DHAKA: A Dhaka court sent Helal Uddin, suspended Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Khilgaon Thana to jail for serving there 3-year for torturing on a Dhaka University student Abdul Qader.First Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate M Alamgir Kabir passed the order Sunday after

GAZIPUR: A fire broke out in ‘Dignity Textile Mill Limited’ in Masterbari area under Sreepur upazila on Sunday noon.Officer-in-charge (OC) of Sreepur Thana Zahidul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.Being informed, few fire fighting units of Gazipur Fire Service started for the

NARAYANGANJ: Three people died and two others injured after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank in Sonargaon Upazila of the district on Sunday noon. The deceased were identified as Sabbir, 8, his maternal uncle Osman Gani, 34, and Shahjalal, 36, son of local UP member Abul

COMILLA: A district court sentenced one to death and five others to life-term imprisonment for killing Anwar Master some 14 years back.Judges of Court-4 passed the order Sunday in presence of death convict Jahangir Alam.Court PP Mujibur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.The

DHAKA: Police are all set to submit charge-sheets against 42 people including building owner Sohel Rana on Sunday two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy that claimed 1137 lives and injured scores.The Criminal Investigation Department of police will submit charge-sheets in two separate

DHAKA: Police detained a militant of Ansarullah Bangla Team early Sunday from Badda area of the capital for masterminding the Ashulia broad daylight bank robbery that killed eight people last month. Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) SM Jahangir Alam confirmed

DHAKA: 75 percent people in Bangladesh expressed their confidence in the judicial systems and courts against that of 49 percent and 47 percent people in Europe and North America respectively.This good news was revealed in a statistic titled “Confidence in Judiciary System Worldwide

DHAKA: The Detective Branch (DB) police detained Abdullah Al Galib, coordinator of Ansarullah Bangla Team and Islamic State Bangladesh unit, from Baridhara DOHS area in the capital on Saturday night.DB Senior Assistant Commissioner Mahfuzul Alam Russell confirmed the matter to banglanews

DHAKA: The customs detective of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday seized 24 gold bars worth Tk 1.20-crore from an aircraft.The gold was recovered when the Dubai-returned aircraft was parked at hanger area of the airport in the afternoon.Assistant director of customs

MAGURA: Ruling Awami League endorsed candidate Major General (retd) MA Wahab has won the by-polls of Magura-1 constituency.Major General (retd) MA Wahab bagged 93,181 votes while his nearest candidate independent candidate former mayor of Magura Municipality Tapan Kumar Roy got 12,790

DHAKA: India is getting permissions from Bangladesh to use Chittagong and Mongla seaports during Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit on June 6-7.An agreement to this end was due to be signed by the two close neighboring countries during former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit

DHAKA: A crack was found at the northwest boundary wall of Sundarban Hotel Saturday following Wednesday’s collapse of its northeast boundary wall and basement adjacent to the construction site of the National Bank Tower.Officials concerned and experts expressed their helplessness saying

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries have to work concertedly as poverty was its common enemy.She also said there would not have been lamentations over food if the world powers spent a small part of

DHAKA: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka, the Indian Union Cabinet Saturday approved the agreement on coastal shipping between India and Bangladesh to carry out coastal movement of goods between the two countries.They also approved signing of a Memorandum of

MAGURA: Counting in by-polls to Magura-1 constituency is underway as voting ended in 140 polling centers continuing from 8:00am to 4:00pm Saturday. Four contesting candidates are Awami League-backed Major General (retd) MA Wahab, independent candidate former mayor of Magura Municipality

DHAKA: Just a week to go for his first-ever visit to Dhaka next month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi compared  the settling of the much-anticipated Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh with the fall of the Berlin Wall.“We had settled the long pending land boundary issues with

DHAKA: The customs authorities seized 7,000 mobile handsets worth Tk 20 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Saturday two days after major mobile sets haul in the airport.Tipped-off, a team of customs raided the freight unit of the airport around 10:30am and found the mobile

DHAKA: The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations have been published Saturday morning with overall pass percentage of 87.04 which is 4.3 percent lower than that of last year. A total of 1,11,901 students had secured GPA-5.Education

DHAKA: Seven people of a family sustained burn injuries as a fire broke out at a tin-shed house in city’s Kalabagan area Saturday morning following an explosion in gas pipeline of the house.The injured were identified as Mamata, 50, Rubi, 40, Sumon, 30, Reshma, 25, Aoyan, 20, Bithi, 15,

DHAKA: Bangladesh takes a pragmatic approach to the protection of civilians (POC) mandate for UN peacekeeping operations, and considers it to be an important yardstick for the legitimacy and credibility of peacekeeping missions.State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam said this