DHAKA: The fire fighter team doused the fire which broke out in a container depot at Kamalapur Rail Station of the city on Tuesday.Railway ministry information officer M Shariful Alam told banglanews that the fire originated from a load uploaded machine.However, railway’s internal fire

DHAKA: The government has decided to purchase ten lac metric tons of rice at Tk 27.5 per kg in Boro season.Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam made the disclosure after a meeting of Food Planning and Monitoring Committee at secretariat Tuesday.He also said they would also go for

DHAKA: Country’s largest health service institution Labaid Group will provide health service to the family members of widely-read online news portal banglanews24.com.A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the two organizations at Banglanews Conference Room Tuesday noon

CHITTAGONG: Customs authorities recovered 200 gold bars worth Tk 10 crore at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Tuesday noon.Moreover, 174 mini-cartons of lead and copper were also recovered from the airport.Shah Amanat Airport assistant commissioner Dwaipayan Chakma

DHAKA: Severely injured Rafida Ahamed Banya, wife of slain blogger and writer Avijit Roy, is headed to the USA for advanced medical treatment.Banya’s father-in-law and also ex-professor of Dhaka University Ajay Roy said the aircraft carrying Banya left Dhaka for America. The plane will

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on Tuesday accepted the apologies of more 10 eminent personalities who had expressed their concerns through a statement over the tribunal’s contempt judgment on David Bergman.A three-member panel led by tribunal chairman Justice Obaidul

DHAKA: A student of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) was killed in a road accident while getting off a bus in city Tuesday morning.The deceased was identified as Arifuzzaman, a student of 15th batch of Agriculture Department.Witnesses told banglanews that he slipped while

DHAKA: The government has decided to appoint Md. Abdul Mannan Howlader, secretary to the government and currently on deputation to MOFA, as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Mauritius.External Publicity Wing of Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release on Tuesday in

COX’S BAZAR: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) held a Myanmar citizen and recovered about one lakh pieces of yaba tablets in separate drives in Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday morning.BGB said that on information, they conducted a drive in Naityangpara on the bank of river Naf

DHAKA: Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved seven projects costing Tk 3,551.69 crore.Among the projects five are new and two are revised.The ECNEC meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was held at NEC Conference Room in city’s

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained Mashiur Rahman Mamun, a business man for his alleged link with the sensitive phone conversation of Nagorik Oikya Jote Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna regarding Armed forces.  Mamun, a UK expatriate businessman who claimed to have good term with high ups

KHULNA: Biplob Chakrabarty, a senior reporter of Khulna-based daily Janmabhumi, passed away in the city on Tuesday.He was 60.Family sources said Biplob had been suffering from cardiac diseases for several days and breathed his last at a private clinic in the city earlier of the day.The

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained an activists of the banned Islamic outfit Ansarullah Bangla and, six leaders and activists of BNP on charge of sabotage from various areas of the city in the last 24-hour.Deputy police commissioner of Media and Public Relations division of Dhaka

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: A man was burnt to death and another sustained burn injuries as miscreants hurled petrol bomb on a covered van in Kalabari area under Shibganj upazila early Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Shipon, 30, driver of the covered van, son of Abdul Mannan of

DHAKA: A total of 258 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have deployed across the country on Tuesday to prevent sabotages amid nationwide 72-hour hartal and non-stop blockade by BNP-led 20-party alliance. Additional 70 more platoons BGB men have been kept standby for

KUSHTIA: A Secondary School Certificate (SSC) candidate was stabbed over an altercation on playing cricket at the playground at Jogoti of the district Monday afternoon.The deceased candidate was identified as Imran, 15, son of one Ramjan Khan Hitu, hailed from Jogoti and a student of

DHAKA: Government has promoted nine acting secretaries to secretaries in different ministries.Public administration ministry on Monday issued an order regarding the promotions.BDST: 1818 HRS, MAR 02, 2015

MOULVIBAZAR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Personnel on Sunday night recovered 1,584 pieces of ‘chocolate bomb’ from Juri upazila of the district.BGB-52 issued a press release on Monday noon regarding the matter.It said acting on tip-off, BGB personnel conducted a drive in Konagaon

GAIBANDHA: Three persons were killed in excessive drinking of alcohol in Palashbari upazila of Gaibandha.Sources said one of the victims died at Bogra Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital and one at Rangpur Medical College and Hospital in undergoing treatment on Monday early

GAZIPUR: Police on Monday noon recovered 120 pieces of chocolate bombs in a bag left abandoned in Shripur upazila of Gazipur.Village Police member Helal Uddin told banglanews that he saw the bag left abandoned under a roadside tree near Shaitalia Bazar in Shripur.According to Helal, after