COMILLA: Members of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) kidnapped four members of Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police from Ashabari frontier under Brahmanpara upazila of the district on Wednesday.The abducted police members are sub-inspector (SI) Gazi Mahbubur Rahman, assistant

DHAKA: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday extended his greetings and felicitations to Bangladesh on the eve of the country’s 45th Independence and National Day.President Pranab, in his message to his Bangladeshi counterpart Abdul Hamid, expressed his confidence in expanding

DHAKA: The nation is all set to celebrate the 45th Independence and National Day on Thursday with a vow to uphold the spirit of the Liberation War to build a ‘golden’ country completing the war crimes trial.On the occasion, President of the Republic Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister

DHAKA: The prosecution submitted an appeal at Supreme Court Appellate Division seeking death penalty of Abdul Jabbar, who was handed down jail-unto-death for war crimes.Attorney General’s office filed the 378-page appeal on Wednesday showing ten reasons to sentence the former Jatiya

DHAKA: The Independence Glass Tower and museum will formally be open to all on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day, on March 26.Cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor made the disclosure on Wednesday afternoon at a press conference at Independence Squire in Suhrawardi

DHAKA: Police, in overnight drives, arrested seven robbers along with weapons from Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka and Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media centre issued a press release in this regard on Wednesday noon.The arrestees are identified as Rubel,

MUNSIGANJ: Roads and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the main works of piling installation for the Padma Bridge at the Mawa end in October.The minister disclosed the matter while visiting the construction works of the Padma

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday sought cooperation of all to make the country free from militant acts saying the people want peace, not destruction.The premier made the remarks while handing over the Independence Award-2015, the highest state award, to seven eminent

DHAKA: One more petrol bomb victim succumbed to his burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Khorshed Alam, 30, who sustained burn injury when miscreants hurled petrol on a truck in Chandpur few days back.Confirming the matter to

DHAKA: The nation is solemnly recalling the Black Night of March 25 on Wednesday in commemoration of the cowardly attack and unleashing genocide on the unarmed Bangalees by the barbarous Pakistani occupation forces in 1971.Besides, Bangladesh government has prepared all documents to send

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday handed over Independence Awards (Swadhinota Puroskar) for the year 2015 to eight personalities for their outstanding contributions to the nation.The premier handed over the awards at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in city.The awardees are late

DHAKA: The death toll from the Magura truck arson has raised to four as another victim succumbed to his injuries at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday. The deceased was indentified as M Yadul Molla, 18, helper of the truck, son of late Jahur Molla of Gram Malik village

DHAKA: Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) has interrogated Farseem Mannan Mohammad, teacher of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) over blogger and writer Avijit Ray killing. He was quizzed for three hours at DB office located at Mintoo Road in the

DHAKA: On the sixth day of collecting nomination papers for the impending elections in Dhaka North City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DNCC), 1420 aspirants have bought nomination papers.538 out of 1420 aspirants have collected nomination papers from DNCC and 882

CHITTAGONG: A woman allegedly attempted to suicide after slaughtering her son and daughter at Aamtoli village under Lohagara Upazila early Wednesday.Being informed, police recovered the bodies of 7-year-old girl and two-year-old boy. Their mother, who sustained injuries due to suicide

DHAKA: Two Bangladeshi migrant workers, abducted by Islamic State militants from a Libyan oil field on March 6, were freed on Tuesday (March 24).The foreign ministry issued a press release regarding the release of two Bangladeshis.It said that Bangladesh Embassy in Libya confirmed the

DHAKA: Police recovered three bodies of women from different areas of the city on Tuesday.In North Jatrabari, two slaughtered bodies were recovered at a house in Kalapatti area around 5:00pm.The deceased were identified as Rawshan Ara, 60 and her house maid Kalpana, 11.Sub-inspector (SI)

DHAKA: Police recovered decomposed body of a man from his room in the fifth floor of a building in city’s Arambagh area on Tuesday afternoon.The deceased is identified as Erfan Uddin Tapan (52).Motijheel Thana sub-inspector (SI) Mohammad Awal Hossain told banglanews that they recovered

DHAKA: World Economic Forum study reveals that Bangladesh is one of the top 10 countries in the world in reducing gender gaps and this leads the country to win the prestigious Women in Parliaments (WIP) Global Forum Award for “regional leadership in closing the gender gap in

DHAKA: Government has taken initiatives to send a proposal to United Nations (UN) seeking declaration of March 25 as ‘International Mass Killing Day’.Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozzammel Huq confirmed the matter to banglanews on Tuesday.He said there is no such example of