BAGRERHAT: Police in separate drives arrested seven robbers from Pirojpur and Khulna district on Monday. The arrestees are-- Shahjahan, 40, Mizan, 32, Alam, 48, Milon, 21, Habib, 38, Arif, 25 and Asharol, hails from Dhaka, Madaripur, Jhalkathi, Barisal and so on. Among them, Shahjahan,

DHAKA: Two Bangladeshi sibling expatriates were killed and two others injured critically in a missile attack in Benghazi of Libya on June 21 night.The deceased were identified as Swapan and Milon, hailed from Shariatpur.Injured Ibrahim and Kamal were admitted to a hospital from where he

DHAKA: India, finally, will extradite the prime accused of Narayanjganj 7-murder Nur Hossain, who was arrested in Kolkata.If India inclined to accede Bangladesh’s request to extradite Nur Hossain, he would be the first Bangladeshi to be deported from the neighboring country since the

DHAKA: In latest initiative to build up ‘Digital Bangladesh’, the government has launched a total of 25,000 web portals to provide information and service to the people immediately and prevent corruption at the high level of administration. Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister

DHAKA: Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Chairman Engineer M Rahmatullah resigned amid feud with its Managing Director (MD) Taqsim A Khan. Rahmatullah sent his resignation letter to Personal Secretary Selim Khan of LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on June 19. Confirming the

DHAKA: India’s West Bengal chief minister and also Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee claimed that hired assailants from Bangladesh are committing murders. The chief minister made the remark on Saturday while addressing senior police officials in bordering district of North

DHAKA: The government has given approval to the draft of informal education act 2014 to stop premature withering away of students and to increase rate of adult education. The approval came from a regular meeting of the cabinet on Monday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. 

FROM THE PARLIAMENT: Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq on Monday told Jatiya Sangsad that some 577 war crimes cases were filed across the country. The minister disclosed these responding to a written question from lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hazari at the budget session

DHAKA: Gonojagoron Mancha, a platform of young generations and progressive minded people, will stage protest procession and observe sit-in at Shahbagh demanding capital punishment of Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami.  The protest procession will be held at 5:00pm at Shahbagh

SYLHET: The half-day hartal, called by Jamaat-e-Islami was observed amid stray incidents of violence in the metropolitan on Monday.    Hartal supporters vandalized a numbers of vehicles in various points in the town during the shutdown.  Jamaat enforced the hartal protesting arrest

DHAKA: A security guard was killed in a robbery incident at a residential house at New Iskatan in the city on Monday.    The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahim, hailed from Muladi of Barisal.   Ramna police recovered wrapped up body by napkin at 6:00am.  Body was sent to Dhaka

FROM PARLIAMENT: The budget session of the Jatiya Sangsad resumed at 11.07am Monday with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.    At first, the ministers will join general question-answer session over the proposed budget for 2014-15 fiscal year. The session of the new

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday awarded eight people with death penalty and six others with lifetime imprisonment in much-talked-about Ramna Batamul bomb blast case some 14 years after of the deadly blast. Additional Sessions Judge of Dhaka-2 Ruhul Amin handed down the verdict at 12:00pm.

NARSINGDI: Some unmanned miscreants hacked to death a local terrorist on Monday.  The victim is Rahim Badsha, 35.  Sadar Model Thana officer-in-charge KM Kashem said that police recovered the body from Old Launch Ghat area in the dawn.  BDST: 1137 HRS, JUN 23, 2014

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 has fixed Tuesday for pronouncing verdict in war crimes case against Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.  The 3-member tribunal comprising Justice Anwarul Haque, Jahangir Hossain and Justice M Enayetur Rahim fixed the date on Monday.   

SAVAR (DHAKA): Three people were killed and five others injured in separate road accidents in Savar, outskirt of capital Dhaka, on Monday, said sources of police. Details of the deceased and the injured could not be known immediately. At Kabirpur, a Rangpur-bound passenger bus of

DHAKA: In latest initiatives to build the digital Bangladesh, the government will launch a total of 25,000 portals on Monday to provide information and service to the people immediately and prevent corruption at the high level of Administration. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son

DHAKA: Five people of a family sustained burn injuries when a tin-shed house caught fire in Ibrahimpur area at Kafrul of the city on Monday early. The injured are-- Joynal Abedin, 38, his wife Piara Begum, 35, his two sons – Robiul Islam, 12, and Rabbi, 7 – and his niece Khadiza 15.

DHAKA: An unidentified woman was found slaughtered at capital’s Mirpur-10 on Monday late night.   Police said they recovered the body from no-14 lane of C- Block of the area.   Mirpur Model Thana Sub-Inspector Arifur Rahman said that they don’t know yet who killed the woman and

DHAKA: President Abdul Hamid returned home on Sunday night after completing his 10-day visit to Bolivia and the USA. A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying Hamid landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:55 pm.  He was received by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Commerce