RIYADH: Two more Bangladeshi pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia on Saturday and Sunday.The deceased were identified as M Abdul Momen 77, passport number- AF1084349 and M Showkat Hossain 64, passport number- AF2054893.Altogether eight Bangladeshi pilgrims were died in Saudi this year.Sources

BANDARBAN: Two soldiers of Bangladesh Army electrocuted inside the army region of Bandarban early Monday.The deceased were identified as M Rubel, 24, son of M Muslem Uddin, hailed from Virlar Tekram village of Dinajpur and Zenerul Haque, 23, son of Alkas Islam, from Shibganj of

DHAKA: Apple’s new iPhone 5S and 5C and last year’s iPhone 5 are alike in many ways.All three phones have a touch screen measuring 4 inches (10 centimeters) diagonally, with a resolution of 326 pixels per inch. That pixel density is better than Apple’s iPads, though not as good as

GAZIPUR: A bus driver, victim of Jamaat hartal violence, succumbed to his injuries on Monday after four-day fighting for life.The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam Bhuian 35, resident of Haydrabad village of the district.Sources said that during the second day of Jamaat called

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) summoned former state minister of Housing and Public Works ministry Alamgir Kabir for his alleged involvement in misusing power and corruption.ACC deputy director Jatan Kumar Roy on Monday said that a letter was sent to Alamgir Kabir asking him to

DHAKA: Thousands of workers of hundreds of readymade garments factories on Monday started protest in the capital, Savar and Gazipur to press their demand for Tk 8,000 minimum salary. The protest of third day turned into a violence when workers blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail

NEW YORK: An expatriate Bangladeshi woman was killed in a road accident in Queensor Seventh Avenue in New York on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Nishat Hossain 58, a staff of chain fast food Mc Donald’s and wife of late Monir Hossain, hailed from Chandpur Sadar upazila of

DHAKA: A police source was chopped to death by assailants in capital’s Razabazar area on Indira road early Monday.The deceased was identified as Nasim, 30.Sources said that miscreants chopped him to death in between 02:00am to 03:00am. Later, on information police recovered his body and

DHAKA: The Mayor of the Philippines’ Central Business District (CBD) welcomed last week a group of high-level delegates from Bangladesh, to share the city’s best practices and lessons learned on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM).The delegation comprises of senior officials

DHAKA: At least 50 people were injured in a triangular clash of garments workers, police and owners on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar at around 8.00am Monday.Sources said that workers of Standard Group started demonstration inside the factory demanding pay rise at Olail area of Savar

DHAKA: General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army Commander of Indian Army at Fort William in Kolkata, Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh, UYSM, AVSM, VSM paid homage to Shikha Anirban at capital’s Cantonment on Monday.He paid honor to martyrs of Liberation War placing floral

SYLHET: Miscreants attacked at the resident of the principal Osul Ahmed Chowdhury of Sylhet Osmani Medical College (SOMC) on Sunday night.Sources suspected that Chahatra Dal activists might have done this violence.Osmani Medical College source said that there was a clash between Chhatra

PANCHAGARH: Two people were killed and 20 more injured in electric transformer blast in Muhurijot village under Tetulia Upazila of the district on Sunday night.The deceased were identified as Shohida Begum, 35 and Yakub Ali, 50.Sources said that the 11000 kilowatt electric transformer

DHAKA: At least two people were injured critically as a train knocked a stuck passenger bus at Mohakhali rail crossing in the capital on Sunday night.The injured were sent to Ayesha Memorial Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital.Witnesses said that a Mirpur-bound bus of Bengal

DHAKA: Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao and speaker of Bangladesh National Assembly Shirin Sharmin Choudhury met on the sidelines of International Day of Peace meeting on September 21 in Kunming, capital city of southwestern China’s Yunnan Province.Li said as developing countries,

GAZIPUR: Most of the workers of readymade garments beside Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail highways in Borobari area locked into sporadic clashes with police on Monday morning.The clash erupted when workers of most of the garments’ including Interfact Sweater, Tongi Zaber & Zubayer,

DHAKA: Over 22,000 bottles of Phensedyl cough syrup, valued at Rs 30 lakh, have been seized by customs officials at Siliguri in northern West Bengal’s Darjeeling district.The preventive and intelligence unit of Siliguri Customs seized the consignment – set to be smuggled to Bangladesh

DHAKA: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has said no Bangladesh national were affected in the recent terrorist attack at the Westgate Shopping Centre of Nairobi in Kenya.The disclosure came from a statement of Foreign Ministry signed by director general of External Publicity of MoFA M

DHAKA: Land Reform Board Secretary Nurul Haque was made Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and two other secretaries were transferred their offices.A gazette notification from public administration ministry disclosed the matter on Sunday.As per the government order, Textile and Jute Ministry

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Two people were killed and 18 others injured in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy at Narayanpur of Sadar upazila in the district Sunday.The deceased were identified as Nurul Islam, 45, son of Entaj Ali, hailed from Joulia Sardar Para and Potol, son of