JOYPURHAT: Detective Branch (DB) of police rescued eleven youths gathered for trafficking to Nepal from Joypurhat district on Saturday morning.However, police could not detain the traffickers.DB police officer-in-charge (OC) Mahfuzur Rahman said that they conducted a drive at 11:15am at

DHAKA: Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) has included two more members to the medical board formed for a newborn, shot in its mother’s womb during Juba League infighting in Magura.The board will lead by Professor Abid Hossain Molla, head of the paediatric department (NICU) of

SYLHET: A man and his son were killed and scores injured in road accident in Phulbari area on Sylhet-Biyanibazar road on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Eklas Uddin, 70 and his son Altaf Hossain of Borolekha upazila of Moulvibazar.Witnesses said a Sylhet-bound private car

MANIKGANJ: Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) halted vessels movement on Paturia-Daulatdia route due to stormy weather on Saturday.Authorities made the halt announcement at 12:00pm, confirmed ghat assistant manager Mohiuddin Rasel.BDST: 1351 HRS, AUG 1, 2015 AKA

SYLHET: Passengers of Dubai-Sylhet flight of Bima Bangladesh Airlines escaped a tragic accident narrowly after a bird entered into engine while the plane was landing.The incident took place at runway of Osmani Airport around 7:15am Saturday. Four blades of the plane were broke down but

DHAKA: Due to the influence of Komen, which turned into land depression Friday, rain has been continuing in different parts of the country including the capital city Dhaka.Land depression over central part of Bangladesh and adjoining Faridpur region moved westwards in land and now lies

DHAKA: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized some 1.20 lac pieces of contraband yaba tablets worth about Tk 4.20 crores from Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday morning.Public Relation officer of BGB Headquarters Muhammad Mohsin Reza confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said BGB

DHAKA: Residents of every house in 51 enclaves lit 68 candles to mark the end of "68 years of endless pain and indignity".At one minute past midnight on Saturday, jubilant crowds celebrated exchange of enclaves between India and Bangladesh through releasing 2000 fanus in the sky of

BANDARBAN: One more body was recovered from the landslide area in Lama upazila of Bandarban district on Saturday totaling the number of victims to six.The latest victim, identified as Bashir (50), was rescued this afternoon.However, Bashir’s granddaughter Fatima (11) is still

DHAKA: On the eve of the much awaited transfer of chit-mahal, enclaves between India and Bangladesh, India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday described the day as “a historic and memorable” one.“Today is a historic and memorable day,” Banerjee wrote on social

DASHIARCHHARA (KURIGRAM): A total of 111 Indian enclaves inside Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari and Panchagarh districts of Bangladesh were added with Bangladesh territory at one minute past midnight on Saturday (August 1).Later, exchange of land between two neighboring nations

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League and its front organizations paid respect to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing floral wreaths to his portrait at Dhanmondi in city commemorating the August, the Month of Mourning, that began on Saturday.The party leaders and activists also lighted

KURIGRAM: More than 41,000 people of 111 enclaves under four districts were ready to hoist the flag of Bangladesh at the wee hour of Saturday.But the law barred them. No national flag can be hoisted at night.The Phulbari Upazila administration said officials will hoist the flag at 6:00am

DHAKA: President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated the residents of 161 enclaves on the occasion of exchanging of the enclaves as per the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA).In a congratulatory message on Friday, the president said the exchange of the enclaves after the

DHAKA: Bangladesh and India swapped tiny islands of land at the wee hours of Saturday (August 1) with the view to ending one of the world’s most intractable border disputes that had kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for 68 years.Henceforth, 41,449 people of 111 enclaves will

DHAKA: A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was killed as a private car hit the vehicle on Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover in city’s Jatrabari area on Friday afternoon.The victim was identified as Mohammad Fazle Fakir (45), a resident of Dohar thana of Dhaka district.A pedestrian Masud Alam said

DHAKA: Two housewives in separate incidents committed suicide by hanging themselves in Bhatara and Sabujbagh thanas in city on Friday.The victims were identified as Ayesha Begum (19) of Bhatara and Swapna (20) of Sabujbagh thanas.Bhatara Thana assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Babul Hossain

CHITTAGONG: Flash floods triggered by heavy rains in last couple of days due to cyclonic storm ‘Komen’ have left several thousands of people stranded in 13 upazilas of Chittagong district with many areas completely submerged under water.High tide couple with onrush water from hills

DHAKA: A salesgirl of a departmental store was gangraped in city’s Uttara area while returning home at Thursday night.On condition of anonymity, the victim’s brother-in-law told banglanews that Arif (25), a former staff of departmental store ‘Shopno’ and two of his aides brought

LALMONIRHAT: The Bharat-Bangladesh Enclave Exchange Coordination Committee will be dissolved following its constitution Friday midnight.The committee was formed by an Indian citizen, Deepik Sengupta, in 1992 aiming to establish the rights of dwellers of 162 enclaves inside India and