DHAKA: Ruling Awami League President Sheikh Hasina met President M Abdul Hamid on Thursday evening to discuss the formation of the new government.A source told banglanews24.com that the meeting lasted for almost an hour. The meeting was fixed soon after Hasina was elected the leader of

CHITTAGONG: A readymade garments worker was killed and over 15 others were injured in a clash with police in Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) in the port city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Parvin Akter, 18, a garment worker of the KEPZ.  Chittagong Medical College

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-3) personnel nabbed a fake army captain on charge of extortion from city’s Khilgaon area Thursday morning.The detainee was identified as Arif Khan Jewel.RAB sources said that Jewel was caught red handed while he was extorting as an army official in the

DHAKA: Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, also prime minister, is set to meet President Abdul Hamid on Thursday evening.The prime minister sources said that she is going to meet the President to discuss about the formation of the upcoming government.The sources also said that the

DHAKA: Rawshan Ershad, wife of former president HM Ershad, has been elected as leader of the Jatiya Party Parliamentary Party (JPPP). The decision was taken in a meeting of JPPP at Jatiya Sangshad Bhaban on Thursday.   Jatiya Party presidium member and its office secretary Tajul Islam

DHAKA: Bangladesh Awami League again elected party president Sheikh Hasina as the leader of its parliamentary party.The Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP), in a meeting at room of treasury bench at Jatiya Sangsad, chose Sheikh Hasina as its leader.After the meeting, AL agriculture

DHAKA: The members of new cabinet will swear in on Sunday as all preparations have completed in this regard.Cabinet secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan made the disclosure in a press conference on Thursday at his office.Earlier in the day, the newly elected lawmakers of Awami League took

DHAKA: Four people were killed and four others injured in separate road crashes in two districts on Thursday morning.Banglanews Dinajpur correspondent reports: At least two people were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Kishanbazar under sadar upazila of the district

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday awarded seven years imprisonment to Salauddin Shoyeb Chowdhury, editor of the Weekly Blitz, in a sedition case.Metropolitan session judge Md Jahrul Haque passed the order with the presence of Shoyeb Chowdhury.  As per the statement of the case filed on

CHITTAGONG: An auto-rickshaw driver, who sustained burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack by miscreants in Trunk road area of Feni district on January 4, died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Shahabuddin, 35, an auto-rickshaw

DHAKA: The newly elected 283 lawmakers of Awami League, Jatiya Party, Jatiya Samajtantrick Dal, Workers Party and others took oath in phases on Thursday morning.Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury administered the oath of members of the 10 th parliament.Awami League lawmakers took

DHAKA: Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) President Hasanul Haque Inu on Thursday asserted that the tenure of 10th parliament will be five years.He came up with the assertion while talking to banglanews at Jatiya Sangshad lobby just before joining the oath taking ceremony of newly elected

MANIKGANJ: At least five people were injured in a clash between two groups of a readymade garment factory in Nayadingee area under Saturia upazila of the district on Thursday morning over due lunch bill.The incident took place near to Dhaka-Aricha highway at around 8:00am.Sources said

DHAKA: The newly elected lawmakers of Awami League took oath on Thursday morning.Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury administered the oath started at 10:20am.Later, lawmakers of Jatiya Party are set to take oath at 11:00am.As per the constitution, after taking oath by the newly

CHUADANGA: Blockaders vandalized at least eight goods-laden trucks on Chuadanga-Jibannagar road in Laximpur bridge area under Jibannagar upazila of the district on Wednesday night.The incident took place at around 8:00pm.Witnesses said that a group of 10/12 people suddenly attacked the

DHAKA: Researchers from India, Britain and Bangladesh are studying the impact of climate change on livelihoods of those living in Sunderbans mangroves, the world`s largest mangrove forests.More than two-thirds of the forest lies in Bangladesh, the focus of the study, and the rest in West

DHAKA: Coming out of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad is set to take oath on Thursday.A close source of HM Ershad confirmed the matter to banglanews.After taking oath, he will back again to the CMH and then he would go to his residence

DHAKA: India has created a separate division in its ministry of external affairs (MEA) for Bangladesh and Myanmar, splitting the old BSM division into two. The BSM division was in charge of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Maldives -- four countries crucial for India.Sripriya

MOULVIBAZAR: Two men were killed and one was injured in a road accident on Moulvibazar-Samshernagar road in the district on Thursday morning.The identity of deceased could not be known immediately but injured was a rickshaw puller.Witnesses said that a truck rammed a rickshaw carrying the

DHAKA: A passer-by was run over by a city bus in front of Ruposhi Bangla hotel in the capital on Thursday morning.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Sources said that a Gulistan-bound passenger bus rammed the victim at 07:20am while he was crossing road in the