DHAKA: The namaz-e-janaza of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of former President Ziaur Rahman and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, was held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Asr prayer on Tuesday.Several thousands of BNP leaders and activists and its alliance along with people of all

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh has greeted Alexis Tsipras on the victory of the Syriza Party in the parliamentary elections of Greece.The premier, also ruling Awami League president, wrote a letter to Alexis Tsipras, president of Syriza Party of Greece, on Tuesday.She said, “On behalf

DHAKA: The government has decided to appoint M Shahidul Islam, currently serving as Bangladesh Ambassador in Saudi Arabia, as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia.M Shahidul Islam, a career diplomat, is a member of BCS (FA) Cadre 1984 batch.Before his current ambassadorial

DHAKA: Bangladesh has comparatively been advancing in hygienic sanitation usage among other South Asian counties as it has increased to 97 percent from that of 33 percent in a decade ago.The data was revealed at the inaugural session of the 7th Inter Country Working Group (ICWC)

JESSORE: A robber was killed and an additional superintendent of police was injured in a gunfight between law enforcers and robbers in Moniramur upazila of the district in the wee hours of Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Mahabur, 30, son of one Motleb Ali, hailed from Shyamnagar

RANGPUR: Another victim, who sustained burn injuries in petrol bomb attack by miscreants in Dinajpur, died at Rangpur Medical College and Hospital Tuesday morning.The deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid, 30, helper of a truck.Director of the hospital Abdul Quader Khan told

DHAKA: The ‘gayenaba janaza’ of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of former president Ziaur Rahman and BNP chief Khaleda Zia, was held on Tuesday in different places of the country.Local units of BNP organized the ‘gayebana janaza’, a funeral prayer, as a part of the BNP central

CHITTAGONG: President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday reached the largest frigate of Bangladesh Navy ‘Samudra Joy’ to watch the annual war exercise of Bangladesh Navy titled ‘Sea Thunder-2015’ in the Bay of Bengal.Commanding officer Capt. W. H. Kutubuddin, of ‘Samudra Joy’ welcomed

FROM GULSHAN OFFICE: Bhutan ambassador Pema Choden expressed her sympathy to the death of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of Bangladesh former president Ziaur Rahman and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.The envoy went to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan

NARAYANGANJ: A couple was burnt when a fire broke out at their tin-shed house adjacent to Rail Gate area in Fatulla upazila on Tuesday morning.The victims are Kamal, 35, and Liza, who is also the second wife of the man.Following the fire incident, the man’s first wife Nurun Nahar

HILI, DINHAJPUR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained an Indian couple in Hili Railway Station area on Tuesday morning for entering Bangladesh illegally.The detainees are Rakhal Chudhury, 62, and his wife Beby Chowdhury, 45, hailed from Thakurganj upazila of Kidhanganj district in

DHAKA: The body of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and former President Ziaur Rahman, arrived in Dhaka after three-day he died in Malaysia.A flight of Malaysia Airlines, carrying the body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:45am

DHAKA: A Dhaka court sent BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam on 3-day remand in a vandalism case.Dhaka additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Seth granted the remand Tuesday when Paltan police produced him before the count in a case filed for vandalizing

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said Bangladesh Police is the symbol of peace, security and discipline of the country.“We have reformed and developed police forces for making it people friendly, professional and a modern force, she added. The primer made the remarks

NILPHAMARI: A devastating fire gutted around 150 shops of the rail-bazar in Syedpur on Tuesday morning.Seven units from Nilphamari, Syedpur, Parbotipur, Badarganj and other places rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control.Nilphamari Fire Service team leader Farhad Hossain

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