DHAKA: Students of three private universities cannot be lawyer as Bangladesh Bar Council suspended giving registrations to them as cases are under trial against them.The universities are Darul Ihsan University, America Bangladesh University and IBAIS University.Vice-Chairman of the

NARAYANGANJ: A man was burnt to death and wife sustained severe burn injuries as a fire broke out in Masdair area under Fatulla upazila of the district on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Abed Ali, 70, former Union Parishad (UP) member of Enayetnagar of the upazila.Locals said

DHAKA: The government will introduce online Hajj registration from this year. The interested devotees are asked to complete the registration and submit fees from December 15 to January 30.Religious Affairs Minister Motiur Rahman made the disclosure to the journalists after an

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has collected information of 40 thousand criminals. Moreover, the elite force has also collected details of them who are now under custody of law enforcers. RAB officials disclosed the matter on Thursday morning at the inaugural session of the

KATHMANDU (NEPAL): The ‘Kathmandu Declaration’, focusing on more connectivity and cooperation among the SAARC countries, will be announced in the final hours of the summit on Thursday afternoon. The heads of the SAARC countries will speak here on the follow-up and future plans of the

NETROKONA: A district court sentenced three people on Thursday to life imprisonment for killing a rickshaw puller. The court also fined each of them Tk 50,000, in default, ordered them to serve five more years in jail.  Additional district judge Abdul Hamid pronounced the verdict in

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