MOULVIBAZAR: Two motorcyclists were killed and another was injured in a road accident beside the Lohani Tea Garden under Kulaura upazila of the district on Thursday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.Local sources said that a passenger bus rammed into a

DHAKA: The government appointed former Foreign Affairs Secretary Syed Moazzem Ali as new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India for the next three years.The Public Administration Ministry on Thursday issued an order regarding the appointment.It said government appointed Syed Moazzem

DHAKA: Judges Impeachment Law is expected to be placed in the upcoming 4th session of the Jatiya Sangsad.After passing the law, the power of impeaching Judges will return to the members of the Parliament.The 4th session of the 10th Parliament is scheduled to begin in November.Law,

DHAKA: Foreign powers should not interfere in the internal affairs of our country, commented information minister Hasanul Haq Inu. He said at a discussion meeting on 65th founding anniversary of People’s Republic of China on Thursday at Sonargaon Hotel in city. The minister said that

DHAKA: An assistant inspector of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Mohammad Hafizur Rahman was sacked for his involvement with question papers leak of Dhaka University and Jagannath University.According to the ACC decision, he was suspended from his post on Thursday as the complaint

JHALOKATHI:  A Jalakathi court exempted college Student Limon Hossain from the case of obstructing police in discharging duties filed by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).  District and Session Judge Court’s chief judicial magistrate Abu Shamim Azad passed the order around 12:00pm. 

CHITTAGONG: Agitated CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers, who imposed a blockade on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Bortakia bypass area in Mirersarai, left the place in the afternoon. Sources said that from then on, the road communication has become normal after five hours of being stuck.

CHITTAGONG: Local CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers put a blockade on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Bortakia bypass area in Mirersarai, causing long tailback on both sides of the highway since Tuesday morning. However, vehicles, carrying passengers and goods from and to Chittagong, got

DHAKA: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Jakarta at the invitation of a leading social organization named 'Synergy' to address a youth camp in the camping ground of Jakarta.  This was the first time a youth camp around music and social mission was organized in Indonesia.

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will go to Italy to join biannual summit of Asia-Europe Intercontinental Forum (ASEM) in October. A competent source from the foreign affairs ministry confirmed the matter on Tuesday. The two-day summit will be held in the Italian city of Milan from

GAZIPUR: US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena visited two readymade garment factories in Board Bazar area of the district on Tuesday.He went to the factories--Ehsan Garments and Moonlight Garment--around 9:00am on the day.The US ambassador expressed his satisfaction seeing the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday framed charges against seven people, including four physicians of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), in a graft case related to the embezzlement of Tk 2.31 crore.The four physicians include DMCH former director Brigadier General (retd) Bazle

DHAKA: The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Wednesday on the appeal filed by death row Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee against his penalty for the 1971 wartime offences. A five-member judge’s panel of the court led by Chief Justice Mozammel Hossain will hand

DHAKA: Government is increasing intelligence surveillance on the activities of banned militant outfits and religion-based political parties as well as their leaders’ movements.Specially, all programs of the religion-based political parties, including rally, gathering, will go under

KHAGRACHHARI: A woman committed suicide killing her husband over family feud in Lokkhichhari of the district early Friday.The deceased was identified as Dhormodhon Chakma, 55 and his wife Mala Chakma.Locals said that the couple used t quarrel for long time over family affairs. On

DHAKA: Friday is the 43rd death anniversary of Martyr (Shaheed) Lance Naik Nur Mohammad Sheikh (widely known as Bir Sreshtho Nur Mohammad).He was killed in an engagement with the Pakistan Army while providing fire for covering the extrication of fellow soldiers at Goalhati in Jessore

GAZIPUR: Police recovered here 11 pieces of cocktail from Bastuhara Mosque area under Nayapara in city early Friday.Sources told banglanews that locals after noticing the cocktails informed local thana.The cocktails were spotted near the mosque around 12:00 am in an abandoned condition,

NAOGAON: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel detained a woman with 1,380 bottles of Indian contraband Phensidyl syrup from Isabpur village in Dhamoirhat upazila of the district on Saturday evening. The detainee is identified as Mukta Begum, wife of Shariful Islam. RAB-5 sources said,

KISHOREGANJ: A man chopped his elder brother to death over land dispute at Nimkhali village under Hossainpur upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid, 60, son of Askar Ali of the area. Police and local sources said Abdur Rashid and his

DHAKA: The broadcast policy was formulated aiming to make the government controversial and the people, who made the policy, are not friends of the government. Speakers came up with the assertion in a discussion program on the challenges for mass media, organized by Bangladesh Editors’