DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-2) personnel recovered seven cocktails left abandoned in city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Sunday noon. RAB sources said that the law enforcers recovered the cocktails from a field in the area at 12:00 noon after being informed by locals. No one was

DHAKA: The Three-storied school building was overcrowded. Rooms were packed. Many were also in queues on playground. At first sight, someone might think a poll was underway. Someone would get surprised, seeing the presence of a good number of children there. All puzzles would be solved

COX’S BAZAR:  Police arrested two suspected Razakars of Cox’s Bazar from district town and Moheshkhali Upazila on Sunday on allegation of crimes against humanity committed during liberation war. Salamat Ullah Khan, former president of Cox’s Bazar chamber and founding member of

DHAKA: Broadsheet, the traditional print version of newspapers worldwide are either becoming compact or moving only online versions following the change of readers’ choice with digital devices and also the decline of traditional choices of advertising.  As the cost, delay, and waste

DHAKA: Slain blogger and writer Avijit Roy’s body has been donated to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Sunday. Sources told banglanews that remains of the deceased was handed over around 1:00pm to the anatomy department of the college for research. The deceased’s father

DHAKA: The draft of the International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973 (amend) with necessary changes to try an organization for war crimes would be placed before the cabinet meeting on  March 9.  Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Advocate Anisul Haque said it while taking to

GAZIPUR: Authorities of ‘Mouchak Knitwear’ announced the factory closed as more than 100 workers fell sick drinking water from factory’s supply line on Sunday.Mouchak Police Outpost in-charge Sub-Inspector (SI) Saiful Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.Police said the workers

DHAKA: A passenger bus was set afire by hartal and blockade supporters in city’s Gulshan area on Sunday afternoon.None was reportedly injured in the incident.Police sources said that the hartal and blockade supporters in guise of passengers got into the bus of Trust Paribahan and set

DHAKA: A microbus, which was parked in city’s Dhanmondi area, was torched allegedly by hartal supporters on Sunday.Dhanmondi Thana Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abu Bakar Siddique confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said a group of alleged hartal supporters set the microbus on fire breaking

DHAKA: US citizen Taksim A Khan has made the WASA (Water Supply and Sewerage Authority) a den of looting through holding the power illegally for three terms. Violating the rules, he got twice term extensions sending confusing files to the Prime Minister Office (PMO).Allegation raised

DHAKA: Dr. Ferdinand von Weyhe, acting German Ambassador to Dhaka, on Sunday said German buyers would not give any concession on physical, emotional and work place safety issues of workers.He made the assertion while addressing an inauguration ceremony of ‘Denims and Jeans Show’

DHAKA: Robert Watkins, the newly appointed UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Bangladesh, presented his credentials to Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at latter’s office on Sunday.During the meeting, Watkins put emphasis on his commitment to harnessing the

DHAKA: A transport worker of Kollol Group was slaughtered in city’s Tejgaon Industrial Area on March 1.However, police detained a security man of the company on suspicion.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Tejgaon Industrial Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Mosharraf Hossain said that the

RAMU, Cox's Bazar: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the members of the armed forces to remain prepared to prevent any threat to constitution and democracy of the country. She was addressing a program of raising the flags of 10 Infantry Division of Bangladesh Army at Ramu Cantonment

RAMU, COX’S BAZAR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Ramu on Sunday morning to attend a flag hoisting program of the 10th infantry of Bangladesh Army as chief guest. The helicopter carrying the PM landed at helipad in Ramu around 10:40am. Army Chief General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan

DHAKA: Miscreants torched three buses in Phulbaria and Raierbagh areas of the capital on Sunday morning.Witnesses said two parked buses of Dhaka-Dohar and Dhaka-Mawa route were torched by some alleged hartal supporters in Phulbaria Terminal area around 8:45am.Being informed police and

DHAKA: The second round bilateral meeting between Bangladesh and Switzerland will be held on Sunday and ahead of the meeting the foreign delegation reached Dhaka on Friday.Additional Secretary (bilateral) of Bangladesh’s foreign ministry Mizanur Rahman will lead for Bangladesh and

DHAKA: A fresh 72-hour hartal, sponsored by BNP-led 20-party alliance, has started across the country since Sunday morning.The hartal began at 6:00am of the day and will continue till 6:00am Wednesday, coupled with a nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade for indefinite period.Prior to

DHAKA: A rickshaw-van puller was killed in a road accident in city’s Sabujbagh area on Saturday night.The identity of the youth aged around 25, could not be known immediately.Witnesses said that a rashly driven passenger bus knocked him down while he was pulling his van in the area

MALAYSIA: Three Bangladeshi construction workers were killed and another one injured in two different accidents in Malaysia.The deceased were identified as Rijaul Abdul Goni, 40, and Mohammad Iqbal, 30, son of one Hasu Miah, and Mohammed Taleb, son of Hiron Miah, both from