TANGAIL: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four persons with pistols and bullets in drives conducted in Beguntal village in sadar upazila of Tangail district on Sunday.The arrestees included Purba Bangla Communist Party ML regional leader Afzal Hossain, son of Abdul Karim

DHAKA: Narayanganj ward commissioner Nur Hossain, the prime accused of killing seven people after abduction in April 2014, was suspended after more than one year of the incident.Nur Hossian was suspended under the Local Government Act-2009 and the suspension order was published on

DHAKA: A devastating fire broke out at a multi-storied building named Molla Tower opposite to Rampura Television Station in the city on Sunday afternoon.On information, 11 fire fighting units have been sent to the spot but six of those were brought back to the station, fire service

DHAKA: A couple received bullet injuries in city’s Dhalaipar Masjid area on Sunday afternoon.The victims were identified as Habul Sardar and Rina Akhtar, residents of the area.Victims’ close relative Baharul Uddin told banglanews that Habul and his wife Rina were walking to Nawabpur.

DHAKA: Prosecution submitted formal charges before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 against five razakars of Kirshoreganj for their alleged crimes against humanity in 1971.The accused are Nasir Uddin Ahmed, 62, a former army officer, his brother Shamsuddin, 60, a member of

DHAKA: Bangladesh ambassador in Bangkok Saida Muna Tasneem on Friday met some 16 Bangladeshis migrants rescued from Thailand's southern Songkhla province.Bangladesh embassy in Bangkok disclosed the matter through a press release on Sunday morning.Earlier on Thursday, Saida accompanied by

DHAKA: A total of 92 out of 123 migrants rescued from a jungle of Thailand's southern Songkhla province on Friday, claimed themselves as Bangladesh nationals.Sources of Bangladesh embassy in Bangkok, quoting Royal Thai Police, confirmed the matter to banglanews on Sunday morning.According

COX’S BAZAR: A human trafficker was killed and two policemen sustained bullet injuries during a gunfight in Sonarpara area under Ukhia upazila of the district early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Farid Majhi, 40, while details of the injured could not be known.Assistant

DHAKA: The International Mother’s Day is being observed in the country as elsewhere across the world on Sunday, honoring mothers, motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. Usuallym the Day is celebrated on different days in many parts of the world, most

MEHERPUR: Two people including a woman were killed as thunderbolt struck them in separate places in Gangni Upazila of the district on Sunday morning.The deceased were identified as Bilkis Ara, 25, wife of Saudi Arabia expatriate Liton Hossain, of Kazipur village and Atiar Rahman, 60, a

BAGERHAT: A leader of a robber gang and his cohort were killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Nandabala canal in Chandpai Range of Sundarbans early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Alamgir, 35, deputy-head of ‘Mayjhya Bahini’– a forest robbing gang of

DHAKA: A school student died after falling from the rooftop of an eight-storey building at Patuatuli Lane under Kotowali Thana in city Saturday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Sajjad Hossain Risad, 12, son of one Firoz Alam, resident of the building and student of Class IV of

COX’SBAZAR: Gunfight between a group of dacoits and police left four policemen hurt in Chakaria Upazila of the district on Saturday noon.Moreover, police detained a bullet-hurt dacoit identified as Khorshed Alam Chhotan (37) during the fight that took place in Phasiakhali Bridge area on

GAZIPUR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday said it proves that Bangladesh is benefited from the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with India.The Prime Minister said her previous governments did not talk about the land boundary agreement. In 1996, her government raised the issue for a

GAZIPUR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated 10 establishments of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) in Gazipur on Saturday.The premier reached the university campus to join a program on the occasion of 16th founding anniversary of BSMRAU at

DHAKA: At least three people were killed and 36 others were injured in separate road crashes in Nilphamari and Kurigram districts Saturday morning.Identity of deceased and injured could not be known immediately.Banglanews Nilphamari Correspondent reports: A man was killed when a

DHAKA: Bangladesh is going to connect with China and Thailand via Myanmar, through constructing a two-kilometer link road, sources concerned said.Sources of Road Transport and Highways Division (RTHD) said that the road will be constructed under ‘Bangladesh-Myanmar Friendship Road’

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thanked Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj after ratification and operationalisation of the historic land boundary agreement in India’s parliament.Swaraj made the phone call to the premier around 8:32pm on Friday, said the Prime

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, Rupa Asha Huq and Rushanara Ali as they won in the UK general election-2015 on Friday.Tulip Siddiq, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s niece, contended the poll from Hampstead and Kilburn constituency for Labour

DHAKA: Miscreants shot a young man to death in Rampura TV Road of the city Friday afternoon.The deceased was identified as M Rubel alias Mintu, 22, son of Nasima Begum, hails from Barguna district, but lived in Rampura area.Sources said some miscreants shot Mintu in the area and his