DHAKA: Travellers, from now on, can buy the tickets of intercity trains before five days instead of 10 days of their journey date. The procedure will start at every counter of stations and through mobile phone and internet from 9:00am of June 11. The railway ministry issued a notice in

FENI: A Feni court on Monday placed Zahid Chowdhury, joint general secretary of Fulgazi Upazila Awami League, on a three-day fresh remand in a case of killing upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque. Senior judicial magistrate Khairul Amin passed the order when investigation officer (IO) produced

DHAKA: Rapid action Battalion (Rab) arrested main accused of Madaripur double murder case from a hotel in Mohakhali area of the city on Monday. The arrestee is Saifur Rahmam Shahin. Operation officer Raihan Uddin Khan of Rab-2 confirmed the matter to banglanews. They will brief about

COMILLA: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Nayek Mizanur Rahman, killed by Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP), laid to rest at family graveyard in Comilla’s Debidar on Monday.Border Guard Bangladesh Battalion-31 Nayek Mizanur was buried with state honor at 2:15pm after the second

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given approval of the work order of the main part of much-talked-about Padma Bridge. Communications Minister Obaidul Quader made the disclosure while talking to journalists at his secretariat office on Monday. He told the journalists that the work

DHAKA: A 10-year-old boy was found dead in Shah Ali Mazar area of Mirpur in the city Monday. One passerby Yeasin recovered the body. He told banglanews that the boy was found senseless and lying at the pavement adjacent to the Mazar.  Later, he rushed the boy to the Dhaka Medical

SAVAR: Two people, including a retired army person, sustained bullet injuries in miscreants firing in Burir Bazar area of Ashulia Thana on Monday noon. The victims are Raja Mia, 55, and a shop owner Yunus, 40. Witnesses said four miscreants riding two motorbikes intercepted Raja in the

DHAKA: National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reforms/Reorganisation (NICAR) on Monday gave approval to the proposal of forming two new upazilas, two municipalities and a thana. The approval came from the 109th meeting of NICAR with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is going to investigate into the Liberation War Honorary Crest scam. The anti-graft body took the decision in a regular meeting on Monday. ACC is also likely to quiz 12 officials of Liberation War Affairs Ministry for their alleged involvement

DHAKA: Ganajagaran Mancha Monday declared fresh demonstration programme after police foiled their prescheduled programme to besiege law ministry.  Mancha spokesman Dr Imran H Sarker announced the movement around 2:00pm at Doyel Chattar of the University of Dhaka campus. Amongst the

TANGAIL: Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Sadar and Ghatail upazila of the district on Monday. Sub-inspector Anowar of Tangail Thana said that motorcyclist Rafiq, 35, of Shakhipur village was killed when a Korotia Sadad University’s bus rammed him in Ashekpur area

DHAKA: The cabinet approved in principle the draft of Foreign Donations (Voluntary activities) Regulation Act-2014 to ensure transparency in NGOs and voluntary organizations. The approval came from the regular meeting of cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at

COMILLA: The body of BGB Nayek Mizanur Rahman has reached at his village home Boisherkut-Velanagar village of Mohanpur union under Debidhar upazila of the district on Monday noon. Some BGB high officials including regional commander Anisur Rhaman has taken the body by an ambulance. He

DHAKA: Police barred Ganajagaran Mancha activists from besieging the Law Ministry, as part of the previously declared movement, by reportedly attacking on a procession brought out by protesters on Monday.Police charged baton in the procession at Doyel Chattar of the University of Dhaka

DHAKA:  A special tribunal will pronounce any day the verdict of sacked Awami League leader Mobarak Hossain, for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war as arguments of both sides completed Monday. Three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1 led-by

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BANDARBAN: The namaz-e-janaza of deceased BGB Naik Mizanur Rahman was held at Naikkhangchari BGB-31 Battalion office premises in the district on Monday morning. The namaz-e janaza finished at 9:08am.  BGB-31 Battalion all officers and colleagues of Mizanur were attended in the

NOAKHALI: A Bangladeshi businessman was shot dead by the terrorists at Houghton Estate located in South Africa on Sunday. The deceased is Rahmat Ullah, 30, son of M Abdul of Kabithat municipality of Noakhali. Victim’s brother Shahid Ullah said three terrorists claimed extortion from

MANIKGANJ: A truck driver and his assistant were killed in a road accident at Singair bus stand on Sunday night. Details of the deceased could not be known till filing the report. Locals said a Dhaka-bound jute-laden truck turned turtle and fell into a roadside ditch at Singair bus

GAIBANDHA: A teenage boy was killed after falling in a septic tank in Ullapara area of Saghata upazila on Sunday noon. The deceased was identified as Shamim Hossain, 15. Bhorotkhali Upazila Parishad Chairman Shamsul Azad said Shamim fell in septic tank of a newly constructed building