DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reaffirming her commitment to low-carbon, climate-resilient development path, has urged the large carbon-emitting countries to reciprocate by robust voluntary commitments for countries like Bangladesh. She also re-assured that Bangladesh will never

DHAKA: A freelance journalist was killed in a road accident on Rampura Bridge in city on Friday noon.The deceased was identified as Sabiha Siddiqui, 32, resident of Shekher Tek of Mohammadpur in city.Deceased’s sister Rabeya Siddiqui confirmed the matter to banglanews.A covered van

JHENAIDAH: Three people were killed in two separate road accidents in Kaliganj and Sadar upazilas of the district on Friday.The deceased were identified as Sohel, 28, president of Paglakanai union Chhatra Dal, Faruk Hossain, 30, son of Matiar Rahman and Mehrab, 4, son of Rasel

DHAKA: Tight security measures have been taken and additional law enforcers were deployed to maintain law and order in front of BNP’s party office in capital’s Nayapaltan area on Friday.Prison vans, water cannons, armored personnel carrier (APC) cars, riot cars and microbuses

KOLKATA: State Minister for Land Affairs Saifuzzaman Chowdhury had a meeting with his counter of West Bengal state government of India about digitizing all the land related information.Sources said they also talked about sharing the necessary technology.They also talked about the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked to build strong partnership between the Asian and European countries in business and technological sectors because that would help in building a sustainable relationship between the two continents and its people.The Bangladesh premier made

DHAKA: An activist of Hizb-ut Tawhid sustained bullet injury during a clash with the law enforcers in city’s Mohammadpur area on Friday noon.The injured was identified as Nafis.Police sources said that the activists of Hizb-ut Tawhid brought out a sudden procession in the area after

DHAKA: BRAC University Professor Dr Piash Karim was laid to rest at the Banani Graveyard in the city on Friday afternoon.Sources told banglanews that he was buried there at 3:22pm.Earlier, his second janaza was held at Baitul Mukarram Mosque after the Jumma prayers while Piash Karim's

DHAKA: Dr Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize winner and also the founder of Grameen Bank, has met the President of Germany Joachim Gauck on Thursday.They met at the 50th anniversary of Robert Bruce foundation at Berlin of Germany.Dr Muhammad Yunus spoke in the program where Joachim Gauck

DHAKA: UN-backed Cambodian tribunal has begun hearing the first genocide case against the country's 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, aljazeera.com reports. Khieu Samphan, the regime's head of state, and Nuon Chea, right-hand man to the goup's late leader, Pol Pot, have already received life

DHAKA: Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of 176 people, including three women, who were on a people trafficker's boat that left Bangladesh.There are fears traffickers intend to sell those on board to fishing trawlers or factories as slave labour in Malaysia and Indonesia, reports The

DHAKA: The second namaz-e-janaza of BRAC University Professor Dr Piash Karim was held after Juhr prayers at Baitul Mukarram mosque in city on Friday afternoon. Later, he will be buried at Banani graveyard.Centering the namaz-e-janaza, additional police forces were deployed in the area

HABIGANJ: Rapid Action Batalion-9 members recovered huge amount of bullets from Satchhari under Chunarughat Upazila of the district on Friday noon. Law enforcers found 8,360 bullets of 7.62 MM, 152 bullets of 303, 517 bullets of 9MM, 425 bullets of 12.7 mm tank at 1:00pm after digging a

MUNSHIGANJ: Two people were killed and three others  injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Gazaria Upazila of the district on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Siraj Mia, 45, driver of the CNG-run auto-rickshaw and its passenger Saleha Begum, 40, of

DHAKA: The body of BRAC University Professor Dr Piash Karim has been taken to Baitul Mukarram mosque for second Namaz-e-Janaza in city on Friday. Later, the body will be buried at Banani graveyard followed by second janaza at Baitul Mukarram after Juhr prayers. Earlier in the day, Piash

DHAKA: The body of BRAC University Professor Dr Piash Karim has been taken to his Dhanmondi residence from Square Hospital mortuary in city on Friday morning. The first Namaz-e-Janaza will be held at Baitul Amar Jame mosque adjacent of his Dhanmondi residence. Later, the body will be

DHAKA: Additional security measures have been taken at central Shaheed Minar centering the issue of taking the body of BRAC University Professor Dr Piash Karim there on Friday. On duty Assistant Sub-Inspector Habibur Rahman said that police forces will be deployed until further

DHAKA: A youth was killed in a road accident in Uttara Badda area in the city on the Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Shah Ali, 25, a bus helper. Sources said that the victim fell from a running bus around 8:00am, leaving him critically injured. Later, the victim was rushed

DHAKA: Bangladesh lawmaker Saber Hossain Chowdhury has been elected to the post of the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) with a staggering 169 votes.The IPU elections were held in Geneva Thursday in the 131st IPU General Assembly.His closest contender the Australian

SATKHIRA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested six people and recovered two tiger hides in front of Sangram Tower on Satkhira-Kaliganj road on Thursday night.The detainees are Gazi Selim, 35, of Sumuria thana, Sheikh Baktiar Uddin, 42, of Ashashuni upazila, Rabiul Islam,