuesday.The injured were Romana Akhter, 30 and her daughter Monika, 8, Romana’s brother Imran Hossain, 28 and his wife Jannat Hossain, 19 and daughter

DHAKA: Le Méridien Dhaka, city’s newest upper upscale hotel, organized a five-day food promotion ‘Daawat-e-Nawab’ to present the revered tastes of Northwest India between November 26-30.The newest Master Chef overseeing the Indian cuisine of the hotel’s already acclaimed all-day

DHAKA: Ittefaq Special Correspondent Jamal Uddin Hossain and Gazi TV’s Raju Ahmed have been elected as president and general secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU).Meanwhile, M Shariful Islam was elected vice president uncontested, as he was lone candidate in the post.Earlier, voters

DHAKA: Moazzem Hossain, husband of former city ward councilor Akhtari Moazzem, breathed his last due to old age complexities at BIRDEM hospital on Monday morning.He was 70.The namaz-e-janaza of Moazzem Hossain was held at central jam-e-mosque of Pallabi thana after the Asr prayer.Later,

RAJSHAHI: Militant outfit Ansar Al Islam issued death threat against eight eminent persons including state minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam.The others include Rajshahi city corporation former mayor AHM Khayruzzaman Liton, litterateur Hasan Azizul Haque, Rajshahi University

SYLHET: A court in Sylhet has sentenced three accused, including sacked police constable Ebadur Rahman Putul, to death in sensational child Abu Sayeed murder case.Judge of Sylhet Woman and Child Repression Court Abdur Rashid on Monday pronounced the verdict.The other two death row

GAZIPUR: A court in Gazipur awarded death penalty to 11 people for killing Juba League leader Jalal Uddin in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur district.Judge of additional district and session judge court Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan passed the verdict on Monday afternoon.Deceased’s elder brother Milon

BACK From PADMA BANKS: Soil tests are underway on both sides of the Padma Bridge. Piles are being released from the factory set up near the bank of mighty river Padma. The river management work has been going on in the full swing.Hammers were seen ready for piling of the bridge and more

CHITTAGONG: A court in Chittagong handed down death penalty to four people and life imprisonment to two others for killing a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver in Boalkhali upazila of Chittagong district.Chittagong Divisional Public Security Tribunal judge Sayeda Hosne Ara passed the verdict on

NARAYANGANJ: A district court passed a death sentence to four in schoolboy Rakibul Hasan Imon (13) murder case in Narayanganj district.Moreover, the convicts are asked to pay Tk 50,000 each as fine.Narayanganj additional district and session judge Miaji Mohammad Shahidul Islam passed the

DHAKA: Energy secretary Abu Bakar Siddique has passed away at Squire Hospitals in city on early Monday (November 30).He was 58.Power, energy and mineral resources ministry senior information official Mir Aslam Uddin told banglanews.Siddique got admitted to Square Hospitals as he had been

DHAKA: Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Motor Rally is now in Dhaka. Fourteen members of four countries have crossed more than 3,000 kilometers and now set to leave the capital of Bangladesh for Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal in India.Banglanews met Praveen Chandra Bhanj