DHAKA: Thousands of the students of Polytechnic Institutes across the country burst into protest in Rajshahi, Chittagong, Jessore, Faridpur, Rangpur and Bogra including the capital to press home their two points demand.In capital, the students of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, on the second

KUSHTIA: A smuggler was shot dead in a clash with Border guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Daulatpur frontier in the district early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Samirul Islam, 27, son of Abul Kashem.Police and BGB sources said BGB-32 battalion personnel challenged a gang of smugglers

CHITTAGONG: Two staffs of Bangladesh railway were killed as a mail train knocked them down in Kamaldah area under Mirsharai upazila of the district early Sunday.The deceased were identified as M Harunur Rashid 55, and M Raja Mia 56.Police sources said a Dhaka-bound mail train pushed them

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday asked the opponents of Land Boundary Agreement in India to give up their opposition to the historic measure, saying settling the vexed issue would be a "win-win" situation for both the countries.The issue of the agreement, which is stuck

DHAKA: A suspected thief was beaten to death by a mob in capital’s Maghbazar area on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Abdullah-Al-Masud Munna, 40.Locals said locals caught him as his body part touched a private car on his way to passing the road at around 10:00am and took

COMILLA: Two people were killed and three others injured in a head-on-collision between a bus and CNG driven auto rickshaw at Bakharnagar under Muradnagar Upazila of the district on Saturday night.Of the deceased, one was identified as Ayub Ali, 35, son of late Amir Hossain.Local sources

FENI: Two minors drowned at Rajapur union in Dagonbhuiyan upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Faisal, 11, son of Abul Bashar and Rafi, 9, son of Abul Kashem, hailed from Bhabanipur village of Rajapur union in Dagonbhuiyan upazila.Local sources

DHAKA: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus continued his week in New York addressing the special session on Haiti at the Clinton Global Initiative participated by President Clinton, Laurent Lamothe, Prime Minister of Haiti. Professor Yunus is a member of Presidential Advisory Council

CHITTAGONG: Three workers were electrocuted and another one injured in a unit of state-run Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizer factory in the port city on Saturday evening.The deceased were identified as M Sahabuddin, 30, M Maruf, 20, Waiz Nur, 40.Constable of Chittagong Medical College

CHITTAGONG: A minor was killed in a road mishap in Oxygen area at Bayezid Bostami Thana in the port city on Saturday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Fatema Akhter, 8, daughter of Bashir Mia, resident of Debidar upazila of Comilla district.Constable of Chittagong Medical College

DHAKA: The students of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute staged protest demo by blocking roads and ransacking building on Saturday morning to press home their 2-point demands. The agitating students blockaded at Satrastar Matha intersection in city Tejgaon industrial area that halted vehicular

DHAKA: A businessman was shot to dead by miscreants in capital’s Mirpur area on Saturday noon.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Jafrul Haque Mina, 55, a real estate businessman.Rupnagar police station officer-in-Charge Md. Shamim Hossain confirmed the matter to banglanews.Quoting

BOGRA: Five students sustained bullet injuries during a fierce clash between the students of Bogra Polytechnic College and police on Saturday. The clash erupted when students started pre-declared protest on demand of cancellation of examination which was scheduled to be held on September

DHAKA: Seventy-nine Bangladeshis have been detained for months without trial in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for illegal entry, and now their biggest fear is that they will be deported to Iran instead of being sent back home.As the police officer clangs open the door to the large prison

FROM UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HALL: Prime Minister Sheikh Haisna said the present Election Commission can hold free, fair and credible national elections. She also said: “During our government`s tenure, the Election Commission has conducted 5,777 elections, electing 63,995 persons to the

DHAKA UNIVARSITY: The voting for electing 25 registered graduates’ representatives to the Dhaka University senate of Dhaka University ended at 5.30pm Saturday.Unofficial results of the election will be published on Sunday after completion of the counting of ballots.The election started

GAZIPUR: Agitated RMG workers staged protest by blocking Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in MC Bazar area under Sreepur upazila of the district on Saturday in protest against workers’ job cut by factory authority.Meanwhile, another factory authority declared the factory lay off to avoid

GAZIPUR: At least 20 readymade garment workers injured in a clash with police on Dhaka-Tangail highway on Saturday morning.Witnesses said that workers of SQ garments came out on roads at around 09:30am and attacked adjacent garments as the neighboring Kostoks garments workers did not

ASULIA, DHAKA: Authorities of five readymade garments in Ashulia shut their factories for Saturday following unwanted workers’ agitation.Locals said the agitated workers of Noble Comfort Composite Limited along with workers of four other factories started protest at the factory premises

DHAKA: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) submitted charge sheet against former state minister of Bangladesh Abul Hasan over Padma Bridge graft scam.Canadian police submitted charge against Abul Hasan and Julfikar Ali Bhuiyan on September 26, but the matter was disclosed on