GAIBANDHA: Six people, including two children, were killed and 29 suffered burns when suspected blockaders hurled petrol bomb at a passenger bus in Tulshighat area on Gaibandha-Polashbari road on Friday night. Details of the deceased and the injured could not be known yet. Gaibandha

DHAKA: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Information Communication Technology (ICT) and also her son, on Friday categorically said “those who talk about talks are nothing but mad”. Joy made the remark while addressing a seminar titled ‘Terrorism versus

RAJSHAHI: Inspector general of police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque on Friday categorically said they cannot allow the country to be an extremism plagued state with Taliban ideas. He further said, “Political parties can have different views against the government, and can stage

DHAKA: A flight, BG047, of Biman Bangladesh Airlines en-route from Chittagong to Dubai requested an emergency landing due to experiencing in-flight surge with damage to engine, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in city early Friday. The Captain, after getting permission of

DHAKA: “What does actually BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia want and get by disrupting public examinations and burning people in the name of movement?”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina  questioned on Friday. Sheikh, also president of ruling Awami League (AL), was addressing a meeting of the

DHAKA: Four persons including three women were killed in separate incidents at different places of the city on Friday. Police recovered the burnt body of a septuagenarian female beggar who was burnt alive while basking the warmth of fire near Gandaria Rail line of the city. A

KOLKATA: Inspired by Bangladeshi poet Jasimuddin’s magnum opus “Nakshi Kanthar Maath”, Shyam Sundar Co. Jewellers of Kolkata unveiled jewelry those depict the love of Rupai and Saju. The Nakshi Kanthar Maath collection is aimed at reviving the heritage of Bengal through jewelry. 

BARISAL: Six police personnel were injured in a road accident in Kashipur area of the city on Friday afternoon. Police sources said that a rashly driven truck collided with a minibus carrying the law enforcers in the area at the afternoon. Four of the injured were rushed to

DHAKA: Three persons were killed in separate gunfights with law enforcers in Rajshahi, Jessore and Comilla early Friday. One of the deceased was identified as Mohammad Shahabuddin, Chhatra Shibir’s information and technology affairs secretary of Rajshahi University unit. In Rajshahi,

RIYADH: A 17-member high-level Saudi delegation comprising representatives of Saudi Arabia is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on Sunday to formulate modalities of the recruitment. The Saudi delegates will visit Dhaka on a three-day tour regarding recruitment of skilled manpower from

COX’S BAZAR: Four people received burn injuries as a fire broke out at a house in Baharchhara area in the district town on Friday noon.The injured are Parvez, 20, son of Abul Kalam, Selim, 35, son of M Shafi, Ripon Sharma, 28, son of Papular Sharma and Shahed, 16, son of Abul

FENI: A covered van helper sustained critical burn injuries when blockaders hurled a petrol bomb at the vehicle on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Rampur area of the district on Friday.Police sources said that a Chittagong-bound covered van from the capital came under the petrol bomb attack

DHAKA: The United States condemned the unconscionable attacks including bus burnings, throwing incendiary devices, and train derailments that have killed and wounded innocent victims “US is gravely concerned by the ongoing unrest and violence in Bangladesh, said Marie Harf, deputy

COMILLA: A youth, aged at 30, was found shot dead in Chaudagram upazila of the district on Friday morning.Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Chauddagram Thana Sub-Inspector Ibrahim brought the body, with gunshot wound to the head, to the Comilla Medical College

JESSORE: An activist of Jamaat-e-Islami, who fled from police custody on Thursday afternoon, was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Picnic Corner area of Ramnagar under Sadar upazila of the district early Friday.The deceased was identified as Shahidul Islam, son of late Nur Ali

FARIDPUR: A Bangladeshi citizen has been killed as a trawler capsized in sea near Kuching Sabha area in Malaysia on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Abul Kalam Sheikh, 48, hailed from Laksmandia village under Sultanpur union of Rajbari district.Kalam’s wife Asma Begum told

SYLHET: 36-hour hartal, called by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student affiliate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is underway starting from Friday dawn at Sylhet division.Sources told banglanews that JCD Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Habiganj and Sunamganj district units have

NARAYANGANJ: An examinee of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC), which is going to be started from Friday, was killed in a road accident here in Rupganj Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Joynal Abedin, 19, son of Sattar Ali, resident of Dahargaon village of the

DHAKA: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country including capital to ensure hassle-free Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, starting from Friday.Sources told banglanews that a total of 326 platoons of BGB members have been brought on

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of Ganajagaran Mancha, who are staging a non-stop sit-in program at city’s Shahbagh area, have been seen awaken on Thursday night.They are holding the demonstration program there demanding the banning the Jamaat-Shibir politics, stopping on-going