GHITTAGONG: The long-awaited 3rd Karnaphuli Bridge linking the port city and a vast outlying part of greater Chittagong opened for traffic Wednesday as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated it amid cheers.    Her motorcade drove over the bridge in the inaugural trip from southern

DHAKA: The government decided to form a steering committee to accelerate the war crimes investigation in a coordinated way, as a mismatch was found in the current probe process. A chief investigation officer will also be appointed soon, said Finance Minister Abul Abul Mal Abdul Muhith

DHAKA : A traditional rowing competition will be held in Kalihati upazila of Tangail district on September 13 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.The competition will begin in Kumri Beel at 10 am under the auspices of Shingna Samajkalyan Jubo Sangha, said a press release.In cooperation with

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday urged the country’s people to keep their confidence in the workings of the government as it is working to solve all the problems in public life. “Don’t lose your patience, keep confidence.  The government is working to solve all

 RAJSHAHI: Police arrested four suspected members of an inter-district robbers` gang from Halidagachhi Battala in Charghat upazila on Wednesday. Police also recovered a foreign revolver, a hammer and sharp weapons from their possessions, police said.       The arrested were

RANGPUR: Four construction workers were killed and 24 others injured as a truck carrying them from the capital ahead of Eid tumbled into a roadside ditch in Mithapukur area Wednesday.Two of the deceased were identified as Taslim, 24, an inhabitant of Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat

DHAKA: All departments of the police have been put on the alert in the capital city to maintain law and order during the Eid holiday, as all are agog to celebrate the big Muslim festival.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque spoke of the security alignment

DHAKA: The International Literacy Day is being observed in Bangladesh with a campaign for educating all the people to turn the burgeoning population into skilled manpower. Government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are holding elaborate programmes spearheading the literacy

COX’S BAZAR: Teknaf thana officer-in-charge has been suspended for submitting biased report in a case filed under Arms Act.Cox’s Bazar Police Super Nibas Chandra Majhi said the action was taken against OC Mohammad Khaled Chowdhury under Police Act.The suspension order was issued on

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in the port city  Wednesday to inaugurate a number of installations including the 3rd Karnaphuli bridge, a Peaking Power Plant, Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Ltd and a new court building, under a massive development plan for

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque Tuesday said police members are sincerely discharging their duties to ensure a hassle-free journey for the homebound people, which would continue over three more days after Eid-ul-Fitr.   The city police boss spoke of the

CHAPAINAWBGANJ: A government employee of Roads and Highways (R&H) Department was beaten to death by the stalkers in the district town on Tuesday for protesting their activities. The deceased was identified as Abdul Hannan, 45, a security guard of R&H Department. He hailed from Alinagar

SIRAJGANJ: Red alert to check anthrax looks left in the red!All the three assigned surgeons were found absent from the anthrax-checking check-post on the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge while a peon was giving the proxy. This allows hundreds of cattle to cross the check-point without a

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated another gas-fired power plant at Shikalbaha in Chittagong .  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in the port city  in the morning to inaugurate three other installations including the 3rd Karnaphuli bridge, Karnaphuli Gas

CHITTAGONG: Prisoners are being released randomly from the jail on bail here ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, according to official figures. Earlier, 50 to 70 inmates used to be freed per day, but, in the last one week, 120 to 150 inmates came out per day on bail, said a competent

RAJSHAHI: Fourteen out of 20 death-row convicts of the sensational Gama Killing case were freed from jails under a presidential amnesty on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Ten of them were set free from Dhaka Central Jail on Monday midnight and four freed from Rajshahi Central Jail on

SARIATPUR: A minor boy went missing as an overcrowded trawler capsized in the Padma River in Jajira upazila Tuesday morning.The missing was identified as Nahid, 8, son of Shahed Fakir of Bilashpur village in the upazila.Witnesses said, the trawler, carrying hundreds of passengers,

DHAKA: A diploma engineer has been run in Dhaka from a northern backwoods for his alleged involvement in engineering e-mail threats to the government and law enforcers for the release of the top Jamaat leaders, now facing war crimes trial.The arrested person was identified as Maruf

DHAKA: The University of Dhaka opened a separate website on admission so applicants can do the process online for getting admitted into the country’s premier varsity averting toils of the complaint-ridden old system. Vice-chancellor of the university Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique

DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed and another 45 injured in fatal road accidents in eight districts Tuesday, amid a pre-eid rush. In Sirajganj, a recklessly driven truck crashed into a car on the highway on the western side of Bangabandhu bridge Tuesday, leaving five people dead--four