DHAKA: A plastic factory and at least 12 shops were gutted in a devastating fire in Namapara area of Lalbagh Islampur in city early Sunday.Fire service and witness sources said that the fire originated in the plastic factory from an electric short circuit around 4:15am and soon

CHITTAGONG: The winners of ‘Auge-banglanews Chittagong Protidin World Cup quiz’ got prizes in the port city on Saturday. Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Jabed, State Minister Ministry for Land, handed over the prizes among winners at Chittagong Press Club auditorium. Banglanews24.com

DHAKA: A total of 3,770 people were killed while 10,278 others were injured and 923 disabled physically for life across the country in the last six months. Those people were victims of 3,356 road accidents during the period of January to June 2014. Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity on

BENAPOLE, JESSORE: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel detained 29 Bangladesh nationals, including men, women and children, while crossing the frontier illegally. They were sent to Benapole Thana. Members of BGB Battalion-23 and 26 raided Putkhali area, along with few other areas,

RANGPUR: Kotawali Thana Police, in drives in various areas of the district early Saturday, detained 38 people for their alleged involvement with drugs business, robbery, terrorism and various other atrocious activities. High up of Detective Police of Rangpur branch Shariful Islam

DHAKA: The government has decided to increase BCS cadre posts for housing and public works ministry by changing current structure for its work force. Regarding the matter, Public administration ministry has sent their recommendation to Public Service Commission. Earlier, housing and

DHAKA: In a bid to boost trade and commercial relations with business partner countries, the government will give priority to monitor performance of commercial councilors in abroad. If any councilor has failed to fulfill government assigned works, he will be withdrawn from respective

DHAKA: Three people were caught red handed with 1280 pieces of Yaba tablets from capital’s Dakhinkhan area early Saturday. The detainees are Omar Faruk Sheikh, 32, Jahangir Alam 26, and Rakesh Mukherjee, 20. On Saturday morning, Akram Hossein, Assistant Commissioner, ASP of Rab-1

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to fly for the UK on Monday on a three-day visit to attend the first Girl Summit. The summit aims to mobilize domestic and international efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) within a

DHAKA: Fifteen more Bangladeshi expatriates have returned here from war-torn Iraq on Saturday morning.    An Air Arabia flight carrying them landed at Dhaka airport around 9:30am.    Foreign ministry sources confirmed that these expatriates were stranded at Erbil airport of Iraq. 

JESSORE: A listed terrorist was killed and two cops injured in a gunfight in Sharsha upazila early Saturday.  The deceased was identified as Anisur Rahman, 30, resident of Balia village of Satkhira. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Sharsha Thana Ahmed Kabir

DHAKA: Popular poet of sixty decade Al Mujahidi has been admitted to hospital due to many old age complexities including diabetes and high blood pressure. He was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) from his Uttara residence. Al Mujahidi was the president of

DHAKA: The second death anniversary of most popular author, dramatist, film director and soap-opera maker of the country Humayun Ahmed is being observed on Saturday. Different socio-cultural organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the day. On the occasion, milad

DHAKA: Armed police battalion detained one person with 18 gold bars weighing 1.8 kilograms and foreign currency worth over $ 18,550 at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Saturday. The detainee is Aslam Sheikh, Imam of Civil Aviation Mosque. Law enforcers recovered

DUBAI: Bangladeshi Hafezul Quran Mohammad Amdadulla Tajul Islam became sixth among the top 10 places at the ‘Most Beautiful Recitation Contest’ category of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award (Dihqa) on Friday. Sulaiman Abdulkarim Isah of Nigeria won the top position in the

DHAKA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $125 million loan to improve services and governance in pourashavas—or municipalities— across Bangladesh, making them more livable and attractive, and helping to ease population pressures in major cities. “The two largest

DHAKA: A 12-year old boy drowned in a pond behind Hazaribagh Sikder Medical College and Hospital in capital on Friday night. The deceased was identified as M Sabbir Ahmed Rabbi, 12, a class-VI student of Rayerbazar High School and son of one M Salauddin of Hazaribagh Tanarimal Gazmahal

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the journalist to criticize about the works of government, but not to create any obstacles to the works.The premier made the remarks in an iftar party organized by Bangladesh Federal Journalist Union and Dhaka Journalist Union in national

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condoled and wrote to Dato' Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia on Friday. Hasina wrote “On behalf of my Government and the people of Bangladesh and on my own behalf, I would like to express our deep shock and profound

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali condoled the tragic crash of a Malaysian passenger Aircraft in Ukraine. The flight was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 283 passengers and 15 crews on board. In his message to Foreign Minister of Malaysia Dato' Sri Anifah Haji