SYLHET: The half-day hartal, called by Jamaat-e-Islami was observed amid stray incidents of violence in the metropolitan on Monday.    Hartal supporters vandalized a numbers of vehicles in various points in the town during the shutdown.  Jamaat enforced the hartal protesting arrest

DHAKA: A security guard was killed in a robbery incident at a residential house at New Iskatan in the city on Monday.    The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahim, hailed from Muladi of Barisal.   Ramna police recovered wrapped up body by napkin at 6:00am.  Body was sent to Dhaka

FROM PARLIAMENT: The budget session of the Jatiya Sangsad resumed at 11.07am Monday with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.    At first, the ministers will join general question-answer session over the proposed budget for 2014-15 fiscal year. The session of the new

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday awarded eight people with death penalty and six others with lifetime imprisonment in much-talked-about Ramna Batamul bomb blast case some 14 years after of the deadly blast. Additional Sessions Judge of Dhaka-2 Ruhul Amin handed down the verdict at 12:00pm.

NARSINGDI: Some unmanned miscreants hacked to death a local terrorist on Monday.  The victim is Rahim Badsha, 35.  Sadar Model Thana officer-in-charge KM Kashem said that police recovered the body from Old Launch Ghat area in the dawn.  BDST: 1137 HRS, JUN 23, 2014

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 has fixed Tuesday for pronouncing verdict in war crimes case against Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.  The 3-member tribunal comprising Justice Anwarul Haque, Jahangir Hossain and Justice M Enayetur Rahim fixed the date on Monday.   

SAVAR (DHAKA): Three people were killed and five others injured in separate road accidents in Savar, outskirt of capital Dhaka, on Monday, said sources of police. Details of the deceased and the injured could not be known immediately. At Kabirpur, a Rangpur-bound passenger bus of

DHAKA: In latest initiatives to build the digital Bangladesh, the government will launch a total of 25,000 portals on Monday to provide information and service to the people immediately and prevent corruption at the high level of Administration. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son

DHAKA: Five people of a family sustained burn injuries when a tin-shed house caught fire in Ibrahimpur area at Kafrul of the city on Monday early. The injured are-- Joynal Abedin, 38, his wife Piara Begum, 35, his two sons – Robiul Islam, 12, and Rabbi, 7 – and his niece Khadiza 15.

DHAKA: An unidentified woman was found slaughtered at capital’s Mirpur-10 on Monday late night.   Police said they recovered the body from no-14 lane of C- Block of the area.   Mirpur Model Thana Sub-Inspector Arifur Rahman said that they don’t know yet who killed the woman and

DHAKA: President Abdul Hamid returned home on Sunday night after completing his 10-day visit to Bolivia and the USA. A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying Hamid landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:55 pm.  He was received by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Commerce

JESSORE: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 4.4kg gold bars in Laujani area in Jhikargachha upazila on Sunday. Sources said, meanwhile, BGB also held five Indian smugglers in this connection. The arrestees are Kamal of Nagpur, and Laxman, Vijay Kumar, Raj Kumar and Ashok of

SIRAJGANJ: A medical student drowned in the river Jamuna when he went to take bath on Sunday afternoon.  The deceased was identified as a student of Northbengal Medical College but name could not be known immediately.  District fire service deputy director Abdul Hamid said the

DHAKA: A businessman filed a case against two Dhaka Metropolitan Police officers, including Ramna Thana Officer-In-Charge (OC) M Moshiur Rahman, on charges of extortion on Sunday. The plaintiff, Zakir Hossain Chudhury, lodged the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court of Dhaka

BHOLA: Two farmers were killed as lightning struck them at Charfashion upazila in the district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Jaynal Abedin, 60, of Nuruddin village under Nazrul Nagar union and Nure Alam Nuru, 30, son of Jebal Haque, of Char Fakira village of Hajariganj

DHAKA: Dhaka City Corporation (DCC--South and North) election had not been held for last seven years as the Awami League government did not show interest in the election. The Election Commission (EC) officials said they sent letter to Local Government Ministry. But they failed to

DHAKA: New Delhi officials just after one day informed the media that the government didn’t take any decision nor any move on visa-free entry of Bangladeshi nationals into India. They have claimed this on Sunday, day after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi opposed the visa-free entry

CHITTAGONG: The rail communications of Chittagong with other parts of the country resumed on Sunday afternoon after five hours disruption.  The rail communications has started around 4:40pm, said railway East Zone chief transport officer Mihir Kanti Guha.  Earlier the rail

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: The budget session of the tenth Parliament has resumed at 11:13 am Sunday, after a two-day recess.  Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury is presiding over the 2nd session of 10th Parliament. Earlier on Thursday, she adjourned the parliament till 11:00am Sunday. At

SIRAJGANJ: Two compartments of a container train derailed in Roypur railway station as rail line slippers misplaces due to heavy rainfall on Saturday night. Railway and local sources said that a container train from Ishwardi derailed in the area around 11:30pm and. As a result the