SUNAMGANJ: A head-on collision between a passenger minibus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chhatak left 3 people dead and two injured on Wednesday noon.The deceased were identified as Delwar, 35, and his niece Ruhela Begum, 22, hailed from Jolsi village in Doarbazar upazila.Witnesses and

DHAKA: Society is developing with the dynamics of faster development of the globe. Crimes, too, are getting globalized concomitant with the fast-moving world. The various offences now happening in society like cyber and email crimes, pornography on phone and Internet, eve-teasing, illicit

PABNA: State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku Wednesday alleged that the leaders of the main opposition BNP and war criminals are trying to destabilize the country in a planned way being envious of development in every sector. The state minister came up with the comment at a

DHAKA: A court here Wednesday declared a long adjournment till November 14 the hearing on charge framing against ex-PM and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her elder son Tarique Rahman and four others in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.Judge Muzammel Hossain of the Special Judge Court-3

DHAKA: The draft National Child Policy-2010 has been unveiled with the maximum age of the child raised to 18 from the previously defined 14 years, restricting certain works up to the two stages of childhood. As per the new policy, a child under 14 cannot be hired for any full-time job And

DHAKA: Government authorities cancelled the work order awarded to a Chinese firm for repairing the cracks on the Bangabandhu Bridge as the company is blacklisted for jerrybuilding an important link road.The Cabinet Purchase Committee also decided to invite fresh tender for the repairs to

SHERPUR: All Sherpur incidents of ‘crime against humanity’ during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war took place following direction from Kamaruzzaman, said Mohan Munshi, a self-declared `rajakar’, as a belated state-level investigation was now on steam. Kamaruzzaman, Assistant

DHAKA: Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, the sole government body to promote country’s much-neglected potential tourism sector, urged the government to pay sponsor money to the International Cricket Council as the BPC has been elected ICC’s local partner in staging the upcoming global

SHERPUR: The war-crime investigation team, on the second consecutive day of revisiting the 1971 carnage spots in Sherpur, walked around different areas of the frontier town talking to local people about the wartime happenings in sombre scenarios.Beginning at 9:00 in the morning, the

DHAKA: The government has invited bids from four short-listed investment companies for the construction of Dhaka Elevated Expressway, as preparation for building the motorway over the jammed capital city advanced steadily.According to a competent source the government sent ‘Request for

DHAKA: Unidentified assailants slaughtered a taxicab driver in the city`s Sheorapara area early Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Rabiul Islam, 35, son of Iliyas Uddin at Jahuribagh Moholla in Mirpur.Mirpur Model Thana SI Jalaluddin said four miscreants, in the guise of passengers,

SHERPUR: All crimes against humanity during 1971 liberation war occurred in Sherpur following direction of Kamaruzzaman, Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, says Mohon Munshi, a self-declared `rajakar’ of the area. Mohon, who was the closest aide to Kamaruzzaman was

DHAKA: At least four people were killed and 75 others injured in separate road accidents in Manikganj and Savar Wednesday. A correspondent from Manikganj reports: One woman was killed and 40 others injured when a passenger bus fell into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Muljan

CHITTAGONG: At least three people were killed and 15 injured as a picnic bus from Rajshahi to Cox`sbazar bay resort turned over on the 3rd Karnaphuli Bridge in Chittagong on Tuesday night.“The deceased could not be identified immediately,” said OC Aminul of Karnaphuli thana to

SYLHET: Two condemned convicts are going to be executed in Sylhet central jail on Wednesday night for committing two separate murders, official sources said.The convicts are Sabul Mia of Surma thana area in Sylhet and Alauddin Swapan of Baralekha in Moulvibazar.According to the case

DHAKA: A cross-border car rally through four countries, including Bangladesh, is being arranged to set the long-disputed Asian Highway route. The track of the car caravan has already been selected, competent sources said about the latest development.Vehicles in the long-haul traffic will

PABNA: A speeding truck rammed into a microbus in Ishwardi on Tuesday night, killing at least five people, including a union parishad chairman. The deceased are KM Akhter Hossain, UP chairman of Ataikula, Rajab Ali, Tipu Hossain, Ali and Shamim Hossain.Samiul Islam, Officer-in-Charge of

DHAKA: The government is going to buy new vehicles for use by the deputy commissioners of all the 64 districts at a cost of Tk 26 crore, official sources said.Sources in the Establishment Ministry said the vehicles would be bought for use in VIP protocol in the districts alongside use by

RAJSHAHI: Amid a flurry of fearsome foreboding about earthquake, triggered by a recent chain of tremors in different parts of the country, another quake was now felt in some areas of the metropolitan city Tuesday. The trembler, a milder one though in the current spell, was felt at around

DHAKA: Floods in riverside districts took a turn for the worse as 11 of the country’s rivers, including the major ones, remained in spate, flowing above the danger levels in the last 24 hours to 6pm Tuesday. The sudden swelling of waters in the rivers deteriorated the situation of late