DHAKA: Aziz Cooperative Super Market Business Association on Sunday has taken decision to keep the market closed for three days as a protest of the murder of Jagriti Prakashoni owner Foysal Arefin Dipon.According to the decision, the market will remain closed from November 1 to 3,

DHAKA: Miscreants issued a death threat to Somoy Prokashoni owner and ‘Muktijudda Kosh’ publisher Farid Ahmed.Ahmed received SMS from 01721425008 cell number around 9:48am on Sunday, with a threat to his life.According to the text message, ‘You published many books of atheists. Now,

DHAKA: A team of Customs Preventive detained a youth with a large amount of Indian rupees at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city on Sunday morning.Jahangir Sarker, 26, hailed from Comilla, arrived at the airport in a flight of Air Emirates from Pakistan around 8:40am.On

DHAKA: Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal number three.According to a bulletin of Bangladesh Meteorological department, the low over westcentral bay off Andhra coast and adjoining area persists, extending

DHAKA: Security measures have been beefed up at Dhaka Medical College Hospital following the murder attempt on writers and publishers in Lalmatia and killing of publisher Faysal Dipon in Shahbagh.Police have been deployed at main corridor at the gate adjancent to DMCH emergency

DHAKA: British high commissioner to Bangladesh Robert W Gibson on Saturday evening condemned the murder of Jagriti Prakashani owner Foysal Arefin Dipon in city.In a Twitter message the UK envoy said, ‘I condem yet another attack on bloggers. Violence is never the answer or acceptable in

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Saturday sent the extortionist hacker Abdullah Al Fahad, who was nabbed under prevention of cyber crime law on October 27, to jail after completion of a two-day remand.Judge Yunus Khan of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court of Dhaka passed the order after the

CHITTAGONG: Former mayor of port city Chittagong and also ruling Awami League Chittagong city unit president ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury commented that Banglanews is taking the country forward.The veteran leader made this comment at a program marking 5th founding anniversary of news portal

COMILLA: Two people were killed as a passenger bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sadar upazila of Comilla district Saturday evening.The deceased were identified as the auto-rickshaw driver and one of its passengers.Comilla Kotwali Thana inspector Shamsuzzaman confirmed the death of the

CHITTAGONG: Banglanews24.com is the name of a successful online news portal that has crossed five years successfully.Let there add double ‘0’ by the right side of ‘5’ to make it 500 years.Assistant high commissioner of India to Bangladesh Somnath Halder expressed the good wishes

CHITTAGONG: Country’s leading online news portal Banglanews24.com has achieved the fame of imparting latest news items faster than any other media.Housing and public works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain made this comment while addressing a program organized to mark the 5th founding

DHAKA: Within four hours of attack on Suddhaswar owner Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, another publisher was chopped dead at Shahbagh in city Saturday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Foysal Arefin Dipon, owner of Jagriti Publications, who also published several books of slain blogger

DHAKA: Bangladesh government is set to sign Headquarters Agreements with the authorities of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and the South Asian Regional Standards Organization (SARSO).The accords will be signed at UNCLOS Conference

SYLHET: Rivals shot dead two in Companyganj Upazila of Sylhet district Saturday afternoon to occupy wetland in the area.The deceased were identified as Abdul Khaleq (50) and Sheikh Farid (48).Companyganj Police Station officer-in-charge (OC, investigation) said that two groups locked into

COX’S BAZAR: A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has seized 280,000 liters of locally-made liquor in Chakaria Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district.The liquor was seized from 9:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday.Later, it was destroyed following the instruction of executive magistrate

DHAKA: Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number three.According to a meteorology office bulletin, a low has formed over west central bay off Andhra Pradesh coast and adjoining areas, extending it to the

DHAKA: Amnesty International (AI) has been sold to dollars, commented Dhaka University (DU) history department teacher Mesbah Kamal.‘AI is doing business with the spirit of humanity. Government should take steps against the organization,’ he added.Professor Mesbah Kamal made this

DHAKA: A gang of miscreants chopped two writers and a publisher, leaving them critically injured in city’s Lalmatia area Saturday afternoon.The injured were identified as publishing house Suddhaswar's owner Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, poet Tareq Rahim and writer-researcher Ranadipam

MADARIPUR: Two people were killed in a road mishap on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Shibchar upazila of Madaripur district on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Zahirul Islam, 35, teacher of a madrasah, and Robi Bepari, 47, a fish trader.Panchchar highway police outpost sergeant Arif Khan

DHAKA: Chief Justice SK Sinha has reconstituted 19 single and two-judge benches of the High Court (HC) division of the Supreme Court.The order will be effective from Sunday morning.The newly constructed single benches of Justice Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan and Justice AB Mahmudul Haque have