DHAKA: Banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team issued death threats to Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, Dhaka University VC AAMS Arefin Siddique and 23 other dignitaries.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Shahbagh Thana Officer-in-Charge Abu Bakar Siddique said the outfit

DHAKA: EU ambassador to Bangladesh Pierre Mayaudon underscored the need to secure a fair, ambitious and legally binding new international climate agreement.He came up with this remark as the delegation of the European Union and member states celebrating the EU-Bangladesh Climate Diplomacy

BHATIARY (CHITTAGONG): A total of 134 cadets formally passed out of Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA), at a glittering ceremony at Bhatiary, Chittagong on Tuesday. Among them 114 cadets including 13 female cadets from 72 BMA long course and 07 cadets from 43 BMA special course have been

DHAKA: Two unidentified persons were crushed under trains in Kuril highway and Khilkhet’s Kawla areas of the capital on Tuesday morning.Officer-in-charge (OC) of Dhaka Railway Thana Abdul Mazid confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said the train hit an 65-year old man in Kuril area in

Cox’s Bazar: Police conducted overnight drives arrested seven enlisted human traffickers from Shahpari Dwip of Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday.The arrestees included Zafar Alam (52) and his brother Bodi Alam (29), Mohammad Farid (55), Shahidul Islam (25), Zafar Alam

SYLHET: Two workers were killed as a sand-laden truck plunged into roadside ditch on Sylhet-Fenchuganj road in Khilpara area on Tuesday morning.The deceased were identified as Saiful Islam, 20, son of Abdul Jabbar and Aslam Mia, 25, son of Sorafot Mia.Witnesses said that the driver of the

DHAKA: Indian Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag, who came in Dhaka on a two-day official visit, has left Dhaka on Tuesday noon.A special flight left Kurmitola Airbase for India at 12:40pm.Military secretary Major General Anwarul Momen and India high commissioner Pankaj Saran, among

CHITTAGONG: Medical service at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) returned to normalcy as intern doctors withdrew their strike on Tuesday after authorities concerned assured them of meeting their demands.Services at CMCH remained halted as the interns started observing work

CHITTAGONG: Medical service at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) has come to a halt as the intern doctors have been going on strike since Monday night over assaulting one of their female fellows.Intern Doctor Association joint convener Nasir Uddin Patwari Shuvo told

DHAKA: The National Moon Sighting Committee will sit on Wednesday to fix the beginning date of the Arabic month of holy Ramadan – the month of fasting.The meeting will be held at the conference room of Islamic Foundation in the national mosque Baitul Mukarram at 7:30pm.Religious Affairs

DHAKA: The appeal hearing of death row convict BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury started at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.The hearing started at the four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha.The other members of the SC bench

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid will submit a review petition of the Appellate Division verdict that upheld death penalty to the war criminal.Mujahid’s chief lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain made the disclosure immediately after the Supreme Court Appellate

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence to Secretary General of Jamaat e Islami Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid for his crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.The four-member bench of the Appellate Division led

DHAKA: A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-10 seized fake currencies worth Tk 2.88 lakhs from Sayedabad area in city Monday night.RAB-10 officials also detained two persons in this regard.Assistant Director of Legal and Media Wing of RAB HQ Major Maqsudul Alam confirmed the matter to

JESSORE: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members detained 22 Bangladeshis, including women and children, who were returning from India, on Benapole-Gatipara road Monday night.Later, BGB officials handed over the detainees to Benapole Port Police Station.However, the BGB members failed to

DHAKA: A batch of 47 Bangladeshi nationals, earlier trafficked to Thailand by sea, was brought back home Monday evening by a Biman Bangladesh airlines flight.The flight landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city at 7.30pm.Among the returnees, 10 from Jessore, nine from

DHAKA: Police inspector general (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque categorically said that law enforcers will work to ensure additional security to people during holy month of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr.The police boss made the assertion at a press conference at police headquarters in city on

SUNAMGANJ: Three siblings drowned at Tahirpur Upazila of the district Monday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Amin, 10, Shamim, 8 and Al Amin, 6, sons of one Azhar Ali, hailed from Laurergarh village of the upazila.Chairman of Badaghat Union Nijam Uddin told banglanews that three

MYMENSINGH: At least seven people were killed and five others injured as a pick-up van collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh district on Monday noon.The accident took place in Nimuria Dubapar area on Mymensingh-Tangail highway at 12:00pm.The

DHAKA: Indian Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag met his Bangladesh counterpart General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Monday afternoon at Army Headquarters in city.They talked about current training programs and various aspects of the profession in the meeting that started around