DHAKA: Awami League and Jatiya Party will participate separately in the election under interim government next, if BNP does not participate.The decision was taken in the meeting of high ups of the both parties on Sunday night. General Secretary of Awami league and Jatiya Party Secretary

DHAKA: Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat first in the first innings of Second Test at Mirpur Shere Bangla National Stadium in the capital Monday.Earlier, the first Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand ended in a draw in Chittagong.Bangladesh scored 173 for 3 in 48.2 over in

DHAKA: A 100-kilometer-long traffic gridlock on Dhaka-Rangpur highway pushed hundreds of passengers into serious sufferings on Monday morning.Due to illegal car parking, no using exact lane and lack of police patrolling, hundreds of vehicles could not move at all.After Eid and Puja

DHAKA: A 14-man delegation of Jatiya Party, headed by its chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad attended the dinner invitation by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban on Sunday.Ershad along with JP leaders have entered Ganabhaban at around 7.25pm.Sources said a meeting between the top

DHAKA: Indian high commissioner to Dhaka Pankaj Saran has praised Bangladesh as a land of prospect with enduring development efforts. The Indian diplomat made the observation while addressing a pre-departure interaction with the members of the delegation at city’s Indira Gandhi Cultural

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia reached at Sommilito Peshajibi Parishad’s convention at city’s Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) on Sunday afternoon.She is scheduled to address the programme as chief guest.Earlier in the afternoon, the convention began

DHAKA: Verdict in sensational Pilkhana carnage will be pronounced on October 30.Metropolitan Session Judge Sunday fixed the date after end of placing arguments at the special court set up at Bakshibazar Government Alia madrasa ground.Abdul Kahar Akhand, senior special superintendent of

DHAKA: Country’s first ever Bone Marrow Transplantation unit (BMT) has been inaugurated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)-2.Health Minister Prof Dr AFM Ruhal Haque inaugurated the foundation stone of the unit on Sunday morning.While speaking at the inaugural function of the much

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Benazir Ahmed categorically said that police imposed ban on all types of rally, processions in the capital for security of people.He came up with assertion while addressing a relief goods distribution programme in Hazaribagh Beribadh

MOULVIBAZAR: Five people, including a minor, were killed as lightning struck them near Birampur area under Sreemangal upazila and Kormoda union of Kulaura upazila in the district on Sunday noon.    The deceased were identified as Rahi Mia, 7, Sumi Akhter, 22, Shakil Mia, 25, Turok Mia,

DHAKA: A College girl was killed in a road accident in Mugdha near Kamalapur Stadium in the capital on Sunday morning.The deceased were identified as Marzana Jahan Munmun, 19, a second year student of Central Women College.Sources said that a passenger bus knocked her at around 08:30am in

NOAKHALI: At least seven policemen including Officer-in-charge of Companiganj thana and two robbers were injured in a gunfight between the robber gang and cops in Manik Bazar area under the same upazila of the district early Sunday.    Police, however, recovered a one-barrel pistol and

BANDARBAN: A farmer was killed as a contingent of angry elephant attacked him at Baishfari village under Naikkhongchhori upazila of the district early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Kabir Ahmed 52, son of late Ula Mia of the area.Local Union Parishad (UP) member Abdur Rahim said

DHAKA: A devastating fire broke out at the sixth floor of a 14- storied building of Biswas builders in capital’s new market area on Saturday night.Source said that the fire originated at around 10:55pm from an electric short circuit and soon spread to 13th floor.Meanwhile, three people

NOAKHALI: A Bangladeshi businessman was killed as some unidentified assailants stabbed him fiercely in Johannesburg of South Africa Friday night.The deceased was identified as Morshed Alam, 30, hailed from Narottampur union at Begumganj upazila of the district.Family sources said a gang

LAXMIPUR: Two people were killed and another four were injured as a passenger bus knocked down an auto rickshaw near BCIC industrial zone on Laxmipur-Chittagong highway of the district on Saturday.The deceased were identified as an auto rickshaw driver Chhuttu, 25, and Omar Faruk, 26.

NOAKHALI: A man was shot dead and three others sustained bullet injuries in a fierce clash between two groups in Mujahidpur village under Begumganj Upazila of the district.The deceased was identified as Munir Hossain, 40, son of Siraj Miah of the village.Begumganj Thana Sub-Inspector

GAZIPUR: A youth was killed and 10 others were injured in sporadic clashes centering ferry movement on Shitolakkha in Ganga Bazar area under Kapasia upazila of the district on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Sumon 20, a rickshaw puller.Locals said that the ferry lessor and lessee

SIRAJGANJ: At least 25 people including two cops were injured in sporadic clashes between two groups of villagers centering a trifling matter in Belkuchi Upazila of the district on Saturday.  Police and local sources said that there was an altercation among the youths of Adachaki and Sen

DHAKA: A hundred-member Bangladesh youth delegation is set to visit India from October 21 to 28 as a part of Indian Government’s policy to strengthen people-to-people contacts and exchanges between the two countries. The Government of India, the Indian High Commission to Dhaka and the