NOAKHALI: A group of miscreants stabbed an NGO official to death at Companiganj upazila of the district on Saturday noon.The deceased was identified as Tapan Chandra Bhowmik, 42, project director of a local NGO named Basanti Unyan Sangstha and son of one Kumud Chandra Debnath, resident

DHAKA: Shahbagh Thana police held a youth with a firearm on Saturday afternoon from the ruling Awami League rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on Saturday. The detainee is Qamrul Hasan Tutul. Police recovered a foreign-made gun with 11 rounds of bullet from the detainee who

BOGRA: Floods have left around 70,000 families marooned submerging over 176 villages and thousands hecters of cultivable land in three upazilas of the district recently. District administration tried to distribute relief to the flood affected people of the area but failed due to poor

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities on Saturday handed over the responsibility of investigation into Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqi murder case to Detective Branch (DB) of police. DMP Media Center Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman confirmed the matter in the afternoon.

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Saturday placed each accused Sohel and Faruk on a five-day remand in a case filed over the triple murder at Moghbazar in city on Thursday night. Metropolitan Magistrate M Erfan Ullah passed the order when the Inspector of Ramna Thana Selim Mia, also IO of the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Friday placed two women on three-day remand for their involvement with stealing of a newborn baby from Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Joynab Begum passed the order when investigation officer (IO) of the case sub-inspector

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, visited the Kalabagan residence of freedom fighter late Fazlur Rahman Razu, Dhaka city unit AL leader, on Friday. The Premier went to the residence to convey condolence to the bereaved family. Meanwhile, Prime

SAVAR (DHAKA): Miscreants beat and copped an office assistant of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center (BPATC) to death at Kalma Adarsha village of the upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Sayed Akber Ali, 38, hailed from the area. Deceased’s wife Latifa Begum

DHAKA: The autopsy of the three victims has been done, those who were killed in city’s Maghbazar area on Thursday night.  Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Forensic Department Assistant Professor Sohel Samud told banglanews that the autopsy of the victims was done around 3:45pm. 

HABIGANJ: A man and his son among three killed in a road accident in Syedpur area under Nabiganj Upazlia of the district on Friday morning.  The deceased were identified as Kazi Sayeed Ahmed, 80, his son Kazi Hafizur Rahman, 40 and Rezaul Karim, 25 son of late Chand Mia.  Local

DHAKA: Relatives of killed Maulana Sheikh Nurul Islam Farooqui, an Islamic program anchor of private Channel-I, has been taking the body to Panchagarh where he will be buried beside his mother’s grave.Earlier in the day, the namaj-e-janaza of Maulana Sheikh Nurul Islam Farooqui was

TANGAIL: Flood situation worsened in the last 24 hours in the district as Jamuna and Dhaleshwari rivers water have been flowing over 41 centimeters of the danger level. People in around 300 villages of Tangail Sadar, Bhuapur, Gopalpur, Kalihati, Nagarpur and Delduar upazilas have become

DHAKA: A five-year old minor drowned in a ditch at Uttar-Kajlarpar area of Jatrabari in city on Friday noon. The deceased was identified as Alif Rahman, 5, son of one Arifur Rahman, hailed from Pakundia area of Kishoreganj district.  Sources said Alif fell into the ditch while playing

DHAKA: Awami league advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta on Friday urged the government not to hand over the power to impeach justices to Jatiya Sangsad before amending the Constitution.  He voiced the urge at a discussion meeting titled “Current Politics”, arranged by

DHAKA:  Incumbent government will investigate the investment of some clinics and hospitals besides 11 insurance companies in militancy. State minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzamna Khan Kamal told bangladnews on Wednesday that they discussed about the matter after getting the detective

DHAKA: Law enforcers on Friday interrogated two women for their suspected link with triple murder in city’s Moghbazar area.  They are- Chaina Begum and Champa Begum, relatives of main suspect Kala Babu.  Confirming the matter, Iqbal Hossain, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan

DHAKA: ‘Kabiliyat bane Kamiyabi (Skill/Talent becomes Success)’, though it is motto of Chyawanprash’s TVC, a man, who also wanted to be ‘Kamiyab’, but through illegal means, held carrying gold in its bottle at Hazrat Shahjalal Airport Friday. The detainee was identified as

SYLHET: A person was killed and more than 50 others were injured over a clash between two groups at Khadimnagar Tea Estate on Friday. Tension is prevailing at Dewairbahar village following the clash started from around 11:00am. The deceased was identified as Masukur Rahman, 25, resident

FROM FLOOD HIT AREA (SARAKANDI, BOGRA): At least three people were reportedly killed and another missing since the flood hit the upazila following a collapse of flood control embankment of Jamuna River there.Rajshahi division commissioner Helal Uddin Ahmed, district deputy

    SATKHIRA: Two bicycle riders were killed when a truck hit their bike on Kaliganj-Satkhira road in Dhopdanga intersection under Debhata upazila of the district on Friday.The deceased were identified as Mohadeb Ghosh, son of Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, and Kenaram Ghosh, son of