NARAYANGANJ: A man strangulated his wife and a 9-year old son to death in Lakkharchar area in Bandar upazila of the district on Monday.The deceased were identified as Afsana, 28, wife of Yazal and their son Afzal.Bandar Thana officer-in-charge Nazrul Islam said local people informed the

DHAKA: The defense lawyers are cross examining Jobeda Khatun, mother of Joj Miah who is accused in 21 August grenade attack cases. Speedy Tribunal-1 justice M Shahed Nur Uddin accepted the questioning in front of Dhaka Central Jail at 11:05 Monday. Public prosecutor Akram Uddin Shaymal

COX’S BAZAR: Police in a drive detained 14 people with huge arms-ammunition and Yaba tablets from various spots of the district between Sunday midnight and Monday morning. Confirming the matter Cox’s Bazar Additional Police Super Tofayel Ahmed told banglanews “Police in the drive

DHAKA: A road has been named after Bangladesh former president, also BNP founder late Ziaur Rahman in Chicago of USA.  Politician Alderman Joe Moore, who has been representing the 49th Ward of the City of Chicago, inaugurated the ‘Ziaur Rahman Way’ in Chicago of Illinois State on

DHAKA: Custom officials seized 12-kg gold at Shahjalal International Airport on Monday noon. Custom joint-commissioner Kazi Mohammad Ziauddin said that acting on a tip-off they conducted a search drive in the plane FZ-583. The plane, which came from Dubai, landed in Dhaka at 11:00am.

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will attend the 3rd Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting to be held on September 20 in New Delhi.     The minister will fly for India on 18 September on a four-day visit.  Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj invited

DHAKA: A North Korean court has sentenced an American man to six years of hard labour for "hostile acts", the state-run KCNA news agency has said. Matthew Miller was arrested in April, shortly after arriving as a tourist. The US accuses North Korea of using Mr Miller and two other

DHAKA: The leader of Sweden's Social Democrats says he will try to form a government after their election win, but will not work with the far right. Partial results show Stefan Lofven's opposition party are set to return to power, but with no clear majority. They give the centre-left

West Indies 380 All Out [ S Chandrapaul 84* , LR Johnson 66, KC Brathwaite 63, DM Bravo 46, JE Taylor 40 ,Al Amin 3/ 80, Rabiul Islam 2/63 ,Shafiul Islam 2/80 ,Taijul Islam 2/ 89] Bangladesh 104 /7 [ Tamim Iqbal 48 ,KAJ Roach 5/33, JE Taylor 2/33] Pathetic and awful batting by Bangladesh

DHAKA: Kala Babu, prime accused of sensational Moghbazar triple murder, killed in gunfight with DB police in capital early Monday at Wireless Gate area of the capital.   Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Ramna Thana Moshiur Rahman said two cohorts were also

Milestone, a word that, once again, uttered for banglanews24.com during its four years and two months journey. Over two million of facebook users have knot their ties with banglanews, the largest online news portal in Bangladesh. Banglanews touched this new milestone during noon hours of

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday accepted the charge sheet against BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed and his brother Manzur Ahmed in government house grabbing case in city’s Gulshan area. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge M Zahurul Haque accepted the charge sheet after

DHAKA: Department of Narcotics Control personnel held a woman drug peddler with 1,000 pieces of yaba tablets in city’s Tikatuli area on Sunday. The detainee is Selina Akter. Narcotics control department sources said officials conducted a special drive and held Selina with the drugs

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) summoned former state minister for Housing and Public Works ministry Alamgir Kabir in BNP led government’s tenure. ACC deputy director and also investigation officer Jatan Kumar Roy issued the letter on Sunday afternoon. He said Alamgir

CHITTAGONG: Two workers were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Noapara area under Raojan upazila of the district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Mohammad Jamal, 28, son of Mohammad Shahidul and Mohammad Akter, 24, son of Mohammad Hadis Mia, hailed from

GAZIPUR: A fire broke out at a readymade garment factory in BSCIC area in Tongi of the district on Sunday.Local sources said that factory workers noticed the blaze at the ground floor of Northern Corporation Limited at the noon.On information, four fire fighting units rushed in and

CHUADANGA: Border Security Force (BSF) of India detained two Bangladeshi nationals from Munshipur and Benipur border areas under Damurhuda and Jiban Nagar upazila of the district on Sunday. The detainees are cattle traders--Nabageju, 40 and Jhontu Mia, 36. BGB sources said BSF personnel

DHAKA: The slum dwellers hurled brickbats aiming Railway authorities and Railway Thana police, the evictors of illegal establishments adjacent to the rail lines from Malibagh to Moghbazar areas in city on Sunday. Kamlapur Thana Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam said the slum dwellers thought

DHAKA: The Pacific Armies Management Seminar (PAMS) is an important platform for inter-country cooperation and regional stability and peace, said US Army Pacific Commanding General Vincent K Brooks   The US general was addressing the 38th PAMS in a city hotel in the mourning. General

DHAKA: Liberation War Affairs Ministry has cancelled fake freedom fighter certificates of four secretaries and a joint secretary The decision came from a meeting of National Freedom Fighter Council at Moghbazar in the city on Sunday.  The secretaries’ are Neaz Uddin Mia, former