CHITTAGONG: Agitated CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers, who imposed a blockade on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Bortakia bypass area in Mirersarai, left the place in the afternoon. Sources said that from then on, the road communication has become normal after five hours of being stuck.

CHITTAGONG: Local CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers put a blockade on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Bortakia bypass area in Mirersarai, causing long tailback on both sides of the highway since Tuesday morning. However, vehicles, carrying passengers and goods from and to Chittagong, got

DHAKA: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visited Jakarta at the invitation of a leading social organization named 'Synergy' to address a youth camp in the camping ground of Jakarta.  This was the first time a youth camp around music and social mission was organized in Indonesia.

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will go to Italy to join biannual summit of Asia-Europe Intercontinental Forum (ASEM) in October. A competent source from the foreign affairs ministry confirmed the matter on Tuesday. The two-day summit will be held in the Italian city of Milan from

GAZIPUR: US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena visited two readymade garment factories in Board Bazar area of the district on Tuesday.He went to the factories--Ehsan Garments and Moonlight Garment--around 9:00am on the day.The US ambassador expressed his satisfaction seeing the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday framed charges against seven people, including four physicians of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), in a graft case related to the embezzlement of Tk 2.31 crore.The four physicians include DMCH former director Brigadier General (retd) Bazle

DHAKA: The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Wednesday on the appeal filed by death row Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee against his penalty for the 1971 wartime offences. A five-member judge’s panel of the court led by Chief Justice Mozammel Hossain will hand

DHAKA: Government is increasing intelligence surveillance on the activities of banned militant outfits and religion-based political parties as well as their leaders’ movements.Specially, all programs of the religion-based political parties, including rally, gathering, will go under

KHAGRACHHARI: A woman committed suicide killing her husband over family feud in Lokkhichhari of the district early Friday.The deceased was identified as Dhormodhon Chakma, 55 and his wife Mala Chakma.Locals said that the couple used t quarrel for long time over family affairs. On

DHAKA: Friday is the 43rd death anniversary of Martyr (Shaheed) Lance Naik Nur Mohammad Sheikh (widely known as Bir Sreshtho Nur Mohammad).He was killed in an engagement with the Pakistan Army while providing fire for covering the extrication of fellow soldiers at Goalhati in Jessore

GAZIPUR: Police recovered here 11 pieces of cocktail from Bastuhara Mosque area under Nayapara in city early Friday.Sources told banglanews that locals after noticing the cocktails informed local thana.The cocktails were spotted near the mosque around 12:00 am in an abandoned condition,

NAOGAON: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel detained a woman with 1,380 bottles of Indian contraband Phensidyl syrup from Isabpur village in Dhamoirhat upazila of the district on Saturday evening. The detainee is identified as Mukta Begum, wife of Shariful Islam. RAB-5 sources said,

KISHOREGANJ: A man chopped his elder brother to death over land dispute at Nimkhali village under Hossainpur upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid, 60, son of Askar Ali of the area. Police and local sources said Abdur Rashid and his

DHAKA: The broadcast policy was formulated aiming to make the government controversial and the people, who made the policy, are not friends of the government. Speakers came up with the assertion in a discussion program on the challenges for mass media, organized by Bangladesh Editors’

NOAKHALI: A group of miscreants stabbed an NGO official to death at Companiganj upazila of the district on Saturday noon.The deceased was identified as Tapan Chandra Bhowmik, 42, project director of a local NGO named Basanti Unyan Sangstha and son of one Kumud Chandra Debnath, resident

DHAKA: Shahbagh Thana police held a youth with a firearm on Saturday afternoon from the ruling Awami League rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on Saturday. The detainee is Qamrul Hasan Tutul. Police recovered a foreign-made gun with 11 rounds of bullet from the detainee who

BOGRA: Floods have left around 70,000 families marooned submerging over 176 villages and thousands hecters of cultivable land in three upazilas of the district recently. District administration tried to distribute relief to the flood affected people of the area but failed due to poor

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities on Saturday handed over the responsibility of investigation into Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqi murder case to Detective Branch (DB) of police. DMP Media Center Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman confirmed the matter in the afternoon.

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Saturday placed each accused Sohel and Faruk on a five-day remand in a case filed over the triple murder at Moghbazar in city on Thursday night. Metropolitan Magistrate M Erfan Ullah passed the order when the Inspector of Ramna Thana Selim Mia, also IO of the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Friday placed two women on three-day remand for their involvement with stealing of a newborn baby from Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Joynab Begum passed the order when investigation officer (IO) of the case sub-inspector