NARAYANGANJ: One year of the gruesome Narayanganj seven-murder incident has passed with no mentionable development in its trial proceedings. Though charge sheet in the murder cases was submitted accusing three sacked RAB officers among 35 on April 8, some 11 months after the murder, the

DHAKA: The death toll from Nepal's earthquake rose to 3,218 on Monday, two days after the massive quake ripped across this Himalayan nation, leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.Aid groups received the first word from remote mountain villages reports that

RIYADH: Bangladesh Consulate General office in Jeddah will remain open even on holidays to carry out issuance of Machine Readable Passport (MRP) for Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia.The Jeddah office took the initiatives as International Aviation Authorities gave a term that none

GAZIPUR: Seven workers sustained severe burn injuries when a devastating fire broke out at a factory in Chandara area of the district on Monday morning. The injured workers of Agami Washing Limited were, initially, rushed to local hospital.Later, Fazlur Rahman with 25 percent burns

DHAKA: The nations of ASEAN, or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said they stood ready to extend their assistance to the countries hit by a deadly earthquake on Saturday.The delegates were in Kuala Lumpur for the three-day ASEAN Summit, which officially starts on Monday (Apr

DHAKA: Polls campaign came to an end after Sunday midnight, two days before the elections to the three city corporations --Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong.Candidates for city corporation elections concluded their last minute campaigns to woo their voters. Now candidates, voters

DHAKA: All sorts of vehicular movements will remain suspended in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation areas on April 28 during polls.Election Commissioner Sirajul Islam told banglanews that all kinds of motor vehicles, including town service passenger buses and tempos, will remain

DHAKA: Polls campaign will come to an end after Sunday midnight, two days before the elections to the three city corporations --Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong.Candidates for city corporation elections are now busy with their last minute campaigns to convince their voters.As per

DHAKA: Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina on Sunday expressed her profound sympathy to the victims of Saturday’s massive earthquake that left over 2,000 dead in neighboring Nepal.The PM was speaking at press conference held at her official residence Ganabhaban in city.‘We will stand by Nepal

DHAKA: Two years after Rana Plaza collapse in Savar, outskirts of Dhaka that killed more than 1,100 people and injured about 2,500, the victims' families filed a lawsuit in US federal court in Washington Friday against Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other U.S.-based companies that sourced out

DHAKA: Law enforcers have tightened security by establishing check-posts in several important points across the capital city over the upcoming polls.Moreover, additional surveillance has been put on driving motorcycles.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia confirmed

DHAKA: United Nations Resident Coordinator Robert Watkins welcomed largely peaceful environment in Dhaka, Chittagong on the eve of the city corporation elections.Office of UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh issued a statement on Sunday.In the pre-election statement, Robert Watkins

DHAKA: A passenger plane of Biman Bangladeshi Airlines returned from Nepal as it did not get any space to park at Tribhuvan Airport Bay on Sunday.Earlier, the plane- BG-701 flew from Dhaka at 11:15am and returned at 2:30pm, confirmed Biman General Manager (operations) Motahar

DHAKA: Arms Police Battalion (APBn) seized gold, weighting 650 grams, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of the city Sunday noon.Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of APBn Tanzina Akhter confirmed the matter to banglanews.The gold has been recovered after searching luggage

COMILLA: At least 1,080 bullets were recovered from a hole in agricultural land in Ghospa area under Barura Upazila of the district on Sunday.Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Barura Thana Nasiruddin said some workers spotted huge bullets hidden beneath the earth while they were digging soil for

DHAKA: A total of 5,000 members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will be deployed in the upcoming city corporations elections.RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed was talking to journalists at his office at EC Secretariat in city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar at 11:30am.He said a total of 268

KUSHTIA: A man and his son were burnt to death in shallow machine explosion in Moshaura village under Daulatpur Upazila of the district Saturday midnight.The deceased were identified as Niamat Malitha alias Hekmat Ali, 50, peasant of Moshaura village and his 9-year-old boy

DHAKA: A 6.7- magnitude earthquake jolted Dhaka and elsewhere of the country at 1:12pm on Sunday. There was no immediate report of casualties or damage.The epicenter was at Kodari, 81 kilometers east of Kathmandu, capital of Nepal.Earlier, a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck

DHAKA: The Election Commission (RC) is set to ensure a tight security for Dhaka North, South and Chittagong city corporation polls with deployment of some 78,730 members of different law enforcement agencies, sources concerned said.Voting to Dhaka South, Dhaka North and Chittagong city

DHAKA: Bangladesh Government is sending humanitarian assistance including medical teams and medicine to Nepal in the wake of the devastation caused in Nepal by a major earthquake on Sunday.The medical teams would be working with the Nepalese Government in assisting the affected people