DHAKA: An eight-year old boy died falling from rooftop of seven-storey building in Meradia area of Khilgaon Thana of capital on Sunday afternoon.The deceased was identified as M Riazuddin, 8, a primary school student and son of M Salamat Mia of the area.Deceased grandfather, M

DHAKA: A motorcyclist was killed and his eight-year-old son injured in a road accident in city’s Shyamoli area on Sunday afternoon.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Witnesses said a rashly driven passenger bus knocked a motorbike down in the area around

MANAMA: A Bangladeshi national was killed in a road accident in Um-al-Hasam area of Bahrain on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as M Rubel, 29, son of Kamal Mia of central Gobindapur village in Hossainpur upazila of Kishoreganj district.Sources said a pick-up van collided

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday placed six people on remand with different terms in Moghbazar Triple Murder case.Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Islam passed the order of total six days remand of Shahidullah, Ramjan Ali, Rubel Miah Sani and Maruf Hossain in two separate cases.  The

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained two Islami Chhatra Shibir activists while they were torching and vandalizing vehicles in city’s Mirpur area during hartal on Sunday.The detainees are Monir Hossain and Taimur Reza.Police sources said two Shibir activists were held with two petrol bombs

DHAKA: Counting votes of by-elections to the different posts of six Upazila Parishads across the country underway from Sunday afternoon as voting ended peacefully.However, BNP boycotted the by-polls in Feni’s Phulgazi upazila while the rest are Atpara Upazila of Netrakona district,

DHAKA: Mosharraf Hossain Mosha, Ringleader of Mosharraf Bahini, was arrested by the immigration police at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday noon.Later, immigration police handed over Mosharraf to the Rupganj Thana police, sources added.Mosharraf is accused for various

BRAHMANBARIA: At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two villagers centering union parishad elections at Sadar upazila on Sunday noon. Sources said supporters of chairman candidate Mosharraf Hossain Munshi of Kachhaich village locked into a clash with supporters of another

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for New York on Sunday night to join in the 69th United Nations General Assembly.Sources concerned said the premier, in her visit, will put importance in ensuring the coordination between her initiatives of making Bangladesh a

DHAKA: Speakers, at a human chain program, urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to pressurize rich countries to meet the climate liability for carbon emission.The Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG), which is widely known as equitybd, an alliance of several NGOs and CSOs, in

MUNSHIGANJ: A fire broke out at Bashundhara Paper Mills in Gazaria area of the district on Sunday morning.On information, the fire fighting units from Daudkandi and Sonargaon Fire Service rushed in and doused the blaze around 1:00am.Local sources said the fire originated around 9:00am.

NEW YORK: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrived New York to join a program of Clinton Global Initiatives. A reliable source said that Yunus will pass three days with his daughter there. On the other hand, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will come to New York to attend

DHAKA: With the aim of providing all government information in a single place, a service portal (services.portal.gov.bd) called ‘Sebakunja’ has been launched on Sunday.Besides, another portal providing government forms called ‘form portal’ (forms.gov.bd) has also been launched

CHITTAGONG: Customs officials seized 58 gold bars, weighing seven kilograms, from Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city on Sunday.  Sources said that a flight from Dubai (BG-204) landed at the airport around 10:00am.  Later, searching the body of a passenger named

TANGAIL: At least four persons were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Jamurki area under Mrizapur upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Abdur Rashid Mia, 65, Ismail Hossain, 60, Sohel Mia, 27 and Lebu Mia, 40.  Sources said that a pick-up van

DHAKA: By-elections to the different posts of five Upazila Parishads are simultaneously underway on Sunday amid tight security. Vote casting began at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm at a stretch. The five upazilas are Atpara upazila of Netrokona district, Digholia of Khulan,

RAJSHAHI: At least ten people, including seven Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel, were injured in a road accident in front of Kharil High School under Mohanpur Upazila of the district on Sunday morning. The injured RAB personnel are- RAB-5 Deputy Additional Director (DAD)

When we talk about trial of war criminals we must ask few questions to ourselves. What were the challenges to even initiating and starting the process? How it was initiated? How the national and international conspiracies are continuously threatening and barricading? What has been

AKHAURA, BRAHMANBARIA: Rail communications on Sylhet-Chittagong route has been restored on Sunday morning after four hours of disruption following a derailment at Akhaura rail station of the district.The rail service resumed around 9:25am after salvage the derailed compartment. Earlier

NEW YORK: Bangladeshi-Americans from across the US would be attending the public reception in honour of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here on September 27, organizers of the event said.US unit of Awami League took huge preparation for the reception of Prime Minister. Sheikh Hasina is