THAKURGAON: Two women were killed and eight others injured in a road accident in Guagao intersection area under Pirganj upazila of the district on Thursday afternoon.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.Witnesses said a passenger bus turned turtle as the

DHAKA: In Tripura, CPM MPs met the External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj, demanding liberalization of the existing visa policy for Bangladeshi nationals visiting India. As because the Bangladeshi businessmen, students, academics, sports persons, and cultural activists intend to travel

KURIGRAM: Border Security Force (BSF) of India abducted three Bangladeshi women, including mother and daughter, while returning to the country from India from Khalishakotal border area of Fulbari upazila of the district early Thursday.The abducted are Hazera Begum, 45, her daughter

DHAKA: A mobile court recovered 45 bags blood of addicted persons during a drive at Mahakhali Patient Welfare Blood Bank in city on Thursday.Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) led by Magistrate AHM Anwar Pasa conducted the drive.Magistrate Anwar Pasa awarded two years of imprisonment to five

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked engineers of local government directorate to work for urbanization following the master-plan.The premier came up with the plea during her visit to local government, rural development and co-operatives ministry on Thursday.Presenting the

DHAKA: Speakers at a program said Bangladesh has comparatively progressed than any other county of the world in trying internationally recognized crimes.Though the country signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, referred to as the Rome Statute, on 2010 but

DHAKA: A court on Thursday placed Sub-Inspector Jahid and his source Nasim Sheikh on 5-day remand over the murder of Mahbubur Rahman Sujan, a Jhut (garments waste) trader of Mirpur. Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman passed the order at noon in response to a 10-day remand plea of

DHAKA: Two hundred and ninety BCS administration cadres have been posted as assistant commissioners (trainee). A gazette notification from public administration ministry’s field administration-1 said on Thursday. The trainee assistant commissioners are empowered with executive

DHAKA: Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has dismissed a Roads and Highway Department (RHD) engineer temporarily for his negligence on duty at Ashulia-Bipail highway repairing works ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. The minister suspended engineer Ashsan Ullah on Thursday morning while he was

BAGERHAT: A district court here Thursday sentenced three people to death and life imprisonment to six others in a murder case. The court also fined Tk 10 thousands each of the six.  In case of default to pay, they have to serve one more year in prison. District and Sessions Judge SM

PABNA: Legendary actress of Bangla cinema Suchitra Sen’s ancestral house has been freed from illegal occupation in Gopalpur area in Pabna. Occupying the place, Jamaat-e-Islami had been running an educational institution called ‘Imam Gazzali Institute’. Pabna deputy commissioner

DHAKA: Railway Police detained a youth with huge chocolate bombs from an express train at Saidpur rail Station around 8:30am Thursday. After detention, he has been brought to Kamlapur Railway Station and is now being interrogated. Railway thana OC Abdul Majid confirmed the matter to

KISHOREGANJ: Police recovered body of a foreigner student of Jahurul Islam Medical College from a lake early Thursday.   The deceased was identified as Rajan Para Juli, 25, final year MBBS student, son of Krishna Prasad Para of Nepal.  Confirming the matter to banglanews,

DHAKA: The government has decided to appoint Saida Muna Tasneem, currently serving as Director General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the new Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand. A career diplomat, Tasneem belongs to the 11th batch of BCS (Foreign Affairs) Cadre. In her

DHAKA: The verdict of a case against drug company Adflame for its alleged involvement in producing adulterated paracetamol would be delivered on July 22. Drug Court Judge Abdur Rashid re-fixed the date as verdict of the case was not complete to deliver scheduled on Thursday.       

FROM BARISAL: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia called the movement after the Eid-ul-fitr that is the strategy to make revive the activists of the party. Barisal Awami League members made the remarks. They also said BNP has no issue to accumulate the people of

Men have stepped on the moon. Now they are going from one place to another within few hours. Bangladeshis can reach New Delhi from Dhaka in two and half hours, can reach Bangkok, Singapore or Kuala Lumpur in three or half hours .But the citizens of Dhaka (sometimes) cannot reach to

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her pledge to establishing a just and peaceful society on the auspicious occasion of International Criminal Justice Day (July 17) on Thursday. In a message to celebrate the day, the premier also reminded that Bangladesh joined

DHAKA: Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran on Wednesday claimed about positive progress of Teesta deal and Land Boundary Treaty between Bangladesh and India. Pankaj Saran claimed this in a meeting with Foreign Affairs Secretary M Shahidul Haque at the secretariat.

DHAKA: A 15-year old girl died after falling from the roof top of a seven-storey building in Dilu Road area of the capital on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Sonia Akhter, 15, daughter of Wahid Mia, hailed from Manoharganj upazila of Comilla district. Sub-Inspector of