GAZIPUR: Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said development is not possible by threatening life in earning livelihood.“We are running towards our goals. But development is not possible by taking dead bodies over the shoulder or threatening life to earn

DHAKA: The young activists of Gender and Transportation Bangladesh Working Team (GTBWT) said public transportation system should be secured, more available and accessible in Dhaka.Speakers said this during a human chain jointly organized by GTBWT and ESDO (Environment and Social

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Saturday said Bangladesh acts as bridge between South Asia and South East Asia.“Bangladesh has always maintained very friendly relations with her close neighbors and countries among the South East Asian countries. In fact, Bangladesh

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed authorities concerned to ensure exemplary punishment for child abusers.She made the directive on the occasion of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa and also her mother’s birth anniversary at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in city on

COX’S BAZAR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel seized 50,000 pieces of yaba tablets from Cox’s Bazar.The tablets were seized from 1 no sluice gate area on river Naf conducting overnight drives on early Saturday.Confirming the matter, Teknaf BGB-42 commander Lieutenant Colonel

ISHWARDI (PABNA): Three police were injured and a goon was shot during a gunfight near Hardinge Bridge in Pakshi of Iswardi upazila of Pabna district early Saturday.The thug, identified as Sonamoni, is now admitted at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics Rehabilitation

DHAKA: Police, in separate drives, arrested 90 warranted accused with liquors and yaba tablets from different upazilas of Chittagong district.During the overnight drives, the law enforcers recovered 2,370 pieces of yaba tablets and 70 locally made liquor from Lohagara upazila.Chittagong

DHAKA: Doctors found 14 chopping injury marks on the body of slain blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy during completion of the autopsy on Saturday.Dr Mohammad Hossain of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) forensic department carried out the autopsy and the report was made by Khilgaon

COMILLA: Rail communications of Chittagong with Dhaka and other parts of the country were suspended on Saturday morning following derailment of three compartments of a freight train in Comila Sadar.The Dinajpur-bound train from Chittagong veered of tracks in Banasua area of Sadar upazila

DHAKA: Bangladesh Permanent Mission to UN is set unveil the cover of book written by Prime Minister’s political adviser HT Imam at its Bangabandhu auditorium in New York on Sunday.A discussion meeting will also be held at 3pm followed by the book-cover unveiling ceremony. HT Iman will

DHAKA: The US termed the hacking to death of a secular Bangladeshi blogger as a "cowardly murder" and underlined the need to work together to counter violent extremism.“The United States condemns the cowardly murder of writer/blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay in Bangladesh,” the US

DHAKA: The United Nations in Bangladesh condemned the killing of blogger Niloy Chakraborty Neel and called upon the authorities bring the perpetrators to justice. In a press statement issued on Friday night, UN Resident Coordinator Robert D. Watkins described the fatal attack as “a

DHAKA: A delegation of Malaysia government is set to arrive in Dhaka Sunday regarding the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers.But the team of Malaysian IT firm ‘Real Time’ arrived in Dhaka early Saturday, a day before arriving the government one. A five-member team led by Real Time

DHAKA: A man was burnt along with his nephew and niece in a fire at their house at Central Road in Hatirpool in the capital on Saturday morning.The fire broke out around 7:45 am. On information, fire fighting unit rushed in and doused the flame.Burn injured Delwar Hossain said, “My

DHAKA: A case was filed on Friday night with Khilgaon Thana against four unidentified persons over the brutal killing of Blogger Niladri Chottopadhay Niloy.Asha Moni, wife of the slain blogger filed the case, confirmed Sub Inspector Jahidur Rahman.He also said Officer-in-Charge Anwar

LONDON: United Kingdom expressed its deep shock at the murder of  blogger Niloy Neel and promised to stands together with the government of Bangladesh in the face of extremism.In a statement, issued on Friday afternoon (local time), Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister Hugo Swire,

DHAKA: Tenaganita (Women's Force urged Malaysia government to legalize or provide work permits and give the right to work to undocumented migrant workers, specially Bangladeshis, who have been here for decades instead of bringing new workers.The non-profit organization of Malaysia made

SAUDI ARABIA: Four Bangladeshi students were killed and seven more injured in a minibus accident in Jeddah of Saudi Arab at 9:30pm (local time, 00.30am BDST) Friday. Rafiqul Islam Faruki, Principal of Jeddah Bangladesh International School, confirmed the matter to banglanews.The deceased

DHAKA: “Niloi was sitting in the drawing room with his laptop on. My sister, Tanni, was also in the house in Khilgaon area of the city.”“Suddenly a youth, around 20-year-old, came to my house in the name of renting flat.”“I said to him, we are not leaving the flat and did not

DHAKA: Bangladesh branch of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), Ansar-al-Islam, an extremist outfit, claimed credit for the murder of blogger Niloi Neel.An alleged spokesperson of Ansar-al-Islam, Mufti Abdullah Ashraf, came up with the claim in an e-mail message sent to several