DHAKA: The law enforcement agency in a drive arrested eight Hizb ut-Tahrir activists and seized huge amount of leaflets from their possession.  They were arrested from capital’s Khilkhet area during Thursday night to Friday afternoon.Khilket Thana officer-in-charge Nazrul Islam

SYLHET: Police, in special drives, nabbed 92 people from four districts of the division between Thursday morning and Friday morning.Amongst them, 19 people were held from Sylhet, 10 from Moulvibazar, 33 from Habiganj and 30 from Sunamganj.Sylhet additional Deputy Inspector General

DHAKA: ASM Firoz, Whip of 9th Parliament, has been elected as Chief Whip of 10th National Parliament.A gazette notification of parliament secretariat made the disclosure Friday.Five Whips are Atikur Rahman Atik, Shahiduzzaman Sarkar, Iqbalur Rahim, Solaiman Joardar and M Shahabuddin.BDST:

DHAKA: The immunization campaign to protect children of the country from the deadly Measles and Rubella has been inaugurated on Friday morning.Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu inaugurated the campaign in front of national museum at 9:00am.After inauguration, a rally was brought out

MANIKGANJ: Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatia river route resumed on Friday morning after a four hours suspension due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.Sources said that Paturia Ghat authority has suspended the ferry services from 6:00am to avoid accident.Confirming the matter,

  DHAKA: Two devotees died at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi of Gazipur district early Friday.The deceased were identified as Omar Ali, 55, of Keraniganj thana of Dhaka and Shahjalal, 26, of Feni district. Amongst them, Omar Ali died of heart attack while Shahjalal sied after suffering

TONGI: The Gazipur District Traffic Zone has given an instruction on road maps and parking points on Thursday for conveniences of the numerous Muslim devotees at Ijtema ground.These road maps will assist the pious Muslims to get on the right directions in Ijtema ground who come from

JAMALPUR: Two people were killed and another injured as a commuter train hit a pick-up van at Mikundabazar rail crossing in the district town on Friday morning.The deceased were the driver and helper of the pick-up van.A Dhaka-bound commuter train hit the pick-up train around 7am while

MANIKGANJ: Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatia river route came to a halt since early Friday due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.Sources said that Paturia Ghat authority has suspended the ferry services from 6:00am to avoid accident.Confirming the matter, Bangladesh Inland Water

JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY: A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has been suspended and declared persona non grata in the campus area at Jahangirnagar University for assaulting Chairman of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) department Professor Golam Moinuddin.The suspended person is

DHAKA: The tenure of action-packed ninth parliament of the country expired on Friday which started its journey exactly at five years ago.The ninth Jatiya Sangsad has been experienced several attributed incidents such as forming International war crimes tribunal, cancellation of Fifth

BRAHMANBARIA: A floating body of a newborn baby was found at a pond in Border Bazar area of the district town on Thursday evening.Witnesses said that locals noticed a floating body of a newborn baby at a pond near to Brahmanbaria General Hospital at the evening and informed police.

CHITTAGONG: A gang of masked killers shot a businessman to death at Ranirhat Bazar under Rangunia upazila of the district on Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Jahangir Alam, 30, a readymade garment businessman, son of Mofjol Hossain and resident of the area.Witnesses said a

DHAKA: With myriad devotees from home and abroad thronging the bank of Turag, the first phase of Biswa Ijtema, the world’s second-largest congregation of Muslims, began on Friday with religious sermons delivered by Islamic scholars.   Besides, a large number of people from the city

KHULNA: Some 30 teachers of Khulna University (KU) Thursday resigned from 33 administrative positions protesting insulting director of Fine Arts Institute Professor Dr Afroza Parvin in an academic council meeting.Chairmen of various departments, students’ affairs director, hall provosts

DHAKA:  A Swechhasebak League leader was hacked to death in Moghbazar area on Thursday evening.The victim was identified as Mahbubur Rahman Rana, 30, former senior vice-president of Chhatra League Ramna Thana.Sources said some miscreants chopped Rana repeatedly in Moghbazar area around

DHAKA: The first phase of Biswa Ijtema, the world’s second-largest congregation of Muslims, will begin at the bank of the Turag River in Tongi on Friday.   The Ijtema will be held in two phases, first phase from January 24-26 and the second from January 31-February 2.Thousands Muslim

DHAKA: A group of Bangladeshi scientists revealed the genome code of buffalo, known in the country as ‘Black Gold’.The head of the group, a livestock scientist of Bangladesh, told banglanews that this revealing would help us to get better quality buffalo to meet the demand of protein,

DHAKA: M. Jarraud, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), congratulated the Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her re-election. He also expressed his confidence that the collaboration between Bangladesh and WMO will be strengthened in advancing the

DHAKA: The Malaysian law enforcers have been carrying on combing operations to pick up illegal emigrants in their country. They are searching the illegal expatriates almost everywhere including houses, offices and shops.To avoid arrest the illegal Bangladeshi emigrants are taking shelters