DHAKA: Director of Customs Department Mosaddek Ahmed has been made acting Managing Director, also Chief Executive of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.The decision was taken on Thursday after Kevin Stele stepped down from his post.Earlier Mosaddek carried out same responsibility for few months

DHAKA: The hearing on case filed for assault on three doctors of BIRDEM General Hospital was held in a Dhaka Court on Sunday morning.The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mizanur Rahman conducted the hearing at 11:30am but he kept the order CAV (Curia advisari vult).Earlier, the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Institute of Research & Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) authority sued 25 people mentioning four names including Dhaka Additional SP Masud over an assault on doctors and vandalism in hospital.Other three are former state minister

DHAKA: A man was killed in a road accident in Gulistan area of the capital on Sunday morning.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Witnesses said that a speedy passenger bus rammed the man in the area around 7:30am, leaving him dead on the spot.Confirming the matter

KUSHTIA: Six personnel of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were injured in a road accident at Mongalbaria Kanabilir intersection of the district town early Sunday.The injured are---Suberdar Mahiuddin, Lance Naik Shafiul Islam and Sipahi Halim among four others were admitted to Dhaka Combined

DHAKA: Eminent singer Bashir Ahmed passed away at his Mohammadpur residence in the city on Saturday night.He was 75. He had been suffering from cancer.  He breathed his last around 9:45pm at his residence of Babar road in capital’s Mohammadpur.Bashir Ahmed left behind wife Mina Bashir,

DHAKA: Blogger and Online Activist Network (BOAN) suspended Gonojagoron Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar from their organization.The decision came from a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity in city on Saturday evening.Blogger Animesh Rahman, in his written speech, said the

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali on Saturday said Dhaka would discuss with the new government of India after elections on various unsettled issues, including Teesta water dispute.    He was addressing a discussion and orientation ceremony of Rangpur Division Development

MUNSHIGANJ: Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Dohar road in Ferryghat Bypass area under Sreenagar upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Billal Hossain Sani, 30 and Sazzad Hossain, 28.Witnesses said a rashly driven

SUNAMGANJ: A housewife was allegedly killed by her husband in Bhoishob village of Mohanpur union under Sadar upazila of the district on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Papiya, 26, wife of a Kamal Mia of the village.Local sources said ‘mentally sick’ Kamal Mia hit his wife with

BANDARBAN: A housewife was allegedly beaten to death by her husband at Roangchhari upazila in the district on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Selina Akhter, 26, wife of a Mohammad Ismail, resident of Daneshpara of Chainga union.Local sources said, in a stage of family

DHAKA: Noted economist of the country Professor Abul Barakat on Saturday categorically said “very very important person (VVIP) and commercially important person (CIP) of the country are thieves”.“The very very important person (VVIP) and commercially important person (CIP) of the

COX’S BAZAR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel detained a youth with 800 pieces Yaba tablets on Saturday morning from a jeep (locally known as Chander Gari) in Damdamia check post area of Teknaf of the district.The detainee is- Mohammad Ali, 34, son of late Mamtaj Miah. Confirming

DHAKA: To make the travel between Bangladesh and India over railway more convenient and comfortable along with to re-open old rail connectivity points and establish new route an inter-ministerial meeting will starts from April 21.The annual talk on India-Bangladesh Inter-Governmental

MUNSIGANJ: The main works of the much-awaited Padma Bridge, government’s highest prioritized project, would be visible by the year of 2014.Communication Minister Obaidul Quader came up with the remarks when visiting the Padma Bridge Project in Mawa jetty area of Lohajang upazila at

CHITTAGONG: Two people were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in the port city and Sitakunda upazila on Friday night.The deceased were identified as Shafiul Alam Safi, 37, of Joramtal area of Sitakunda, and Ismail Hossain Rabbani, 26, a Saudi Arab expatriate, of

DHAKA: Police detained two men with some 53,000 fake national identity cards in the capital on Friday night.Kadamtali Thana police conducted the drive.Details of the drive will be disclosed at a press conference at Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP) Media Centre on Minto Road in the

COX’S BAZAR: A Yaba smuggler and four members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were inured in a gunfight in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.The gunfight took place in Naaf River Dam area at Moulvipara of Sadar Union of the upazila at 10:30pm. Some 50,100 pieces of Yaba tablets were

KHAGRACHHARI: A trader was killed and a school girl injured as Janasahanghati Samity (JSS) activists opened fire at Durgachhari under Lakkhichhari in the district at 7:45am Saturday.The deceased was identified as Kiran alias Joy Kumar Chakma, 45.Confirming the matter to banglanews,

DHAKA: Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained six people with several gold bars weighing 1.3 kilograms at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Friday night.The detainees are – Sahidul Islam, Haidar, Nasim Khan, Sha Alam, Ishaq Mian, and Dipan.APBn assistant