DHAKA: The city dwellers on Monday are experiencing intense traffic jam that has been crippling different routes of the capital since morning.The office-goers and school-college-university-goers suffered a lot to reach their destinations.The traffic gridlock was seen at Gulistan,

JHENAIDAH: Two persons were killed and 30 others injured as a passenger bus collided head on with truck in Kashipur rail gate area under Kaliganj upazila Monday.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Officer-in-Charge of Kaliganj Thana Anwar Hossain confirmed the

DHAKA: President Abdul Hamid left for Dubai of United Arab Emirates on Monday morning to attend the 10th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF).A regular flight of Emirates Airlines, carrying the honorable President, left Shahjalal International Airport for Dubai at 10.15 am, said sources

DHAKA: The United Arab Emirates on Sunday signed an agreement with a view to recruiting 1000 to 2000 female domestic workers from Bangladesh every month.The oil-rich country almost stopped issuing all kinds of entry permits for Bangladeshi passport holders bringing irregularities in

DHAKA: The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase on Sunday approved a proposal to buy 300 rail bogies from Indonesia costing Tk 561 crore.Joint secretary Mostafizur Rahman of cabinet division informed the reporters after the meeting of the committee chaired by finance minister Abul

DHAKA: A teenaged domestic help was found dead in city’s Uttar Badda area on Sunday evening.The ill-fated girl was identified as Farida, 15, daughter of Chan Mia, hailed from Netrokona district.Police sources said Farida had been working in the house of Sirajul Islam for past three

DHAKA: Assistant Secretary General and Director at the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy of UNDP Michael O’Neill lauded climate change resilience and urban poverty reduction efforts of Bangladesh.Bangladeshi people’s resilience in adapting to climate change and fighting

PANCHAGARH: India’s Border Security Force (BSF) personnel detained a Bangladeshi national from Banglabandha border area in Tetulia of the district on Sunday afternoon.The detainee is driver Biplab, son of Dimalu Mohammad, resident of the area.Locals said that BSF personnel held

DHAKA: United Kingdom (UK) international development minister Lynne Featherstone arrived in Dhaka on Sunday to see the actions taken to end child marriage and prevent violence against women and girls.Her visit comes in the wake of July’s Girl Summit in London, which brought

DHAKA: Bangladeshi lawyer Adilur Rahman Khan has been conferred with the International Bar Association (IBA) Human Rights Award 2014 for his outstanding contribution to rights movements.The IBA declared the award on Friday, said a press release published by the Asian Human Rights

RANGAMATI: Unidentified miscreants shot dead Sushil Chakma, 32, activist of Santu Larma-led Jana Sanghati Samity (JSS), in Baghaichhari upazila on Sunday. Quoting locals police sources said a group of armed miscreants gunned down Sushil Chakma in a local rubber garden.Claming Sushil as

DHAKA: Bibliophiles with an interest in neighboring Bangladesh’s art, culture and history have a reason to cheer now in India. A six-day Bangladesh book fair was inaugurated in Kolkata on Saturday.Hosting 30 book stalls, the fair will run at the Rabindra Sadan premises till Thursday,

DHAKA: Anne Aarnes, Assistant Administrator for Asia at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), arrived in Bangladesh Sunday on a four-day visit.   During her stay in Bangladesh, Aarnes will visit development projects in Khulna, Jessore, Baagerhaat and Munshiganj. 

DHAKA: A Dhaka Court Sunday accepted the final probe report of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in much-talked-about Padma Bridge graft case. The court also acquitted Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, former secretary of Bridge Division, and three officials of SNC Lavalin among all seven

JOYPURHAT: Six workers including a woman sustained bullet injures when a robber-gang fired gunshots during a robbery at a potato cold storage in Boiragipara area under Kalai upazila of the district early Sunday. Tarik Hossain, manager of Southpole Cold Storage, told banglanews, “A

DHAKA: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 50,000 pieces of yaba tablets worth of Tk 1.5 crore from the area adjacent to Naf River under Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early Sunday.  Confirming the matter, BGB Headquarters’ public relations officer Mahsin Reza told

MUNSHIGANJ: Two people were killed and 15 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Pakhi point area of Gazaria Upazila early Sunday.  The passengers who died on the spot were identified as Tazem Ali, 19, Rasel Mia, 22.  Sources said that

DHAKA: At least seven workers sustained burn injures when separate explosions took place at two factories located in city’s Shampur and South Keraniganj areas early Sunday. The injured are- Abu Sayeed, 30, Bulbul, 29, Moti, 35, Mahabub, 38, Badsha Mia, 17, Arif Hossain, 18 and Sujan,

DHAKA: The government on Saturday deployed 10 platoons Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in the city to avert any untoward situation ahead of Sunday’s hartal called by the Islamic parties.Sources said the BGB members, including other law enforcement agency personnel, have

BACK FROM MALAYSIA: Malaysian college TMC has been built through sucking the blood of the Bangladeshi students. The college keeps the passports of the students under locked attracting them by false allure of higher and standard education. The passports are not given back till the