NAOGAON: At least two passengers were killed and ten others injured in a road accident in Chawkgopal area in Porsha upazila on Saturday morning. The identity of the deceased and injured could not be known immediately.  Quoting witnesses, police said a passenger bus turned turtle on

CHITTAGONG: Couple of flights was affected at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport as dense fog disrupted operations since Saturday morning. A flight coming from Abu Dhabi, was scheduled to land 8:45am, could not land due to the poor visibility caused by a thick fog, an airport

DHAKA: No sight of four-year-old boy has been found by the high-powered camera at 243 feet bottom of a deep well in the city's Shahjahanpur. State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal came up with the development while talking to the journalists on the spot at 2:50am Saturday.

CHITTAGONG: Railway authority suspended sub-assistant engineer Jahangir Alam and black listed contractor firm SR House over falling of a 4-year-old boy 400 feet deep into a pipe at a project site in Khilgaon Friday. Director General of Railway Tofazzal Hossain confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: A 4-year old boy fell into a 400-feet deep hole of an abandoned water pump near a field in Khilgaon Colony of the city on Friday afternoon. Confirming the matter Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shahjahanpur Thana Mehedi Hasan said the victim Zihad fell into the hole while playing in the

CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh Shipping Corporation’s (BSC) cargo ship ‘Banglar Kakoli’ waiting for high tide in river Karnaphuli to sail on Saturday morning. As soon as the tide will come the ship will leave Chittagong for Sri Lanka with 12,000 tons of rice. The destination is Colombo port

DHAKA: Four people were killed in separate road accidents in Comilla and Gaibandha on Friday. Comilla Correspondent said two people were killed as a tractor collided head-on with an auto rickshaw in Bakar Nagar area of Muradnagar upazila around 4:00pm. Sub-inspector (SI) Abu Zaher of

DHAKA: The World Bank (WB) is ready to provide a loan of USD 500 million to Bangladesh for riverbank improvement projects to prevent erosion and reduce the incidence and severity of flooding along selected sections of the Brahmaputra and Jamuna. The government earlier sought such

GOPALGANJ: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Tungipara here on Saturday to pay homage to her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. SM Khurshid-Ul-Alam, the protocol officer-2 of the premier, sent a fax message to Gopalganj Deputy Commissioner (DC) on Friday in this regard.

DHAKA: Indian government has sought cooperation from Bangladesh in an offensive against a tribal militant group, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), that had shot dead at least 80 people in Assam state this week. The government also sought help from Bhutan and Myanmar to hunt

DHAKA: BNP vice chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed on Friday alleged the government was not exposing the reasons of oil-tanker capsize in the Shela River due to involvement of one of the cabinet member’s brother-in-law with the incident. He was reading out the findings and

MUNSHIGANJ: A 20-kilometre-long tailback has been created on Dhaka-Chittagong highway after a truck went out of service on Meghna Bridge Thursday night.Sources told banglanews that long queue of vehicles was seen on both side of the highway, causing immense sufferings to passengers,

DHAKA: BNP Standing Committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy was detained by Detective Branch (DB) of police and shown arrested in the clash at Bakshibazar in the city. DB police sources said the BNP leader was picked-up by a team of DB police from city’s Siddheswari area at 6:30am

DHAKA: A director general-level (DG) meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India began at BGB Headquarters in the city’s Pilkhana Friday.A 23-member BGB team led by DG Major General Aziz Ahmed is holding the meeting with a 19-member BSF

CHITTAGONG: A worker was killed after a shipping container fell on him at jetty no. 13 of the Chittagong Port early Friday. The deceased was identified as Samir Nath, son of Kemosh Nath of Hashimpur village under Chandanaish Upazila. A rolling container fell on Samir, helper of a lorry

DHAKA: City covered under blanket of thick fog.  Mild cold wave is sweeping across the capital from Thursday midnight, affecting normal life and causing miseries to the common people.In the wake of poor visibility due to foggy weather, road traffic remained adversely affected, sources

GOALANDA: Ferry services in the Daulatdia-Paturia route in Padma River was disrupted due to dense fog on early Friday.Master of Kaberi ferry Shafi Uddin Ahmed said that as well as the plying of ferry services came to a halt at 4:30am due to blurred visibility caused by dense fog.The

SHERPUR: Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident in Kumri-Battala area under Sadar upazila of the district on Thursday night.The deceased were identified as Alimul Haque Arif, 32, son of Abdul Haque and Joynal Abedin Junu, 30, son of Ashraf Ali, residents of the

DHAKA: A woman out of four people, who sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a Gabtoli slum on Wednesday night, succumbed to her injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Friday.The deceased was identified as Shanta Akter, resident of the slum.The fire originated

DHAKA: Two men were shot by anonymous miscreants in city’s Gulshan area on early Friday.One of the victims is identified as Ramzan Ali, the name of the other one could not be known immediately.Ramzan’s father Saidur Rahman said that a gang of unidentified miscreants shot the duo in