DHAKA: United Nations assistant secretary-general and chair of the United Nations Development Group Asia-Pacific Haoliang Xu arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a five-day visit.The flight carrying the UNDP regional director landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 9:00am.During

DHAKA: About 4 million people of Bangladesh have been displaced by sudden onset disaster between 2008 and 2013 caused by riverbank erosion and seasonal floods. ‘Riverbank erosion and seasonal floods displaces as many as 400,000 people each year in Bangladesh,’ according to the outcome

DHAKA: Bangladesh foreign ministry on Saturday has opened a hotline in Paris to receive calls regarding Friday attacks in Paris that clamed at least 150 dead over 200 injured.The number is +33146519033.Furthermore, the numbers +33651360222 (T M Reza) and +33614497095 (Wahid Var Taher) can

BHUBANESWAR (DHAKA): The Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Friendship Motor Rally-2015 has been inaugurated through a colourful cultural program in Bhubaneswar in India on November 14 (Saturday).Bhubaneswar mayor Ananta Narayan Jena, Bhubaneswar Central MLA Bijaya Kumar Mohanty,

MYMENSINGH: Two people were killed in separate accidents in Phulbaria and Bhaluka upazilas in Mymensing district on Saturday.Phulbaria Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Rifat Khan told banglanews that a bricks-laden truck turned turtle leaving its helper Khairul Hasan (16) dead on the spot

DHAKA: Bangladesh foreign ministry on Saturday said that no Bangladeshi has reportedly been victim in Friday Paris terror attack.Foreign ministry external publicity wing director general Mohammad Badiruzzaman said that they did not get any information about any Bangladeshi victim

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her deep condolence following the deadly terror attack in Paris that killed over 150 people on Friday attack.;I am deeply shocked by the series of terrorist attacks in Paris that killed so many innocent people and left many others

FROM BHUBANESWAR: The Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Friendship Motor Rally 2015 is set to kick off from November 14 (Saturday) from Bhubaneswar in India. It would cover 4,223-km in 19 days in three countries by around 22 vehicles and 80 participants would achieve a new milestone

FARIDPUR: Four people, on suspicion of robbers, were beaten to death by angry mob at two villages in Sadar Upazila of the district early hours of Saturday.  Char Madhabdia union parisad (UP) chairman Tuhinur Rahman Mandol told banglanews that sensing the presence of a gang of robbers

DHAKA: A man, who suffered burns i in a fire that broke out at a house caused by gas line leakage, succumbed to his injures at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).The dead person Alamgir Hossain, 60, sustained 98 percent burns. He breathed his last at burn unit of DMCH around 2:30am

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her shock and sorrows over the death of 43 people in twin terrorist bomb attacks in Beirut in the evening of November 12.In a condolence letter to Lebanon Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Sheikh Hasina said, “I am deeply

DHAKA: France ambassador to Bangladesh Sophie Aubert expressed her deep sorrow over the attack that killed at least 128 people in Paris on Friday.In a message, she said, “We are all in mourning after the carnage that occurred in Paris on the evening of November 13”.The message further

DHAKA: The Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) Friendship Motor Rally 2015 will kick off from November 14 (Saturday) from Bhubaneswar in India and end at Kolkata.It would cover 4,500 km in 17 days in four countries by around 22 vehicles and 80 participants would achieve a new milestone

BOGRA: Train communications of northern region with Dhaka and other parts of the country resumed after a five-hour halt due to derailment of a train near to Nashratpur station of Bogra Friday morning.Railway sources said a bogie of the Lalmonirhat-bound train ‘Lalmoni Express’ from

NARAYANGANJ: A district court on Friday sent Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the sensational seven-murder case in Narayanganj, to jail, showing him arrested in 11 cases.Narayanganj chief Judicial Magistrate Shahidul passed the order when police produced the accused before it.Earlier,

NARAYANGANJ: Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the sensational seven-murder case in Narayanganj, was taken to the district court on Friday afternoon. Police produced him to court of senior judicial magistrate Saifuzzmaan Sharif. Narayanganj chief Judicial Magistrate Shahidul Islam was

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon doctors to be careful as if the destitute in the country are not deprived of treatment.“We are working hard to ensure a better life of every citizens of the country. All the people have rights to get medical services,” She added.The

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon doctors to be careful as if the destitute in the country are not deprived of treatment.“We are working hard to ensure a better life of every citizens of the country. All the people have rights to get medical services,” She added.The

SIRAJGANJ: Two people were killed in a collision between a truck and private car on Bangabandhu Bridge west link road in Kamarkhand of the district on Friday.The deceased were identified as Billal Hossain, driver of the private car, hailed from Pabna sadar and Golam Rabbi Neel, 28, son of

DHAKA: The kulkhwani of noted painter Asma Kibria, also wife of slain finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, will be held in city on Friday (November 13) afternoon.On this occasion, a Dua mahfil will be held at Gulshan Azad Mosque after Asr prayers.Her son Reza Kibria, also chief editor of