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

DHAKA: Systematic retrofitting construction work by Public Works Department (PWD) started at Tejgaon Fire Station building for the first time in the country. Local engineers, with the support of Japanese experts have started working to retrofit the fire station to turn the important

BRAHMANBARIA: A Bangladeshi expatriate was killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Alam Mia, 40, hailed from Brahmanbaria district. Alam’s father said that another expatriate informed them about the accident of Alam on Tuesday

CHITTAGONG: A Chittagong court on Wednesday awarded life-term imprisonment to two accused in a rape case in the district. The convicts are Mohammad Shukkur and M Jahangir. Judge M Rezaul Karim of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 passed the order after completion of

DHAKA: The Detective Branch (DB) of Police submitted supplementary charge-sheet against Oishee Rahman and two of her friends in the case of killing father and also Special Branch (SB) Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and her mother Swapna Rahman. The two others accused are Asauzzaman Joni and

COMILLA: Two people were killed in a road accident in Suagazi Bhatpara Rastar Matha area of Sadar Dakkhin upazila in the district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Saiful Islam, 24, CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver and son of Jashim uddin of Bishnapur village and Manwara Begum,

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Wednesday said the Vision-2021 taken by government would be adopted in the next development agenda for 2015 of the United Nations.  The foreign minister was addressing a press conference on the UN General Assembly on September 26 at his

DHAKA: Customs intelligence officials detained a man with two gold bars, weighing 2 kilograms, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday. The detainee, Ranjit, came from Malaysia by a flight named MH-102 around 11:45am and a resident of Nababganj of Dhaka. Moinul Khan,