JESSORE: Two people were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Sarupdah area under Sharsha upazila of the district on Monday noon. The deceased were identified as Abdur Rahman, 60 and Tofazzal Sardar, 57. Sources said shallow engine-run vehicles, locally known as

DHAKA: The governmenton Monday formed two probe committees to look into the launch capsize in the river Padma near Mawa Ghat at Lauhajang upazila in Munshiganj district. The Ministry of Shipping formed a seven-member probe committee headed by its joint secretary Nurur Rahman while

COX’S BAZAR: At least twenty fortune seekers went missing in the Bay of Bengal after a Malaysia-bound trawler collapsed on Monday. The fishing trawler was found floating at the estuary of the Bay near Samity Para in the noon, said a spot account of the incident. At that time one

DHAKA: No Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been affected by recently alarming Ebola Virus. An ISPR (Inter Services Public Relations) press release on Monday said all the United Nation peacekeepers, including Bangladeshis, are out of Ebola Virus infection since its outbreak in West Africa.

BACK FROM MALAYSIA: The life style in Malaysia is now almost like Europe. However you can live in the capital Kualalumpur as like as living cost in Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh.  For this reason, the citizens of many countries of the globe are attracted by the dream life of this

DHAKA: Despite pressures at home and abroad, Bangladesh continued trial procedure for war criminals for their crimes against humanity in 1971. The USA strongly supports the trial. US Global Criminal Justice affairs ambassador-at-large Stephen J Rapp said while he came to courtesy visit

NOAKHALI: Two fishermen drowned as a trawler capsized in Meghna River in Tehengar Char under Hatia upazila of the district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Shaharaj, 35 and Noor Islam, 32, residents of the upazila. Locals said that 20 fishermen sailed their trawler for fishing

KOLKATA: Taslima Nasreen, self-exiled Bangladeshi novelist who has now been staying in Delhi, was invited to join Bigg Boss, a popular Indian television show but she refused the offer.The writer on Sunday tweeted that she had declined the offer politely first — and then

DHAKA: Retired Supreme Court Justice Mamtaj Uddin Ahmed has been made the new Press Council chairman.A circular, issued by Ministry of public administration on Monday afternoon said that the government appointed him for next three years on condition of leaving all other works and

DHAKA:  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered authorities concerned to start all out effort to recover launch Pinak-6, that capsized on Monday morning with over 250 passengers.Her special assistant Mahbubul Haque Shakil told banglanews that the premier is looking for update

HABIGANJ: Three police constables and a village policeman were injured in an attack at a warranted criminals’ house in Rasulpur's village under Ajmeriganj Upazila early Monday. The injured were rushed to Habibganj Sadar Modern Hospital and Ajmeriganj Upazila Health Complex. Toimur

DHAKA: US Ambassador-at-Large for the Office of Global Criminal Justice, Stephen J. Rapp, reached Dhaka on Monday morning on a 3-day visit.It is the fifth visit of him after beginning of the war crimes trial.He will monitor the procedures of war crime trial and also join a round of

DHAKA: Cabinet has approved the draft of National Broadcast Policy-2014. The draft of the policy was okayed on Monday at a regular meeting of the cabinet, held at Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. After the meeting, cabinet secretary Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain

FROM MAWA GHAT: Police recovered bodies of two women from the Padma river after a launch, Pinak-6, carrying more than 200 passengers, capsized on Mawa-Kawrakandi route in the district on Monday morning. Besides, at least 40 passengers were rescued from the river and many more remained

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained four people with huge Yaba tablets and Tk 12 lakhs cash money from Matuail of the city on Sunday night. The identity of the detainees could not be known immediately.  Confirming the matter, RAB Media Wing Deputy Director Major Rumman told

MUNSHIGANJ: Due to bad weather, seven ferries stopped plying on the Mawa-Kawrakandi river route from Sunday night. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) said seven ferries were forced to anchor as they failed to ply due to heavy waves. The suspension of the ferry

DHAKA: An 11-year-old boy died after falling from the roof top of a three-storey building in Begum Bazar area of the capital on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Sazedul Islam Tasmir, a son of Shamsul Haque, was a class III student of Nabo Kumar Institute of the area.

MYMENSINGH: A five year old boy and his grandfather were killed in a road accident in Kanarampur area at Nandail upazila of the district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Raihan, 5, and his grandfather Abu Bakar Siddique, 60. Officer-in-charge Saiful Islam Farazi of Nandail

BARISAL: Two children drowned in a pond in Patarchar area under Muladee upazila of the district on Sunday noon. The deceased were identified as Naima, 6, daughter of Nesar Dhali, Siam, 7, son of Masud Hawladar, of the area. Quoting the family members, Dr Syedur Rahman of the Upazila

COMILLA: Communications Minster Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the vehicle of the movement of BNP has got crippled in this trip.  The communications minister was talking to the journalists after visiting the construction works of an under-construction flyover at Paduar Bazar in the