DHAKA: National  Mourning  Day  Program  commemorating  the  39th   death anniversary  of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,  the Father of the Nation, was organized by the Embassy of Bangladesh in Tashkent,  Uzbekistan on  August  15. In  the  beginning of  the 

DHAKA: The Law Commission on Tuesday sent a draft report to the Law Affairs Ministry seeking the retirement age of justices at 75 years. The justices would be selected through a committee consists of skilled and qualitative justice led by Chief Justice, said the recommendation

JESSORE: A banker was killed in a road accident on Jessore-Khulna highway in Hatbila area under Sadar upazila in the district on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Abdul Gaffar, 50, officer of Krishi Bank in Rupdiya Branch in Shakharigati area of Sadar upazila.Locals said a human

DHAKA: A six-day director-general level meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India will begin in Delhi, capital city of India, on Wednesday.The BGB sources confirmed the matter around 4:00pm on Tuesday.The meeting will start on August 20 and

DHAKA: The government is supplying personal protective equipments (PPE) for the Bangladeshi members in the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Mission.The medical stuffs are being sent to keep the Bangladeshi nationals safe as they are working to contain the Ebola outbreak in Sierra

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit Malaysia in the first week of November which will be the first tour after being Prime Minister of the incumbent government.The premier expressed her intention while visiting Malaysian Human Resource Minister Richard Riot Anak Jaem

DHAKA: Flood hit at different parts of the country, leaving thousands of people marooned and hundreds of houses and acres of crops washed away.A seven-month-old baby boy drowned in Bogra, said a spot account of the incident.Banglanews correspondents report from the flood-affected

DHAKA: Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday said it would take over 50 years to eliminate corruption from the country.“There is no corruption free country in the world. The government wants to eradicate corruption in phases,” he said.The planning minister came up with the

BOGRA: Law enforcers held three men with 10 lakh pieces cattle fattening tablets here on Tuesday.The detainees are Golam Mawla, son of a late Amjad Hossain, Ainul, son of Akbar Ali and Rony, son of Jahar Ali, hailed from Gaibandha district. Sources told banglanews that they were

On way back from hill resort and sea side resort dinner from Uluwatu we went to shopping center at Kuta for buying some gifts for our son’s newly married wife .Rozy was impressed watching the elegant ballian girls in traditional Indonesian attires. The shopping arcades were full of

DHAKA: Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain Manju on Tuesday put emphasis on setting the work policies by giving priorities on the climate crisis.The environment minister came up with the observation while addressing a program of unveiling a report organized by Asian

NARAYANGANJ: US ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena said both the governments of Bangladesh and USA are jointly working with International Labour Organization (ILO) to restore Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) facilities. The US ambassador came up with the assertion while talking to

CHITTAGONG: A Quartermaster of Lighterage ABM Afsar Uddin- 2 was found dead in the port’s outrage anchorage on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Pitul Gazi, 35, son of one Belayet Hossein Gazi, resident of Durgapur village under Muksedpur Thana of Gopalganj district.

DHAKA: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved three new development projects costing TK 829 crores.  With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in chair, the meeting of ECNEC approved the projects at the NEC conference room in city’s Sher-e-Bangla

DHAKA: A Dhaka court fixed September 2 as the date for indictment hearing in blogger and online activist Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case.  Dhaka-5 Additional Metropolitan Session Judge SM Ziaur Rahman fixed the date on Tuesday.  On January 28, Detective Police inspector Nibaran Chandra

DHAKA: The physical condition of historic Language Movement veteran Abdul Matin deteriorated.The 88-year old language veteran is now in unconscious condition at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in city.Doctors said Matin might be gone

DHAKA: National Board of Revenue (NBR) has started collecting Green Tax from various factories, which are liable for environmental pollution.  Environment department has already sent a list of 2,500 factories to NBR in response to a request of NBR’s Value Added Tax (VAT) wing.  NBR

DHAKA: After blasting cocktails miscreants snatched Tk 20 lakhs from a trader in Maghbazar area of the city at 10:15am Tuesday. Ramna Thana Sub-Inspector AK Azad confirmed the matter to banglanews. BDST: 1232 HRS, AUG 19, 2014

Bagerhat: Six people to walk gallows and seven others jailed for life in a murder case. District and Session Judge SM Solaiman passed the order at 12.30pm Tuesday. BDST: 1243 HRS, AUG 19, 2014

BARISAL: Miscreants chopped the general secretary of Barisal Press Club, also bureau chief of Dainik Samakal Pulak Chatterjee in the town early Tuesday.  Police nabbed a person in this connection and recovered an abandoned local weapon from in front of Barisal College. Pulak Chatterjee