DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit home affairs ministry on Thursday for the second time this year.Earlier on April 9, she visited power, energy and mineral resources minsitry.However, the premier decided to visit the ministries to speed up government activities after assuming

DHAKA: The government has decided to setup ‘National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC)’ in preventing disasters.The centre will work to search, manage rescue operation, coordinate, give directions and monitor the disaster time as well as post-disaster period.The decision came from a

DHAKA: Newly elected mayors, Annisul Huq of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Syeed Khokon of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), vowed to make their respective cities clean and free from traffic congestion.Moreover, Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) new mayor AJM Nasir Uddin also

DHAKA: People of United Kingdom are waiting one more day to go to cast their ballots as general election opens on May 7.This year, people in Bangladesh are relatively more interested to the UK election as a record number of 12 Bangladesh-origin UK leaders are contending in the

DHAKA: The hearing on rule issued against 23 eminent personalities asking why punitive actions would not be taken against them for the contempt of court by issuing statement against its order started on Wednesday at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2.The three-member ICT-2, headed

DHAKA:  International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 fixed May 10 for delivering order whether trial of eight Jamalpur ‘razakers’ for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War would be started in absence of six of them. The three-member

DHAKA: Several student organizations, including Progressive Student Front, besieged the office of AASM Arefin Siddique, vice-chancellor of Dhaka University on Wednesday.The besiege program was arranged at 12:00pm as a protest of sexual harassment of some women during Pahela Baishakh

DHAKA: Visiting special envoy of China foreign affairs ministry Chai Xi said political stability is needed for the development of Bangladesh.He told reporters after a meeting with Bangladesh state minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam at latter’s office in secretariat in city on

DHAKA: Newly elected Mayors and Councilors of Dhaka South, Dhaka North and Chittagong city corporations took oath at Prime Minister’s office on Wednesday morning.PM Sheikh Hasina administered the oath of Mayors of three cities while Local Government Minister Syed Ashraful Islam

MADARIPUR: Two women were run over by a bus in Ghatakchar area on Dhaka-Barisal highway under Sadar Upazila of the district Wednesday morning.Identities of the deceased could not be known.Sadar Thana Officer-In-Charge (OC) Abdus Sattar confirmed the matter to banglanews.BDST: 1059 HRS,

BAGERHAT: Experts feared that an impact on biodiversity is likely to appear in Sundarbans, following a cargo vessel, carrying 500 tones of fertilizers, sank in River Bhola there Tuesday afternoon.The fertilizer-laden vessel sank some five months after an oil-tanker capsized in a river in

DHAKA: The Indian government will bring a bill in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh.The bill, which the BJP had opposed while it was in the opposition, amends the First Schedule of the Constitution to give effect to an agreement

MOULVIBAZAR: Police recovered bodies of two sisters from a pond of Bhatera Union in Kulaura Upazila of the district early Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Sakhina Begum, 18, and Arija Begum, 19, daughters of Akbar Ali of Adampur Union of Kamalganj Upazila.Locals said Sakhina and

DHAKA: An older man was killed as a bus ran over him in Khilkhet area of the city Tuesday afternoon.The victim was identified as Emdadul Haque Kohinur, 60, hail from Kalibari area under Ishwarganj Thana in Mymensingh district.Deceased relative Azhar Ali said a speedy bus ran over him when

DHAKA: The government, for the first time, has banned fishing in country’s Bay of Bengal economic region from May 20 to July 23 for breeding and reserving marine biodiversity.Fisheries and Livestock minister Mohammed Sayedul Haque made the announcement on Tuesday in a press briefing at

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated bone marrow transplantation at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in city on Tuesday.She also inaugurated CMH’s Post Anesthetic Care unit, Critical Care Centre and Casualty and Emergency unit.The premier also opened Army Multipurpose Complex

DHAKA: In a latest development, the government has reshuffled 73 high-ups of public administration, including two secretaries.The public administration ministry on Tuesday afternoon issued an order regarding the reshuffle.According to the notice, women and children affairs ministry

NEPAL: It was 9 o’clock in the night. We were in small Dhusheni and Suhara Toley villages adjacent to Sindhupal Chawk hill.We, 20 people, will have to pass the whole night in a single tent if our lives are not perished either by earthquake or be prey of leopard or any other animals of

DHAKA: Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police (Dhaka Range) Khandaker Golam Farukh claimed that the members of Ansarullah Bangla Team are involved in Savar bank robbery.He made the claim at a press conference in Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media centre in city Tuesday

DHAKA: A young boy was killed in a road accident in Jatrabari area of the city on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Rony, 14.Witness Rafiqul Alam told banglanews that a speedy bus hit Rony, passenger of a human hauler, at his head when he moved it outside of the vehicle in the area,