DHAKA: Speakers at a roundtable discussion opined that construction of concrete roads would lessen cost and become sustainable in the long term. There many advantages in long term despite a little more cost at the initial stage and bitumen on roads is not lasted much time due to heavy

DHAKA: Border Guards Bangladesh officials on Saturday held a meeting with India's Border Security Force officials in New Delhi to discuss border related crimes and other issues. Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh Major General Aziz Ahmed led the 20-member delegation to jointly

DHAKA: The post mortem examinations of convicted war criminal Abdul Alim, who died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in the city on Saturday, have been completed on Monody. Dr AKM Shafiquzzaman, Associate Professor of Forensic Department at Dhaka Medical College Hospital,

DHAKA: Experimental extraction of natural gas from the 3rd well in Shahbazpur gas field has begun in Borhanuddin upazila of the district. The extraction began 4:30am on Sunday. Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) project director Abdul Halim told

DHAKA: Customs intelligence officials detained a man with fake Indian currency of Rs1.65-crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Sunday.The detainee was identified as Khalil Baypari, 35, hailed from Shariatpur district.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Mainul

DHAKA: Noted film actor ATM Shamsuzzaman’s youngest son was awarded life-time imprisonment on Sunday for killing his elder brother.The convicted man is ATM Khalequzzaman Kushol, 31.Judge Shahed Nuruddin of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1, however, passed the order in the noon.Moreover,

DHAKA: An unidentified sexagenarian man was run over by a bus in Rayerbagh area of Jatrabari in the city on Sunday morning. Pedestrian M Sohrab Hossain told banglanews, “A passenger bus hit the man while he was crossing road in the area at 9:00am, leaving him critically injured.”

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the people of Bangladesh will no longer remain illiterate in future, because an educated nation is necessary to build the country free from poverty.For this reason, the premier on Sunday directed the Ministry of Education to take all-out

SIRAJGANJ: Two siblings were jailed for life in a case under Anti-Narcotics Act in Sirajganj. Judge of District Additional Judge and Session Judge Court-1 Shiekh M Nasirul Haq passed the order on Sunday. The court also fined them Tk 30,000, on default, ordered them to serve one more

DHAKA: A special court here on Sunday is going to deliver the verdict of noted film actor ATM Shamsuzzaman’s eldest son murder trial.Earlier on March 13, 2012, ATM Kamruzzman Kabir was stabbed to death by his younger brother ATM Khalequzzaman Kushol at their residence in the

DHAKA: Government Railway Police (GRP) detained a woman with 870 pieces of Yaba tablets in Kamalapur Railway Station of the city on Sunday.The detainee was identified as Shahida, 27.Confirming the matter, Kamalapur Station GRP Thana Officer-In-Charge Abdul Mazid told banglanews that

SATKHIRA: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) chopped a Bangladeshi cowboy to death near Koijuri camp of India, opposite to Boikery border under sadar upazila of the district, early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ahad Ali, son of Ujir Ali of Chhoyghoria village of the

DHAKA: The 10th National Parliament’s third session is going to be commenced on Monday.Sources told banglanews that the House will sit at 5pm on that day. Nine bills are expected to be tabled in the parliament during the session.The bill includes High-Tech Park Authority (amendment)

RANGAMATI: Miscreants shot here a supporter of Jana Sanghati Samity (JSS, Santu Larma group) to death at Ramhari Para under Ghilachari union of Naniarchar upazila early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Shanti Kumar Chakma, 65, resided in that area. Locals told banglanews that the

JOYPURHAT: Convicted war criminal Abdul Alim, who died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Saturday, will be buried at his family graveyard in the district on Monday. Hasinur Islam Tapu, personal assistant of Alim’s son Foysal Alim, confirmed the matter to banglanews on

DHAKA: The secretary-level foreign office consultation (FOC) meeting between Bangladesh and Myanmar began on Sunday which is the 8th meeting between the two countries.Bangladesh foreign secretary M Shahidul Huq and Myanmar deputy foreign secretary U Thant Kyaw are leading the

MUNSHIGANJ: Flood situation is being worsened day by day in Munshiganj as river water has been flowing over 22 centimeters of the danger level on Sunday.In this circumstance, more than one lakh people in over 200 villages have become marooned.Sources told banglanews that those

DHAKA: Police detained a person, who identified himself a superintendent of police (SP), in Banasri Residential Area at Rampura of the city on Saturday.The detainee was identified as Azizul Islam Arif, 45, who was nabbed from house no. 10 at Block B of the area in evening.Rampura

DHAKA: Police detained one more person for his suspected involvement in the killing of Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqi, an program anchor of private Channel-I, from Chauddagram of Comilla on Saturday night.The detainee is – Abu Yusuf, son of Tuku Mia, hailed from Chauddagram of

ASHULIA (DHAKA): A woman chopped her husband to death over family feud in Ashulia Industrial area, outskirts of the capital, on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as a rickshaw puller Al-Amin Hawlader, 35, son of Abul Hawlader and hailed from Barisal district. Police