DHAKA: Police Monday took BNP Vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury on a day’s remand for grilling in connection with troubles during Sunday’s hartal enforced by the opposition party.Shamsher Mobin, also ex-foreign secretary, is held on charges of obstructing police from discharging

DHAKA: Former journalists of the Bengali daily Jai Jai Din formed a human chain in front of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Monday for dues.At least 20 ex-journalists of the daily took part in the agitation, who later brought out a procession.Many journalists were sacked while many resigned

DHAKA: Separate road accidents in Comilla and Manikganj districts on Monday left one person killed and 25 others injured.banglanews24.com.bd’s Comilla Correspondent quoting sub-inspector Lutfur Rahman of Lalmai Police camp said, a speeding microbus ran over Jalal Hossain, 15, son of

DHAKA: Deputy Speaker Colonel (retd) Showkat Ali Monday said people of all religions had fought against Pakistan with the spirit of Bengali Nationalism in 1971.“But Adivasi people are yet to get their land rights and are displaced from their land,” he said.The deputy speaker was

DHAKA : Six people were killed, including two children and a woman, in lightning strikes in three districts Monday as inclement weather persists over the country amid rain coupled with gales of wind.The districts that came under the fatal cloudbursts are Chapainawabganj, Satkhira and

Rajbari:  Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Monday seized heroin worth about Tk. 85 lakh from a bus in the district town.Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-8 searched a Kushtia-bound passenger bus at Polash Filing Station near Sripur bus stand at about 2pm and recovered 850 grams

DHAKA: Detective police seized 21 stolen CNG-run auto-rickshaws and arrested four suspected ringleaders of a hijackers’ gang from different districts in an 18-hour nonstop drive to Monday morning.The arrested suspects are Shahid alias ‘Kana’ Shahid, 40, Mukul Bhuiyan Kabir, 43,

CHITTAGONG:  A chemical godown and a furniture shop went up in flames in the port city Monday, but the cause of the fire could not be known yet.Fire-service official Tapan Das said the fire broke out at the chemical godown first and then spread to the furniture shop nearby in the

DHAKA: Moderately heavy rain on Monday morning crippled city life, throwing thousands of office-and school-goers in abject misery a day after a general shutdown enforced by opposition politicians.Deputy Forecasting Officer of the Met office Shahidul Islam told banglanews24.com.bd that

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion crime-busters arrested Shamsuzzaman Arif, the prime suspect for the killing of schoolboy Samiul, and his younger brother Nuruzzaman in separate raids in the city and Tongi area early Monday.Legal and Media Wing Director of RAB Mohammad Sohail told

DHAKA: The freedom fighters countrywide chose the Morshed-Matin duo as their leaders in Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad Central Command Council through Saturday’s voting in the first direct election in the organization’s history.   The results were published on Sunday night in the

BENAPOLE: As natural gas goes to the country’s southwestern region under a government decision, the long-stalled works for installing the supply pipeline is going to start within this year, official sources said.Bangladesh Gas Transmission Company (BGTC) has started initial works

NAOGAON: Two people were killed in lightning strikes in Manda upazila on Monday morning as an inclement weather persists over the country amid rain coupled with gales of wind.The dead were identified as Mallika, 30, wife of Naser Ali of Chakbaban village, and Qamruzzaman, 28, of Uttar

LALMONIRHAT: Erosion by the River Teesta has taken a serious turn in Aditmari upazila, rendering hundreds of people homeless during last two days till Sunday.The rain-fed river devoured hundreds of dwelling houses, over 100 acres of cultivable land and a number of fruit orchards at

DHAKA: Trading on Dhaka Stock Exchange got delayed Monday as a fire burnt part of the Internet connection to the country’s premier bourse. Trading in stocks on the stock market got going at 12noon, an hour behind the schedule, through alternative dialup system.DSE sources said a

TORONTO: British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply disappointed" after England lost to Germany in its World Cup match, adding he had questions about an English goal which was disallowed.He was talking after playing hookie from economic summit talks in Toronto, Canada, to

DHAKA: Moderately heavy rain on Monday morning crippled city life, throwing thousands of office-and school-goers in abject misery a day after a general shutdown enforced by opposition politicians.Deputy Forecasting Officer of the Met office Shahidul Islam told banglanews24.com.bd that

DHAKA: As several hundred people were rounded up during Sunday’s hartal, State Minister for Home Affairs Advocate Shmasul Haque Tuku Sunday said the law enforcers could make no arrest without specific reasons or allegations. Referring to the arrest of some top BNP leaders, including

DHAKA: The Government fixed new wage scales for water-transport workers, dividing into three categories, for the next five years with Tk 3,495 as minimum pay.Labour directorate director Abu Taleb Mia announced Sunday that the new wage structure has been gazetted.The newly published

DHAKA: Senior BNP leader Mirza Abbas’ wife Afroza Abbas Sunday deplored that valuables, including mobile-phone sets, were stolen during raid on their house by law enforcers during hartal troubles.    “Even my mother-in-law was not spared from the attack and police detained at least