GAIBANDHA: A grandmother along with her grandchild was killed as a wall collapsed in Pirapur Matherpara area in Gobindaganj upazila of the district on Monday.The deceased were identified as Manwara, 50 wife of Mahir Uddin and their grandchild Rumi Khatun, 3, of the village.Locals said

DHAKA: The High Court on Monday ordered to ban plying human haulers on highways in five districts of the southern part of the country within 72-hour.An HC bench comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice M Khasruzzaman passed the order and also issued a rule upon the

DHAKA: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Chairman Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmed on Monday filed petition with the High Court challenging the notice issued by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) asking the statement of his moveable and immoveable properties.An HC bench comprising Justice Farah

DHAKA: The mobile-phone operators have to provide one percent money as development surcharge on their income to the government which will be spent on education and health sector.The decision came from a regular meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Secretariat office in

DHAKA: World Bank (WB) country director to Bangladesh Johannes Zutt remarked that conflicting politics is the main barrier of removing the country’s various problems.He came up with the observation while addressing a view exchange meeting on ‘poverty alleviation and growth rate

NARAYANGANJ: A man strangulated his wife and a 9-year old son to death in Lakkharchar area in Bandar upazila of the district on Monday.The deceased were identified as Afsana, 28, wife of Yazal and their son Afzal.Bandar Thana officer-in-charge Nazrul Islam said local people informed the

DHAKA: The defense lawyers are cross examining Jobeda Khatun, mother of Joj Miah who is accused in 21 August grenade attack cases. Speedy Tribunal-1 justice M Shahed Nur Uddin accepted the questioning in front of Dhaka Central Jail at 11:05 Monday. Public prosecutor Akram Uddin Shaymal

COX’S BAZAR: Police in a drive detained 14 people with huge arms-ammunition and Yaba tablets from various spots of the district between Sunday midnight and Monday morning. Confirming the matter Cox’s Bazar Additional Police Super Tofayel Ahmed told banglanews “Police in the drive

DHAKA: A road has been named after Bangladesh former president, also BNP founder late Ziaur Rahman in Chicago of USA.  Politician Alderman Joe Moore, who has been representing the 49th Ward of the City of Chicago, inaugurated the ‘Ziaur Rahman Way’ in Chicago of Illinois State on

DHAKA: Custom officials seized 12-kg gold at Shahjalal International Airport on Monday noon. Custom joint-commissioner Kazi Mohammad Ziauddin said that acting on a tip-off they conducted a search drive in the plane FZ-583. The plane, which came from Dubai, landed in Dhaka at 11:00am.

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will attend the 3rd Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting to be held on September 20 in New Delhi.     The minister will fly for India on 18 September on a four-day visit.  Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj invited

DHAKA: A North Korean court has sentenced an American man to six years of hard labour for "hostile acts", the state-run KCNA news agency has said. Matthew Miller was arrested in April, shortly after arriving as a tourist. The US accuses North Korea of using Mr Miller and two other

DHAKA: The leader of Sweden's Social Democrats says he will try to form a government after their election win, but will not work with the far right. Partial results show Stefan Lofven's opposition party are set to return to power, but with no clear majority. They give the centre-left

West Indies 380 All Out [ S Chandrapaul 84* , LR Johnson 66, KC Brathwaite 63, DM Bravo 46, JE Taylor 40 ,Al Amin 3/ 80, Rabiul Islam 2/63 ,Shafiul Islam 2/80 ,Taijul Islam 2/ 89] Bangladesh 104 /7 [ Tamim Iqbal 48 ,KAJ Roach 5/33, JE Taylor 2/33] Pathetic and awful batting by Bangladesh

DHAKA: Kala Babu, prime accused of sensational Moghbazar triple murder, killed in gunfight with DB police in capital early Monday at Wireless Gate area of the capital.   Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Ramna Thana Moshiur Rahman said two cohorts were also

Milestone, a word that, once again, uttered for banglanews24.com during its four years and two months journey. Over two million of facebook users have knot their ties with banglanews, the largest online news portal in Bangladesh. Banglanews touched this new milestone during noon hours of

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday accepted the charge sheet against BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed and his brother Manzur Ahmed in government house grabbing case in city’s Gulshan area. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge M Zahurul Haque accepted the charge sheet after

DHAKA: Department of Narcotics Control personnel held a woman drug peddler with 1,000 pieces of yaba tablets in city’s Tikatuli area on Sunday. The detainee is Selina Akter. Narcotics control department sources said officials conducted a special drive and held Selina with the drugs

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) summoned former state minister for Housing and Public Works ministry Alamgir Kabir in BNP led government’s tenure. ACC deputy director and also investigation officer Jatan Kumar Roy issued the letter on Sunday afternoon. He said Alamgir

CHITTAGONG: Two workers were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Noapara area under Raojan upazila of the district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Mohammad Jamal, 28, son of Mohammad Shahidul and Mohammad Akter, 24, son of Mohammad Hadis Mia, hailed from