DHAKA: CNG stations across country will remain open for 24-hour daily at a stretch for ten days from October 1 on occasion of Eid-ul-Adha and Puja. The decision came from an inter-ministerial meeting at Ramna Restaurant in the capital on Thursday noon.After the meeting Road Transport

DHAKA: Islami Chhatra Sena filed a case against Jamaat leader, also ATN TV presenter Tareq Monwar and five others over Maulana Nurul Islam Farooqi murder.General secretary of Chhatra Sena Dhaka city unit Imran Hossain Tushar Thursday filed the case with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan

DHAKA: International Crime Tribunal-1 warned US-based rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) asking it to be careful to make further any comment over any sub-judice matter.A three-member team led by its chairman justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the order on Thursday and

CHITTAGONG: The first hajj flight, carrying 419 pilgrims, will take off from Shah Amanat International Airport of Chittagong for Saudi Arabia at 7:45pm Thursday.   Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Farooq Khan and State Minister for Religious Affairs Advocate Shahjahan Mia will bid

DHAKA: National Board of Revenue (NBR) has made the value added tax (VAT) mandatory in passport issuance and renewal, said sources concerned. Confusion arose on VAT collection in issuance and renewal of passport at division and district tax regions. Concerning departments sent letters to

DHAKA: Foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali termed Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Bangladesh on Saturday as a milestone. The FM told media at a press conference at his office on Thursday. According to the minister, during his one-day visit Abe and his

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed authorities concerned to take necessary steps to bring peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region in the country. She came up with the order during her visit to Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs ministry at the secretariat in city on

DHAKA: As a symbol of friendship, Bangladesh is going to send two Royal Bengal Tigers-- named Ranbir and Jyoti-- to Japan within a month. The four and half years old Ranbir met his families at National Zoo in the case No- C-3/A on Wednesday. On May 2010, two calves of tigers were born

DHAKA: A gang of miscreants shot a youth dead and his father sustained bullet injury in city’s Goran area of the capital on Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Sayem, 23, son of Israfil.Police sources said a group of miscreants shot Sayem and his father and snatched Tk 48

DHAKA: The High Court summoned Nasir Uddin Nasu, owner of Bashumati Housing Project and managing director, Hirajheel Property Development Company Ltd.Single bench of Justice Rezaul Hasan passed the order on Monday. The court asked him to appear before it at 10:30am on September 8. The

GAZIPUR: Two people were burnt alive as a fire broke out at Nayanpur village of Sreepur upazila in the district on Wednesday night.The deceased were identified as Joynal Abedin, 35, son of Abdul Hamid hailed from Mymensingh district and Abdus Samad, 38, son of Raichh Uddin, hailed

DHAKA: Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Wednesday said that the number of readers of the online newspapers is increasing day by day.It is alarming to the print media, he observed while addressing a program titled ‘The role of online media to build digital

DHAKA: A steel rolling mill worker was killed as a blade of the factory hit his throat in Shyampur area of the city on Wednesday noon.The deceased was identified as M Kamal Hossain, 34.Fellow worker of the deceased Ershad said a blade of the mill hit at his throat in the area in the

DHAKA: Visiting Indian Home Secretary Anil Goswami met Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali at his secretariat office here on Wednesday.During the parley, they discussed on border issues and disaster management of the neighboring countries.Anil Goswami expressed his satisfaction

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) revealed that no corruption had been found in the Padma bridge project.The ACC also claimed that the World Bank (WB) deliberately did the allegation.The ant-graft body said while briefing the reporters at ACC office in city’s Segunbagicha area

TANGAIL: A local Awami League leader was killed in a road accident in Saratail area in Kalihati upazila of the district on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Liakat Talukder, 55, AL president of Gohalia Bari union. Sources said a goods-laden rashly driven truck crushed

DHAKA: Two people, including a college girl, committed suicide in Wari and Banashree areas of the capital on Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Sabina Akter, 16, student of class-XII in Dhaka City Women College and Imran Hossain, 30, resident of Rampura-Banshree.Sabina’s uncle

DHAKA: A three-day Commonwealth Telecommunication Forum (CTO) Conference will be held at Radisson hotel in city from September 8. Bangladesh Government and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) are jointly hosting the international conference for the first time in the

DHAKA: A construction worker was killed after he fell from a building of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) here on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rubel, 35. Rubel’s fellow worker Minal said he fell from the building while plastering the 4th floor of

RIYAD: A Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrim died of old age complexities in Saudi Arabia on Monday. The deceased was identified as Masuda Khatun, 82, passport number- BA 0754981, hailed from Chapainawabganj district. Sources said that she died of an old age complication. Mecca Hajj Mission