DHAKA: A mild earthquake jolted two districts Panchagarh and Thakurgaon and adjacent areas Friday evening. Panchagarh district deputy commissioner Mohammad Salahuddin and Thakurgaon DC Mukesh Chandra Biswas confirmed the matters to banglanews. They told banglanews that the 4/5 second

DHAKA: US House Committee on Foreign Affairs denied the press statement on Bangladesh broadcasted and published on January 6 and 7 in some Bangladeshi media saying ‘US is concerned about political violence’.Committee chairman Ed Royce, and Committee’s Ranking Member Eliot Engel,

DHAKA: State minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday categorically said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would give compensation to the vehicle owners whose transport will be damaged for plying during the blockade.The state minister came up with the assertion after the meeting

FARIDPUR: Two persons including a woman were killed in a road accident in Bhobukodia area under Nagarkanda upazila on Friday.  One of the deceased was identified as Giribala Bishwas, 55, wife of Rashik Bishwas, resident of Sadar upazila. Police sources said that a passenger bus and a

DHAKA: State Minister for Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) ministry Mashiur Rahaman Ranga on Friday categorically said ticket counters would be closed if owners of buses do not drive buses during 20-party’s blockade. He also said the government will compensate to the

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi pregnant woman went into labor during a flight and gave birth to a girl while the plane was in the air. Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport sources said an Air Arabia G-9513 flight departed from Lebanon for Dhaka at Friday noon. After some times of taking off the

DHAKA: State Minister for Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) ministry Mashiur Rahaman Ranga on Friday categorically said ticket counters would be closed if owners of buses do not drive buses during 20-party’s blockade.He also said the government will compensate to the

THAKURGAON: Language movement veteran Fazlul Karim, who also was elected as a lawmaker of Awami League government in 1970 and 1973, breathed his last due to old age complexities at his residence in district Sadar on Friday morning. He was 90. His namaz-e-janaza will be held at

DHAKA: Egypt said it is to hold parliamentary elections from March 21 but analysts said the new legislature will offer no meaningful opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s iron-fisted rule.The elections, which will be held in phases culminating on May 7, will be the first

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted two cocktails in Shahjadpur area of the city on Friday noon.Confirming the matter Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Gulshan Thana Firoz Kabir said, they also detained two persons from the spot.He said a group of 10/15 people brought out a procession in the area

RAJSHAHI: Two police men including a Sub-Inspector (SI) were closed to the police line for assaulting journalists in front of Rajshahi Government College on Friday morning.Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) member Zabid Apu told banglanews that journalists went to collect

DHAKA: Vast crowds of Muslim devotees prayed Juma prayer in Ijtema ground on the bank of river Turag at Tongi as the second largest annual Islamic congregation after the Hajj began on Friday amid tight security.However, the 50th congregation of the Biswa Ijtema began with religious

DHAKA: At least nine people, including four Ijtema devotees, were killed and another injured in separate road accidents in the city and Dhamrai upazila of the district on Friday.Banglanews Staff Correspondent reports: A recklessly-driven bus hit another bus, standing beside road, in

BAGERHAT: Two robbers were killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chadpai range of Sundarbans at 9:45am Friday.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Rab-8 commander Lt Col Faridul Alam said, on information of presence of the robbers of Daroga Bahini, Rab personnel

DHAKA: Two policemen and three suspected robbers were injured after a gang of ‘robbers’ traded gunfire with lawmen in Aftabnagar area of the city early Friday.Police also detained five robbers, including three injured, from the spot. All are members of the robber gang.  

DHAKA: At least two people were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Shahjadpur area of the city on Friday morning.The accident took place in front of Tripti Hotel of the area around 7:30am.Gulshan Thana Officer-In-Charge (OC) Rafiqul Islam confirmed the matter to

MANIKGANJ: Four Ijtema devotees were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Joypura bus stand area under Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka district Friday morning.The deceased were identified as Roich Uddin, 27, son of late Mosarrof Hossain, Hajji Nazim Uddin, 40, son of late

DHAKA: The first phase of Ijtema has begun early Friday on the bank of the Turag River at Tongi, on the outskirts of the capital amid a non-stop countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.However, the 50th congregation of the Biswa Ijtema, the second largest

LAXMIPUR: A motorcyclist died here in Kamalnagar on Thursday night after being attacked by the supporters of the blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.The deceased was identified as Yusuf Ali, 40, son of Abdul Hakim, hailed from Noakhali’s Andar Char area.Sources told

DHAKA: A middle aged person died here after falling from roof of a running train in Khilkhet area on Thursday.The man, Wahed Mollah, 45, son of Manik Mollah, hailed from Rajbari’s Pangsha, who died in the night was injured after falling from roof of a running train at that area,