DHAKA: Police have been preventing the Tuba workers to enter in their factories at Hossain Market in city’s Badda area on Thursday. The law enforcers also deter them to stand in the road. The workers have been continuing hunger strike to press home their 5-point demand including to

DHAKA: The government on Thursday appointed some 6,221 doctors under BCS cadre service making a record in public appointment in the country. The joining programme was arranged at Bangabandhu International Conference Center where health Minister Mohammad Nasim was present. The doctors

DHAKA: Police recovered 23 pieces of cocktail from Begunbari area in Tejgaon Thana of the capital on Thursday. Faijur Rahman, sub-inspector of Tejgaon Industrial Thana, confirmed the matter to banglanews. He said locals spotted the cocktail in an abandoned condition and informed police.

FROM MAWA GHAT: The rescue drive have been continuing for the fourth-day in the full swing on Thursday to recover the launch, Pinak-6, which drowned on Monday along with almost 230 passengers. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and

FROM MAWA GHAT: Some 32 bodies have been recovered till Thursday morning so far while sixteen of them were handed over to their relatives on Thursday noon. Police recovered floating bodies of three people, including two children, from Naria upazila of Shariatpur and Muladi upazila of

DHAKA: A mugger was killed in a police firing beside Red Crescent in Hatirjheel area of the city early Thursday, police sources said.Age of the deceased was nearly 30, whose identity could not be known immediately, Ramna Thana Sub-Inspector Atikur Rahman told banglanews.Police sources

DHAKA: Bangladesh National Cricket Team Captain Mushfiqur Rahim invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on his wedding scheduled to be held on September 27.Mushfiq along with his parents went to the Ganobhaban to invite the premier, also ruling Awami League president. Sheikh Hasina also

DHAKA: The WMS Global Awards for Excellence, which is launched by the World Media Summit (WMS), has opened for entries. The categories are including public welfare, media innovation and reporting.  The awards are launched upon the decision made during the Second WMS Presidium Meeting

DHAKA: Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee called 10-hour worker strike across the country on Thursday to press home their demand.Workers, who are staging the fast-unto-death in the sixth floor of Tuba factory, declared the strike.Leader of the committee Jolly Talukder confirmed the

DHAKA: Cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma, the man who created the famous Indian comic character Chacha Chaudhary died on Wednesday.  His others famous characters included cartoons like Sabu, Shrimatiji, Pinki, Billoo, Raman, Channie Chachi and many more. Pran succumbed to cancer early on

DHAKA: Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said drive would be conducted after the Eid-ul-Azha to make free the footpath from hawkers. The health minister made the remarks in Babu Bazar Bridge area on Wednesday while joining a campaign of Bangladesh Road and Transport

BARISAL: Two workers killed as construction materials fell upon them in Durgapur area under Mehendiganj upazila of the district on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Jalil, 40, and Jahangir, 35. Officer-in-Charge of Mehendiganj Thana said the duo was critically injured

DHAKA: South Africa has expressed interest to recruit skilled manpower from Bangladesh and in this regard they are building financial and diplomatic relations with Bangladesh. Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told banglanews after a meeting with South Africa’s Residential

DHAKA: Hajj flights will begin on August 27 to ferry pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year to perform hajj. Besides, the return flights will start on October 8 and continue until November 8. Religion affairs secretary Mohammad Babul Hasan confirmed the matter to banglanews. As many as

DHAKA: Authorities of Tuba Group on Wednesday morning locked up the entrance of the factory, where over 1,000 workers were staging hunger strike since July 28 demanding their due wages. Later in the noon, police conducted a raid in the factory to pull out outsiders from the factory. 

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged all to ensure the mother’s care first. She also called for creating mass awareness of breastfeeding children and increases the rate of feeding homemade supplements instead of milk powder and tinned baby food. The PM made the

DHAKA: Garment owners’ organization Bangladesh Garment Manufactures and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has started giving wages to the workers of five Tuba Group factories. The process has started at 11:00am on Wednesday from BGMEA building in city’s Karwan Bazar area. Two hundred

FROM MAWA GHAT: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Wednesday said some 19 bodies have been recovered so far and eight of them were handed over to their relatives. Minister made the disclosure in a press briefing at Mawa Rest House around 7:15pm. He also said that they have been using

DHAKA:  Nearly one thousand workers at Tuba Group remain confined to the factory since Wednesday morning as unidentified miscreants put the factory’s main entrance under lock and key.Bangladesh Trade Union Centre joint secretary Jony Talukdar confirmed the matter to banglanews at

FROM MAWA GHAT: No trace of Pinak-6 has found out though 46 plus hours passed since a passenger launch with more than 200 passengers on board capsized in the Padma River on Monday morning. No progress was made in the rescue operation due to unfavorable weather and heavy current, said the