GAZIPUR: A fire broke out at Dhonu Molla market near Banglabazar in Sadar upazila on Friday night, burning down three shops. Gazipur Fire Brigade official Abu Zafar Ahmed told banglanews24.com.bd that the fire broke out at around 12 midnight in a shop and soon engulfed the two nearby

KUSHTIA: Police arrested an operative of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (ML Jonojuddha group) from Mirpur upazila in the district on Friday night.The arrest person was identified as Enamul Islam, a suspected ‘killer’ in the banned communist outfit.Mirpur thana OC Mehedi

DHAKA : An unidentified woman was killed and another young man wounded in a road mishap in the city’s Shyampur area Friday night.Shyampur thana SI Asaduzzaman told banglanews24.com.bd that a recklessly driven bus ran over the woman, aged around 25, and knocked down another while

RAJSHAHI: Six people were killed and eight injured in a terrible head-on collision between a badly driven bus and a tempo on the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway in Godagari upazila Saturday. Five of the dead were identified as Mohammad Ali, 32, Didarul Hasan, 36, and Arash Ali, 30, of

SAVAR: Garment workers on Saturday morning barricaded Nabinagar-Kaliakoir road and vandalized about 50 vehicles in a violent protest against the death of a factory worker in a road accident. The factory management declared an unscheduled leave to avert further outbreaks of trouble. Police

SATKHIRA: Police arrested two local Jamaat leaders and a district correspondent of Diganta TV in the district Thursday late night as part of the countrywide drive against the party.The arrestees are Kamrul Islam, 38, Nurul Islam, 55 and Jillur Rahman, an active man of Islami Chatra

MEHERPUR: Police recovered two powerful bombs at Bhabanipur village under Gangni upazila early Friday.SI Ganash of Bhabanipur police camp said that on information they raided in the village and recovered the bombs behind the house of one Siraj Ali at around 3 am.In another incident, some

DHAKA: A student of Eden Women’s College was stabbed to death on Wednesday noon at Paikpara in the city’s Mirpur area following an altercation. The deceased was identified as Menuka Rabbani, 22, a final-year honours student of Bangla department. Police arrested one Kabir Hossain, 25,

DHAKA: The Election Commission would declare the constituency of Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir vacant if there be no further instruction from the Appellate Division, said Election Commissioner Muhammad Sohul Hossain Thursday. “We will start preparation for by-election to the seat after

DHAKA: A fault, detected in the results of the Technical Education Board, has created confusion in the overall results of the HSC and its equivalent examinations 2010 out on Thursday.  As a result, the number GPA-5 scorers and the pass percentage of 10 boards showed puzzling figures. 

THAKURGAON: Three people, including a mother and her child, were killed as a brick-laden trolley rammed a rickshaw on Thakurgaon-Balidangi road on Thursday evening.The deceased are Masuda, 25, of Jagannathpur village of Sadar upazila, her 6-month-old son Masud and the trolley

DHAKA: Himalayan river basins in China, Bangladesh, India and Nepal will face massive water depletion within 20 years, leading to a decline in food and mass migration, a research group warned.Due to natural reasons like glacial melting, the four countries would lose almost 275 billion

DHAKA: Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka and 12 of Dhaka City Corporation officials are in fear of arrest in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). “The DCC mayor Wednesday had a two-hour meeting with his lawyers and some officials at his office in the afternoon. The

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku Thursday dropped a broad hint that the government could ban the politics of beleaguered Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its allied student organization Islami Chhatra Shibir.He gave the significant indication to journalists after a

DHAKA: Bangladesh submitted its written pleadings to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in the dispute over maritime boundary of the Bay of Bengal with Myanmar on Thursday, the last day of the timeline set by the tribunal.Additional secretary (UNCLOS) of Foreign

DHAKA: The striking physiotherapy students called off their hunger strike after getting government assurance that a physiotherapy college would be set up within 14 days.Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque on Tuesday evening visited the fasting students at Central Shaheed Minar and assured

DHAKA: Road communications snapped on 10 internal routes of Barisal as the district Bus Owners’ Association Tuesday went on an indefinite strike on Tuesday morning, putting commuters into endless sufferings. Bus strike was enforced in protest against the launch of a bus service in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday urged the Danish government to invest in Bangladesh’s gas-exploration sector, as the country is in urgent need of striking additional amounts of the fuel.She made the call while Denmark’s outgoing Ambassador Einar H Jensen paid a farewell

BANDARBAN: Journalist Abul Bashar Nayan Tuesday secured bail in an arms case filed against him with a local court.Bandarban District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Kawser granted the bail upon a bond of Tk 20,000.The court fixed July 26 as the next date of hearing. Police arrested Nayan in

DHAKA: The International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB), a private forum, Tuesday made a 10-point suggestion for upgrading city governance through granting autonomy to the city corporations and for the development of private sector.Its leaders put forward the recommendations at an