TANGAIL: Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal called half-day hartal for Wednesday in the municipal area after Sramik Dal leader Golam Azam was shot dead on Tuesday.The party leaders and activists brought out a procession and protested the killing incident and supporting hartal in the area

SYLHET: A youth was electrocuted at Uttaran Motors workshop in Tukerbazar area in the city on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Manwar Hossain, 30, son of late Chan Mia, resident of Chikarkandi of Dakkhin Sunamganj area.Local sources said Manwar, a transport worker in

DHAKA: Belgium foreign minister and deputy Prime Minister Didier Reynders assured visiting Bangladesh foreign minister Mahmood Ali saying that they are pleased to follow the progress with reforms in the RMG sector in Bangladesh.“We believe that our companies also have their share of

DHAKA: Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz on Tuesday said some 61.65 percent votes were cast in the fifth phase of the fourth upazila election on Monday.The election commissioner claimed that the election was not as bad as it was apprehended.Shah Nawaz made assertion while addressing the

DHAKA: Daylong hartal, called by BNP, Jamaat and Awami League rebel candidates bringing allegation of vote manipulation and demanding re-election of fifth phase of fourth upazila election, was observed in 11 upazilas on Tuesday.           The hartal was called in Araihazar and

DHAKA: US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena attended South Asia Women’s Entrepreneurship symposium at a city hotel on Tuesday.Expressing his greetings to the hardworking and enthusiastic women entrepreneurs, the US envoy’s stated that the women entrepreneurs of South Asia

CHITTAGONG: At least nine people were received bullet wound in a clash over establishing supremacy in Chittagong on Tuesday.They were rushed to local hospital and Chittagong Medical College Hospital.Locals said the clash the gun fight began at noon in Mohammadkhali village under Khagria

DHAKA: A seminar on ‘The Latest in E-Commerce’ jointly organized by Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and Google Business Group (GBG) was held on Tuesday.Held at the BASIS Auditorium in the city, issues include spreading of e-commerce on different

DHAKA: The High Court on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to deactivate the unregistered mobile SIM cards without delay.An HC bench of Justice Mirza Hossain Haidar and Justice M Khurshid Alam Sarkar passed the order after a preliminary hearing on a writ petition filed for public

DHAKA: A total of 127 personnel of the Bangladesh Army and the Bangladesh Navy will leave for Mali, a West African country, to join United Nations (UN) Peace Keeping Operation on Tuesday afternoon.Of them, 112 are from Bangladesh Army and 15 from Navy.Army Headquarters and Vehicle Wing

DHAKA: A meeting between power secretaries of Bangladesh and India will take place with a view to settling joint working deals.A press release issued by Indian High Commission confirmed the matter on Tuesday. The meeting will be held here on April 2 and 3 (Wednesday, Thursday).A high

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident at Shibganj upazila in the district on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hakim, 35, son of Manirul Islam and resident of Chakla village of Daipakhuria union.Local sources said a motorcyclist plunged into a

DHAKA: The customs officials held two people with 62 gold bars weighing 7.23 kilograms at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Tuesday. The detainees are- Dulal Hossain and Saidur Rahman.Sources said that the gold bars seized from the two people of flight FZ-583 at

DHAKA: A total of 149 gold bars, which went missing earlier, were rescued from several policemen of Rapmura Police Station of the city on Tuesday morning. Police detained three lawmen and one other in this connection.The detainees are Sub-Inspector Monjurul Islam, Constables Akash

DHAKA: Dr Anisuzzaman, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dhaka, has been conferred on Padma Bhushan award, the third highest civilian award in India.The professor received the award with a gold medal from Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday. A total of 66 persons were

DHAKA: US Ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena on Monday the United States regretted for abstention of Bangladesh from joining the large majority regarding the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Crimea issue. “I regret that Bangladesh was not able to join

DHAKA: According to unofficial results of 73 upazila council polls, ruling Awami League (AL)-backed candidates won in 54 upazilas while Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-backed candidates won in 12 upazilas in the fifth phase of upazila elections.Awami League:           Awami

DHAKA: Controversy has again created on Musa Ibrahim’s Everest scaling for the first time by a Bangladesh. Some people claim that Musa’s name is absent in ‘Nepal Parbat’, a periodical published by Nepal Mountaineering Association.Some say that names of people, who climb from Nepal

LALMONIRHAT: Four people were killed and 16 injured in a road accident on Rangpur-Kurigram highway in Sadar upazila of the district on Monday evening.Of he deceased three were identified as Farida Begum, 60, Riaz Mia, 32 and Nuruzzaman Mia 70, hailed from Fakirer Takea area of the

DHAKA: A college student committed suicide by hanging himself from ceiling fan in city’s Jatrabari area on Monday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Anik Sarker, 18, an HSC examination candidate of Abdul Mannan School and College and son of Suresh Chandra Sarker.Uncle of the