DHAKA: Former lawmaker Khan Tipu Sultan’s daughter-in-law Shamrukh Mehjabeen (26) has died unnaturally on Thursday.The victim’s father Nurul Islam alleged that she was beaten to death. However, Tipu Sultan’s family claimed that she had committed suicide.It is said that Mehjabeen,

JATIYA SANGSAD (DHAKA): Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Thursday said the government is considering for setting up a separate commission on teachers’ recruitment at the non-government educational institutes. The education minister made disclosure while addressing the House in

DHAKA: Malaysian police detained 80 Bangladeshi from a construction site in Cameron Highlands during two separate raids on two 'kongsi' houses in Tringkap and Blue Valley, Kampung Raja. All the detainees are believed to be illegal immigrants, aged between 20 and 50. State-run news agency

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman won the ‘Gusi Peace Prize International 2014’ for his outstanding contributions as a Poor Man’s Economist’. Atiur along with 15 others has been nominated for the prize this year. The prize will be handed over at a gala event at the

DHAKA: Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu asked the authorities concerned to send legal notices to the tannery owners of Hazaribagh to shift their factories within the stipulated time. The minister made the assertion in a meeting on ‘to emphasize the project activities for the

HABIGANJ: Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police on Thursday submitted a supplement charge-sheet in former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case accusing 35 people. Investigation Officer (IO) of the case assistant superintendent of police (ASP) Meherun Nesa confirmed

DHAKA: The US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Ambassador Charles Rivkin met Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque at the ministry on Thursday.  During the parley, they had hour-long discussions on Bangladesh-US bilateral relations with particular emphasis on

DHAKA: The Government has decided to appoint Md. Shahab Ullah, Secretary to the Government and currently placed under MOFA on deputation as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to Vietnam. Md. Shahab Ullah belongs to the 1981 batch of BCS (Administration) Cadre.  In his long distinguished

COX’S BAZAR: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a Myanmar national along with seven gold bars in the frontier area of Teknaf upazila in the district on Thursday. The detainee was identified as M Nurul Bashar, 30, son of late Petan Ali of Mandu Nakpura of Myanmar. BGB

DHAKA: He was active in student politics. He was associated with ‘Chattra Moitree’ while a student at Rajshahi University. Due to political reason he left Bangladesh for Malaysia in the first quarter of 90’s. And then in Malaysia his fortune was built up.  He is no one but the

DHAKA: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama inaugurated the Social Business Week in Albania from November 3-8 in Tirana, says a press release issued by Yunus Centre on Thursday. The release said, “Two Senior Ministers and two Deputy

CHITTAGONG: Customs officials on Thursday recovered 40 gold bars from a plane after passenger left those under seat at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong. Sources said that the gold bars, weighing 4.5kg, was found in the morning at a flight of Bangladesh Biman, came here

DHAKA: BNP leader Zahid Hossain Khokon alias Khokon Razakar was awarded death penalty for his involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. The three-member International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the order on Thursday.  The

BARISAL: A Junior School Certificate (JSC) examinee was killed and two others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Bariasal highway at Baidyapara area under Sadar upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Nadia Akhter, 14, student of Sabera Khatun High School and

DHAKA: US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H Rivkin arrived Dhaka. He arrived Bangladesh by a Dragon Air flight on Wednesday night. US officials in Dhaka welcomed him at that time. Drawing on his background as a former corporate CEO, Assistant

COX’S BAZAR:Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has withdrawn its six members from Habirchara Check Post under Teknaf Wednesday for selling few people to human traffickers. Confirming the matter, BGB Cox’s Bazar headquarters’ sector commander colonel Khandaker Farid Hasan, said that the

DHAKA: The 66th birthday of Humayun Ahmed, the most popular author, writer, dramatist and film maker of the country, is being marked across the country on Thursday. Humayun Ahmed was born in Mymensingh on November 13, 1948 and died on May 19, 2012 for cancer in a Hospital of the USA.

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 is set to pronounce the verdict against self-proclaimed razakar Zahid Hossain alias Khokon Razakar on Thursday for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Three-member ICT-1 tribunal led by Justice

DHAKA: The government has sent Abul Kasem Talukder, the former joint secretary of the ministry of liberation war, to force retirement for taking false freedom-fighter certificate. Sources told banglanews that the ministry of public administration had issued the release order on Sunday

FENI: The Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Feni’s Chhagalnaiya Thana was withdrawn on Wednesday. Sources told banglanews that the OC--Moazzem Hossain--has been attached to the district police line from the day. However, detective branch (DB) OC of Feni Police, Rashed Khan Chowdhury, replaced