DHAKA: A community policeman in Sutrapur thana area of Old Dhaka in the capital was killed.Police recovered the body in city’s Sutrapur colony early Thursday.The dead was identified as Abdul Barek, 45, a resident of the colony and hailed from Baufal upazila of Patuakhali.Sutrapur thana

DHAKA: Ruling-party lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon, quizzed over the murder of his party colleague Ibrahim Ahmed, said he had left his licensed pistol in his car “by mistake”.Shaon, however, denied his involvement in Ibrahim killing during the interrogation on Wednesday night,

DHAKA: Linguists and academics at a colloquium Thursday suggested close ties among the Bengali language researchers working worldwide for the development of the language as well as Bengali grammar.They made the observation at a colloquium on New Bengali Grammar at the Modern Language

MYMENSINGH: A roving investigation team of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday morning started their spot probe into the crimes committed in Mymensingh during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.Meanwhile, the investigators talked to local people during their spot visit, part of

DHAKA: Three terrorists including two outlaws were killed in separate ‘shootouts’ with the law enforcers in Kushtia and Chittagong early Thursday.In Kushtia, two members of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz were killed in a ‘gunfight’ between their cohorts and members of Rapid Action

SHERPUR: Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Jeyad Al Malum Wednesday said they got enough evidences through spot investigation against Jamaat leader Md Kamaruzzaman to prove his involvement in wartime crimes. “We have already detained identified war criminals, including

SUNAMGANJ: A head-on collision between a passenger minibus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chhatak left 3 people dead and two injured on Wednesday noon.The deceased were identified as Delwar, 35, and his niece Ruhela Begum, 22, hailed from Jolsi village in Doarbazar upazila.Witnesses and

DHAKA: Society is developing with the dynamics of faster development of the globe. Crimes, too, are getting globalized concomitant with the fast-moving world. The various offences now happening in society like cyber and email crimes, pornography on phone and Internet, eve-teasing, illicit

PABNA: State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku Wednesday alleged that the leaders of the main opposition BNP and war criminals are trying to destabilize the country in a planned way being envious of development in every sector. The state minister came up with the comment at a

DHAKA: A court here Wednesday declared a long adjournment till November 14 the hearing on charge framing against ex-PM and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her elder son Tarique Rahman and four others in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.Judge Muzammel Hossain of the Special Judge Court-3

DHAKA: The draft National Child Policy-2010 has been unveiled with the maximum age of the child raised to 18 from the previously defined 14 years, restricting certain works up to the two stages of childhood. As per the new policy, a child under 14 cannot be hired for any full-time job And

DHAKA: Government authorities cancelled the work order awarded to a Chinese firm for repairing the cracks on the Bangabandhu Bridge as the company is blacklisted for jerrybuilding an important link road.The Cabinet Purchase Committee also decided to invite fresh tender for the repairs to

SHERPUR: All Sherpur incidents of ‘crime against humanity’ during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war took place following direction from Kamaruzzaman, said Mohan Munshi, a self-declared `rajakar’, as a belated state-level investigation was now on steam. Kamaruzzaman, Assistant

DHAKA: Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, the sole government body to promote country’s much-neglected potential tourism sector, urged the government to pay sponsor money to the International Cricket Council as the BPC has been elected ICC’s local partner in staging the upcoming global

SHERPUR: The war-crime investigation team, on the second consecutive day of revisiting the 1971 carnage spots in Sherpur, walked around different areas of the frontier town talking to local people about the wartime happenings in sombre scenarios.Beginning at 9:00 in the morning, the

DHAKA: The government has invited bids from four short-listed investment companies for the construction of Dhaka Elevated Expressway, as preparation for building the motorway over the jammed capital city advanced steadily.According to a competent source the government sent ‘Request for

DHAKA: Unidentified assailants slaughtered a taxicab driver in the city`s Sheorapara area early Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Rabiul Islam, 35, son of Iliyas Uddin at Jahuribagh Moholla in Mirpur.Mirpur Model Thana SI Jalaluddin said four miscreants, in the guise of passengers,

SHERPUR: All crimes against humanity during 1971 liberation war occurred in Sherpur following direction of Kamaruzzaman, Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, says Mohon Munshi, a self-declared `rajakar’ of the area. Mohon, who was the closest aide to Kamaruzzaman was

DHAKA: At least four people were killed and 75 others injured in separate road accidents in Manikganj and Savar Wednesday. A correspondent from Manikganj reports: One woman was killed and 40 others injured when a passenger bus fell into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Muljan

CHITTAGONG: At least three people were killed and 15 injured as a picnic bus from Rajshahi to Cox`sbazar bay resort turned over on the 3rd Karnaphuli Bridge in Chittagong on Tuesday night.“The deceased could not be identified immediately,” said OC Aminul of Karnaphuli thana to