DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) to see the victims on Wednesday.PM press wing said that the premier is expected to reach the DMCH around 9:30am on the day.However, at least 62 persons are admitted to the hospital

DHAKA: The Saudi Arabia government assured of giving safe working environment as well as security for Bangladeshi workers.Visiting Saudi Deputy Minister of Labor for International Affairs Dr Ahmad Al Fuhaid gave the assurance at a meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) summoned five people, including Managing Directors (MDs) of Fareast Finance and Investment Limited (FFIL) and Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company Limited (BIFC).They were summoned for interrogation on charge of their involvement in Ananda

DHAKA: A couple was found dead at a residence in Bamuil area under Demra Thana of the capital.The deceased was identified as Aslam, 32, and his wife Pia Akhter, 19.  On information, police recovered the bodies from the area on Tuesday afternoon.Sub-inspector of Demra Thana Nazmul

DHAKA: At least 46 leaders and activists were detained in nightlong drives conducted by law enforcers in three districts.Banglanews correspondents report from their respective districts on Tuesday.Rangpur: Ten activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir and

DHAKA: Law enforcers on Tuesday recovered 2.5-kg gold from the Turna-Nishitha train at Kamalapur railway station in city. They also detained two people for their alleged involvement with carrying the gold. Kamalapur railway thana Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam told banglanews that acting

DHAKA: At least 20 garment workers were injured in a tripartite clash among police, workers and a group of people loyal to the factory owners in Pukurpar area of Ashulia, outskirt of the city, on Tuesday.Ashulia Industrial Police-1 director Mostafizur Rahman told banglanews that about

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police, in a raid against illegal immigrants, detained seven Bangladeshis among 61 foreigners from a shopping mall in Penang city.Local businesspeople had long been complaining that their businesses were being hampered as illegal immigrants became shop owners

DHAKA: Aminul Haque Badsha, press secretary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, passed away at 6:00am (BDST) in London.Eminent journalist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury is expected to bring his body in Bangladesh.BDST: 1015 HRS, FEB 10, 2015

SYLHET: At least 32 people including 10 children died at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) in the last 24-hour.Of the deceased children, four were newborn and six were from six months to seven years of age. Victims’ relatives alleged that they died due to wrong

DHAKA: Miscreants exploded a pair of cocktails in Mohammadpur Dam area of the city on Tuesday morning.Witnesses told banglanews that two cocktails were blasted near the bus stand of the area at 8:00am. However, no casualty was reported.Mohamamdpur Thana Officer-In-Charge Azizul Haque

DHAKA: US Ambassador to Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat expressed concerns over political activities in diplomatic zone at Gulshan-Baridhara in the city, said sources closed to the meeting.The newly appointed envoy raised the security issue when she held a meeting with state minister

DHAKA: A total of 227 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have been deployed across the country on Tuesday - the last day of the 72-hour hartal sponsored by BNP-led 20-party alliance.The BGB members have been patrolling in the city and elsewhere of the country since

DHAKA: A passenger of a city bus was killed by a gang of Agyan Party in Farmgate area in city on Monday night after being doped. The deceased was identified as Mukul Chandra Das, 40, son of Madan Chandra Das, hailed from Manikganj. Younger brother of the deceased, Montosh Kumar said

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-3) personnel recovered 16 petrol bombs from an abandoned place in city’s Khilgaon area on Monday night. RAB sources said that they recovered 16 petrol bombs from a thicket of the area at 9:10pm. None was nabbed in this connection. Operation Officer

BOGRA: Two trucks were torched as miscreants hurled petrol bombs aiming at the vehicles in two separate places of the district on Monday night. Shahjahanpur Thana Officer-in-Charge Abdul Mannan said that a truck was torched as miscreants tossed petrol bomb aiming at it in Shahjahanpur

DHAKA: The International Crisis Group (ICG) on Monday said “extremists and criminal networks could exploit the resulting political void” out of two largest mainstream parties unwillingness to work toward a new political compact that respects the rights of both opposition and victor to

DHAKA: US Representative for California’s 17th congressional district, known as Silicon Valley, Mike Honda praised highly Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ceaseless efforts in building Digital Bangladesh.He also praised state minister for information and communication

SHERPUR (BOGRA): At least 30 vehicles, including buses and trucks were vandalized, and a series of cocktails were blasted by blockaders in Sherpur upazila of the district on Monday evening.Witnesses said that some hartal and blockade supporters vandalized three trucks, three buses

DHAKA: Long-route buses will stay off the road after 9pm until further notice amid the ongoing blockade and hartal enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance. The decision came from a meeting between State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and transport owners-workers, at