DHAKA: The Bangladesh Embassy has moved to a new location in the Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, this week to offer improved services. The mission, which was at Al-Warood Quarter, has been shifted to Al-Waha district, Building No. 33, Al-Sheikh Hossain bin Hasan Street in Al-Waha

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Robi Ullah Robi, News Editor of the Dainik Inquilab, on a five-day remand in an information technology case.Metropolitan Magistrate SM Ashiqur Rahman passed the remand order after holding a hearing in the afternoon.Detective Branch (DB)

NARAYANGANJ:  A Narayanganj court on Wednesday sent 15 accused, including three Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel, who gave confessional statements, to jail.Senior Judicial Magistrate AKM Mohiuddin placed the order in the morning and fixed October 13 as the next hearing date

DHAKA: A team of researchers, including university faculties, journalists and development workers, paid a visit to the Day Care Centre run by Sajida Foundation with support from the Concern Worldwide and UNDP on Wednesday morning. About 40 children of the urban homeless shared their

DHAKA: The surgery of Language Movement activist Abdul Matin, widely honored as ‘Bhasha Matin’, has been successful.Doctors, after completing the surgery in his head, told banglanews that the 88-year old language veteran is now out of danger.Matin has been admitted at Bangabandhu

DHAKA: The government has terminated a Bangladesh Bank General Manager (GM) for his alleged involvement in corruption and irregularities on Wednesday.The officer, Golam Mostafa, was the in-charge of inspection department of the central bank.Sources told banglanews that the authorities,

COX’S BAZAR: Coast Guard personnel detained 30 people, who were trying to cross the sea to enter into Malaysia illegally, from the estuary of Banhkhali River adjacent to the seaside town on Wednesday morning.The coast guard also seized a trawler there.Nuniarchara Coast Guard Station

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 will pronounce its verdict any day as trial proceedings of the war crimes case against former state minister of Jatiya Party Syed Mohammad Qaisar ended Wednesday.The three-member tribunal led by Justice Obaidul Hasan also sent Qaisar to jail

Good news is that the government has taken a “Palli Jonopod” project aiming at developing model villages. But, simultaneously bad news is that Dhaka has once again been ranked as the second least liveable city in the world.London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released

RIYADH: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said Bangladeshi expatriates living in Saudi Arabia would get opportunity to make Machine Readable Passport (MPR) at home within two weeks.The minister came up with the remarks when inaugurated the MRP outsourcing project at

DHAKA: After uncertainty covers the fate of upcoming meeting of Joint Rivers Commission (JRC), this time neighboring India did not fix any date to hold the next meeting of Joint Consultative Commission (JCC), sources of foreign ministry said.In the meantime, Bangladesh has been

MADARIPUR: The plying of all water vessels including ferry remained stopped on the Mawa-Kawrakandi route for 11 hours due to heavy current on the Padma river since Tuesday night, triggering tailbacks on both sides of the river.The services resumed at 8:00am Wednesday, said sources

DHAKA: Five members of a family have sustained burn injuries in a fire that was triggered from a mosquito coil early Wednesday at their rented house in Keraniganj’s Par Gendaria area.The victims are identified as Rahima Begum, 50, wife of late Hashem Ali, her daughters Salma, 30 and

DHAKA: Three Bangladeshi construction workers were killed as they were sandwiched under a concrete span in Kota Damansara area of Malaysia on Monday night.The deceased were identified as Mohammad Faruq Khan, Mohammad Elahi Hossain and Mohammad Alauddin Mallik.They worked for Mass Rapid

DHAKA: National  Mourning  Day  Program  commemorating  the  39th   death anniversary  of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,  the Father of the Nation, was organized by the Embassy of Bangladesh in Tashkent,  Uzbekistan on  August  15. In  the  beginning of  the 

DHAKA: The Law Commission on Tuesday sent a draft report to the Law Affairs Ministry seeking the retirement age of justices at 75 years. The justices would be selected through a committee consists of skilled and qualitative justice led by Chief Justice, said the recommendation

JESSORE: A banker was killed in a road accident on Jessore-Khulna highway in Hatbila area under Sadar upazila in the district on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Abdul Gaffar, 50, officer of Krishi Bank in Rupdiya Branch in Shakharigati area of Sadar upazila.Locals said a human

DHAKA: A six-day director-general level meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India will begin in Delhi, capital city of India, on Wednesday.The BGB sources confirmed the matter around 4:00pm on Tuesday.The meeting will start on August 20 and

DHAKA: The government is supplying personal protective equipments (PPE) for the Bangladeshi members in the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Mission.The medical stuffs are being sent to keep the Bangladeshi nationals safe as they are working to contain the Ebola outbreak in Sierra

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit Malaysia in the first week of November which will be the first tour after being Prime Minister of the incumbent government.The premier expressed her intention while visiting Malaysian Human Resource Minister Richard Riot Anak Jaem