DHAKA: A girl student of East West University (EWU) was killed in a road accident at capital’s Badda on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Jannatul Ferdous Mou, 20, student of Genetics Engineering.His classmate Syed Sajjadul Rahman said, “We were returning from Bashundhara

DHAKA: The government has sent a letter to the foreign ministry of United Kingdom to know whereabouts of BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman.State minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews on Friday.The letter, signed by foreign minister AH Mahmood

DHAKA: Two buses and an auto rickshaw were torched in the city on Friday during the blockade. In Tejgaon area, a bus of Balaka Paribahan was torched by miscreants in front of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute around 7:50pm. Fire service control room operator Mostafa confirmed the matter to

NEW YORK: The illegal dwellers of New York City of United States, who are living without legal papers, are getting city Identity Card (ID) for the first time. The mayor of the city, Bill de Blasio, inaugurated the ID program at Queens Library in Flushing of NY on Wednesday. Last week,

DHAKA:  President M Abdul Hamid urged all to move forward for the overall welfare for the children, nation’s future leaders.He also urged to make the new generation science and culture minded, patriot and non-communal with achieving the qualities of a good citizen.The president made

TONGI: Thousands of Muslim devotees prayed Juma prayer on the bank of river Turag at Tongiin the second phase of Biswa Ijtema, the largest congregation of Muslims after hajj on Friday amid nationwide blockade called by BNP-led 20-party alliance.However, the second phase of 50th

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Coastguard seized a trawler with 80 maunds of Jatka (hilsa fry) in the Meghna River in on Friday. A team of Coastguard was patrolling the Loggimara area around 11:30am. Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the vested quarter fled the spot abandoning the hilsa

DHAKA: The Government has decided to appoint Rear Admiral Kazi Sarwar Hossain, (TAS)(CD), ndc, psc, as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the Maldives.External Publicity Wing of Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed the matter through a press release.Rear Admiral Kazi Sarwar

JHALOKATHI: One of the convicted inmates, Monir Hossain, has escaped from the district jail on Friday morning.Sources said that Monir, 40, who was serving a 3-year punishment on charge of stealing, escaped by climbing down a pipe of the jail crossing the residence of jail

DHAKA: Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain is scheduled to leave Dhaka on Saturday with the expectations of reopening the Saudi manpower market for the Bangladeshis which is almost shut for a long time. A few years back lakhs of

SAVAR: A fire broke out at a jhut (scrap of fabrics from garment industries) godown in Ashulia of Savar, on outskirts of Dhaka, on Friday morning.Locals said that the fire originated at the warehouse around 8:00am and spread soon.However, on information, two firefighting units rushed to

DHAKA: Three devotees died in the second phase of the 50th Biswa Ijtema in Tongi, outskirts of the city, between Wednesday night and Friday morning.The dead persons are A Rahman, 65, of Shahjahanpur of Bogra, Abdul Kuddus, 62, of Dumni of Laxmipur, and Billal Hossain, 30, of Patuakhali

DHAKA: Government is going to show zero tolerance soon to prevent sabotages during the ongoing indefinite nationwide road-rail-waterways blockade and frequent hartal by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Sources concerned said after the concluding of the 2nd phase of the Ijtema, law enforcement

COX’S BAZAR: Four people, including a woman, were killed and 14 others injured in a collision between a picnic bus and a microbus in Baniarchara Station area under Chakaria Upazila Friday morning.The deceased were identified as Tahera Banu, teacher of Cox’s Bazar KG School, her

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: A local leader of Chhatra Dal, the student wing of BNP, was killed in a gunfight between his aides and members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Shyampur under Shibganj Upazila early Friday.The deceased was identified as Motiur Rahman, 25, vice president of union

TONGI: Thousands of devotees from home and abroad gathered on the banks of the Turag in Tongi to join the second phase of Biswa Ijtema, the largest congregation of Muslims after hajj.The devotees from the 33 districts along with hundreds of foreign devotees joined the second phase which

New York: United States (US) assistant secretary for population, refugees and migration, Anne C Richard, is scheduled to visit Bangladesh from January 20 to 23.Sources told banglanews that she will be visiting Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar at that time.During her visit, according to the US

DHAKA: State minister for home affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that the government will do everything necessary to prevent the ongoing nationwide violence in the name of blockade, hartal.He made the statement Thursday night while talking to journalists after visiting the burn victims

GAIBANDHA: A minor was killed and three others injured in an accident on Rangpur-Dhaka highway’s Gobindaganj area Thursday night.The identity of the deceased, 10, could not be known immediately.Sources told banglanews that the incident took place around 9:30pm when a rashly driven

DHAKA: The customs authorities detained a Pakistani national along with 80 lakh Indian rupees from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of the city on Thursday.Joint Commissioner of the customs authorities Kazi M Zia Uddin Ahmed confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said that they