MUNSHIGANJ: A 20-kilometre traffic jam was reported on the busy Dhaka-Chittagong highway that causing immense suffering to hundreds of passengers.The gridlock started at about 4:30am Friday and continued till banglanews correspondent filing the report.Local sources said the tailback

CHITTAGONG: A robber lynched by mob at Sandwip upazila of the district on Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Jahurul Haque, 45, son of Jalal Ahmed of the same area.Sources said a group of robbers went to a house for robbery on Thursday late night. Sensing the presence of the

DHAKA: Considering sufferings of the patients, Bangladesh Chemist and Druggist Samity (BCDS) leaders decided to curtail four hours from the 16-hour strike on Thursday.BCDS president Sadekur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews at around in the afternoon.BCDS called for the strike to

FROM HOUSE: Government will recruit near seven thousands primary teachers soon.Government has recently published an advertisement in this regard.Culture Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad disclosed the matter in the parliament in response a question to lawmaker Imaj Uddin on

SIRAJGANJ: At least 20 people were injured in clash between two villagers in Sirajganj municipality area on Thursday.Sources said people of Diardhangara and Bhangabari village locked into a fierce clash in the noon over a trifle matter, leaving at least 20 people from both sides

DHAKA: The government has approved the list of government holidays for 22 days in 2014.The approval came from a cabinet meeting held at secretariat on Thursday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.After the meeting, cabinet secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told journalists

DHAKA: The government has given approval the draft of Grameen Bank Act-2013 which will bring the bank under the regulation of the Bangladesh Bank (BB).The approval came from the cabinet meeting on Thursday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.After the meeting, cabinet secretary

DHAKA: The inauguration of 500-megawatt Bangladesh-India Power Transmission Center is going to be held at Bheramara in Kushtia on Saturday.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian PM Manmohan Singh will jointly switch on their respective sides of the grid through a teleconference for the

MECCA: Three more Bangladeshi pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Jamal Uddin Pramanik, 66, passport number AF7524926, Jafor Ahmed, 61, passport number AC2665403 and Mohammad Kolimuddin, 74, passport number AF5279624.A total of 18

BAGERHAT: A Bagerhat court on Thursday awarded death penalty to three people and lifetime imprisonment to another one for their involvement in killing a shrimp trader in the district.The convicts are Satya Baroi, son of Pulin Baroi, Tapan Majumder, son of Nirmal Majumder, of Chitalmari

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal-1 fixed Sunday for issuing order on allegation of contempt charge against Bangladesh Bar Council vice-chairman Advocate Khandakar Mahabub Hossain.The three-member tribunal led-by ATM Fazle Kabir fixed the date on Thursday after the hearing on the

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-1) in a nightlong drive arrested 10 drug peddlers with huge heroin and other related equipments from capital’s Uttara area early Thursday.Seven of the detainees are Chinese nationals while rests are Bangladeshi citizens.RAB-1 sources said that acting

FROM JATIYA SANGSHAD BHABAN: The 19th session of the ninth parliament is set to resume on Thursday afternoon after a two-day break. The sitting of the parliament is scheduled to begin at around 5:00 pm. But opposition party MPs including BNP would not join the session, said sources

DHAKA: The examinations of honours fourth year (2011), scheduled to be held on October 7 under Nation University (NU), have been postponed due to unavoidable reason. And the exam will be held on October 9.The disclosure came from a press release signed by Acting NU Director of Public

DHAKA: Drug traders went on a 16-hour strike across the country, including the capital to press their eight-point demands on Thursday.All medicine shops across the country will remain closed from 6:00am to 10:00pm.Bangladesh Chemist and Druggist Union’s Chairman said that they were

CHITTAGONG: Workers of a sweater factory staged protest in Kalurghat BISIC (Bangladesh Institute of Small Industry and Cottage) Industrial area in the port city on Thursday morning.Sources said protesting of sudden announcement of closure of the factory; workers took to the roads and

Sylhet: Train communication of Sylhet resumed with Dhaka and Chittagong at 2:30pm after 5-hour halt on Thursday.Earlier the two compartments of an oil tanker train derailed in Mugla Bazar of Sylhet at 9:30am halting communication.Sylhet station master Muhibur Rahman confirmed the matter

DHAKA: A writ petition was filed seeking the High Court directives to hold next two general elections under Caretaker Government System.Lawyer Yunus Ali Akand filed the petition with the court department concerned on Thursday morning.Petitioner Yunus Ali told banglanews, “The hearing on

SAVAR: At least 20 shops were gutted in a fire at Motaleb super market in Savar, on outskirts in the city Wednesday midnight.Witnesses said the fire broke out at a tin shed shop at around 11:00pm and soon engulfed the whole market.On information, four fire fighting units rushed to the

DHAKA: Director of the Centre for Vaccine Sciences at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (ICDDRB) Firdausi Qadri, won the CNR Rao Prize 2013, one of the awards conferred annually by TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in