DHAKA: The National Moon Sighting Committee will sit in a meeting on Saturday at Islamic Foundation conference room in Baitul Mukkarram in the capital. A press release from Islamic Foundation made the disclosure on Thursday.   The meeting will begin at 7:15pm where foundation will

CHITTAGONG: Communications Minister Obaidul Quader cancelled upcoming Eid holiday for officials and employees of Roads and Highway Department (RHD) for the sake of smooth communications of lakhs of the people.  The minister made the disclosure at a seminar at Theatre Institute of the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked India to extradite Nur Hossain, the prime accused of gruesome seven-murder of Naraynganj. The premier made the call when visiting Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj met her at the PMO in the capital. During the hour-long meeting,

FENI: A 22-killomiter traffic gridlock on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway was gradually easing on Thursday afternoon. The tailback was created around 7:00am that pushed thousands of passengers into serious sufferings which started to ease from 4:00pm. Officer-in-Charge of Feni Mahipal

FROM PARLIAMENT: Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Thursday insisted for a Tk 1,000 crore allocations in budget for ‘cultural revolution’ to come out of the wave of Jamaat-BNP’ fanatical politics. Noor came up with the demand when speaking at the budget session of the

MADARIPUR: Counting underway in Madaripur Sadar upazila election on Thursday afternoon as vote casting ended after continuing from 8:00am to 4:00pm without any break.    Some 11 candidates are vying for three posts- chairman, vice-chairman and woman vice-chairman.  A total of 766

NARAYANGANJ: Voting in Narayanganj-5 constituency by-election ended peacefully on Thursday afternoon and counting is underway amid tight security.      Earlier, voters started casting from 8:00am and continued till at 4:00pm at a stretch.  Four candidates are contesting in the

DHAKA: Bangladesh has not given transit to India and no discussion was happened on this issue with visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.  Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali disclosed the matter after a bilateral meeting with Sushma Swaraj at a post-meeting press briefing

SIRAJGANJ: Two masons were killed in septic tank gas poisoning incident in Belkuchhi upazila at 11am Thursday. The deceased were identified as Babu Sheikh, 23 and Shahidul Islam, 29. Locals said that the duo got down into the tank to clean it and died inhaling poisonous gas in the tank.

DHAKA: The 5th annual Social Business Day organized by Yunus Centre will be held on June 28, 2014 on the theme of “We Are Not Job-Seekers, We Are Job-Givers-- Turning Unemployment into Entrepreneurship” at Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka.  As before, the gathering is an

FENI: A 22-killomiter-long traffic gridlock on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway pushed thousands of passengers into serious sufferings on Thursday. The tailback created around 7:00 am which was unchanged until 2:30 pm till filing the report.  Sources said this gridlock was created as the

BAGERJAT: A Court here awarded death penalty to six people and jailed two for life in a murder case. District and Session Judge SM Solaiman passed the order on Thursday noon. BDST: 1343 HRS, JUNE 26, 2014

DHAKA: Mustafa Kamal (Lotus Kamal) has been appointed as the new president of the International Cricket Council. He was confirmed in the position on the final day of the ICC annual conference in Melbourne on Thursday. After the conference, Kamal confirmed the matter to media over phone.

FROM PMO: Visiting External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj handed over an invitation letter of her country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina. PM’s press secretary Shamim Choudhury confirmed the matter to banglanews. Sushma’s meeting with

NETROKONA: A court here awarded life-time imprisonment to three people in a murder case.  The convicts are— Jahangir, 25, Sagar Mia, 28 and Shahid Mia, 50. The court also fined them Tk 50000 each, in default ordered them to serve five more years in the jail. Additional District and

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: The Thursday’s discussion session on the first budget of 10th Parliament has started at Jatiya Sangsad in the morning. With Speaker of the house Dr Shirin Sharmin in the chair the session started at 10:45am. The budget session started on June 3 and will end on

CHITTAGONG: A rickshaw puller and a night guard died from electrocution during charging a battery of an engine-run-rickshaw in Khulshi Thana of the port city early Thursday. The deceased were identified as M Hanif Prakash Bacchu, 27, a rickshaw puller and M Mintu, 40, a night guard.

DHAKA: Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali is holding a meeting with visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday morning. Foreign secretaries of both the countries Shahidul Haque and Sujata Singh, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tareque A

DHAKA: Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice  & Human Rights, is scheduled to arrive here on June 28 to join the opening of Social Business Day as Keynote Speaker. Kerry, a lawyer by training, hails from the famous Kennedy family as her father Bobby Kennedy

NARAYANGANJ: Voting for the by-election to Narayanganj-5 constituency is underway peacefully from Thursday morning. The polling began at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm without any break. Four candidates are contesting in the by-election to the parliamentary constituency.