DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday inaugurated the operation of Machine Readable Passport (MRP) in 33 regional passport offices.The premier opened the operation through a video conference from Ganabhaban in the afternoon.Additional Director General of Bangladesh Immigration

DHAKA: Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu hoped that a committee for the broadcast policy act would be formed within a month. A commission would also be formed soon after the act, the minister added. Inu made the remarks while talking to reporters after a meeting with Association of

DHAKA: Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee called for countrywide protest on Thursday if their demand is not meet by authorities of the group.  Leader of the committee and deputy general of Bangladesh Garment Workers’ Trade Union Jolly Talukder confirmed the matter to banglanews. She

DHAKA: Bangladesh Garment Manufactures and Exporters Association (BGMEA) extended time till Thursday to pay the due wages and bonuses of Tuba Group workers.  President of BGMEA Atiqul Islam said this in a press conference in its office on Wednesday. He said BGMEA would pay the salary

NARSINGDI: At least eight people were killed and over 60 others injured as two passenger buses collided on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in BISIC industrial area in the district on Wednesday afternoon. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately while more deaths feared as many

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed four-day remand to Aminul Islam alias Dish Babu for police interrogation for his alleged involvement in murder of Juba League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milki. Magistrate Shahriar Masud of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court passed the remand

FROM MAWA GHAT: Law enforcers on Wednesday have handed over seven bodies to their relatives after identifying them. According to the latest information provided by Mawa Ghat police sub-control room, Bhola, Munshiganj, Shariatpur and Chandpur district administrations and polices handed

JOYPURHAT: Border Security Force (BSF) of India abducted two Bangladeshi cattle traders from Sonatola area of Hatkhola frontier under Panchbibi Upazila of the district on Sunday morning. The victims are- Alam, 28, Fukri, 27. Locals said that BSF personnel abducted them the cattle

DHAKA: A youth died in Mirpur Thana police custody in city on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Mahbubur Rahman Sujan, 35, son of Meher Ali Shikdar. Confirming the matter, Shah Ali Thana Sub-Inspector Imanur Rahman told banglanews, “Sujan was enlisted terrorist and Mirpur

MYMENSIGH: A couple was hacked to death by miscreants in Akua Gorur Khowar area of Mymensigh Sadar of the district on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Abdul Haque, 55 and his wife Rayatunnesa, 50. Locals said that a youth was trying to flee the spot then locals caught him

SUNAMGANJ: Two people were killed and three others injured when a microbus plunged into a roadside ditch in Dhamodotto Tripti area on Sylhet-Sunamganj highway on Saturday midnight. The deceased was identified as Kador Ali, son of Faijur Rahman and Abu Bakkar, 45, son of late Abdul Fazil.

RAJBARI: A 15-year old schoolgirl drowned in the Naran Babu Road area of Sadar Municipality of the district on Thursday noon.The deceased was identified as Umme Nur-e Azam Medha, student of class-VII, and only daughter of Advocate Shafiqul Azam Mamun PP also joint secretary of district

DHAKA: The government is going to take decision in building barbed wire fences along Myanmar border for stopping infiltration of Rohingyas.It also is going to increase the number of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members to patrol in the frontier area strictly.Sources said the decision

RETURN FROM KHAGRACHHARI: A total of 84 indigenous people from 21 families have been living at classrooms of Babuchhara High School for around a month after they were “evicted” from their own land at Babuchhara in the district.    “We had been evicted from our land in 1960

KURIGRAM: A Kurigram court on Thursday awarded life-term rigorous imprisonment to six people in a murder case in Fulbari upazila of the district. The court also released 20 people, including a woman, finding them innocent of the charge. Additional District and Session Judge Nur Mohammad

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: A four-year-old boy drowned in a ditch at Hotatpara village under Shibganj upazila of the district on Thursday noon. The deceased was identified as Shuvo, son of Badsha Ali of the village. Locals said Shuvo was playing with other kids near a mango garden. At one stage,

CHITTAGONG: Torrential downpour caused severe water-logging leaving people marooned in low-lying areas in the port city which paralysed the normal life for third day on Sunday. Sources said that mainly the office goers and students of educational institutions suffered here a lot while

DHAKA: Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury commented that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will not work in empty stomach. The minister said in her speech on the development of agriculture in the second day of ‘Vision 2030: Framework for Economic Policy Making and

DHAKA: Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury commented that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will not work in empty stomach. The minister said in her speech on the development of agriculture in the second day of ‘Vision 2030: Framework for Economic Policy Making and

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 sent Mohammad Akram Hossain, accused for crimes against humanity during 1971. A three-member bench of ICT-1 led by Judge M Inayetur Rahim passed the order when the accused was produced before it on Sunday. Earlier on Friday, Rajshahi police