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NAOGAON: Two people were killed as a sand-laden truck ran over a rickshaw in Muktir Mor area in the district sadar Tuesday afternoon.The deceased were identified as rickshaw-puller Bazlur Rahman, 35, of Hapania Bazar area of Sadar upazila and rickshaw passenger Mozaffar Hossain, 45,
DINAJPUR: India’s Border Security Force (BSF) members on Tuesday handed over the body of Bangladeshi farmer Nazrul, who was shot by the Indian forces on Monday morning.They handed over the body to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during a flag meeting at Achintapur frontier of Birampur
DHAKA: At least six people, including three police members, sustained bullet injuries in a gunfight with robbers while they were fleeing after robbing a house in city’s Badda area on Tuesday.The injured police members are Constable Abdus Salam and Constable Abul Kalam and inspector
BENAPOLE (JESSORE): Members of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) kidnapped a Bangladeshi cattle trader Azizur Rahman (30) from Putkhali frontier under Benapole Land-port Thana.Sources said Azizur, son of Chand Ali of Putkhali union, was abducted by the BSF personnel of India’s
GAZIPUR: Miscreants hurled a cocktail in front of deputy commissioner’s (DC) office in Gazipur Tuesday noon amid the 72-hour nationwide hartal and indefinite blockade.However, none was injured in this incident while police arrested one suspected following the blast.The arrestee is
DHAKA: Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday cleared all the defendants including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from the charges in a Bangabandhu Novo Theatre project scam case.The anti-graft body of the state cleared the defendants as it did not find any evidences against Hasina
LAKSMIPUR: A group of miscreants slaughtered Mohammad Rubel (30), former Juba League general secretary of Ward no 4 of Duttapara union of Lakshmipur sadar upazila of the district.The incident took place on Monday night.Locals on Tuesday morning found Rubel, son of Abul Khayer, dead in
DHAKA: Employees at the country’s leading mobile operator Grameenphone (GP) came under the authorities’ reprisal as they began movement to press home their demands.However, GP called the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to foil the employees’ movement.On Sunday, nearly a
JESSORE: Two petrol bomb attackers were killed when they tried to attack a truck in Monirampur on Tuesday morning.The deceased was identified as Liton and Yusuf, residents of same upazila.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Monirampur Thana Mollah Khabir Ahmed said
CHITTAGONG: A driver of a covered-van and its helper were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Mirsarai upazila of the district Tuesday morning.The deceased could not be identified immediately.Zorarganj Highway Police Outpost in-charge Mehedi Hasan told banglanews
DHAKA: Activists of Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, locked into a clash at Kadamtoli in the capital at 8:26am Tuesday.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Kadamtoli Thana SI Kokil Chandra Saha said, Shibir men brought out a brisk procession in the area.
MYMENSINGH: A private university student was stabbed to death near his home in Gohailkandi Road area of the district town on Monday night.The victim was identified as Antar, 24, a first year student of the city’s East West University, son of Abdul Malek of the area.Mymensingh Kotwali
BARISAL: A truck driver and his helper were killed in a road accident on Barisal-Dhaka highway at Sundardi area under Gaurnadi upazila in the wee hours on Tuesday.The deceased could not be identified immediately.Officer-in-Charge of Gaurnadi Thana Sazzad Hossain told banglanews that
DHAKA: Another victim, who sustained burn injuries as pro-blockaders hurled a petrol bomb at a pick-up van in Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Monday evening, succumbed to injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) early Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Kamal Hossain, 28, a
DHAKA: Controversial Assistant Visa Officer of Pakistan High Commission to Dhaka Mohammad Mazhar Khan, along with his family, left Bangladesh by a PIA flight on January 31 (Saturday).Foreign ministry sources told banglanews that Pakistan High Commission confirmed the matter to them
DHAKA: Blockaders exploded several cocktails and torched a passenger bus in separate places in the capital on Tuesday morning.Tuesday is the 29th straight day of road-water-railway blockade for indefinite period enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Blockaders torched a passenger bus of
COMILLA: At least seven people were burnt to death on the spot and 20 burnt severely as blockaders threw petrol bomb in a Dhaka-bound bus in Comilla early Tuesday. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. The bus of Icon Paribahan was coming from Cox’s Bazar.
RANGPUR: Rangpur City Corporation (RACC) mayor Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu on Monday announced Tk 10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of saboteurs.He made the announcement in a human chain program and rally, arranged by Rangpur district and metropolitan Dokan Malik Samity in
DHAKA: Visiting Bhutanese home and cultural affairs minister Damchoe Dorji met Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at his secretariat office on Monday.Dorji expressed his gratitude and thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for providing land to Bhutan embassy in Dhaka.The ministers discussed
CHITTAGONG: The train communications of Chittagong with other parts of the country resumed Monday afternoon 12 hours after the derailment of a train in Boro Takia area under Mirsarai upazila of the dsitrict.Divisional transport officer Firoj Iftekhar of Railway Eastern Region told