CHITTAGONG: A Chittagong court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to three men in a gang rape case of a young Marma girl.The court also acquitted two persons as they were found not guilty in the case.Acting judge of district women and children repression tribunal-2 Rezaul Karim passed the

DHAKA: A strong earthquake of magnitude measuring 7.8 struck the Dalbandin area in Balochistan province on Tuesday, said the US Geoplogical Survery.The tremors were felt as far off as the Indian capital city of New Delhi, news agency Reuters reported.According to intial television

CHITTAGONG: Inter-District Bus Owners’ Association has called 24-hour transport strike from Wednesday in the district protesting vehicles vandalism after a private university student died at Sitakunda.The strike will be enforced from Wednesday 6:00am to Thursday 6:00am.   Office

RANGPUR: Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Mayor Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu is likely to file a compensation suit of Tk 5 crore against Apollo Hospitals on charge of negligence in treatment.The disclosure came from a press conference at his resident in Rangpur on Tuesday.Jhantu said that he

BARISAL: A mother along with her son was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Barisal highway at Khanjapur union in Gauranadi upazila of the district on Tuesday noon.The deceased were identified as Beauty Begum, 30, wife of Kamal Bepari and her son Ferdous, 2, of the upazila.Sources said

DHAKA: Centre For Policy Dialogue (CPD) has recommended Tk 6,560 as minimum monthly salary for the readymade garments workers considering expenditure which would be implemented in phases.The CPD, a think-tank organization of the country, proposed that initially the minimum wage should be

DHAKA: Agitated students on Tuesday afternoon withdrew blockade from Dhaka-Chittagong highway after getting assurance about meeting their demand.Officer-in-Charge of Baroaulia Highway Thana Sohel Imtiaz confirmed the matter to banglanews.Vehicular movements became normal through the

DHAKA: Three drug peddlers were held with one kilogram heroin worth around Tk 1 crore from city’s Malibagh area on Monday night.The detainees are— Sahidullah, Sarwar Hossain Shohag and Shaon Ahmed. Sources said that acting on a tip off Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted a

DHAKA: Passengers’ sufferings mounted as transport workers went on strike on all routes of Satkhira and Meherpur-Kushtia road from Tuesday morning.Our Satkhira correspondent reports: Satkhira Bus-Minibus Labor Union called the strike protesting the hartal violence and demanding banning

TANGAIL: At least 35 people were inured, a journalist by bullets, in a clash between RMG workers and law enforcers in Hatuvanga area under Mirzapur upazila of the district on Tuesday morning.The journalist was identified as Tutul who works as a Tangail district correspondent of the Daily

CHITTAGONG: Agitated students blocked Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakundo on Tuesday noon protesting an accident that killed a student.The deceased was identified as Nurunnabi Rubel, sixth semester student of International Islamic University.Confirming the matter to banglanews,

FENI: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) jawans abducted a member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) from Bilonia border area under Parshuram upazila of the district on Tuesday morning.The abducted BGB member was identified as Shajahan, 40.Company Commander of Feni BGB-4 Lt Colonel Khaled

ASHULIA, SAVAR: With the demand of minimum Tk 8,000 salary, RMG workers staged protest for the second day in Ashulia, outskirt of Dhaka, on Tuesday morning.To avoid any unwanted situation six factories were declared closed for the day at around 09:30am.Agitated workers of six factories

GAZIPUR: At least 20 people were injured in garments workers protest and clash with police in Noljani area of Gazipur city on Tuesday morning.Witnesses said that workers of Shafi Garment and Odesha Fashion started protest barricading Dhaka-Gazipur road. Police charged baton to disperse

NARAYANGANJ: RMG workers withdrew blockade from Dhaka-Narayanganj link road which started to realize their one point demand on Tuesday morning.Around 10 thousands of workers started protest by blocking the link road demanding the salary hike to a minimum of TK 8,000 per month.The protest

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received South-South Awards-2013 for her important contribution to poverty reduction in Bangladesh.She received the award at around 9.00pm Monday (New York local time). Receiving the award the Prime Minister said, “This is not an achievement of

DHAKA: RMG workers withdrew their road blockade from city’s Pragati Sarani area that started from Tuesday morning demanding salary hike to a minimum TK 8,000 per month.With processions, the workers of Sinha Fabrics, James Fashion, Gazi Limited, Euro zone factories took to the street

DHAKA: Lidl, a German-based supermarket chain, launched an internal investigation following claims made by BBC’s panorama that one of its Bangladesh suppliers abuses workers, grocer reported on Tuesday.A documentary titled ‘Panorama: Dying for a Bargain’ featured undercover work at

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) held a woman while she was demanding extortion introducing her as an official of the anti-graft body.An ACC team led by Senior Deputy Director Joynul Abedin Shibli and Abdulla Al Jahid detained the woman from ACC office on Monday afternoon.ACC

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived New York on Monday morning on an eight-day official visit to attend the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).An Emirates flight carrying the Prime Minister and the members of her entourage landed at John F Kennedy