DHAKA: Two persons including an Ijtema devotee, who was burnt as miscreants carried out arson attacks in Dinajpur and Sylhet, succumbed to their injuries on Monday and Tuesday.Banglanews Staff Correspondent reports: A truck driver succumbed to his burn injuries at Dhaka Medical

DHAKA: A jet of Malaysia Airlines, carrying the body of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and former President Ziaur Rahman, will arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:40am Tuesday.Koko’s wife Sayed Sharmila Rahman, his two daughters

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a bus in Badda’s Progoti Sharani area of the city on Monday night.Sources said some miscreants torched the bus of Anabil Paribahan in the area around 9:00pm.However, there is no report of injury in the incident.Being informed, two fire service units rushed to

DHAKA: The parliament on Monday passed the Metro Rail Act, 2015 with the view to easing traffic congestion and providing fast and improved public transport service in the city. The JS with Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah in the chair, passed the bill by a voice vote after the Road,

DHAKA: A young man committed suicide jumping from a 10-storey building in Senpara Parbat area of city’s Mirpur on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as M Amanullah Chowdhury Sobuj, 22, student of Mirpur Ideal Institute of Science and Technology and son of M Shahidullah

DHAKA: A three-day ‘Police Week’ will begin from January 27 with festive mood on Rajarbagh Police Lines compound of the city.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the program in the morning.The President, Prime Minister, state minister for home affairs, senior home secretary

DHAKA: Five leaders of BNP on Tuesday will receive the dead body of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of former president Ziaur Rahman and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.The BNP chief has given the authority to its vice-chairmen Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf and Abdullah Al Noman and

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated new King of Saudi Arabia Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and expressed hope further strong and consolidated relations between the two brotherly countries.The premier said this in a message sent on Monday congratulating the king on his

DHAKA: Miscreants hurled two cocktails at a vehicle of private TV near Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM) at city’s Old Dhaka on Monday.Witnesses said some miscreants blasted two cocktails on Jonson road around 3:35pm while the TV reporters entered in CMM court.Driver of the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina felt embarrassed as she had to return while going to console BNP chief Khaleda Zia at the demise of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko.In a cabinet meeting Monday, PM made the remark when Mujibul Haq Chunnu said whole country praised PM for her

DHAKA: The International Criminal Court (ICC) highly appreciated Bangladesh’s commitment to the court as well as to the concept of rule of law.This was stated by both the President Sang Hyun Song and the Prosecutor of the ICC Fatou Besouda when they received Bangladesh Minister for

DHAKA: Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benazir Ahmed on Saturday said the anarchists would be uprooted soon and reinstated peace and tranquility in the country.  The top official of the elite force came up with the assertion at a press conference in city’s Gulistan

DHAKA: The cabinet on Monday adopted a condolence motion on the demise of Saudi Arabia King Abdullah bin Abdulzziz al Saud. The condolence motion was adopted at the weekly meeting of the cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.After the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M

DHAKA: M Zulfiqur Rahman, currently serving as Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey, has been appointed as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The External Publicity Wing of Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the disclosure through a press release.A career

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered to take immediate actions in implementing Mymensingh as a new administrative division.Besides, she asked authorities concerned to adopt necessary steps to establish Faridpur and Comilla-Noakhali as new divisions of the country.The premier

DHAKA: The High Commission of India on Monday arranged programs to mark the Republic Day of the country at New Chancery Complex on UN Road in city’s Baridhara area.High Commissioner of India Pankaj Saran unfurled the National Flag at 9:00am, followed by the singing of the National

KHAGRACHHARI: A man was shot dead in a gunfight between the members of Jana Sanghati Samiti (JSS-Santu Larma) and United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) in Manikchhari of Khagrachhari on Monday.The diseased is identified as Ushimong Marma alias Babu (18), an activist of UPDF.The

DHAKA: The ‘gayebana janaza’ of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of former president Ziaur Rahman and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, will be held on Tuesday.In a statement sent to the media on Monday, BNP joint secretary general Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said BNP will organize the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Post Office Monday released a commemorative stamp, a first-day cover and a data card to mark the International Customs Day-2015.Before the beginning of regular cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally released the Taka 10 postage stamp, Taka 10 first

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) declared Tk one lakh reward for help in arresting anarchists.DMP commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia made the disclosure in a press briefing at DMP media center on Monday noon.Asaduzzaman said, “Vandalism, arson in the name of hartal-blockade is