DHAKA: A Sub-Inspector (SI) of Special Branch was killed in a road accident at Kafrul area in the capital at 2:00pm Thursday. The deceased was identified as Abu Bakar Siddique. Officer-in-Charge of Kafrul Thana Atikur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.  BDST: 1455 HRS, SEP 18,

DHAKA: The liberation war affairs ministry has cancelled the fake freedom fighter certificates of another 24 people as well as the gazette notifications about their freedom fighter status.The freedom fighter certificates and gazette notifications of two other government officials

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal -1 on Thursday said that it will deliver the verdict on the war crimes case against Jamaat’s Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam at a later date. The three-member tribunal led-by justice M Enayetur Rahim on Thursday passed the order.

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has advised the authorities concerned to be careful in digitizing the land records and survey management.The PM told the land ministry officials during her visit to the ministry on Thursday morning.She said that country’s most of the court cases

DHAKA: Government has taken decision to establish country’s second nuclear power plant in its south-western region. “Khulna’s Labanchara has primarily been selected for the plant,” said Yeafesh Osman, state minister for science and technology.He told banglanews that the Chinese

Remember the February 5, 2013. Remember the electrifying environment the following days following the verdict of Abdul Kader Mollah. It was a mass uprising after Mollah was awarded life-term imprisonment by the International Crimes Tribunal when a capital punishment was expected by

NEW YORK: Bangladesh Permanent Mission celebrated the 40th anniversary of achieving UN membership in New York on Wednesday evening.Dr AK Abdul Momen, Bangladesh Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, cut a cake to mark the day where diplomats and officers of

FROM NEW DELHI: Bangladesh will put emphasize on early completion of Teesta water sharing agreement at the meeting of the Joint Consultative Commission in Delhi. Sources of Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi confirmed it to banglanews.High commission’s minister (press) Enamul

DHAKA: A couple sustained severe burn injuries in a fire at their residence in city’s Hazaribagh area early Thursday.The victims are Khalilur Rahman, 45, and his wife Shamsunnahar Shima, 35.Sources said that the fire originated from mosquito coil between 3:00am to 3:30am, they

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali on Thursday said Bangladesh will urge India to settle all the unsolved bi-lateral issues between two neighboring nations as soon as possible.He informed journalists in a press conference at his office in the ministry ahead of his visit to

CHANDINA, COMILLA: Hartal supporters set fire to a cotton-laden truck in Debidar upazila of the district hours before the nationwide hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.The incident took place in Barera area of the upazila on Comilla-Sylhet highway early Thursday. Truck driver Saleh

CHITTAGONG:  Goods worth several lakhs of taka were gutted in a devastating fire at a towel factory in Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) in the port city early Thursday.The fire originated from an electric short circuit around 3:30am and later two fire fighting units of EPZ

DHAKA: A man died after falling form the rooftop of a two-storey building on Sadek Khan Road in Rayer Bazar area of the city early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Monir Sheikh, 35, a driver, son of Kabir Sheikh of Gopalaganj district.    Moiz Uddin, a resident of the area,

PABNA: Two persons were killed in a road accident on Pabna-Ishwardi road in Maligachha area under Sadar upazila at 6:00am Thursday.The deceased were identified as Abdul Jalil Mollah, 50 and Nurul Islam, 45.Witnesses and police said, “A covered van knocked a truck, which was standing

CHITTAGONG: A woman and her son were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Fauzdarhat area under Sitakundo upazila at 6:am Thursday.The identity of the deceased could not know immediately.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Baro Aulia Highway

DHAKA: Two persons were killed and three others hurt as a bus rammed a CNG-run auto rickshaw at Paribagh of the capital on Thursday morning.Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.In-Charge of Dhaka Medical College Police outpost Mozammel Haque confirmed the matter to

FROM PARLIAMENT: The much-talked-about the 16th Amendment to Constitution Bill passed on Wednesday for empowering Jatiya Sangsad to impeach the Supreme Court judges for misconduct or incapacity.  Law, Justice and Parliament Affairs Minister Anisul Haq placed the bill before the House

DHAKA: The Ganajagaran Mancha set their three-day program protesting Supreme Court’s verdict to Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee for imprisonment unto death for his crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971.One of the conveners of Ganajagaran

FROM NEW DELHI: Let us recall the second week of 2010 when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid her India tour. That time she was handed the Indira Gandhi Award for her outstanding contribution to the democracy. This historic tour ended up with a joint statement with 50 bilateral issues

DHAKA: International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF) is deeply disappointed with the appeal-verdict passed on Delowar Hossain Sayeedi by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh that commuted his death sentence to imprisonment for his crimes against humanity during the