DHAKA: A two-day long international workshop for Parliamentary Secretaries (PS) and officials of four countries under Asia Regional Association of Public Accounts Committees (ARAPAC) has started on Friday. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives’s PS and officials are participating

CHITTAGONG: The heavy downpour submerged most of the parts of the port city in knee-deep to waist-deep water causing immense misery for dwellers on Friday. Many roads and houses went under knee-deep water due to excessive rainfall, resulting immense sufferings to the people living in

DHAKA: Several departments of Bangladesh including Executive and Judicial department became the puppet of a person. This said in a report sent in Dhaka after attending a seminar titled ‘Awareness and Warning about Bangladesh” organized by the Honorable Society of Linkins-in on

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Metropolitan Police arrested fugitive War Crime accused Khan Mohammad Akram Hossain from Paba upazila of the district early Friday. Police sources said that team of Morelganj thana of Khulna, Rajpara Thana of Rajshahi and detective branch of metropolitan police led a

DHAKA: A number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide have, for the first time in the post-World War II era exceeded 50 million people, UNHCR reported on World Refugee Day.  The UN refugee agency said it in annual report which is based on data compiled

New York: United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon stressed that the organisation do not support election boycott in democracy, rather problems can be solved through dialogue. The top UN official Ban Ki-Moon told this to visiting Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid in a bilateral

CHANDPUR: Two minors drowned in a pond at Laxmipur village under Faridganj upazila of the district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Abdullah, 5, son of Hanif Mia and Amena Akter, 4, niece of Hanif Mia, also daughter of Beauti Begum. Family sources said the minors

DHAKA: Bangladesh government advised its citizens in Iraq to remain alert and stay away from conflict zones for averting any untoward situations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was in regular communication with Bangladesh Embassy in Baghdad as well as the neighbouring Bangladesh

DHAKA: Two people were arrested on Thursday in Texas and separately charged with terror-related offenses after federal agents said they planned to travel halfway around the world to engage in violent jihad. One of the men, a Bangladesh-born US citizen named Rahatul Ashikim Khan,

DHAKA: The Government of Bangladesh is closely monitoring the situation in Iraq.  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in regular communication with Bangladesh Embassy in Baghdad as well as the neighboring Bangladesh Missions in Iran, Kuwait, Jordan and Turkey in order to ensure safety

DHAKA: The customs authorities detained three people along with foreign currencies worth Tk 48 lakh from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. The detainees are M Karim, Zikir Miah, Azgar Ali. Assistant Superintendent of Police Al-Amin of Airport Armed Police Battalion

DHAKA: Miscreants snatched Tk 33 lakh after they chopped two people in No-1 Badalpur Lane area at Hazaribagh in the capital on Thursday afternoon. The victims are Tanim and Jony. Officer-in-Charge of Hajaribagh Thana Maynul Islam said some 5-6 miscreants attacked Tamim and Jony when

DINAJPUR: Two Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members were injured as “fake” dollar traders attacked them at Satkhamar village under Birganj upazila of Dinajpur district on Thursday afternoon.     The injured are Dinajpur RAB-13 camp sub-inspector Dulal Chandra and Constable Khairul

DHAKA: A 15-year old domestic help, victim of torture, succumbed to her injuries in city’s Rupnagar area on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Diti Moni, 15, daughter of M Jahangir Hossain and hailed from Patuakhali district. She had been working for last few months at the

DHAKA: Expatriates’ Welfare & Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday categorically said Bangladeshi nationals working in Iraq would be returned if the situation deteriorated. The minister made the assertion in response to a query from journalists

RAJSHAHI: A fire broke out at Jamuna Jute Mills in Mohanpur area in the city on Thursday afternoon.  On information, two fire fighting units rushed to the spot to douse the fire.  Sadar Fire Station Senior Station Officer Shariful Islam said the fire might have originated from the

DHAKA: A mobile court on Thursday seized some 40/50 drums of “illegal formalin” in a drive in Chankharpool area of the city on Thursday afternoon. Dhaka South City Corporation Executive Magistrate M Atul Mondal led the drive in the area at 3:00pm. Atul Mondal said, acting on a

DHAKA: Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the construction works of the Metro Rail would start on April in the next year the tender would be invited in December this year. The minister made the disclosure in a press briefing at the conference room of Dhaka South City

DHAKA: Myanmar will open a liaison office at its Mongdu town to improve bilateral relations with Bangladesh as well as to solve any crisis on borders. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) director general Major General Aziz Ahmed told media at a briefing at BGB Headquarters at Pilkhana in the

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali called for seeking and identifying new areas of cooperation within the forum of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as the Organization is embarking on elaboration of a new Ten Year Program of Action. The minister made this call