DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, visited the Kalabagan residence of freedom fighter late Fazlur Rahman Razu, Dhaka city unit AL leader, on Friday. The Premier went to the residence to convey condolence to the bereaved family. Meanwhile, Prime

SAVAR (DHAKA): Miscreants beat and copped an office assistant of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center (BPATC) to death at Kalma Adarsha village of the upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Sayed Akber Ali, 38, hailed from the area. Deceased’s wife Latifa Begum

DHAKA: The autopsy of the three victims has been done, those who were killed in city’s Maghbazar area on Thursday night.  Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Forensic Department Assistant Professor Sohel Samud told banglanews that the autopsy of the victims was done around 3:45pm. 

HABIGANJ: A man and his son among three killed in a road accident in Syedpur area under Nabiganj Upazlia of the district on Friday morning.  The deceased were identified as Kazi Sayeed Ahmed, 80, his son Kazi Hafizur Rahman, 40 and Rezaul Karim, 25 son of late Chand Mia.  Local

DHAKA: Relatives of killed Maulana Sheikh Nurul Islam Farooqui, an Islamic program anchor of private Channel-I, has been taking the body to Panchagarh where he will be buried beside his mother’s grave.Earlier in the day, the namaj-e-janaza of Maulana Sheikh Nurul Islam Farooqui was

TANGAIL: Flood situation worsened in the last 24 hours in the district as Jamuna and Dhaleshwari rivers water have been flowing over 41 centimeters of the danger level. People in around 300 villages of Tangail Sadar, Bhuapur, Gopalpur, Kalihati, Nagarpur and Delduar upazilas have become

DHAKA: A five-year old minor drowned in a ditch at Uttar-Kajlarpar area of Jatrabari in city on Friday noon. The deceased was identified as Alif Rahman, 5, son of one Arifur Rahman, hailed from Pakundia area of Kishoreganj district.  Sources said Alif fell into the ditch while playing

DHAKA: Awami league advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta on Friday urged the government not to hand over the power to impeach justices to Jatiya Sangsad before amending the Constitution.  He voiced the urge at a discussion meeting titled “Current Politics”, arranged by

DHAKA:  Incumbent government will investigate the investment of some clinics and hospitals besides 11 insurance companies in militancy. State minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzamna Khan Kamal told bangladnews on Wednesday that they discussed about the matter after getting the detective

DHAKA: Law enforcers on Friday interrogated two women for their suspected link with triple murder in city’s Moghbazar area.  They are- Chaina Begum and Champa Begum, relatives of main suspect Kala Babu.  Confirming the matter, Iqbal Hossain, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan

DHAKA: ‘Kabiliyat bane Kamiyabi (Skill/Talent becomes Success)’, though it is motto of Chyawanprash’s TVC, a man, who also wanted to be ‘Kamiyab’, but through illegal means, held carrying gold in its bottle at Hazrat Shahjalal Airport Friday. The detainee was identified as

SYLHET: A person was killed and more than 50 others were injured over a clash between two groups at Khadimnagar Tea Estate on Friday. Tension is prevailing at Dewairbahar village following the clash started from around 11:00am. The deceased was identified as Masukur Rahman, 25, resident

FROM FLOOD HIT AREA (SARAKANDI, BOGRA): At least three people were reportedly killed and another missing since the flood hit the upazila following a collapse of flood control embankment of Jamuna River there.Rajshahi division commissioner Helal Uddin Ahmed, district deputy

    SATKHIRA: Two bicycle riders were killed when a truck hit their bike on Kaliganj-Satkhira road in Dhopdanga intersection under Debhata upazila of the district on Friday.The deceased were identified as Mohadeb Ghosh, son of Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, and Kenaram Ghosh, son of

CHANDPUR: An old man has died after a vessel carrying cargo capsizes in the Meghna river in Haimchar area of the district on Friday.The deceased was identified as Ershad Mistri, 70, hailed from Chittagong’s Mirsharai.Witnesses told banglanews that a vessel, carrying salt, headed to

DHAKA: Custom intelligence officials held a man with 72 gold bars, weighing around 8.4 kilograms, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city on Friday. Details of the detainee could not be known immediately, who landed at the air port by a flight of Dubai Airways FZ-SV583 from

BORGA: Government deployed army personnel in rescue the marooned people and relief works at Sariakandi upazila of the district on Friday following the collapse of flood control embankment of Jamuna River there.The army persons are conducting rescue operations using some 13 boats,

FARIDPUR: Begum Saleha Mosharraf, former lawmaker from Faridpur-4 constituency, passed away at a hospital early Friday.She was 66.The Awami League leader breathed her last at 1:05am at Faridpur Diabetic Hospital.She had been suffering from cancer for long. Her husband Mosharraf Hossain

RAJSHAHI: Freedom fighter, also president the city unit Awami League, Bozlur Rahman has been appointed as chairman of Rajshahi Development Authority (RDA).Confirming the matter to banglanews on Friday morning, the newly appointed chairman said he has received a letter from the Housing

It does not matter whether we live in Melbourne, Venice, or Vancouver. Dhaka is our own city, Bangladesh is our own country. As any good news about Dhaka fills our heart with joy any bad news hurts us badly. We cannot accept our city of pride which has such a rich culture, such a