DHAKA: Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu opined that August 21 was the new version of August 15. The minister came up with the assertion while addressing candle-lighting programme in front of Awami League office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the city early Thursday. He said that the then

DHAKA: Music Director Shawkat Ali Emon has been arrested with the allegation of releasing nude pictures and video from his Bailey road residence in the city early Thursday. Police detained him as per allegation by his “so-called wife” Jinat Kabir.Ramna thana duty officer Mazurul

MALAYSIA: A Bangladeshi worker living in Malaysia died of a cardiac arrest in Mozart of Johor Bahru in Malaysia on Monday.  The deceased was identified as Abdullah-Al-Mamun Rasel, 30, son of Abdur Rahim, hailed from Deuyalia village under Daganbhuiyan of Feni district.  Feni Somity

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Shamsuzzoha on five-day remand in a case filed under Information Technology Act for commenting odiously about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Metropolitan Magistrate Erfan Ullah passed the remand order as the DB police produced Shamsuzzoha before

GAIBANDHA: A housewife and his mother-in-law were electrocuted at Dakhhin Chapadaha village of Sadar upazila in the district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Manikjan Begum, 40, wife of Jelhaque Bepari and his mother-in-law Delbanu Bagum, 65, wife of Rabi Sheikh of the

DHAKA: Performing hajj for some 581 people has become uncertain due to inconsistencies in their names and addresses. Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Religious Affairs Bajlul Haque Harun made the disclosure on Wednesday. He said, “Out of thousands of

BOGRA: A journalist was killed and four other journalists were injured in a road accident in Dhankundi area in Sherpur upazila of the district on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Abu Bakar Siddique, general secretary of Faridpur Press Club of Pabna district. The

LALMONIRHAT: A Lalmonirhat court on Wednesday awarded life-time imprisonment to three people in a murder case in the district.The convicts were also fined Tk 25,000.The convicts are Ashraful Islam Tufan, 35, son of Abdus Sattar, Faridul Islam, 25, son of Abdur Rahim, and Jubayed Hossain

DHAKA: Bodies of three Bangladeshi construction workers, who were killed on Monday when a concrete span collapsed to ground in Kota Damansara area of Malaysia, arrived home on Thursday morning. A flight of Biman Bangladesh airlines DG-087, carrying the bodies, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal

DHAKA: The law enforcers freed Garments Sramik Oikya Federation leader Mosrefa Mishu on Wednesday night hours after her detention. Officer-in-Charge MA Jalil of Badda Police Station confirmed the matter to banglanews. He said she was released around 8:00pm. Earlier in the day, police

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Embassy has moved to a new location in the Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, this week to offer improved services. The mission, which was at Al-Warood Quarter, has been shifted to Al-Waha district, Building No. 33, Al-Sheikh Hossain bin Hasan Street in Al-Waha

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Robi Ullah Robi, News Editor of the Dainik Inquilab, on a five-day remand in an information technology case.Metropolitan Magistrate SM Ashiqur Rahman passed the remand order after holding a hearing in the afternoon.Detective Branch (DB)

NARAYANGANJ:  A Narayanganj court on Wednesday sent 15 accused, including three Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel, who gave confessional statements, to jail.Senior Judicial Magistrate AKM Mohiuddin placed the order in the morning and fixed October 13 as the next hearing date

DHAKA: A team of researchers, including university faculties, journalists and development workers, paid a visit to the Day Care Centre run by Sajida Foundation with support from the Concern Worldwide and UNDP on Wednesday morning. About 40 children of the urban homeless shared their

DHAKA: The surgery of Language Movement activist Abdul Matin, widely honored as ‘Bhasha Matin’, has been successful.Doctors, after completing the surgery in his head, told banglanews that the 88-year old language veteran is now out of danger.Matin has been admitted at Bangabandhu

DHAKA: The government has terminated a Bangladesh Bank General Manager (GM) for his alleged involvement in corruption and irregularities on Wednesday.The officer, Golam Mostafa, was the in-charge of inspection department of the central bank.Sources told banglanews that the authorities,

COX’S BAZAR: Coast Guard personnel detained 30 people, who were trying to cross the sea to enter into Malaysia illegally, from the estuary of Banhkhali River adjacent to the seaside town on Wednesday morning.The coast guard also seized a trawler there.Nuniarchara Coast Guard Station

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 will pronounce its verdict any day as trial proceedings of the war crimes case against former state minister of Jatiya Party Syed Mohammad Qaisar ended Wednesday.The three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hasan also sent Qaisar to jail

Good news is that the government has taken a “Palli Jonopod” project aiming at developing model villages. But, simultaneously bad news is that Dhaka has once again been ranked as the second least liveable city in the world.London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released

RIYADH: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said Bangladeshi expatriates living in Saudi Arabia would get opportunity to make Machine Readable Passport (MPR) at home within two weeks.The minister came up with the remarks when inaugurated the MRP outsourcing project at