DINAJPUR: The Phulbari unit of National Committee to Protect Oil Gas Mineral Resources Power and Ports has barricaded Dhaka-Phulbari highway in Nimtala Mor and Dhaka Mor area on Thursday morning for second consecutive day. The strikers blockaded the area by piling rickshaws and vans on

DHAKA: Three people sustained burn injuries in a transmitter explosion at DESCO power office in city’s Mirpur area Thursday morning. The victims were identified as Sazzad Hossain, 18, Rakibul, 26 and Jony, 19. All of them were working at the Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited

DHAKA: With a view to ensuring health, transport and housing facilities at minimum cost to the people aged 60 and above, the government is set to declare 1.3 crore people as ‘Senior Citizen’ Thursday. President Abdul Hamid will make the declaration in a program, organized by the

DHAKA: Phillip Hughes has died as a result of the injuries he sustained when struck by a bouncer on Tuesday, Cricket Australia confirmed. Cricinfo reports, in a statement released on Thursday afternoon (local time), the Australia team doctor Peter Brukner said: “It is my sad duty to

DHAKA: A mobile court conducted by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) sent 31 members of agyan (dope) party for different terms.Executive magistrates of two mobile courts Abdul Kuddus and M Sarwar Alam passed the order on early Thursday.DMP joint commissioner Monirul Islam made the

GAZIPUR: Detective Branch (DB) of Police has detained here a youth with foreign pistol and one round bullet from Tongi on Wednesday evening. The detainee is Sayeed Badshah, 35, son of Bikku Miah, hailed from Bogra’s Sariakandi. The officer-in-charge (OC) of district DB, Amir Hossain

RIYADH: A Bangladeshi citizen was killed in an accident on King Abdullah Road at Olaya in Riyadh of Saudia Arabia on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Alauddin, 38, son of one Saidul Haque Bhuiyan, hailed from Dulkha union under Nangalkot upazila of Comilla district.

COMILLA: Rail communications of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet restored on Wednesday night following a four-hour halt as a goods-laden train derailed at Daulatpur of the district. Mostafijur Rahman, assistant engineer of Comilla Railway, told banglanews that the rail services were

COMILLA: Rail communications of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet have remained suspended since Wednesday evening following a derailment of a goods-laden train at Daulatpur in the district.Sources told banglanews that a wagon of the Dhaka-bound train from Chittagong veered off the

KHULNA: A woman along with her daughter was killed in a road accident on Daulatpur-Sahapur road of Dumuria upazila of the district on Wednesday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Tania, 26, resident of Amvita Uchu Mati area of the upazila and her daughter Oishi, 6.Sources told

MYMENSINGH: A Mymensingh court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to three people and lifetime imprisonment to five others in a sensational killing case of Fulpur upazila of the district.The death row convicts are Askor Ali alias Badsah, Shad Uddin, and Tula Mia while the lifetime

NETROKONA: A female examinee of Primary School Certificate (PSC) examination has been abducted at Madan Upazila in the district on Wednesday.She is student of Deosahila Government Primary School.Sources told banglanews that alleged stalker Halud Mia, 27, son of Tulak Miah, resident of

DHAKA: US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka on Thursday on a 3-day official visit.USA Embassy in Dhaka issued a press release on Wednesday.Nisha will come to Dhaka directly from Nepal after attending the 18th South

DHAKA: A minor died in a fire that broke out at Balughat Basti, a slum, in city’s Hajaribagh area on Wednesday afternoon.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Sources told banglanews that the minor, approximately 18 months old, was found dead after the fire was

DHAKA: Fire fighters doused a fire that broke out at a bicycle factory of Meghna Group in the city’s Tejgaon area on Wednesday.Fire Service and Civil Defense control room duty officer Shahjadi Sultana confirmed the matter to banglanews.Originated at 1:50pm, the fire soon engulfed the

DHAKA: Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after the hajj, will begin on January 9 in 2015 on the bank of the river Turag at Tongi in Gazipur district, adjacent to the capital.The government took the decision on Monday noon at a meeting on the overall law and

DINAJPUR: Protesters have withdrawn blockade from Dhaka-Phulbari highway in Dinajpur.The blockade, which was imposed by the supporters of ‘National Committee to Protect Oil Gas Mineral Resources Power and Ports’ of Phulbari unit around 11:30am, had been withdrawn at 4:15pm

BOGRA: A total of 103 people, including accused of different cases, were detained in several drives in 12 hours in the district.Police conducted the drives from Tuesday 6:00pm to Wednesday 6:00am.Bogra Senior Assistant Police Superintendent (ASP/B-Circle) Ujjal Kumar Roy confirmed the

DHAKA: A fire broke out at Meghna Cycle Industries’ factory at Tejgaon in the capital on Wednesday noon. Officer-in-Charge of Fire service Headquarters Enayet Hossain confirmed the matter to banglanews. The reason and damage due to the fire could not be known immediately, he said.

DHAKA: A speedy trial tribunal has awarded death penalty of two members of banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a murder case. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 passed the order on Wednesday noon. The convicts include JMB top leaders Saiful Islam and