DHAKA: In the latest development, the government has made some major transfer and OSD (officer on special duty). Separate notifications from Public Administration Ministry made the disclosure on Thursday.Eight have been made OSD, 13 officials of Additional Secretary level appointed in

DHAKA: Hajj flight will start flying from August 16 this year while the returning flights will start from September 27.Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon made the announcement at his secretariat office on Thursday.This year some 1,01,758 pilgrims are likely to perform hajj. BDST:

DHAKA: Teachers and students of Dhaka University’s (DU) fine arts faculty, widely known as Charukala, organized a human-chain protesting the invasion of RC cola in the faculty organized ‘Baishakhi Mangal Shobhajatra’, a mass procession welcoming the Bangla New Year.The protest

DHAKA: Bangladesh embassy in Kathmandu organized a Baishakhi mela on the chancery premises on 14 April 2015 in celebrating ‘Pahela Baishakh’, the first day of Bangla New Year 1422, with festivity.The day’s program began with a ‘pitha’ festival where a variety of traditional

DHAKA: The participants at an international Dialogue held in UN headquarters conversed on a consensus that the Public Private Partnership (PPP) would be critical to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The day-long dialogue titled “Global PPP initiatives in post 2015: Financing

COXSBAZAR: Sea robbers abducted some 28 fishermen along with their fishing trawler from Sonadia Channel in the Bay of Bengal in Moheshkhali on Thursday morning.Badsha, who was also with the ill-fated fishermen and managed to swim to the shore jumping out of the robbers’ boat, said that

RAMPURA: Lawmaker of Dhaka-17 constituency AKM Rahmatullah remarked that Maniruzzaman Chowdhury Moni, owner of the collapsed house in Rampura, will not be spared.He came up with this assertion while talking to reporters after visiting the accident spot in Bowbazar of Rampura on

BARISAL:  Six people, including two women, were killed and seven others injured in a road accident in Banshtola area of the metropolitan on Thursday morning.Four of the deceased were identified as Mamun-or-Rashid, student of Barisal Government Syed Hakim Ali College, Swapan, driver of

DHAKA: The State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus said Monday that Belarus and Bangladesh will be expanding joint ventures in science and technological sectors.The announcement comes shortly after the first session of the intergovernmental commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh,

DHAKA: At least 12 people, including three of a family, were killed and scores injured as a tin-shed house collapsed into muddy soil at Hajipara in city’s Rampura area Wednesday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Nizam, 45, hailed from Barguna, his wife Kalpana Begum, 42 and

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her profound condolence over the death of people in the tin-shed house collapse at Hazipara in city’s Rampura area on Wednesday.PM press secretary AKM Shamim Chowdhury informed banglanews.He said that the premier extended sympathy to the

TANGAIL: Micreants has beaten a young man to death in New Bus Stand area of the town on Wednesday.The victim was identified as Dilip Chandra Das, 35, son of Sunil Chandra Das of Kagmara area of Sadar upazila.Deceased’s father said Dilip went missing from Tuesday morning and later on

MOULVIBAZAR: Four people received burn injuries in a devastating fire which broke out in Phulertal Bazar under Kulaura upazila of the district on Wednesday.The victims claimed that they faced loss of around Tk 4 crore as the blaze destroyed 15 shops.Baramchal Union Parishad chairman Imran

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 ordered to submit formal charge against five razakars of Kirshoreganj for crimes against humanity in 1971.The accused are Nasir Uddin Ahmed, 62, a former army officer, his brother Shamsuddin, 60, a member of Kishoreganj Bar Association, Razakar

DHAKA: The High Court on Wednesday gave a split verdict after bail hearing in two violence cases against BNP-backed Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor candidate Mirza Abbas.Senior Justice Quamrul Islam Siddique gave three weeks anticipatory bail to Abbas while his junior bench

DHAKA: At least 11 people, including three of a family, were killed and scores injured as a tin-shed house collapsed into muddy soil at Hajipara in city’s Rampura area Wednesday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Nizam, 45, hailed from Barguna, his wife Kalpana Begum, 42 and

DHAKA: Five more Bangladesh nationals who had been evacuated earlier from war-torn Saana in Yemen reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Wednesday. They landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by Jet Airways Flight No. 9W 276 at 12:15pm, said a foreign ministry

DHAKA: Police recovered bodies of a youth and a construction worker from city’s Fakirapool and Savar areas.Body of the youth identified as Shahjalal (28), son of Abul Kashem of Debidwar upazila of Comilla, was recovered from Mid Star residential hotel in city’s Fakirapool area on

DHAKA: Five people were killed and 10 others injured in road crashes in Sylhet and Gazipur districts on Wednesday.   Banglanews correspondent from Sylhet reports: Three persons including a woman were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sylhet

DHAKA:  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed April 28 for hearing the appeals of death row convicts Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. Four-member bench, led by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order in the morning