DHAKA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-1 detained three foreigners from Uttara of the city on Wednesday for living illegally. The detainees are from Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Assistant Director of RAB’s Media Wing Major Maksudul Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews. He

NEW YORK (USA): Bangladesh ambassador to the USA Mohammad Ziauddin met Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee at her Capitol Hill office in the USA.This influential Congresswoman is a Congress member of Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security subcommittee and a ranking member of

RAJSHAHI: A Rajshahi court Wednesday sent 11 persons on 2-day remand for police interrogation in Rajshahi University (RU) teacher professor AKM Shafiul Islam killing case.The remanded people are-- Humayun Kabir, principle of Binodpur Islamia College adjacent to the Rajshahi

DHAKA: Two sustainable construction projects located in Bangladesh have won “Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction 2014” for the first time. Nusrat Jahan Mim, an architect-lecturer from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has won the prize for her project

CHITTAGONG: Two separate cases have been filed with Patenga Thana early Wednesday against 98 Bangladeshis and Myanmarian, who were held along with 635 fortune seekers on Monday.Executive Officer of BNS Durjoy Lieutenant Commander Mahbubur Rahman filed the cases under Human Trafficking

DHAKA: A good travel tip is one that is not just up-to-date but also private. The travel tips you read in popular books and magazines are often more a like a tip sheet for which places will soon be overrun and ruined.In this respect, guidebooks (and other publications and programs

TANGAIL: Miscreants chopped dead a lawyer early Wednesday at Futani Bazar area of the Sadar town.The deceased was identified as SHahidul Islam Jewel, 35, executive member of Tangail Ainjibi Samity and hailed from Binnafair village of the upazila.Officer-in-Charge of Tangail Model Thana

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) Police detained deputy general manager (DGM) Imdad Hossain among five high officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines for their alleged involvement in gold smuggling.The others detainees are- captain Shahid, manager Tozammel haq, money exchange trader Harun and

DHAKA: Supreme Court Appellate Division rejected the review petitions of death row convicts Rashedul Islam and Anwar Hossain in a case filed for killing Kushtia JSD leader Kazi Aref among five.A 6-member Appellate Division bench led by chief justice Mozammel Hossain passed the order

NARAYANGANJ: A teenager hacked his father to death with a sharp weapon at Dahar Marwadi village in Araihajar upazila Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Emran Mia, 55, resident of the village.Sources told banglanews that Raihan, 19, over a family dispute, hacked his father to death

GAZIPUR: Oggyan Party robbed valuables from three persons making them unconscious by doping in Tongi Tuesday.Two of the victims have been identified as Anul Kumar Mandal, 27, son of Upendranath Mandal, resident of Tongi Tistargate area and Hafizul Islam, 42, son of Nasir Uddin of

DHAKA: Two more warships have been added to the Bangladesh Navy fleet.Narayanganj Dockyard and Engineering Works Limited made the duo landing craft tank (LCT). They have handed over the warships to the Navy on Tuesday.Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Muhammad Farid Habib attended the

BOGRA: Law enforcers detained three people and seized a foreign made pistol and magazine from the area adjacent to Katnarpara Coronation School of Sadar town Tuesday night.Senior Assistant Superintendant of Police Ujjal Kumar Roy told banglanews acting on tip-off, they conducted a

DHAKA: The members of India’s anti-terror organization National Investigation Agency (NIA) has given a list of 11 militants to the high officials of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on their alleged involvement in Burdwan blast.The team of NIA members gave the list to RAB officials after

KOLKATA: Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a Myanmar national from southern Indian city of Hyderabad in connection with the Burdwan blast case.The agency, probing the October 2 blast in Burdwan of West Bengal, identified the 38-year-old arrestee as Khaleed alias

DHAKA: Bangladesh Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque selected as a member of the 15-member Governing Board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). The GCERF has been launched in Geneva on Tuesday to support local community-level initiatives in some areas and

DHAKA: President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday said there no alternative to make skilled engineers to face the challenge of the world. “We have a lot of human resources and they can contribute to the national development if they can be skilled in information technology,” he said. The

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) has withdrawn the exemption letter of state Minister for Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Moshiur Rahman Ranga as JP Presidium Member. The party issued a press release signed by Ershad’s Press and Political Secretary Shunil Shuva Roy

DHAKA: The probe committee submitted the progress report to the High Court on Tuesday on the gruesome Narayanganj seven-murder case. An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore fixed December 10 for further order of next steps. Earlier on

DHAKA: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved eight projects, including Ashuganj-Bhulta 400kv Transmission Line, involving Tk 2,228 crore. The approval came from the ECNEC meeting on Monday held at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla