CHITTAGONG: A training helicopter of Bangladesh Air force (BAF) crashed at Shah Amanat Airport injuring three including pilot on Wednesday morning.Airport authority halted flight operations from 11:10am.Additional Deputy Commissioner (immigration) Tarek Ahmed confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: The United States condemns the brutal murder of writer/blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Bangladesh, the latest in a recent string of attacks against writers and bloggers in Bangladesh.Acting Deputy Spokesperson Jeff Rathke of U.S. Department of State, in daily press briefings on

DHAKA: Malaysia is pressing for an urgent discussion with Myanmar and Bangladesh over the large number of illegal immigrants coming to Langkawi, reports The Star Online.According to Malaysia’s Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Alwi Ibrahim, they had found elements of human

DHAKA: Two people were killed in separate road mishaps at different places in the city on Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Masud, 18, son of Abul Hossain, a resident of Arambagh areas of the city, and Asadullah alias Telu, 50, slum dweller of Dhalpur in Jatrabari area   of

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel detained four Nigerian nationals in city for their alleged illegal entrance to the country.The foreign nationals were held from city’s Uttara and Gulshan areas on Tuesday noon.RAB headquarters assistant director Major Maqsudul Alam confirmed

COX’S BAZAR: Coast Guard personnel on Tuesday detained 116 passengers, who were attempting to go to Malaysia illegally, from deep sea, at the south of Saint Martin’s islands.Confirming the matter, coast guard public relations officer (PRO) Lieutenant Commander Durul Huda told

DHAKA: A three-day workshop on Bay of Bengal Oceanography is underway in Dhaka University (DU) from May 11.DU vice-chancellor Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique presided over the inaugural ceremony of the workshop, jointly organized by the DU’s oceanography department and India’s

DHAKA: Law enforcers have detected some of the sexual harassers involved with the incident at Pahela Baishakh in city’s TSC area.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (detective) joint commissioner Monirul Islam told banglanews that they have detected some perpetrators after scrutinizing the

NILPHAMARI: A district court sentenced eight people to life imprisonment and fined Tk 1 lakh each for killing an elderly woman.The life-timers were—Golam Mostofa, Abdul Mannan, Abdul Hannan, Abdus Salam, Abdul Mazid, Nur Islam, Akbar Ali and Yakub Ali.District and Session Judge Mahmudul

DHAKA: The British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert W Gibson condemned the murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.He also asked for space for free speech in Bangladesh.Following the murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das, the high commissioner tweeted, “Shocked by and condemn the brutal

DHAKA: A ban on vessel movement through river Shela route in the Sundarbans will come into effect from June after the Mongla-Ghashia channel’s full-swing opening.Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan disclosed the matter to the journalists at a press conference on vessel movement in

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday awarded death penalty to two persons and life-term jail to one for killing an elderly couple in Faridpur.Judge of Dhaka-4 Speedy Trial Tribunal ABM Nizamul Haq passed the order nearly two years after the murder.The death row convicts were—Nazrul Islam and

GAZIPUR: Law enforcers detained six fake DB police with handcuffs and walkie-talkie in their possession in Gazipur city.A special police team nabbed the criminals at 10:45am on Monday.Identities of the detainees could not be known.Besides, police also seized a microbus, several pieces of

DHAKA: A magnitude 7.3 quake strikes Bangladesh, India and Nepal at 1:05:19pm Bangladesh time less than three weeks after another devastating quake had killed more than 8,000 people in Nepal, the USGS has reported.According to the data acquired from USGS website, the quake was at a depth

BAGERHAT: Forrest Department personnel detained a poacher with a skull and some 157 pieces of bones of tiger in Sonatala village under Sarankhola upazila of Bagerhat district on Tuesday.The detainee was identified as Chhagir Gharami, 45, son of late Yusuf Gharami of the village.Assistant

DHAKA: A strong earthquake has jolted some parts of the Bangladesh and India at 1:08am Tuesday.Tremor felt in Dhaka. There were no immediate reports of causalities or damage so far.The magnitude and the epicenter of the earthquake were not known immediately.Meanwhile, major tremors felt

CHITTAGONG: Crime Investigation Department (CID) personnel detained three human traffickers with 33 fake passports in Chittagong.They were detained from Halishahar Thana of the port city at Monday night.CID Chittagong Zone special police super (SSP) Mohammad Muslim Uddin told banglanews

CHITTAGONG: Customs intelligence seized 325 gold bars weighing 38-kg from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Tuesday morning.Intelligence sources said that 288 gold bars were found in an abandon condition at a toilet in the airport.Moreover, 37 gold bars were seized from a

SYLHET: Ananta Bijoy Das, a blogger and one of the organizers of Ganojagoron Mancho from Sylhet, was hacked dead by unidentified miscreants at Subidbazar area in the city on Tuesday morning.Witnesses said that four masked miscreants chased Ananta when he was going to office. And later

DHAKA: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on Southeast Asian governments on Tuesday to find and rescue thousands of migrants who are believed to be stranded at sea and at risk of death.Campaigners fear as many as 8,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar – among