JOYPURHAT: Police detained seven men of Shibir including its upazila unit president and general secretary on Friday midnight from a mosque at Boar village in Akkelpur Upazila of the district.Police sources said, “The Shibir activists were on a secret meeting in the name of Shab-e-Miraj

CHITTAGONG: District administration Saturday imposed section 144 in Sitakunda upazila to avoid a possible clash between the rival groups of Awami League and BNP as they called meetings at the same place. Additional police have been deployed in the upazila to avert any untoward incident as

DHAKA: Condition of former secretary general of BNP Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, suffering from lung cancer, improved slightly Saturday, said his personal physician Bazlul Gani Bhuiyan.“The physical condition of Mannan Bhuiyan is now a bit better as the temperature of his body has come down to

DHAKA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion and police, in separate drives on Friday night, held nine suspected militants from Kalabagan and Uttara in the city. Acting on secret information, a team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in association with Kalabagan Police Station,

DHAKA: After the Gazipur mass protests, speakers at a demonstration in the capital Saturday said the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) mooted by the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) is aimed at evicting middle-and lower middle-class people from Narayanganj district. They termed RAJUK a

MEHERPUR:  A head-on collision between two human haulers on Gangni-Hatbowali road in Gangni upazila left a septuagenarian man killed Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Jan Mohammad, 70, of Hemait village in Gangni upazila.Witnesses said the human haulers, locally known as

One was injured by acid attack at Brahmapur village of Sadar Upazila Friday over land-related dispute. Wounded Nuruzzaman (50) was rushed to Noakhali General Hospital with burn injuries on his back.The victim alleged that his uncle Abdul Hashem along with neighbours Zahir, Selim, Safi and

DHAKA: Two employees of BG Press have been suspended for their allegedly involvement in the leakage of question paper of recruitment examination of Assistant Teachers of Government High Schools, an official handout said Friday.   The suspended persons are compositor ATM Mostafa and

DHAKA: The Criminal Investigation Department of police has finalized charges against 824 of the BDR mutineers for committing various crimes at the Pilkhana headquarters of the border force and could submit those in a couple of days. Competent sources said 25 out of the big group,

DHAKA: The Secretary committee for administrative development will sit for its 11th meeting on July 13, officials said.   Cabinet division secretary M Abdul Aziz, ndc will chair the meeting.   The meeting will discuss six issues that include formation of National Telecommunication

BARGUNA: Two persons suspected as pirates were killed in a ‘shootout’ with a combined force of Coastguard, RAB and police in Geanpara area in Pathorgata upazila of the backwater coastal district on Friday morning.    Official sources said the law-enforcers recovered three pistols

DHAKA:  The International Crime Tribunal will show the arrested top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami arrested in war-crime cases, said State Minister for Law Advocate Kamrul Islam Friday, scuttling the other view that it’s not right now.    He said the inquiry into the 1971 war crimes is

DHAKA: Rumours that Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader resigned were in the air all day long Friday, as there was no official confirmation.   His close acquaintances as well as responsible people in the Jatiya Party, a major component of the ruling Awami League-led grand

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: State Minister for Home Affairs Advocate Shamsul Haque Tuku Friday said the three arrested top Jamaat leaders would not be put in the dock of the War Crimes Tribunal right now.“Though Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and Delwar Hossain Sayedee are

MANIKGANJ: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) held two people alongwith arms and ammunition from Sanbandha village in Sadar upazila on Thursday evening. After interrogation, arrested Sirajul Islam Siraj, 26, and Didarul Islam Dipon, 25, were handed over to Sadar thana early

LALMONIRHAT: An adolescent girl was allegedly strangled by her mother at Kisamat Boraibari village in Aditmari upazila on Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Archana Rani, 12, a class VII student of Kharua Para School. Police recovered the body and sent it to Sadar Hospital

SATKHIRA: One person was killed and 50 others were injured as a bus plunged into a roadside pond on Satkhira-Kaliganj road in Kaliganj upazila Friday morning.Kaliganj police station officer- in-charge Fariduddin said the Satkhira-bound bus fell into the pond at about 10am as the driver

LALMONIRHAT: Rail communications in the northern-most part of the country snapped as three compartments of a passenger train on Lalmonirhat-Burimari route derailed in Kuchlibari area on Friday morning.Office Assistant of Lalmonirhat Train Control Office Abul Kalam said the train was on

MADARIPUR: Three ferries with 70 vehicles aboard ran aground on a shoal in Hazra channel on the Mawa-Kawrakandi route Friday. Movement of ferries through the channel remained suspended for eight hours after the three, including two Ro-Ro ferries, remained stranded since 8am with hundreds

DHAKA: Over 200 senior leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, including ex-ameer Prof Golam Azam, are learnt to be under intelligence surveillance in connection with various contentious matters evolving after the arrest of the party’s three key men. Competent sources said acting ameer Makbul