NETROKONA: A court here awarded life-time imprisonment to three people in a murder case.  The convicts are— Jahangir, 25, Sagar Mia, 28 and Shahid Mia, 50. The court also fined them Tk 50000 each, in default ordered them to serve five more years in the jail. Additional District and

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: The Thursday’s discussion session on the first budget of 10th Parliament has started at Jatiya Sangsad in the morning. With Speaker of the house Dr Shirin Sharmin in the chair the session started at 10:45am. The budget session started on June 3 and will end on

CHITTAGONG: A rickshaw puller and a night guard died from electrocution during charging a battery of an engine-run-rickshaw in Khulshi Thana of the port city early Thursday. The deceased were identified as M Hanif Prakash Bacchu, 27, a rickshaw puller and M Mintu, 40, a night guard.

DHAKA: Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali is holding a meeting with visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday morning. Foreign secretaries of both the countries Shahidul Haque and Sujata Singh, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tareque A

DHAKA: Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice  & Human Rights, is scheduled to arrive here on June 28 to join the opening of Social Business Day as Keynote Speaker. Kerry, a lawyer by training, hails from the famous Kennedy family as her father Bobby Kennedy

NARAYANGANJ: Voting for the by-election to Narayanganj-5 constituency is underway peacefully from Thursday morning. The polling began at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm without any break. Four candidates are contesting in the by-election to the parliamentary constituency.

DHAKA: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived Dhaka on Wednesday night. A special flight carrying her landed at Shahjala International Airport at 10:30pm. Foreign Minister Mahmud Ali welcomed her while other officials from Foreign Ministry were present. BDST: 2304 HRS,

DHAKA: A money loan court on Wednesday set the hearing of defaulting state-owned Sonali Bank loan of Tk 45.59 crore of Dandy Dyeing Limited against 11 people, including BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman deferred to July 16. Judge of the court Mohammad Robiuzzaman of first money

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to meet President M Abdul Hamid on a courtesy call at Bangabhaban on Wednesday night. The premier will meet the president at 8:00pm, said a competent source from the party. During the parley, they also will discuss about the premier’s recent

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Wednesday said it would be possible to initiate government facilities to online media after formulating ‘online media policy’. The information minister made the assertion while addressing parliament in response to a

DHAKA: Ambassador-at-Large M Ziauddin has been appointed new envoy to Bangladesh embassy in United States. A circular of public administration ministry made the disclosure on Wednesday. He has been appointed for three years, added the circular. BDST: 1910 HRS, JUN 25, 2014

DHAKA: An unidentified child was crushed under the wheels of a train in Zoar Sahara area of Cantonment in city on Wednesday. Officer-in-Charge of Government Railway Police (GRP) Abdul Majid confirmed the matter to banglanews saying the child was killed as a Dhaka-bound train hit and

DHAKA: The Embassy of Switzerland and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Bangladesh signed a partnership agreement Wednesday for continuing a media campaign to end child marriage in Bangladesh.  The agreement, signed in the Embassy of Switzerland in Dhaka, came as a follow-up of

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the legal processes to bring Nur Hossain back to home from India, the prime accused of Narayanganj seven-murder case, have already started.   “Bangladesh foreign ministry is contacting with its Indian counterpart about the

DHAKA: Indian police arrested at least 42 Bangladeshi nationals including 12 women from there territory of North 24-Parganas of West Bengal state over the past two days. They have been arrested for illegally entry in the country, The Times of India reports on Tuesday without mentioning

DHAKA: People are getting benefits after steps taken by the government for control and prevention of adulteration of the food. Drives will be continued against the food adulterators, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The premier told the parliament Wednesday in a question-answer session

COMILLA: Police detained driver of Nur Hossain, the prime accused of the seven-murder case, from Belashahar area under Chandina upazila of the district early Wednesday. The detainee was identified as Jobayer Hossain Jabed, 30, son of Nizam Uddin, hailed from Asmania village of the

DHAKA: Mohammad Fahim Ahmed Riyad, a braved Bangladeshi photographer won the environmental award-2014 on Tuesday, pocketing the top prize of TK5 lakh. He, fended off more than 10,000 entries with an image called ‘In search of life'. Described by organizers as ‘captivating', the

NETROKONA: A Netrokona court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to a man and his two sons in a killing case. The identities of the death convicts are yet to know. Additional District and sessions Judge Abdul Hamid passed the order around 11:30am. Earlier, the convicts murdered a youth

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said only education can build poverty and hunger free Bangladesh.  The premier came up with the observation while addressing a prize giving ceremony at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital Wednesday. Sheikh Hasina said: