GAZIPUR: The workers of two garment factories in Gazipur Tuesday ran riot ransacking a security booth and halting traffic on the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh highway to press for regular payment of salary and attendance bonus.Witnesses said the angry workers came out of the factories,

BOGRA: Six kingpins of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, including its Bogra district chief, were arrested on Monday evening in the wake of a latest countrywide crackdown on Islamist operatives.   Police said JMB Shura member Anwar Alam alias Nazmul alias

DHAKA: The High Court sharply acted setting Wednesday for hearing on a petition filed for canceling the ongoing remand of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayab-e Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee.A High Court bench comprising Justice

DHAKA: Miscreants shot two businessmen and snatched away Tk 3.8 lakh at Pallabi in the city on Tuesday. Witnesses said the incident took place in a broad daylight near Chalantika Club. The injured are Shahidul Haque 52, Manager of Tisha Timber Traders, and Atiqur Rahman, 40. They were

DHAKA: A writ petition was filed with the High Court Tuesday challenging Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) decision switching off RanksTel and National Telecom, two of the five landline-phone operators recently shutdown.Barrister Rafiq-ul-Haque filed the writ

DHAKA: The government has given seniority to 13 deputy secretaries.A notification of the Establishment Ministry Tuesday said the 13 deputy secretaries will get financial facilities they are entitled to from due date. The deputy secretaries are- Director of Bangladesh Forest Industries

JOYPURHAT: Five suspected militants of banned outfit Jama`atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were detained from Tazpur village of Panchbibi upazila Monday.Panchbibi Thana OC Biman Chandra Kormokar said, “They were picked up from a resedence of a JMB member Shirajul Islam, who was on

DHAKA : Erosion by the rivers Padma and Jamuna has taken a serious turn in Shariatpur and Manikganj districts for last few days, threatening a vast tract of crop lands and establishments. In Shariatpur, a vast lands of 12 villages in Naria and Jazira upazillas disappeared into the River

DHAKA:  A teenaged boy allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the city’s Malibagh area Monday night. Police, however, recovered the body of Zubayer Hossain Leon, 18, son of Mobarak Hossain, on Tuesday morning. Zubayer, appeared in the HSC examination this year, was living

DHAKA: Police Tuesday picked up Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary-general Abdul Quader Molla from the High Court premises. “A group of detective police picked him up from Gate 2 of the High Court at around 4:10pm,” banglanews24.com.bd Staff Correspondent Jakia Ahmed reported from

COX’S BAZAR:  Heavy rain coupled with onrush of hill waters caused flashfloods in at least 50 low-lying villages of Chakaria upazila, including its municipality, leaving hundreds of families marooned.Two people, including Chakaria Municipal Awami Krishak League president Badiur Rahman,

DHAKA: Mahmudur Rahman, the detained acting editor of the embroiled daily Amar Desh, was shown arrested in a corruption case of evading submission of his asset report to the anti-corruption watchdog.Investigation officer of the case Nur Ahmad, Assistant Director of the Anti-Corruption

KISHOREGANJ: Two people remained missing as a mechanized boat capsized in Dubir haor in Mithamoin upazila on Monday night. Police said the trawler, with 43 passengers, was heading towards Mithamoin bazar from Karimganj Chamra Bandar at night. But, in the midway, it was caught in a strong

DHAKA: A female cleaner was killed in a road accident near Bangla Academy of Dhaka University campus on Tuesday morning. Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) sources said that they found two different identity cards with the deceased. One of the cards identifies the dead as Amiron, a

DHAKA: Ayesha Humaiya, who was arrested for killing her own child Samiul in the capital, gave a confessional statement to the CMM Court Monday admitting her guilt.SI Sahan Haque, Investigation Officer of the case, produced her before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shamima

DHAKA: RAB on Monday detained three persons for carrying fake passports and devices for faking passport from city’s Pirerbag area of Mirpur.The detained are Aminur Mollah (27), Alam Sheikh and Dulal Mia (24), according to a press conference by RAB-2. Assistant Director of RAB-2 Abu

DHAKA: In a latest move, the government Monday made significant changes to the administration, including reshuffle in two Secretary and Joint-secretary posts. According to separate Establishment Ministry notifications, Rowshan Ara Begum, Director of Women Affairs Department, was made OSD.

DHAKA: The Cabinet Monday approved the draft Border Guard Bangladesh Act 2010 with death sentence as maximum penalty for a mutineer in the frontier force reborn under the new law.The approval came from a regular meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her press secretary Abul

GAIBANDHA: A court sent three policemen, including the former Officer-in-Charge of Gaibandha sadar thana, to jail Monday, as higher court’s strict rulings against “extra-judicial killings” continued to be followed up of late.This is the second time all in a row this month court

DHAKA: The High Court on Monday issued a rule upon the government to explain within three weeks why directives should not be given to demolish and remove all illegal structures on the banks of rivers Dhaleshwari and Meghna and demarcate the boundaries. The court also asked the