FROM PARLIAMENT: The fourth working day of ongoing third session of tenth parliament resumed on Thursday.The session began at 5:09pm with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.The Parliament started with the question-answer session of the ministers.They will also discuss the

DHAKA: The second additional Metropolitan Session Judge Court has framed a supplementary charge on Ramna bomb blast explosive case.Besides, the date for depositions has been scheduled on September 14.Justice Mohammad Ruhul Amin on Thursday framed the charge, including Section-6 with

DHAKA: Investment issues and infrastructure development are on high of the agenda for the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ensuing two-day Dhaka visit.“We’re giving highest importance to (Japanese) investment issues,” Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told a press

DHAKA: A report has been submitted to Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seeking exemption of Aslamul Haque, MP from Dhaka-14, from the corruption charges of possessing illegal assets.Sources said ACC deputy director and also investigation officer Mezbah Uddin submitted the report to

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 Thursday fixed October 13 for delivering order regarding the contempt of court charges against journalist David Bergman, a British national, for derogatory remarks on its verdict.The three-member tribunal led-by Justice Obaidul Hassan

DHAKA: Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Khorshed Alam Chowdhury on Thursday said the government cannot ensure security to the skirt-clad girls at midnight in the city.He was addressing a seminar on ‘roles of resorts in developing country’s tourism’ organized by Tourism

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in a drive detained five fake dentists from city’s Karwan Bazar area on Thursday. The detainees are- Elias Hossain, Alauddin, Hasanur Rahman, Tofazzal Hossain and Assistant Aktar Hossain. Meanwhile, they fake doctors were jailed for nine

NARAYANGANJ: The probe committee of much-talked-about seven murder case of Narayanganj on Thursday quizzed two RAB officials who gave confessional statements in the court under section-164.The seven-member committee, led by M Shahjahan Ali, interrogated Palash Goldar and Delwar Hossain

DHAKA: CNG stations across country will remain open for 24-hour daily at a stretch for ten days from October 1 on occasion of Eid-ul-Adha and Puja. The decision came from an inter-ministerial meeting at Ramna Restaurant in the capital on Thursday noon.After the meeting Road Transport

DHAKA: Islami Chhatra Sena filed a case against Jamaat leader, also ATN TV presenter Tareq Monwar and five others over Maulana Nurul Islam Farooqi murder.General secretary of Chhatra Sena Dhaka city unit Imran Hossain Tushar Thursday filed the case with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan

DHAKA: International Crime Tribunal-1 warned US-based rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) asking it to be careful to make further any comment over any sub-judice matter.A three-member team led by its chairman justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the order on Thursday and

CHITTAGONG: The first hajj flight, carrying 419 pilgrims, will take off from Shah Amanat International Airport of Chittagong for Saudi Arabia at 7:45pm Thursday.   Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Farooq Khan and State Minister for Religious Affairs Advocate Shahjahan Mia will bid

DHAKA: National Board of Revenue (NBR) has made the value added tax (VAT) mandatory in passport issuance and renewal, said sources concerned. Confusion arose on VAT collection in issuance and renewal of passport at division and district tax regions. Concerning departments sent letters to

DHAKA: Foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali termed Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Bangladesh on Saturday as a milestone. The FM told media at a press conference at his office on Thursday. According to the minister, during his one-day visit Abe and his

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed authorities concerned to take necessary steps to bring peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region in the country. She came up with the order during her visit to Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs ministry at the secretariat in city on

DHAKA: As a symbol of friendship, Bangladesh is going to send two Royal Bengal Tigers-- named Ranbir and Jyoti-- to Japan within a month. The four and half years old Ranbir met his families at National Zoo in the case No- C-3/A on Wednesday. On May 2010, two calves of tigers were born

DHAKA: A gang of miscreants shot a youth dead and his father sustained bullet injury in city’s Goran area of the capital on Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Sayem, 23, son of Israfil.Police sources said a group of miscreants shot Sayem and his father and snatched Tk 48

DHAKA: The High Court summoned Nasir Uddin Nasu, owner of Bashumati Housing Project and managing director, Hirajheel Property Development Company Ltd.Single bench of Justice Rezaul Hasan passed the order on Monday. The court asked him to appear before it at 10:30am on September 8. The

GAZIPUR: Two people were burnt alive as a fire broke out at Nayanpur village of Sreepur upazila in the district on Wednesday night.The deceased were identified as Joynal Abedin, 35, son of Abdul Hamid hailed from Mymensingh district and Abdus Samad, 38, son of Raichh Uddin, hailed

DHAKA: Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Wednesday said that the number of readers of the online newspapers is increasing day by day.It is alarming to the print media, he observed while addressing a program titled ‘The role of online media to build digital