DHAKA: An auto rickshaw driver was killed in a road accident in Lalkuthi area of Mirpur in the capital on Friday afternoon.   The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.    Witnesses said that a rashly driven human hauler knocked down a auto rickshaw in the area

DHAKA: The government has sent two Navy ships to investigate the claim by Australian company GeoResonance that it may have found wreckage of the missing Malaysia plane in the Bay of Bengal. A top Malaysian official Friday said he is considering the theory that MH370 may be in the Bay of

NARAYANGANJ: Another person went missing from Siddhirganj upazila of the district since April 29. The missing Tauhidur Rahman, 35, is a service holder in a buying house in Dhaka. Son of missing Tauhidur Rahman filed a general diary (GD) with Siddhirganj Thana in this connection on

DHAKA: Armed miscreants kidnapped a businessman in Alaiyapur union under Begumganj Upazila of the district on Friday.   The abductee was identified as Abul Bashar, son of one Foyez Contractor of the area.   Victim’s family sources told banglanews Bashar was kidnapped from his

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Friday categorically said blaming BNP for the killings and abductions across country is a farce.   He came up with the claim in a press briefing at party chairperson’s Gulshan political office in afternoon.   Mirza

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: At least five people including cops were injured as Chhatra League men attacked New Market Thana at Nilkhet area in the capital on Friday afternoon.   Witnesses said that a few Chhatra League men of F Rahman Hall of Dhaka University asked to switch off a wireless of a

NARAYANGANJ: Police on Friday noon nabbed Hannan, manager of abducted trader Saiful Islam, for interrogation.    Police suspected Hannan when he called Saiful’s wife and asked for ransom at noon.   Later, on information, law enforcers nabbed him for interrogation.   On

DHAKA: The mystery of sensational seven killings at Narayanganj will be unveiled soon.   State Minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal came up with the assertion while addressing a rally at the National Press Club VIP Lounge as special guest on Friday.   Mentioning BNP

Dhaka: The second Namaz-e-Janaza of Nasim Osman was held at the central office of Jatiya Party (JP) in Kakrail of the city on Friday noon. JP chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad, JP secretary general Ziauddin Bablu, Local Government and Rural Development state minister Moshiur Rahman Ranga,

DHAKA: An 11-years-old minor has been lynched in Uttara of the capital on Friday. The deceased was identified Sujan, residing in west thana area. Police alleged that the boy was killed by the security men of house 16 of road 5/A suspecting as a thief. However, Abul Kashem, the owner of

DHAKA: Police recovered body of an unidentified man on the eastern side road of Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Sher-E-Bangla Nagar area of the city early Friday. Sher-E-Bangla Nagar Thana Sub-Inspector M Shajahan Mandal told banglanews, “A pedestrian informed police

DAULATPUR: More than 100 houses were gutted in a fire while more 500 were devastated in storm in Chilmari and Ramakrishna union under Daulatpur upazila of the district on Thursday night. Chilmari union parishad chairman Sayed Ahmed informed banglanews that the fire originated from a

COX’S BAZAR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 61,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets worth about TK 1.8 crore at Naitangpara in Teknaf upazila of the district on Friday. Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Abuzar Al Zahid told banglanews, “BGB drove operation in

NARAYANGANJ: A business man has been abducted from Sanarpar under Siddhirganjganj upazila on Thursday night when people there are mourning deaths of seven abducted people in the district. Wife of abducted trader Saiful Islam filed a case on Friday morning mentioning that the abductors

DHAKA: The first Namaz-e-Janaza of Nasim Osman held at South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad on Friday morning. Nasim Osman, lawmaker from Narayanganj-5 constituency, also Jatiya Party presidium member, passed away at a hospital in India Wednesday. BDST: 1149 HRS, May 2, 2014

DHAKA: An elderly man was killed and two of same family in a wall collapse in Sutrapur of the city on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Monoranjan Saha, 50, residing in Thakur Das Lane of that area. Sutrapur Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Saiful Islam informed banglanews that the

MAHESHKHALI (COX'S BAZAR): Four policemen and two top terrorists were injured in a gunfight in Balur Deil area of Kalarmar Chhara under the upazila early Friday.  The injured are identified as Maheshkhali Thana Sub-Inspector Abul Kalam and three constables of the thana while the

BRAHMANBARIA: Two persons were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Islampur area of the district on Friday morning.The deceased were identified as Al Amin Shahin, 30 and Chan Mia, 38.Sources said that a Sylhet-bound microbus collided head on with a truck in the area around

NEW YORK: US blacklisted the banned militant outfit The Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) and said the country kept a distance from transnational terrorism.These was reveled in US Department of State’s (DoS) “Country Reports on Terrorism 2013” The DoS’ Bureau of

NEW YORK: Bangladesh has slipped down by three steps in a US report titled ‘Freedom of the Press 2014’ though the state of freedom of mass media is better than that of its South Asian neighboring countries.Mass media in Bangladesh exercises more freedom than it does in Pakistan, Sri