DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) on Thursday categorically said the European Union Parliament’s (MEP) Subcommittee of Human Rights delegation that violence and national dialogue cannot be held simultaneously.AL leaders also said dialogue cannot be held with those who were committing

DHAKA: Death row convict and war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Kamaruzzaman will file review petition against the death sentence handed down by the Appellate Division on Wednesday.Kamaruzzaman’s lawyer Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain made the disclosure while

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced Salauddin Shoib Chowdhury, the editor of English weekly Blitz, to four years rigorous imprisonment for money scam. Metropolitan Magistrate Molla Saiful Alam handed down the verdict in presence of Shoib. The Blitz editor was arrested in a case

BENAPOLE (JESSORE): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) held a man with nine gold bars from Benapole-Putkhali frontier of the district on Thursday afternoon.The detainee is identified as Faruq Hossain, resident of Putkhali of the district.BGB sources said that a team of BGB

DHAKA: The visiting European Union parliamentary (EP) delegation has expressed their concern over the ongoing human rights situations in Bangladesh.They also exposed their dissatisfaction over Wednesday’s remarks of the state minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam about EP

DHAKA: The visiting European Union parliamentary (EP) delegation has expressed their concern over the ongoing human rights situations in Bangladesh.They also exposed their dissatisfaction over Wednesday’s remarks of the state minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam about EP

DHAKA: Both police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have taken several tiers of security measures with the deployment of huge lawmen to ensure smooth celebration of 'Amar Ekushey' and International Mother Language Day on Saturday.Alongside police, plain-clothed police and members of other

DHAKA: The government will set up an Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal to try those involved in political violence in the name of hartal-blockade.Law Minister Advocate Anisul Haque made the disclosure at a press briefing after a meeting the European Union Delegation at his secretariat

DHAKA: Bangladesh and India have decided to step up joint patrolling along the boundary to act against criminals and smugglers and enhance cooperation through a coordinated border management plan.These decisions were taken at the India-Bangladesh Joint Working Group meeting and the Home

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) issued death warrant against convicted war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Kamaruzzaman on Thursday a day after the Supreme Court published the full verdict upholding the death penalty.On Wednesday Attorney General

SYLHET: Two persons were killed and three others injured as a bus rammed into a covered van on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Rashidpur area on Thursday morning.The deceased were identified as covered van dirver Uzzal, 35 and passenger Mahabub, 38.Witnesses said a passenger bus rammed into the

DHAKA: One more victim of petrol bomb attack succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Hossain Ali, 52, son of late Idris Ali, hailed from Laxmipur district.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Residential Surgeon of DMCH

MYMENSINGH: A terrorist was killed and four policemen sustained injuries in a gunfight in Sohagi area under Iswarganj upazila of the district on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Rafiqul Islam Khokon alias Khokon Police, 36 while the injured includes Iswarganj Thana

RUPGANJ, NARAYANGANJ: At least eight people were burned when a devastating fire broke out at Nowab Spinning Mills Limited in Jatramuda area under Ruphanj upazila early Thursday.Lion BM Atikur Ramna, director of the spinning mills, told banglanews that fire caught a site of the mill around

Munsiganj: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered a total of seven cocktails and two petrol bombs from an abandon house in Makinpur area of the district town on Wednesday night.Tipped-off, a RAB team raided the abandoned house of one Nasir Uddin around 10:30pm and recovered the bombs

DHAKA: A fire broke out at six-storied building in Motijheel commercial area of the city early Thursday.Sources of Fire Service and Civil Defense said that the fire originated from somewhere inside Taranga Complex around 12:00am and soon engulfed the entire spaces of the second and the

TANGAIL: Miscreants exploded petrol bombs on a running truck in Sarpoilshia area under Bhuapur upazila of the district early Thursday, injuring two people.The injured were identified as Uzzal, 32, truck driver, and Mamun, 22, truck helper.Locals told banglanews that the truck,

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday categorically said actions would be taken against those involved with publishing the posters of banned Islamic outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir.In response to a question of Pir Fazlur Rahman MP, Sheikh Hasina made the assertions in the Jatiya

DHAKA: Police shot a youth while he was trying to flee after hurling a cocktail at a vehicle in city’s Dhanmondi area on Wednesday afternoon.The injured, Masud, 17, claimed himself as a HSC first-year student of Cambrian School and College of Lalmatia branch in the capital, is

JESSORE: Miscreants chopped a college student to death in front of WAPDA Garage of the district town on Wednesday noon.The deceased was identified as Loknath, 22, son of Kanai Lal, of Bespara of the town. He was a HSC second-year student of Abdur Razzak Municipal College.However, one