DHAKA: Fire broke out at a slum adjacent to Kaderabad Housing in Mohammadpur of the capital at 10:45am Thursday.Fire service control room duty officer Nilufar Yasmin confirmed the matter to banglanews.Four fire fighting units doused the fire after half an hour effort, she added.However,

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has apprehended the Bangladeshi Chief coordinator of Al Qaeda (ex Huji leader) Mufti Mainul Islam and Advisor Maolana Zafor Amin along with 10 militants.They were held in night long drives in different areas of the capital on Wednesday.  RAB has also

LONDON: A 12-member Bangladesh-origin family, including a baby and two grandparents, live in Luton of UK, went missing for one and half a months.According to a report published by bbc.com on Wednesday, people in the community suspect that some women in the family might have been

DHAKA: Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairperson of BRAC, has been named this year's World Food Prize Laureate for his unparalleled achievement in building a unique, integrated development organization.The Des Moines, Iowa-based foundation that hands out the annual award announced Abed's

NETROKONA: Police detained two youths on charges of slaughtering a motorbike driver in Netrokona Sadar early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Jewel Mia, 23, who was a driver of a motorcycle, used to carry passengers.The detainees are Farhad Mia, 16 and Bashar Uddin, 16.Confirming

DHAKA: A batch of 39 more Bangladeshis, who were trafficked into Thailand through sea route, was brought back to Dhaka on Wednesday night.A flight, carrying them, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city around 8.30pm.Among the returnees, 16 from Sirajganj, five from

BARISAL: Deputy Commissioner of Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) Zillur Rahman was suspended for his involvement in taking bribe to expedite the promotion of 230 Barisal cops.He has been closed to Sylhet range on Wednesday, BMP Commissioner Shaibal Kanti Chowdhury confirmed to

DHAKA: Advance selling of bus tickets for holidaymakers ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival will start from Friday.Respective bus service counters will provide tickets for 60 routes in north and southern regions of the country.Bus counters will also take booking for return

DHAKA: A Jhalokathi Court sentenced four people to death and three to life-term imprisonment in sensational Badal Sarkar murder case. District and Session Judge passed the order on Wednesday noon.BDST: 1613 HRS, July 1, 2015AKA/SMS

DHAKA: India will start the process of verification of people living in 51 border enclaves, to be handed over to Bangladesh as per the Land Boundary Agreement, on July 6.During the intensive exercise, government officials will ask people living in the enclaves whether they would like to

BANDARBAN: Members of an intelligence agency detained a Buddhist monk with 3,000 pieces of yaba tablets in Bandarban.The detainee has been identified as Wanasara (33), son of Thui Shai Waar of Gazlia union of Lama upazila of the district.National Security Intelligence (NSI) deputy

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Metropolitan Police detained 14 people, including eight robbers and six criminals, from Badda and Shyampur areas of the city on Tuesday night.Detectives revealed the information in a press conference held at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media center in

CHITTAGONG: Police arrested a youth with 1,900 pieces of yaba tablets from Baklira Thana near Shah Amanat Bridge of Chittagong city.The arrestee has been identified as Mohammad Anwar Hossain (24), son of Mohammad Alam of Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district.Bakalia Thana

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said that country’s poverty rate has been reduced to 22.7 percent.Moreover, the rate of ultra-poverty has decreased to 7.9, she added.The premier made the assertion in her speech after signing an agreement on annual work-plan at the PMO

DHAKA: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is taking new initiative of recordings voice of the witnesses, dismantling the traditional method of taking depositions.Initially, an experimental project will be implemented soon in 20 courts of Sylhet aiming to launch the system,

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) Wednesday ordered government to form an independent authority for controlling house rent. An HC Bench led by Justice Bazlur Rahman passed the order.Cabinet secretary asked to form a 7-member commission which will be led by a law expert, nominated by Law Ministry

DHAKA: Malaysian police arrested nine suspected human traffickers, including two Bangladeshis, from Kedah region of the country on Tuesday.Of the arrestees, seven were Myanmar nationals.Malaysia police Inspector-General Tan Seri Khalid Abu Bakar said that they have arrested the people on

GAZIPUR: Two people, including a minor girl, were crushed under wheels of a train in Joydebpur in Dhaka-Mymensingh rail route on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as A Motaleb, 70, of Sreepur in Gazipur. Hawa Akter, 12, daughter of Moslem Uddin, hailed from Maymensingh.Witnesses

CHITTAGONG: Flight Lieutenant Rumman Tahmid Chowdhury remains missing after his fighter aircraft F-7 crashed into the Bay of Bengal near Patenga sea beach on Monday morning.Bangladesh Air Force, Navy and Coast guards found pieces of debris of the jet on Monday and have continued search

BENAPOLE, JESSORE: The government of India is set to return 75 Bangladeshi women and children trafficked to India through the Travel Permit.Petropole immigration police will hand over them to Benapole immigration police on Thursday afternoon.Later, Benapole police station in two NGOs --