DHAKA:  Prominent photo journalist Monwar Ahmed died at city’s Banganadhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) early Thursday.He was 75.Monwar Ahmed had been suffering from several diseases including Liver Cirrhosis for last six months.He breathed his last at the hospital around

DHAK: A three-day Bangladesh International Tourism Fair-2015 has been kicked off at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in city Thursday, with a target to earn 15 million USD from the event.Organized by Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD), Civil Aviation and

DHAKA: Malaysia will repatriate about 1,000 Bangladeshi illegal immigrants who came ashore in Langkawi, an archipelago in the Andaman Sea, 30 kilometers northwest of Malaysia, on May 11.Kuala Lumpur-based English newspaper The Malay Mail, the state-run news agency Bernama, reported on

DHAKA: All services of National Identity Registration Wing of the Election Commission (EC) will remain closed till May 25 due to up-gradation of server stations.EC's public relations department Director SM Asaduzzaman confirmed the matter to banglanews.Asaduzzaman said that receiving

DHAKA UNIVERSITY (DU): Death threat issued to Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) AAMS Arefin Siddique, Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Prime Minister’s Political Affairs Adviser HT Imam and Ganajagaran Mancha spokesman Imran H Sarker among 10 noted individuals.A letter written

DHAKA:  Rail communications on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet routes have come to normalcy after three hours halt since three bogies of a mail train derailed near Akhaura Rail Station early Thursday.Akhaura Railway Station Lokoshed in-charge Enamul Haque confirmed the matter to

JOYPURHAT: An alleged robber was killed in a gunfight with police in Maheshpur area under Ketlal Upazila of the district on Wednesday night.Details of the deceased could not be known immediately.Police sources said that a gang of robbers was carrying out robbery on Moalmgari-Shibpur road

DHAKA: Nazrul Academy has chalked out a four-day program from May 22 to commemorate the 116th birth anniversary of rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.Academy’s general secretary Mintu Rahman made the announcement in a press conference at National Press Club in city Wednesday.Mintu said

GAZIPUR: The administration on Wednesday closed the factory of Partex Group’s soft drink RC Cola in Gazipur for polluting the environment.An investigation committee, led by additional district magistrate, also was constituted to probe into the matter.Deputy Commissioner M Nurul Islam

DHAKA: Water Resources Minister of Bangladesh Anisul Islam Mahmud met his Dutch counterpart Ms. Melanie Schultz on Monday at the latter’s office in The HagueThe two leaders reached at a consensus for working towards a broad range of water related cooperation, says a press release issued

DHAKA: The certificate award ceremony of 98th Junior Command and Staff Course of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) was held at Bangladesh Air Force Command and Staff Training Institute (CSTI) at BAF Base Bashar Wednesday.Seventeen officers from Bangladesh Air Force and one officer each from

FROM GABTOLI TERMINAL: Hundreds of commuters remained stranded as the transport owners and workers are enforcing strike in south-western districts.Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, the strike was imposed as a protest of arresting transport workers over a robbery in a Sohag Paribahan passenger

DHAKA: Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against Sohel Rana, owner of the collapsed Rana Plaza, for not submitting wealth report within the given time.ACC deputy director M Mahbubul Alam filed the case (non-submission) with Ramna Model Thana of the city on Wednesday.ACC deputy

DHAKA: The newly appointed Ambassador of Germany to Bangladesh Dr. Thomas Prinz visited the coastal region of Bangladesh on Wednesday to get an insight of the German Development Cooperation’s activities, says a media release.The Ambassador opened a mock drill on cyclone preparedness in

COMILLA: A woman and her six-month old son were burnt to death at Sarkarpur village under Daudkandi upazila of the district on Wednesday.The victims were identified as Hasina Begum, 32, wife of Shahjahan Sikdar and their son Yasin of the village.Daudkandi Thana sub-inspector (SI) Anwar

DHAKA: A special tribunal in Dhaka exempted cricketer Rubel Hossain from a rape charge filed by film actress Naznin Akhtar Happy.Judge Tanjina Ismail of Dhaka’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 handed down the order Wednesday noon after completing the hearing in a

DHAKA: Hong Kong police smashed a syndicate that had been smuggling Bangladeshi workers illegally into the city over the past years.Hong Kong-based English news website EJ Insight reports on Wednesday.Quoting another local Apple Daily, EJ Insight said fourteen people aged between 25 and

LAXMIPUR: At least 10 people were injured as a group of robbers shot indiscriminately in Ramganj upazila of Laxmipur district.The incident took place on Tuesday night at Lamchar Bazar of the upazila.Lamchar Union Parishad member Abdul Kuddus said an enlisted robber Shah Alam and his aides

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Wednesday sentenced Mahidur Rahman and Afsar Hossain Chutu to jail unto death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.A three-member panel judge, led by ICT-2 chairman Justice Obaidul Hasan, handed down the verdict.The tribunal

DHAKA: Hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants have been rescued by fishermen off the coast of Indonesia, reports BBC.Local officials said more than 370 migrants, including at least 50 women and children, had been at sea for weeks and were starving and dehydrated.The latest rescue