DHAKA: Customs intelligence detained a Bangladeshi passenger with foreign currencies worth about Tk 34 lakh at Shahjalal International Airport on Monday morning.The detainee was identified as Abdul Motin, resident of Chhagalnaiya of Feni.Confirming the matter to banglanews, deputy

RANGAMATI: A woman was killed in a brushfire in Chelachhra area under Kawkhali upazila on Monday.The deceased was identified as Chungula Marma, 30.Officer-in-charge (OC) Nilukanta Barua of Kawkhali Thana confirmed the matter to banglanews.Some unidentified miscreants riding on

RANGAMATI: A woman was killed in a brushfire in Chelachhra area under Kawkhali upazila on Monday.The deceased was identified as Chungula Marma, 30.Officer-in-charge (OC) Nilukanta Barua of Kawkhali Thana confirmed the matter to banglanews.Some unidentified miscreants riding on

DHAKA: Japanese International Manpower Development Organization (IMDO) expressed its interest to recruit technical interns from Bangladesh.IMDO managing director (MD) Kazuo Tusubota expressed the interest at a meeting with  Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister

DHAKA: The government has started evicting illegal establishments from around Sadarghat in the capital from 12:00pm Monday.A team of officials from Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), Dhaka district administration and Dhaka Metropolitan police, led by executive

DHAKA: Malanne Verveer, visiting executive director of the Institute for Women, Peace and Security of Georgetown University, made a courtesy call on Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, also Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Executive Committee Chairperson. She met the Speaker

DHAKA: A total of 101,758 Bangladeshi pilgrims will get opportunity to perform hajj this year at Tk 296,206 –Tk 354,745.Some 10,000 pilgrims will perform hajj under government management while 91,758 under private management.The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the ‘Hajj

KHAGRACHHARI: The dawn to dusk hartal, called by ‘Sarbodoliyo Sochetan Nagorik Committee’ is underway in Manikchhari upazila on Monday protesting the killing of a school teacher.However, a daylong blockade program is progressing in Panchhari upazila in protest against the gun

DHAKA: Jean Lambert, member of the European Parliament and chairperson of the delegation for relations with South Asia arrived in Dhaka on December 6. She came here at the invitation of the president of BGMEA to attend the Dhaka Apparel Summit. During her visit, MEP Jean Lambert will

MAGURA: Three persons were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Kalinagar area on Monday morning.Two of the deceased was identified Nazrul Islam, 35, resident of Kacherkol area under Shoilokpa upazila of Jhenaidah and Jillur Rahman, 38, son of one

BANDARBAN: A tourist was killed while 12 others were injured as their microbus plunged into a ditch in Shoilopropat area early Monday.The deceased was identified as Kabir Hossain, son of one Ahad Hossain, resident of T&T Colony of Gulshan, Dhaka. The injured are residents of

SAVAR: A worker was killed as a bus rammed him in front of Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) area of Ashulia on Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Mukta, 34, swing operator of Korean company ‘Young One’ and wife of  one Delwar Hossain, resident of Dudkhali village

DHAKA: Eminent film director and producer Chashi Nazrul Islam has been admitted to Labaid Hospital early Monday after he complained of severe stomach ache.Sources said the veteran film director has been taken to the hospital around 1:00am as he suddenly fell sick for abdominal pain.

GOALANDA (RAJBARI): Ferry services on Daulatdia-Paturia river route resumed from Monday morning after a five-hour suspension due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.Sources said six ferries fully loaded with passengers and vehicles forced to anchor in the mid-river that causes

RANGPUR: A mobile court on Sunday detained 12 people, including two women, for their alleged involvement in drug peddling from different area.The detainees are Sohel Mia and Sumon from Alamdanga of the district, Hashem Uddin from Tajhat, Shakil Ahammed and Tarek Hasan of Senpara,

DHAKA: The government has made a reshuffle in public administration, including the transfer of three secretaries, withdrawing deputy commissioners (DC) from five districts and appointing new DCs in six districts.Separate orders were issued by public administration ministry to this

DHAKA: Finnish lawmakers on Friday voted in favor of granting a new permit for construction of a nuclear power plant by the Fennovoima Power construction in cooperation with Russia’s state corporation Rosatom. The vote was promoted by Fennovoima’s supplement to the original

DHAKA: A woman allegedly killed her husband in Khilgaon area of the city on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Abdullah, 35, used to work as pickup van driver and resident of Khilgaon area.Police sources said that Abdullah’s first wife Rashida alleged that his second wife Sweety

MANIKGANJ: Three motorcyclists were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway in BSCIC area of the district on Sunday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Al-Mamun, 18, son of Altaf Hossain, Saikat Hossain Tipu, 21, Shahinur Rahman, residents of Saturia upazila of the

DHAKA: A training-cum-awareness building campaign of Bashundhara Liquid Petroleum (LP) Gas Limited (BLPGL), one of the concerns of country’s leading conglomerate Bashundhara Group, was held on Saturday on safe use of LP gas to avoid accident.The campaign titled ‘Nirapad Nibash