KATHMANDU: The Programming Committee (PC) meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is underway at Hotel Soaltee Crowne Plaza in Kathmandu on Saturday. Maldives will handover the SAARC Chair to Nepal in the joint secretary-level PC meeting that started at 9:30am

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been awarded with the ‘South-South Cooperation Visionary Award' of the United Nations (UN). Prime Minister’s son, and also her ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy, on behalf of his mother, received the award on Friday. The award was handed over at

RAJBARI: Vice-Chairman of Pangsha Upazila Parishad Munshi Nader Hossain, also district Krishak League president, who sustained gunshot wounds in the chest, died at Faridpur Medical College and Hospital early Saturday. District Krishak League general secretary Nure Alam Siddiqui confirmed

DHAKA: US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal is set to visit Bangladesh on Thursday, said a Washington DC media note Friday night. The US Assistant Secretary will arrive in Bangladesh directly from Nepal after attending the 18th South

DHAKA: Vowing to do everything necessary, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said the armed forces are pride for the nation and the government wants to see the armed forces as disciplined, efficient, modern and well-equipped armed forces.She was addressing a reception

DHAKA: The International Literary Festival Hay Festival Dhaka 2014, which has started from Thursday, has ended for the second consecutive day on Friday at the historic grounds of Bangla Academy.                    More than 30 sessions run simultaneously at the

DHAKA: A Malaysian court on Friday charged two local immigration officers with murdering a Bangladeshi detainee on October 29 - the smallest state of the country, reports native English-language daily The Star.Perlis Immigration officers M Aminnudin Mohd Yasin and Zuhairul Effendy

DHAKA: Customs intelligence on Friday detained a Malaysia-return student with 775 grams gold worth about Tk 38 lakhs from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.The detainee was identified as M Farzi Rahman, 20, a fourth year student of Bachelor of Accounting at a university in

DHAKA: Police recovered body of a Bangladesh-born British citizen from Banani area of the city on Friday.The deceased was identified as Mezbah Uddin, 71. Sub-inspector (SI) Jahangir Alam of Banani Thana confirmed the matter to banglanews.Being informed, the law enforcers recovered the

NARAYANGANJ: The authorities Friday suspended four police members including a Sub-Inspector (SI) of Narayanganj Bandar Thana on allegation of involvement in drug trading.One of the suspended is SI Masudul Haque of Kamtal police outpost of the Thana. Though, other three police

SYLHET: Police Friday detained 17 Chhatra league activists of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) with one loaded pistol and 19 sharp weapons following clash of Thursday that killed one and injured over 20. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of

DHAKA: Bangladesh will face visiting Zimbabwe in the first One Day International of five-match series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium of Chittagong. The day/night match will start at 1:30pm. Mashrafee Mortaza will lead the Bangladesh team in the ODI series while Elton Chigumbura will

SATKHIRA: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members detained 13 Bangladeshis while they were trying to intrude in India through Kaliganj border on Thursday night. BGB sources said the detainees were held from Nalta Chaumuhani frontier area around 8:00pm. Acting Commander of Satkhira 34

DHAKA: Armed Forces Day, the raising day of the Bangladesh armed forces, is being observed across the country on Friday with due solemnity and enthusiasm. On this day in 1971, a deliberate attack, by the members of Army, Navy and Air force of the Bangladesh liberation war forces, was

DHAKA: The officer-in-charge (OC) of city’s Kotwali Thana has been withdrawn on Thursday evening for his alleged involvement of a past month’s gold scandal.Sources told banglanews that the withdrawn OC--Firoz Al Jalal--has been closed to the Rajarbagh Police Lines.Instead of him,

DHAKA: Bangladesh has been elected as the Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC).The election took place at the 29th Session of the Intergovernmental Council of IPDC being held from November 20-21,

DHAKA: Pistol-wielding muggers snatched here Tk 10 lakh on Thursday night over firing a city money exchanger at Mirpur’s Janata Housing area.The victim--Sharif Nasir Hossain, 28--is now undergoing treatment at a local Delta Hospital.Sources told banglanews that the incident took place

DHAKA: Abdullah Al Islam Jakob, the deputy minister for environment and forests, in favour of the government of Bangladesh, has been elected as the vice president (VP) of the COP (Committees of the Parties) and MOP (Meeting of the Parties) to the ‘26th Meeting of the Parties to the

DHAKA: Police have recovered a bomb-like object from near the Kalabagan Thana in city Thursday night.Sources told banglanews that the object, looks like a time bomb, was found around 9:30pm in a Hamid Garment’s lane, adjacent to the police station.Police, however, after being

DHAKA: A mild tremor measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted the country early Friday. The tremor was felt at 12:14:37am, said the US Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter of the earthquake was located in Khawhai of neighboring India, some 330 kilometers east of the seismic centre