BRAHMANBARIA: Some 143 selected candidates staged demonstration in front of head office of Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL) at Birasar Thursday.  The candidates took position in the area around 8:00am and demanded appointment letters. Earlier on October 19, the candidates

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 will deliver its verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami  leader Mir Quasem Ali on Sunday— three days after ICT-1 sentenced the party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami to death.  The two-member ICT-2 comprising Justice Muzibur Rahman Mia and Justice Shahinur

DHAKA: The third Bangladesh-USA Partnership Dialogue was held in Washington DC on 28-29 October 2014.  Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque led the 9-member Bangladesh delegation at the dialogue.  The US Delegation was led by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy

DHAKA: Armed Police Battalion (APBn) personnel detained a man named Mamun Ahmed, 49, with four gold bars weighing 100-gram from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday.  Sources said that the man came from Malaysia by Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-196. On suspicion law

DHAKA: A youth was shot dead by miscreants in South Badda area of the city around on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Delwar Hossain, 25, resident of the area.Dhaka Medical College police outpost in-charge Mozammel Haque confirmed the matter to banglanews.BDST: 2148 HRS, OCT

DHAKA: The government on Wednesday deployed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members across the country ahead of the first phase of 72-hour hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.Jamaat called the shutdown protesting the death sentence of party Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for his war crimes

BARISAL: A schoolboy and two housewives committed suicide at Barisal city and Agailjhara and Uzirpur upazilas on Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Rifat Hawlader, 14, son of Alauddin Hawlader and a student of class-IX at Mathuranath Public High School and residing in BSCIC area

CHITTAGONG: Two people were killed in a road accident in Giri Chowdhury Bazar area at Patiya upazila of the district on Wednesday afternoon.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.Patiya Thana Sub-Inspector Almas told banglanews that a Cox’s Bazar-bound

DHAKA: The delegation of the European Union (EU) to Bangladesh recalled that the EU is opposed to the use of capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, and has consistently called for its universal abolition.The EU delegation expressed their concern in a statement

DHAKA: US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Wednesday said “Bangladesh is a land where miraculous things happen”.Mozena came up with the assertion in his Welcome Remarks while addressing the first ever Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Investor Forum, a public-private

DHAKA: The Khulna University authorities rescheduled its honors first year admission tests for the academic session 2014-2015 due to unavoidable circumstances.According to the revised schedule, the admission test will be held on October 31 and November 1.A central admission committee

DHAKA: Bangladesh, Sierra Leone and South Sudan led a ranking of countries facing extreme risks as a result of climate change, exacerbating the chances of civil conflict, according to a study by UK researcher Maplecroft, reports bloomberg.com.A total of 32 countries out of 196

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of Ganajagaran Mancha on Wednesday expressed content for the capital punishment to Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.Earlier in the morning, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1

BARISAL: Two minors drowned here in a water body at Nayani village of Charkaua union under Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.The deceased were identified as Rupa, 4, daughter of Bazlu Hawlader, resident of that village and her cousin Rafi, 3.Sources told banglanews that the two minors,

DHAKA: A fire broke out in a grocery shop at Chawkbazar’s Boro Katra area in city on Wednesday morning.  The fire was originated around 11:00am in the shop and later spread to an adjacent godown. It came under control after half an hour effort of fire service. However, on

BARISAL: Two suspected thieves were lynched by angry mob in Sharikal village in Gaurnadi upazila of the district on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Rafiq and Modasser.  The two youths entered the house of a former member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Kamrul Islam

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday called countrywide hartal for Thursday, Sunday and Monday protesting the verdict of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in the war crimes case against its Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami.A press of Jamaat Publicity office made the disclosure on Wednesday

DHAKA: Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami will be hanged for his involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. The first International Crimes Tribunal chairman M Enayetur Rahim on Wednesday awarded death sentence to Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Nizami in the second,

DHAKA: Freedom fighters took position in front of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1, demanding death penalty of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, accused in charges on crimes against humanity in 1971.  Over two hundreds FF from Muktijoddha Sangsad Central

DHAKA: Hundreds of Ganajagaran Mancha activists thronged Shahbagh intersection Wednesday morning centering the verdict in war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami. The activists were seen taking position there dividing in three groups – separately led by Imran