CHITTAGONG: A woman and her son were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Fauzdarhat area under Sitakundo upazila at 6:am Thursday.The identity of the deceased could not know immediately.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Baro Aulia Highway

DHAKA: Two persons were killed and three others hurt as a bus rammed a CNG-run auto rickshaw at Paribagh of the capital on Thursday morning.Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.In-Charge of Dhaka Medical College Police outpost Mozammel Haque confirmed the matter to

FROM PARLIAMENT: The much-talked-about the 16th Amendment to Constitution Bill passed on Wednesday for empowering Jatiya Sangsad to impeach the Supreme Court judges for misconduct or incapacity.  Law, Justice and Parliament Affairs Minister Anisul Haq placed the bill before the House

DHAKA: The Ganajagaran Mancha set their three-day program protesting Supreme Court’s verdict to Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee for imprisonment unto death for his crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971.One of the conveners of Ganajagaran

FROM NEW DELHI: Let us recall the second week of 2010 when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid her India tour. That time she was handed the Indira Gandhi Award for her outstanding contribution to the democracy. This historic tour ended up with a joint statement with 50 bilateral issues

DHAKA: International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF) is deeply disappointed with the appeal-verdict passed on Delowar Hossain Sayeedi by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh that commuted his death sentence to imprisonment for his crimes against humanity during the

DHAKA: Systematic retrofitting construction work by Public Works Department (PWD) started at Tejgaon Fire Station building for the first time in the country. Local engineers, with the support of Japanese experts have started working to retrofit the fire station to turn the important

BRAHMANBARIA: A Bangladeshi expatriate was killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Alam Mia, 40, hailed from Brahmanbaria district. Alam’s father said that another expatriate informed them about the accident of Alam on Tuesday

CHITTAGONG: A Chittagong court on Wednesday awarded life-term imprisonment to two accused in a rape case in the district. The convicts are Mohammad Shukkur and M Jahangir. Judge M Rezaul Karim of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 passed the order after completion of

DHAKA: The Detective Branch (DB) of Police submitted supplementary charge-sheet against Oishee Rahman and two of her friends in the case of killing father and also Special Branch (SB) Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and her mother Swapna Rahman. The two others accused are Asauzzaman Joni and

COMILLA: Two people were killed in a road accident in Suagazi Bhatpara Rastar Matha area of Sadar Dakkhin upazila in the district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Saiful Islam, 24, CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver and son of Jashim uddin of Bishnapur village and Manwara Begum,

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Wednesday said the Vision-2021 taken by government would be adopted in the next development agenda for 2015 of the United Nations.  The foreign minister was addressing a press conference on the UN General Assembly on September 26 at his

DHAKA: Customs intelligence officials detained a man with two gold bars, weighing 2 kilograms, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday. The detainee, Ranjit, came from Malaysia by a flight named MH-102 around 11:45am and a resident of Nababganj of Dhaka. Moinul Khan,

DHAKA: Law minister Anisul Haque has been ‘shocked’ at Sayedee’s verdict.He, however, expressed his opinion to the journalists in the noon at his own residence in city’s Gulshan area.Anisul Haque said there that he is upset after knowing that the verdict said that being member of

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested foreign investors to be part in making Bangladesh's dynamic and growing economy.“I urged you to take advantage of the very liberal and favourable regulatory regime, skilled workforce and strategic location of Bangladesh to expand their

DHAKA: Police Wednesday dispersed Gonojagoron Moncho activists from Shahbagh intersection using water canon and tear shells soon after Delawar Hossain Sayedee verdict.The action left over a dozen activists including its convener Imran H Sarkar hurt. Imran was taken to Dhaka Medical

DHAKA: Attorney General (AG) Mahbubey Alam on Wednesday said there is no opportunity left for war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee to file review petition on the Supreme Court’s verdict.Alam was talking to the journalists in a post-verdict reaction in the

DHAKA: Noted journalist, columnist Abed Khan expressed frustration as Supreme Court commuted death penalty of Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee to jail unto death for war crimes.In an immediate reaction after verdict, Abed Khan told banglanews, “As a witness I am frustrated and

DHAKA: Activists of the Gonojagoron Mancha staged demonstration immediately after the Supreme Court commuted death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee in 2 charges on Wednesday morning.Led-by spokesperson Imran H Sarkar, 50 activists of Mancha brought out a

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered 23 cocktails from behind a petrol pump in Chamagram area of Sadar upazila of the district on Wednesday morning.Acting on tip off that huge explosives are being gathered there aiming to commit subversive acts after pronouncement