FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: Foreign minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali said that government has rescued 2,385 Bangladesh nationals from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia from the traps of human traffickers.The minister made this disclosure at Jatiya Sangsad while replying to a question of Muhibur

DHAKA: Bangladesh and India have started the process of verification of people living in 162 enclaves, to be exchanged between two neighboring nations as per the Land Boundary Agreement, on Monday (July 6).The joint verification process began at 9:00am in all enclaves is expected to be

DHAKA: A petition was filed to bring contempt of court charge against founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury for terming three judges of International Crimes Tribunal-2 as “mentally sick”.Three freedom fighters and a faction of Gonojagoron Mancha on Monday filed the

CHITTAGONG: At least 27 shanties were gutted in a devastating fire that broke out at a slum in Anu Majhir ghat area of the port city Monday. The fire originated from kitchen stove of a shanty of the slum around 11:00am and soon engulfed adjacent shanties, says Nandan Kanan Station

FARIDPUR: Two people were killed in a road crash in Majhkandi area of Madhukhali upazila of the district on Monday.Identity of the deceased could not be known yet. Confirming the matter, Karimpur Highway police sub-inspector M Abu Sayed told banglanews a plain sheet-laden truck turned

DHAKA: Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police detained four people with 1200 kilograms of explosives from different areas of Chittagong and Lalbagh of Dhaka.In special drives, teams of DB police conducted the huge explosives haul on Sunday.DMP DB additional deputy commissioner SM

KHAGRACHHARI: Miscreants gunned down an elderly man in Dharmaghar area under sadar upazila of the district on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Satindra Lal, 55.The incident took place around 11:45am.Sadar Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Shamsusddin Bhuyan confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: Responding to repeated calls from International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Malaysia, Bangladesh government is taking necessary initiatives both at home and abroad to prevent human trafficking. Sources close to the government told banglanews that Bangladesh foreign

DHAKA: The United Nations human rights chief urged Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia not to worsen the human-trafficking crisis involving Bangladeshis and ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar.Zeid Ra'ad Al Husein, said Friday he was "appalled" that three South-east Asian countries were pushing

DHAKA: State Minister for Health & Family Welfare Zahid Maleque said Bangladesh is committed to meet the unfinished millennium development goals (MDG) and willing to work with the global community for knowledge sharing, resource mobilization and cooperation for addressing the targets of

RAJBARI: A woman and her brother-in-law were killed after being hit by thunderbolt at their house in Sadar Upazila of Rajbari Friday evening.The deceased were identified as Rubel Sheikh, 15, son of Abul Bashar Sheikh of Bara Nurpur village Basanta union of the upazila, and Pervin Begum,

DHAKA: Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali paid a courtesy call on the Governor of State of Sabah of Malaysia Tun Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Haji Juhar Haji Mahiruddin on Friday afternoon. He briefed the Governor about the peaceful co-existence among people of different religions of Bangladesh

DHAKA: Bangladesh Ambassador in Bangkok Saida Muna Tasneem met two Bangladeshi survivors -- an adult and a minor-- from a mass grave in Sadao district of the province, said a press release on Friday.The release added that the ambassador arrived Thailand southern province Songkla Thursday

LONDON: Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, grand-daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and another Bangladesh-origin Rupa Asha Huq became the Members of Parliament (MP) wining in the UK general election-2015 on Friday.Besides, first Bangladeshi origin lawmaker in UK parliament Rushanara Ali

SIRAJGANJ: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit Shahjadpur on Friday to unveil the foundation plaque of Rabindra University and to inaugurate several other developmental works here.The premier will also visit the Rabindra Kachhari Bari at Shahjadpur and inaugurate the

CAMDEN, GREATER LONDON: Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, daughter of Sheikh Rehana and grand-daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, became the Member of Parliament (MP) of United Kingdom on Friday.Tulip, who contended in the poll in from Hampstead and Kilburn constituency for Labour Party,

LONDON: Bangladeshi-British Rupa Asha Huq has been elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) from Ealing Central and Acton constituency in UK general election-2015.Rupa, who contended in the poll for Labour Party, won the poll by a narrow margin of only 274 votes from her nearest opponent

COXSBAZAR: Three human traffickers were killed and three cops sustained bullet injuries during a gunfight in Teknaf upazila of Coxsbazar early Friday.The deceased were identified as Dhalu Hossain, 55, Jahangir Alam, 34 and Jafar Alam, 38, residents of same upazila.Confirming the matter to

LONDON: Tulip Rizwana Siddiq along with her mother Sheikh Rehana and other family members visited Hampstead and Kilburn polling stations.Tulip, granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was fighting for Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary seat as Labour Party politician.She was

DHAKA: On the eve of Rabindranath Tagore’s 154th birth anniversary India Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted paying homage to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.In his microblogging message, Modi wrote, ‘I bow to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary’, reports