DHAKA: Sonali Bank Limited filed another case against Hall-Mark Group’s managing director Tanvir Mahmud and its chairman Jesmin Islam on Tuesday over the largest bank money scam of the country.Sonali Bank’s deputy general manager Abdul Salam, on behalf of the bank, filed the case with

DHAKA: A Dhaka Court on Tuesday indicted four people including Oishee Rahman in the case of sensational murder of Special Branch (SB) Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Shapna Rahman. Detective Branch (DB) of police completed investigation and filed two charge sheets before the

Chittagong: Workers of Korean tent factory HKD International staged demonstration and vandalized the factory in the Export Processing Zone area of the port city at 11:00am Tuesday. EPZ Police Station Sub-Inspector Uttam Kumar Chakrabarty told banglanews, “Workers of the Korean factory

DHAKA: Asians-dominated Leicester city in the UK has got its second international visa operation with a successful launch of a pilot Bangladesh Visa Service.The centre was launched by Leicester East MP Keith Vaz and Bangladesh High Commissioner Mohamed Mijarul Quayes on Saturday in the

DHAKA: Vehicular movements came to a halt in three northern districts-- Thakurgaon, Panchagarh, and Naogaon-- as transport strikes was underway separately from Tuesday morning.Banglanews Thakurgaon Correspondent Firoz Amin Sarkar reports-- an indefinite transport strike was underway on

NETROKONA: A district court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death and four others to life term imprisonment in Eden College student Khadiza Akter murder case.    BDST: 1255 HRS, APR 08, 2014

FROM LABAID: “He is in very critical condition”, said Dr Baren Chakraborty, senior consultant of LabAid Hospital, who is supervising the medical team formed for treating veteran journalist ABM Musa, 83.ABM Musa has been kept on life-support at LabAid Hospital from Monday night.He is

THAKURGAON: An indefinite strike, jointly enforced by Motor Owners’ Association, Motor Workers’ Union and Truck-Tank Lorry Union, began across the district on Sunday morning.The association and unions came up with the protest programme to press for their demand to stop the locally

DHAKA: Miscreants shot dead a youth in capital’s Kalabagan area early Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Sadbin Hossain Sunny, 25, son of Shawkat Hossain Sunny and resident of Green Road area.Police sources said that a gang of miscreants shot him while he was standing in front of

KHULNA: A woman and her son were slaughtered at their house at Saluya village under Paikgacha upazila of the district early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Anima, 32 and Sajib, 7. Police detained Dipak, husband of the Anima, in this connection.Locals said Dipak is a

DHAKA: Detective police sued five people including 3 policemen with Rampura Thana of the capital on Tuesday early over a gold bar misappropriation incident.A team of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police lodged the case at 1:30am under the Code of Criminal Procedure Articles

RAJBARI: A youth was electrocuted at Sadar upazila of the district on Monday.The deceased was identified as Sujan Sheikh, 20, son of Shamser Sheikh, of Dhuldijoypur village under Wahabpur union of the upazila.Locals said Sujan came in contact with electric while climbing a tree at 2:00pm

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: Parliament on Monday passed a bill keeping the provision of giving special allowances in a rate of 50 percent of the basic salary.Law Minister Anisul Haque placed the bill ‘Supreme Court Judges (Remuneration and Privileges) (Amendment) Bill-2014’.With Speaker Dr

TANGAIL: Miscreants torched a vehicle of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the remote area of Madhupur upazila of the district on Monday afternoon.Locals said that RAB-14 personnel were conducting a drive to nab an accused in that area keeping microbus at a remote area and they found their

COX’S BAZAR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a youth with 9,852 pieces of yaba tablets at Maricha Check Post in the district on Monday.The detainee was identified as Fayez Uddin, 22, son of Shamsul Alam, residing in PMKhali under Sadar upazila.At that time BGB also seized a

NARAYANGANJ: A 35-year-old unidentified man was killed in a road accident in Signboard area of the district on Monday afternoon. Witnesses said a rashly-driven pickup van ran over him in the area around 3:15 pm, leaving him injured critically.He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College

DHAKA: English daily ‘The Daily Star’ and ‘Ekushey Television (ETV)’, one of the private television channels in the country, were banned to covering any programmes of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A competent source from the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: India`s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran opined that the relationship and spirit of good neighborliness between Bangladesh and India won’t be affected even if the power changes in any country.The Indian envoy came up with the observation in a discussion meeting at the

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) is planning to hold sixth phase of polls to rest 20/22 upazilas within the first week of May.The EC also will announce the polls schedule after of Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed returns from the USA on April 14.Election Commissioner

DHAKA: President M Abdul Hamid on Monday gave his consent in the Speedy Trial Bill (amendment), 2014 which was passed in the current session of the 10th parliament. Through President’s consent the bill turned into an act. This was the first bill passed in the 10th parliament.Earlier,