DHAKA: Police held two alleged extortionists with a revolver from city’s Kawran Bazar on Thursday night.The detainees were identified as Anowar Hossain Ujjal and khorshed Ali.Police sources said that they were allegedly involved in extortion in the area for long time.A case was filed

FENI: Rail communication between Dhaka and Chittagong has been halted after a Chittagong-bound train collided with a bus at Fatehpur rail crossing under Sadar upazila of the district on Thursday night.No passengers of the bus were reportedly injured in the accident that took place

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday started taking photographs for updating voter list in the city. The authorities are making publicity in the metropolitan areas to make it a successful program. EC Public Relations Director SM Asaduzzaman said the process of updating would

FROM NEW DELHI: Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali went to Bangladesh High Commission to India directly from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Thursday noon on a four-day official visit. The minister hold a closed-door meeting with Foreign Secretary Shahidul

GAZIPUR: Two minor drowned in a pond in Konabari area of the district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Yusuf, 8, son of Mokhlesur Rahman of Solakura village in Belkuchu Thana of Sirajganj and Monir Hossain, 9, of Shukhi village in Gopalpur Thana of Tangail district.

DHAKA: A devastating fire broke out at Gulshan Tower in Gulshan-2 area in city on Thursday evening. The origin of the fire could not be known immediately. Sources said that the fire originated around 6:10pm. On information, a total of eleven fire fighting units rushed to the spot and

NARSHINGDI: Two people were killed in a road accident on Amirabad Bridge in Roypura upazila of the district on Thursday. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Narsinghdi District Superintendent of Police Sheikh Rafiqul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.

Government of Sheikh Hasina honoring its pledge and reaming committed to its mission of trying and punishing War Criminals of 1971 and other killers and criminals are proceeding on formal judicial process. One Quader Mollah is already executed; few other reviews by appellate divisions are

DHAKA: The rail communications of Rangpur resumed after six hours halt as a train named ‘Burimari Express’ derailed in Lalbagh area in the district on Thursday.  Rangpur rail station acting superintend Akbar Ali told banglanews that the rescue train of Lalmonirhat Division started

DHAKA: An engineer of Palli Bidyut was found dead at office in city’s Khilkhet area on Thursday. Khilkhet Thana Officer-in-Charge Nazrul Islam said, on information, they rushed to the spot and rescued the person with severe injury around 1:00pm. The law-enforcers, later, sent the body

BACK FROM BANGKOK, THAILAND: The treatment is more expensive than the services received. Many people are in a fix seeing the amount of expense for treatment.  This is why the number of Bangladeshi patients is reducing drastically day by day at Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok. According

FROM NEW DELHI: Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali arrived in New Delhi on Thursday noon on a four-day official visit. He will attend the Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting to be held in the Indian capital on Saturday. Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Tariq A Karim

DHAKA:  Government has appointed Azizur Rahman as acting chairman of Bangladesh Tariff Commission. As per public administration ministry order, he was appointed to the post on Thursday. Prior to that, Azizur Rahman served as additional secretary of statistics and information management

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal-2 asked the jail authorities to produce Mohidur Rahman and Afsar Hossain, two war crimes suspect of Chapainawabganj, before it on September 23. Earlier on September 15, police arrested Mahidur Rahman, 80, of Dadanchak village and Afsar Hossain, 75, of

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