AKHAURA (BRAHMANBARIA): A three-day meeting will be held with the participation of 10 Deputy Commissioners (DC) of Bangladesh and its neighboring Indian province of Tripura on Monday.Confirming the matter, Akhaura Upazila Nirbahi Officer Ahsan Habib said that four Bangladeshi DCs and

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday published the updated final voter list with some 47-lakh additional voters.The upazila level voter lists have already been published in the offices of upazila polls officers.Election Commission (EC) Secretary Sirajul Islam told banglanews

DHAKA: The two-day second Joint Working Group (JWG) meetings on Sub-Regional Cooperation between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) concluded in New Delhi on January 31.The JWGs on Sub-Regional Cooperation between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) on Water Resources

DHAKA: At least eight people were burnt to death and four injured in a fire that broke out at a plastic factory near Nasim Plaza in section Mirpur-1 area in the capital on Saturday evening.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner M Asaduzzaman Mia confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: The initiative of Chittaranjan Saha of selling 32 books under the banyan tree on the premises of Bangla Academy on February 21, 1972, is now, so far the largest congregation of Bangali writers, readers and publishers.Saha, who was the founder of the then ‘Swadhin Bangla

DHAKA: Customs officials detained a civil aviation official with 4.2 kilograms at Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday.The detainee is Hafizur Rahman, boarding bridge operator of Civil Aviation Authority.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Farid Al Mamun, assistant commissioner

DHAKA: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman on Saturday urged all politicians to stop the ongoing violence in the country.The rights watchdog body chief made the plea after the ‘Procession for Peace’ program.He also requested the politicians to show

SYLHET: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid urged the BNP-led 20-party alliance to withdraw hartal for the sake of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, scheduled to start on Monday. He made the appeal through journalists here on Saturday after attending the second

GAZIPUR: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been sent on Saturday morning from Kashimpur High Security Jail to Paltan Thana in Dhaka for interrogation. Sources told banglanews that a team of Paltan Thana police, who will conduct the grill, started from Gazipur

DHAKA: Hasna Hamid, wife of former lawmaker and also former treasurer of Awami League late professor Hamidur Rahman, died at a hospital in Singapore early Saturday. She was 76. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her deep shock and condolences on the demise of Hasna, who was also

DHAKA: Hundreds of students besieged the Gulshan political office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday demanding withdrawal of hartal-blockade during Secondary School certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations.  Students of Badda High School staged a sit-in on road no 86

DHAKA: Police detained two youths with four kilograms of gold from Gabtali Bus Terminal in the city on Friday night. The detainees are Nur Nabi, 27, and Minhajul Haque Minal, 28. Darusslam Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) M Ali confirmed the matter to banglanews. The SI said law enforcers

LAXMIPUR: Blockade supporters vandalized and torched six vehicles, including truck and auto-rickshaws, on Jaksin-Podder bazaar road of the district sadar on Saturday morning.  A cement-laden truck came under arson attack by BNP-sponsored nationwide blockade at dawn. Later, five CNG and

DHAKA:  Two people were killed and 10 others injured in a clash between two groups of workers in Dakkhinbazar area of Beanibazar Upazila on Friday night. The deceased were identified as workers’ leader, Abul Kalam, 40, also a restaurant owner and son of Shajahan of Mollapur village

LAXMIPUR: A driver was killed when suspected blockaders hurled bomb at a passenger bus in Mandari area on Laxmipur-Begaumganj highway Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Sumon, 34, hailed from Begumganj upazila of Noakhali.  The Chittagong-bound bus came under bomb attack

NARAYANGANJ: Three people were killed including a kid in road accident in Fatullah’s Bhuinagar area of the sadar upazila Friday evening.Two of the deceased were identified as Oliuddin, 37, and his daughter Sumaiya, 7. They lived in Iskatan area of Dhaka.Quoting witnesses sub-inspector

DHAKA: Japan has shown interest in building a Railway Bridge parallel to Bangabandhu Bridge over the river Jamuna and this is why the country is not showing any interest in building a multi-purpose underwater tunnel beneath the river Jamuna.As a reason they said that the underground

DHAKA: Sixteen people were killed in road accidents in Mymensingh, Jhenaidah, Munshiganj, Narayanganj and Sylhet districts of the country on Friday.In Mymensingh, three people were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Raghabpur area under Sadar Thana as a passenger bus

DHAKA: A teenager was killed as a wall of an under construction building collapsed at Rayerbagh area of Jatrabari Thana in city Friday afternoon.The victim was identified as Sagor, 16, a painter and son of one Sultan Ahmed, hailed from Haimchar of Chandpur district.  Deceased’s friend

MYMENSINGH: At least three persons were killed and two others injured in a road accident on Mymensingh-Kishoreganj road in Raghabpur area under Sadar Thana of the district Friday evening. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police sources said that a rashly