DHAKA: Law enforcement agencies detained five carjackers and six muggers in separate drives across the city throughout Wednesday night. Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) nabbed five members of a carjacking gang from different places of the city and seized two private

FENI: An on-duty policeman was killed when a truck ran over him on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Mahipal intersection of the district Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as a traffic constable Moinul Islam, 55, son of late Abu Taher of Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district.

COMILLA: Railway communication of Chittagong with Sylhet and Dhaka was halted after a train derailed in Moynamoti of Comilla district Thursday morning. The four wheels of a compartment of Chittagong-bound inter-city Jalalabad Express veered off the tracks in Jangalia area around 9:55am,

MALAYSIA: Concluding three-day official visiting to Malaysia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Kuala Lumpur (KL) for Dhaka Thursday. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines left KL airport at 11:55am (local time) carrying the premier and her entourage. Malaysian deputy minister for

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy called on students to join Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL)’s ‘Clean and Safe Campus’ initiatives. Joy made the call on his Facebook Page early Wednesday.  He said “This week Bangladesh Student League has started the

DHAKA: Environmental impact assessment (EIA) report of proposed Akkuyu Nuclear power plant in Turkey gets approval from the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation, removing one of  the biggest impediments in starting construction of the country’s first ever nuclear power

DHAKA: Police detained two schoolboys with 1000 pieces of Yaba tablets in Abdullapur area of Uttara in the city early Thursday. The detainees are Shuvo, 14, a class VII student of Khaskakua High School, son of Anwar Hossain, and Rubel, 10, a class V student of Delda Government Primary

DHAKA: Demanding the due salaries, the workers of two ready-made garments factories besieged Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) building in the city on Wednesday. Witnesses said the workers of Sunadi Knitwear and Topaz Garments situated in Uttar Badda

DHAKA: A man was killed as a rashly driven truck knocked him down in Jurain area of the capital on Wednesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Kalam Sheikh, 60, hailed from Pirojpur district, was as a security guard at Salam Steel Mills.Mukul Mia, a colleague of Kalam, said that a

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to a man and life-term imprisonment to another person for their involvement in killing Milton Barua.The death convict is Alam alias Afsar and the life imprisonment awarded is Rubel.Rezaul Islam of Dhaka Special Judge Court-5

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner M Sahabuddin Chuppu on Wednesday said there is no resemblance of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) survey with the reality.He made the observation while talking to journalists at ACC headquarters in reaction to

DHAKA: The state minister for power Nasrul Hamid Bipu on Wednesday said lack of load management caused blackout across the country on November 1.He made the assertion while addressing a press briefing Wednesday noon at secretariat in city.On November 1, people across the country faced

DHAKA: A Dhaka Court on Wednesday granted three-day remand for Daud Merchant, an aide of India’s top terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.Magistrate of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court Nuru Miah passed the order in response to a seven-day remand plea of Detective Branch (DB) of

MANGLA (BAGERHAT): Bashundhara Group (BG), the leading business conglomerate of the country, has provided some 25 computers to BN (Bangladesh Navy) School & College at Mangla in a bid to strengthen the laboratory of the school.BG Managing Director Sayem Sobhan, as chief guest, handed

KURIGRAM: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived at Dashiarchhara, erstwhile enclave that was annexed to Bangladesh, in Kurigram Upazila on Thursday.She reached the ground of a proposed girls’ high school near Kalirhat Bazar around 11:00am.The premier will inaugurate power connection

FROM KUALALUMPUR: Bangladeshi girl Syeda Nuzhat Tahseen Pinak has been working with a Malaysian software company Wavlet Solutions as Operations Manager and efficiently serving clients of various ethnicities since 2010.She, however, has been residing in Malaysia for 10 years. After passing

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of police has produced Daud Merchant, an aide of India’s top terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court Wednesday noon. Moreover, the DB police filed a seven-day remand plea for interrogation. Daud was produced before

DHAKA: Daud Merchant, one of the aides of India’s top terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, has been nabbed again in city. Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) of police detained Daud early Wednesday, two days after his release from prison on bail. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) deputy-police

DHAKA: The Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed January 14 next year to start hearing the appeal filed by convicted war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed. Wednesday was the day to begin hearing on the appeal. A five-member bench of SC’s Appellate

BARISAL: At least 30 students and three police personnel were injured in a clash at Institute of Health Technology (IHT) in the city on Wednesday.However, the clash took place in front of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH) on Banda Road around 10:30am.Witnesses