CHITTAGONG: Shipping minister Shahjahan Khan reached the port city on Sunday morning to solve the issues beyond the countrywide indefinite vessel strike. Earlier, water transport workers enforced the non-stop strike on Saturday morning. Sources told banglanews that the workers, from

DHAKA: Detective Branch of police detained eight persons with counterfeit currency making tools and seized forged notes worth Tk 1 crore Saturday.  However, the identities of the detainees could not be known immediately, sources told banglanews. Confirming the matter, deputy Police

JHENAIDAH: A three-year-old girl drowned in a canal at Kulbaria village under Horinakundu upazila of the district Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Maya, daughter of Rabiul Islam of the village. Horinakundu Thana Officer-In-Charge Ersadul Kabir told banglanews that the girl

MANIKGANJ: A police constable was killed on Sunday after a truck knocked him down at Sadar upazila. The deceased was identified as Kafil Uddin. Sources told banglanews that a truck hit the motorcycle of Kafil Uddin in front of Rahman CNG Station on Dhaka-Aricha highway around 8:00am,

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members detained a police constable of Dhaka Metropolitan Police for his alleged connection to abducting a businessman and taking ransoms. RAB nabbed the cop, Jahangir who is on duty in DMP’s protective unit, in front of BEXIMCO Pharmaceuticals

COX’S BAZAR: Sea robbers abducted 50 fishermen and took five engine-run fishing boats from various estuaries of the Bay of Bengal sometimes Friday night and Saturday morning.Robbers also robbed three other boats injuring 30 others.Organizing Secretary of Cox’s Bazar Fishing Boat

KHAGRACHHARI: A police constable was killed and 15 other police personnel were injured as a bus carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch in Moynatila area under Sadar upazila of the district on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Abu Bakar Siddique.The accident occurred

DHAKA: The depression over westcentral Bay and adjoining eastcentral Bay has been weakened into a well-marked low over westcentral Bay and adjoining areaHowever, it has moved westwards at 12:00noon on Saturday, a Bangladesh Meteorology Department bulletin said.According to the bulletin,

DHAKA: Law Minister Anisul Haque on Saturday categorically said Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general, war crimes convict Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, would be executed after the copy of verdict reaches to the jail authorities.The minister told the media while attending a book

DHAKA: In a major breakthrough in the Burdwan blast case, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) commander Sajid, the mastermind of this case in West Bengal, was arrested. The disclosure came at Indian media on Saturday a day after NIA arrested Zia-ul-Haque, the key conspirator and a

CHANDPUR: Two minor siblings were burnt at Durgapur village in Faridganj upazila of the district on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Afrin, 9, and her younger brother Al-Amin, 4, children of Alamgir Hossain of the area.Relative of the victims Alauddin said that the kids were

DHAKA: The government is going to take an initiative to deploy ‘Dog Unit’ in country’s all international airports with a view to ensuring security after a directive to stop laborers harassment.The unit, currently to be operated under Airport Armed Police Battalion, will later

DHAKA: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, son returned home on Saturday afternoon.Joy landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 4:55pm and left for the Ganabhaban, official residence of the premier.PM’s deputy press secretary Ashraful Alam Khokon confirmed

SAVAR: Law enforcers recovered the bodies of two women from separate places of Savar and Ashulia, outskirts of the capital city, Dhaka.Police sources said locals found the body of an unidentified woman in an open field behind the Hemayetpur Tannery Industrial Zone in the morning.On

DHAKA: Indian police have arrested a 36-year-old Bangladeshi woman suspected for her involvement in a plot to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and carry out a coup in Bangladesh.The arrest comes days after Indian security officials said they had uncovered a plot by members of the

DHAKA: The prize giving ceremony of ‘DRU-Grameenphone Reporting Award 2014’ will be held at Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel on Monday.A press release, signed by DRU (Dhaka Reporters’ Unity) organizing secretary Mursalin Nomani, said the event will begin at 3:00pm in the

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically on Saturday said her government is working to turn Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) into a time-befitting and skillful force in line with the ‘Forces Goal-2030’.“It is my belief that Bangladesh Air Force would make more effective

DHAKA: Facebook is providing its users more control over the posts and people they see most in their news feeds. On Friday, the company announced new filters in Settings that show the people, pages and groups you follow that posted the most in the past week, along with a summary, reports

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy is set to return home on Saturday afternoon. He is expected to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 4:55pm. PM’s deputy press secretary Ashraful Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews. He said that Joy is

CHITTAGONG: Water transport workers have enforced a non-stop countrywide strike since Saturday morning. Sources told banglanews that the workers, however, suspended loading and unloading operations at all the ports including Chittagong demanding security measures on waterways. On the