FENI: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered 50 petrol bombs in Munshirhat Bazar area under Fulgazi upazila of the district on Sunday night. A youth was caught red handed in the raid from the spot. RAB sources said that acting on a tip off, the law enforcers led a special

JEDDAH: At least six people including four Bangladeshis were killed in a road accident in Al Lit area of Saudi Arabian city Makkah on Monday. The deceased Bangladeshis were identified as Amanullah, son of Habib Ullah, Sheikh Harun, son of Abdul Khalek, Abdul Halim, son of Abdul Mazed and

SYLHET: Two sisters were gang-raped at their house in Hajrapara village under Beanibazar upazila of the district on early Sunday, police said. The sisters, who passed the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations this year, are undergoing treatment at the one-stop crisis centre (OCC) in

RANGAMATI: At least three people, including a teenager, were killed as lightning struck them in Beganachhari village under Barakal upazila of the district on Sunday evening.      The deceased were identified as Ripek Chakma, 13, Shanti Bijoy Chakma, 25 and Sunil Chakma, 23.   

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) Sunday stayed the elections of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Kendrio Command Council for six months.     The court also issued rule upon authorities concerned to explain why it should not be cancelled the schedule of the elections.   An HC bench comprising Justice

DHAKA: The government has withdrawn Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) South administrator M Alamgir by an order. Four other additional secretaries and three joint secretaries were also transferred at the same time with another order issued on Sunday afternoon.Alamgir is now posted to the APD

FENI: Fulgazi chairman Ekramul Haque murder mastermind Awami League leader Jahid Chowdhury was detained from Feni town on Sunday evening.Golam Hakkani, Sub-Inspector of Feni Model Police Station, confirmed the matter to banglanews.Acting on a top-off, law enforcers conducted a drive in

SATKHIRA: Border Security Force (BSF) of India handed over some 18 Bangladeshi nationals to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Bhomra BGB camp of Sadar upazila in the district on Sunday noon.The detained are Imran Hossain, of Chaluahati village in Monirampur upazila of Jessore, Subhash

NARAYANGANJ: A Narayanganj court on Sunday placed former RAB officer MM Rana on a more 8-day remand in sensational 7-murder case for police interrogation.  District Senior Judicial Magistrate KM Mohiuddin passed the remand order after police produced him before the court with a 10-day

DHAKA: With a view to stopping black marketing, a Parliamentary Standing Committee recommended including passenger’s name and mobile number in train tickets.The parliamentary committee also proposed to set up CCTV cameras in the train counters.The proposals were tabled in a meeting of

SYLHET: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 675 cans of Indian beer worth TK 10 lakh from Companyganj frontier of the district early Sunday.A team of BGB-5 battalion recovered these liquids from Najirgaon field of the area, a press release said.BGB sources told that those liquor were

DHAKA: Forty eight dealers from across the country of Bashundhara Paper were awarded ‘Star Performer Award’ for selling highest numbers of paper. The award giving ceremony was held at Bashundhara Paper Mills Limited Unit-1 on Saturday.Among 48 awardees, two dealers were given ‘Four

DHAKA: A police constable and two brothers were injured by a gang of agyan party in two separate incidents in city’s Gulistan and Gabtali areas on Sunday.In Gabtali area, police constable Sadek Ali of Mohammadpur traffic department was fainted in an attack of gang in Gabtali Bus Station

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced Boma Mizan of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh for 20 years imprisonment and his wife Halima Begum for five years imprisonment in a case filed under the Explosive Act.Additional Metropolitan Session Judge of Dhaka-4 AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan

DHAKA: At least three people, including two minors, were killed in separate incidents at Kaliakoir, Sreepur and Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday.The deceased were identified as Hridoy, 10, son of Abdul Malek, hailed from Kulban village under Kotwali Thana of Dinajpur; Shariful

FENI: A Feni court on Sunday placed four accused of Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul murder case on a five-day remand for police interrogation. The accused are Anwar, Ikbal, Alauddin and Belal. Senior Judicial Magistrate Khairul Amin granted the remand when investigation officer of the

SATKHIRA: A Satkhira court on Sunday awarded death penalty to a man and his younger brother for killing his wife in Sadar upazila of the district. The convicts are Sohrab Hossain and Saheb Sardar, sons of Mawla Sardar of Haraddah village of the upazila. Judge of Satkhira women and

FROM BRAC CENTER: Apart form the corruption and other difficulties, the local government authorities are facing severe manpower shortage in its districts, municipal and union levels. There are 40 percent manpower shortage in municipalities, 25 percent in Union Parishads and 20 percent in

DHAKA: Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury left Dhaka on Sunday morning to join swearing in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi.  Jatiya Sangsad Senior Secretariat Ashraful Makbul and other high officials saw off her at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city.

DHAKA: US ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena has observed that Bangladesh does not have any way to maintaining good relations with India for its geographic location. “If you look at the map of the South Asia, Bangladesh does not have any way to maintaining good relation with India,” he