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

DHAKA: Zahidur Rahman, Sub-Inspector (SI) of Mirpur Thana, was arrested from Rajarbagh Police Lines on Wednesday on charge of killing a businessman in custody on July 12.Officer-in-Charge if Mirpur Thana Salahuddin Ahmed confirmed the matter to banglanews.Police arrested him after

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina donated Taka one crore to the country’s physically challenged cricket team who recently returned home after winning a series against India. The PM handed over the money on Wednesday during a visit of the players and team officials to PMO. She also

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission sought a 10-day remand for Golam Mohiuddin, an official of Bismillah Group, a terry towel producer, for his alleged involvement in the embezzlement of funded loans worth over Tk 58.39 crore. Sources told banglanews that the ACC assistant director

DHAKA: Police seized 16 more gold bars and detained a youth from Kamalapur railway station on Wednesday.   The detainee is Selim, 27. Police suspects he came from Chittagong by Turna Nishita train in the morning.     GRP Thana OC Abdul Majid said police arrested Selim with 16 pieces

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will set-up formalin testing booth in 236 kitchen markets of capital Dhaka by one week to ensure foods without chemical and formalin.   DMP commissioner Benzir Ahmed made the disclosure at a discussion at Jatiya Press Club on Wednesday.   He

NARAYANGANJ: A District Court awarded death penalty to three people for killing a woman and her daughter. The convicts are- Abdul Malek, 36, Omar Farul, 37 and Abdus Salam, 39. Additional District and Session Judge Mizanur Rahman passed the order Wednesday. Case statement reads that

DHAKA: US-Bangla Airlines has launched their flights on Wednesday promising modern aircrafts and developed services along with lowest fare. Civil Aviation & Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon inaugurated the service of the airlines in VVIP terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International

DHAKA: The Government has decided to appoint Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, currently serving as Bangladesh Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Australia.  A career diplomat, Kazi Hossain is a member of the 1986 batch of BCS (Foreign Affairs)

DHAKA: The query about the trains schedule will meet through calling no 16318 with train tracking monitoring system.  The railway authorities set special devices in almost 50 engines. The devices will tell the location of train through satellite. The customers of Grammenphone, Robi and

DHAKA: Railway police seized 34 gold bars worth TK1.53 crore and detained two passengers from Kamalapur railway station on Wednesday morning. Two detainees are M Suman, 35 and M Dilu 30.  Dhaka GRP Thana officer-in-charge Abdul Majid said acting on tip-off, police detained the duo, who

JESSORE: A member of Biplobi Communist Party was gunned down at a gun battle between two groups of outlaw at Abhoynagar upazila of the district on Wednesday dawn.  The deceased was identified as Siraj Akunji, 40, son of Afsar Akunji of Shuvarara village under the upazila.  

FENI: Two persons were killed in a road accident in Panchgachia-Temuhini area of the district on Tuesday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Witnesses said a rashly driven Dhaka-bound passenger bus crushed into their motorbike in the area around 6:30pm,

BHOLA: Two minors drowned in ebb tide at Sakuchia and Hajirhat unions under Monpura upazila of the district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Mizan, 6, son of a Mahe Alam resident of Sakuchia union and Omar, 3, son of a Yusuf Majhi of Hajirhat union of the upazila. Locals said

JHENIDAH: Three children, including two siblings, drowned in Kalyanpur and Shankarpur villages of Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Saimun, 4, and Farhana, 5, son and daughter of one Zillur Raman, of Kalyanpur village and Rabbi, 6, son of Soleman

DHAKA: The government has decided to appoint Mohammad Ziauddin, Ambassador-at-Large of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States of America. External Publicity Wing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the disclosure in a press release on

DHAKA: Ambassador William Hanna, outgoing Head of Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh, met with the Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at his secretariat office on Tuesday. During the meeting, Hanna praised the cordial relationship between EU and Bangladesh and thanked the

MYMENSINGH: Two teenage girls were killed in a road accident in Shoshi area under Iswarganj upazila of the district on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Sharmin and Swarna. Their age was about 14.  Witnesses said the girls were waiting for auto-rickshaw on a road in

DHAKA: People from all walks of life including poets, cultural activists, little magazine activists staged a protest rally in the city on Tuesday against Israel’s attack on Palestine city of Gaza. The protest program began in front of National Museum in the city at 4:00am of the day.