DHAKA: A 103-year-old Japanese sprinter has challenged world’s fastest man Usain Bolt.  Hidekichi Miyazaki — who holds the 100 meters world record for centenarians at 29.83 seconds and is dubbed ‘Golden Bolt’ after the Jamaican flyer — plans to wait another five years for his

DHAKA: The Myanmar government decided to take 2,415 Rohingyas back initially from Bangladesh within two months. The decision came from the Eighth Bangladesh-Myanmar Secretary Level Meeting at Foreign Ministry in the capital on Sunday. On behalf of Bangladesh, foreign secretary M

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Mahmuda Khatun and Shariful Islam on 2-day remand for interrogation over killing of Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqi, an Islamic program anchor of Channel-I. Magistrate of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court Wayej Kuruni Chowdhury passed the order

DHAKA: The Detective Branch of Police (DB) is investigating into the recent remarks of the moderators of Islamic programs of different televisions over the murder of Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqi. Considering the allegation of Faruqi family and leaders of Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat, the elite

DHAKA: The investigative committee formed for Narayanganj seven-murder is quizzing Nuruzzman, Deputy Inspector General of police of Dhaka range. The probe body started quizzing him in the secretariat from 2:35pm Sunday. Convener of the committee, also additional secretary of the

DHAKA: The permanent secretariat of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) in Dhaka is set to be launched on September 13.  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to inaugurate the secretariat formally, said a competent source.

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan does not want to believe that the murdered TV presenter Maulana Nurul Islam Faruqi had no enemy. Regarding the killing, the state minister told media that “it is tragic. Every body knows him. We do not want that investigation of

DHAKA: Speakers at a roundtable discussion opined that construction of concrete roads would lessen cost and become sustainable in the long term. There many advantages in long term despite a little more cost at the initial stage and bitumen on roads is not lasted much time due to heavy

DHAKA: Border Guards Bangladesh officials on Saturday held a meeting with India's Border Security Force officials in New Delhi to discuss border related crimes and other issues. Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh Major General Aziz Ahmed led the 20-member delegation to jointly

DHAKA: The post mortem examinations of convicted war criminal Abdul Alim, who died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in the city on Saturday, have been completed on Monody. Dr AKM Shafiquzzaman, Associate Professor of Forensic Department at Dhaka Medical College Hospital,

DHAKA: Experimental extraction of natural gas from the 3rd well in Shahbazpur gas field has begun in Borhanuddin upazila of the district. The extraction began 4:30am on Sunday. Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) project director Abdul Halim told

DHAKA: Customs intelligence officials detained a man with fake Indian currency of Rs1.65-crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Sunday.The detainee was identified as Khalil Baypari, 35, hailed from Shariatpur district.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Mainul

DHAKA: Noted film actor ATM Shamsuzzaman’s youngest son was awarded life-time imprisonment on Sunday for killing his elder brother.The convicted man is ATM Khalequzzaman Kushol, 31.Judge Shahed Nuruddin of Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1, however, passed the order in the noon.Moreover,

DHAKA: An unidentified sexagenarian man was run over by a bus in Rayerbagh area of Jatrabari in the city on Sunday morning. Pedestrian M Sohrab Hossain told banglanews, “A passenger bus hit the man while he was crossing road in the area at 9:00am, leaving him critically injured.”

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the people of Bangladesh will no longer remain illiterate in future, because an educated nation is necessary to build the country free from poverty.For this reason, the premier on Sunday directed the Ministry of Education to take all-out

SIRAJGANJ: Two siblings were jailed for life in a case under Anti-Narcotics Act in Sirajganj. Judge of District Additional Judge and Session Judge Court-1 Shiekh M Nasirul Haq passed the order on Sunday. The court also fined them Tk 30,000, on default, ordered them to serve one more

DHAKA: A special court here on Sunday is going to deliver the verdict of noted film actor ATM Shamsuzzaman’s eldest son murder trial.Earlier on March 13, 2012, ATM Kamruzzman Kabir was stabbed to death by his younger brother ATM Khalequzzaman Kushol at their residence in the

DHAKA: Government Railway Police (GRP) detained a woman with 870 pieces of Yaba tablets in Kamalapur Railway Station of the city on Sunday.The detainee was identified as Shahida, 27.Confirming the matter, Kamalapur Station GRP Thana Officer-In-Charge Abdul Mazid told banglanews that

SATKHIRA: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) chopped a Bangladeshi cowboy to death near Koijuri camp of India, opposite to Boikery border under sadar upazila of the district, early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ahad Ali, son of Ujir Ali of Chhoyghoria village of the

DHAKA: The 10th National Parliament’s third session is going to be commenced on Monday.Sources told banglanews that the House will sit at 5pm on that day. Nine bills are expected to be tabled in the parliament during the session.The bill includes High-Tech Park Authority (amendment)