DHAKA: Government has deployed twenty platoons Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in city to avoid any subversive incident centering the execution of verdict for the death row convicts war criminals Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid.The BGB were deployed

DHAKA: Law enforcers have introduced three-tier security at Dhaka Central Jail in the city Saturday evening.Lalbagh Zone deputy commissioner (DC) Mofizuddin Ahmed confirmed the matter to banglanews.‘The security has been tightened in the area. But additional security measures have been

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said that her government will take all necessary steps for the modernization of the country’s armed forces.The PM made this assertion at a reception program on the occasion of Armed Forces Day at Senakunja in city on Saturday.Upholding

DHAKA: Fire caught a slum in city’s Karail area on Saturday afternoon.Fire service control room confirmed the matter to banglanews saying that the fire is now under control.According to the sources, the incident occurred around 4:30pm.Earlier, six fire fighter units rushed to the spot

DHAKA: Law minister Anisul Huq categorically said that the clemency issues of death row convict war criminal BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid will be soon.The minister made this assertion Saturday noon.According to him, it will

DHAKA: Law enforcers have been conducting a security search drive around Central Jail in city since Saturday morning to avoid any untoward situation in the area.The search drive was reported on Nazimuddin Road and its adjacent areas in the morning.Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-10 deputy

FROM RALLY: The Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Friendship Motor Rally 2015 flagged off from Phuentosholing on Saturday (November 21) morning.It will cross 168 kilometers and night halt in Thimpu.Phuentosholing mayor Setendranji, police super Ming Tesring and Indian consular general

GAPALGANJ: A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were run over by a speedy bus in Tungipara of Gapalganj on Saturday.Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Local sources said a bus of Seba Green Line ran over the woman and her daughter around 11:30am while crossing

DHAKA: Two magistrates have entered the Dhaka Central Jail to meet condemned war criminals Ali Ahsan Mujahid and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. All preparations have been completed to execute the two death-row convicts for wartime crimes. Entry of the two magistrates escalated the process

JOYPURHAT: At least two people were killed and eight others injured in a road accident on Pathapara-Matrai road at Hopepathan Para under Khetlal Upazila of the district early Friday.The deceased were identified as Asimuddin, 45 and his nephew Tofazzal Hossain, 40, hailed from Apoil

COMILLA: A team of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-10 early Friday detained four foreigners, including a woman, from Keraninagar frontier in the district on charge of intrusion.Confirming the matter, BGB-10 Commander Lieutenant Colonel Mokhlesur Rahman told banglanews that they handed over

DHAKA: Five defense lawyers have been waiting at the gate of Dhaka Central Jail since Friday morning to meet death row convict war criminal Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mujahid.They claimed to have permission Thursday to meet Mujahid at 10am Friday, but got no call from jail authority till

BRAHMANBARIA: Miscreants chopped a trader to death in Majhiara village under Nabinagar upazila on Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Chhotan Saha, 45, son of one Nikhil Saha. Nabinagar Thana OC Imtiaz Ahmed confirmed the matter to banglanews.The reason of the murder yet to be

BANDARBAN: A gang of miscreants locked into gunfight with law enforcers in Chemi Dalupara area of the district Sadar on Friday morning.One DB police member was injured and two criminals were detained during the gunfight, district DB police OC Monjur Alam confirmed.A foreign piston, four

DHAKA: Two experienced executioners—Shajahan and Razu-- are ready to carry out the death sentences of war criminals Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mujaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.Besides, one other executioner named Sattar has been kept standby, Jail authority confirmed on

DHAKA: Verdicts of the review appeal have been read out to the death row war crimes convicts BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid on Thursday night.Earlier around 8:45pm, the verdicts reached the central jail in city.After

DHAKA: The suspected ringleader of the attacks in Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a French police raid.Prosecutors say, reports the BBC.France interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he had received intelligence that Abaaoud had passed through Greece.Confirming the

DHAKA: The annual Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange shows that a record 5,455 Bangladeshis studied on US university campuses over the course of the 2014-2015 school year.That total is more than double the number of Bangladeshi students in 2009-2010 (2,619 students)

DHAKA: United States ambassador to Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat met state minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim in Dhaka on November 19.Bernicat conveyed to the state minister the United States’ continued support for her efforts to develop the telecommunications

DHAKA: The full and final verdicts of death row war crimes convicts BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdury and Jamaat-e-Isalmi secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid have been taken to the central jail in city on Thursday night.The verdicts were sent to the jail around 8:45pm.Earlier