DHAKA: The customs detective of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday seized 24 gold bars worth Tk 1.20-crore from an aircraft.The gold was recovered when the Dubai-returned aircraft was parked at hanger area of the airport in the afternoon.Assistant director of customs

MAGURA: Ruling Awami League endorsed candidate Major General (retd) MA Wahab has won the by-polls of Magura-1 constituency.Major General (retd) MA Wahab bagged 93,181 votes while his nearest candidate independent candidate former mayor of Magura Municipality Tapan Kumar Roy got 12,790

DHAKA: India is getting permissions from Bangladesh to use Chittagong and Mongla seaports during Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit on June 6-7.An agreement to this end was due to be signed by the two close neighboring countries during former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit

DHAKA: A crack was found at the northwest boundary wall of Sundarban Hotel Saturday following Wednesday’s collapse of its northeast boundary wall and basement adjacent to the construction site of the National Bank Tower.Officials concerned and experts expressed their helplessness saying

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries have to work concertedly as poverty was its common enemy.She also said there would not have been lamentations over food if the world powers spent a small part of

DHAKA: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka, the Indian Union Cabinet Saturday approved the agreement on coastal shipping between India and Bangladesh to carry out coastal movement of goods between the two countries.They also approved signing of a Memorandum of

MAGURA: Counting in by-polls to Magura-1 constituency is underway as voting ended in 140 polling centers continuing from 8:00am to 4:00pm Saturday. Four contesting candidates are Awami League-backed Major General (retd) MA Wahab, independent candidate former mayor of Magura Municipality

DHAKA: Just a week to go for his first-ever visit to Dhaka next month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi compared  the settling of the much-anticipated Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh with the fall of the Berlin Wall.“We had settled the long pending land boundary issues with

DHAKA: The customs authorities seized 7,000 mobile handsets worth Tk 20 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Saturday two days after major mobile sets haul in the airport.Tipped-off, a team of customs raided the freight unit of the airport around 10:30am and found the mobile

DHAKA: The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations have been published Saturday morning with overall pass percentage of 87.04 which is 4.3 percent lower than that of last year. A total of 1,11,901 students had secured GPA-5.Education

DHAKA: Seven people of a family sustained burn injuries as a fire broke out at a tin-shed house in city’s Kalabagan area Saturday morning following an explosion in gas pipeline of the house.The injured were identified as Mamata, 50, Rubi, 40, Sumon, 30, Reshma, 25, Aoyan, 20, Bithi, 15,

DHAKA: Bangladesh takes a pragmatic approach to the protection of civilians (POC) mandate for UN peacekeeping operations, and considers it to be an important yardstick for the legitimacy and credibility of peacekeeping missions.State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam said this

DHAKA: After being accorded civic reception for giving services to the country, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said it is the countrymen who deserve the recognition.  The premier was addressing the reception ceremony accorded by ‘Jatiya Nagorik Committee’ at Suhrawardy Udyan of

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi would jointly inaugurate second border haat (market) in Kasba of Brahmanbaria through video conferencing during the latter’s visit to Dhaka next week.Officials of Brahmanbaria district and Tripura’s

TANGAIL: Rail Communication of northern region in the country with Dhaka resumed after one and half hours’ halt following broke down of a tree on rail line near Mahera Rail Station under Mirzapur Upazila Friday afternoon.Gharinda Railway Station Master Jalal Uddin told banglanews that

GAZIPUR: An 18-year-old worker of Pran-RFL group was raped allegedly by her two colleagues in a boat on Shitalkshya River under Kaliganj Upazila of the district Wednesday night.Police, however, arrested two accused-- M Faruk, 22, and Sharif Miah, 25 --for allegedly raping a fellow

DHAKA: Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Annisul Huq alleged that authorities of National Bank Limited are not cooperating with the efforts to minimize the risk in the area of partially collapsed under-construction NBL Twin Tower.The newly elected mayor came up with the remarks

DHAKA: Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal visited Kolkata to watch final match of Indian Premier League (IPL) on May 24 at the invitation of Board of Cricket Council of India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya. On arrival at Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Jagmohan

DHAKA: A fire broke out at a showroom of Transcom Electronics in Gulshan-1 in the city on Friday afternoon. The fire originated at the showroom around 3:30pm, said Nilofer Yasmin, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defense Control Room.On information, two fire-fighting units from

DHAKA: The United Nations (UN) urged all the countries that are ‘implicated’ to sit around the table and come up with a solution regarding ongoing human trafficking.“The issue of migration that we've been seeing in that part of the world is one that demands a regional solution,”