DHAKA: Supreme Court lawyer Manzil Morshed, also a human rights activist, received death threat for a fat ransom of Tk 1 crore claimed by the extortionists. After receiving the threat on Saturday night, he filed a general diary with New Market Thana and sought police protection.Earlier on

CHITTAGONG: Two people were critically injured as a train hit hard a truck on an unmanned railway crossing at Oxygen gate in the city on Sunday morning.Critically injured train driver Delwar Hossain, 55, and the unidentified truck helper were admitted to Chittagong Medical College

DHAKA: President Md Zillur Rahman Saturday called upon the expatriate Bangladeshis to do hard work for building Bangladesh as a happy, developed and prestigious country.“You have been working in the foreign countries for long days and contributing to development of Bangladesh. The

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League was not involved in any anti-hartal activities, said party spokesman Syed Ashraful Islam Sunday, adding that AL wouldn’t take responsibility for the reported attacks by its youth and students associates.He steered the party clear of the charge as

CHITTAGONG: Amid a moderately peaceful hartal observed in the port city, police arrested eight pickets from different areas as they tried to obstruct traffic movement. The district correspondent of banglanews24.com.bd informed that pickets damaged a passenger bus at Barik building

DHAKA: Assailants hacked a young man to death in the city’s Pallabi area early Sunday, after he had gone out of home reportedly following a phone call from some friends. The deceased was identified as Belal Sheikh, 25, son of late Rajab Ali Sheikh. Police said local people found Belal

DHAKA: Police arrested over a hundred people, including senior BNP leaders, from different areas of the capital before and during Sunday’s countrywide hartal, enforced by strong picketing by the opposition party activists. The detained senior leaders include Mirza Abbas, Shamsher Mobin

Dhaka: Detective police Saturday arrested and remanded Rashedul Kabir and Razia Sultana Smriti couple for seven days for interrogating in the case filed regarding the death of his first wife Farzana Kabir Rita and their two children in Jurain.Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Nazrul Islam

PATUAKHALI: A construction worker was electrocuted at the sub-registry office in Baufal upazila on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Ali Akbar. Witnesses said Akbar came in contact with a live electric wire while giving connection to a motor. Critically injured, Akbar was

JESSORE: Elder brother was killed allegedly by his younger following fratricidal feuds over fishing at Vulihat village in Avoynagar upazila on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Janab Ali.Police and hospital sources informed that the clash over catching fish erupted between

NEW DELHI: A Pakistan-bound cargo vessel carrying a "huge quantity" of explosives and other weapons has been detained by the authorities at a harbour in eastern India, police said on Saturday. The vessel was heading for the Pakistani port city of Karachi and was detained Friday on an

DHAKA:  The number of drug addicts in the country is rising alarmingly, as a survey conducted by the United Nations on the situation of Bangladesh found some 65 lakh addicts. Of them, 87 percent are men and 13 percent women. Over one lakh people, including the influential quarters, women

DHAKA: The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was observed today (Saturday) in the country as elsewhere in the world to sensitize people against the threat of drug addiction and trafficking. In Bangladesh, different socio-cultural organisations chalked out

CHUADANGA: A day labourer was injured in a bomb explosion inside the compound of Sadar thana on Saturday morning.Police said the bomb exploded at about 8:45am while Sirajul Islam, 60, was weeding the compound, leaving him seriously injured. He was admitted to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital with

DHAKA: Bangladesh is going to join the International Electro-technical Commission (ICC), the international-standard agency, as the government has given clearance to the industries ministry to get the ICC membership.  Secretary of the Industries Ministry Dewan Zakir Hossain in a letter

DHAKA: The 16th death anniversary of Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam (mother of the martyrs) was observed today (Saturday) with due tribute to the late mother figure.To mark the day, Shaheed Janani Memorial Museum arranged an exhibition.The exhibition started at 10am and continued till

DHAKA: Counting vote began as Muktijoddha Sangsad polls ended across the country Saturday to elect new committees after nine years.Polling started at 9am and continued till 4pm, without break.However, untoward incidents over the polls were reported from some areas, including Muladi of

DHAKA:  Export-import trade between Bangladesh and India through Benapole, the largest land-port of the country, halted as a transport strike was enforced Saturday in the Indian State of West Bengal to protest a raise in petroleum prices.Central Trade Union (CITU) backed by the state’s

DHAKA: A new organization of the lawyers dubbed ‘Society for the Rule of Law’ came into being in Dhaka Saturday.The formation of the body was announced at a news conference held at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity office.Senior advocate of the Supreme Court M. Shamsul Haq and Advocate

DHAKA: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun Saturday warned that any “anarchy” in the name of hartal would be resisted with an iron hand, as the mainstream opposition prepared to enforce a general strike Sunday.  “Destructive movement of the opposition BNP through hartal will not