BOGRA: A truck and a CNG-run auto rickshaw were torched by the hartal and blockade supporters in two different places of the district on late Saturday.Sources said that the hartal supporters and blockaders set fire to a potato laden truck in Charmatha area while a CNG-run auto

DHAKA: An elderly person was killed in a road accident in city’s Rayerbagh area on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Abul Hasan, 60.The road mishap took place around 11:30pm in the area, sources said.However, the body was taken top Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue.DMCH

DHAKA: At least 13 people were burnt to death and several injured in a fire that broke out at a plastic factory near Nasim Plaza in section Mirpur-1 area in the capital on Saturday evening.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner M Asaduzzaman Mia confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: The power supply was resumed at Gulshan political office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night after 20 hours of disconnection.Earlier at 2:42am, Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (DESCO) cut off the electricity line.However, generator has since been used to

SIRAJGANJ: A man was killed and four others were injured as miscreants hurled a petrol bomb aiming a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Sirajganj highway at Sadar upazila on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Ganes Das, 45, hailed from Baniapatti area of the Sadar

DHAKA: Two journalists of a private television channel, Maasranga Television, were injured as miscreants hurled cocktails at TSC intersection of Dhaka University campus area on Saturday night.The injured are Staff Reporter of the TV channel Zahed Selim and cameraperson Moazzem.Moreover,

DHAKA: A policeman was injured as miscreants hurled a petrol bomb aiming at New Market Thana in the city on Saturday night.Thana Duty Officer Asaduzzaman said that the blast took place around 8:15pm.However, police personnel chased the miscreants immediately but could not detaine anyone

AKHAURA (BRAHMANBARIA): A three-day meeting will be held with the participation of 10 Deputy Commissioners (DC) of Bangladesh and its neighboring Indian province of Tripura on Monday.Confirming the matter, Akhaura Upazila Nirbahi Officer Ahsan Habib said that four Bangladeshi DCs and

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday published the updated final voter list with some 47-lakh additional voters.The upazila level voter lists have already been published in the offices of upazila polls officers.Election Commission (EC) Secretary Sirajul Islam told banglanews

DHAKA: The two-day second Joint Working Group (JWG) meetings on Sub-Regional Cooperation between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) concluded in New Delhi on January 31.The JWGs on Sub-Regional Cooperation between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) on Water Resources

DHAKA: At least eight people were burnt to death and four injured in a fire that broke out at a plastic factory near Nasim Plaza in section Mirpur-1 area in the capital on Saturday evening.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner M Asaduzzaman Mia confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: The initiative of Chittaranjan Saha of selling 32 books under the banyan tree on the premises of Bangla Academy on February 21, 1972, is now, so far the largest congregation of Bangali writers, readers and publishers.Saha, who was the founder of the then ‘Swadhin Bangla

DHAKA: Customs officials detained a civil aviation official with 4.2 kilograms at Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday.The detainee is Hafizur Rahman, boarding bridge operator of Civil Aviation Authority.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Farid Al Mamun, assistant commissioner

DHAKA: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman on Saturday urged all politicians to stop the ongoing violence in the country.The rights watchdog body chief made the plea after the ‘Procession for Peace’ program.He also requested the politicians to show

SYLHET: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid urged the BNP-led 20-party alliance to withdraw hartal for the sake of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, scheduled to start on Monday. He made the appeal through journalists here on Saturday after attending the second

GAZIPUR: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been sent on Saturday morning from Kashimpur High Security Jail to Paltan Thana in Dhaka for interrogation. Sources told banglanews that a team of Paltan Thana police, who will conduct the grill, started from Gazipur

DHAKA: Hasna Hamid, wife of former lawmaker and also former treasurer of Awami League late professor Hamidur Rahman, died at a hospital in Singapore early Saturday. She was 76. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her deep shock and condolences on the demise of Hasna, who was also

DHAKA: Hundreds of students besieged the Gulshan political office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday demanding withdrawal of hartal-blockade during Secondary School certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations.  Students of Badda High School staged a sit-in on road no 86

DHAKA: Police detained two youths with four kilograms of gold from Gabtali Bus Terminal in the city on Friday night. The detainees are Nur Nabi, 27, and Minhajul Haque Minal, 28. Darusslam Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) M Ali confirmed the matter to banglanews. The SI said law enforcers

LAXMIPUR: Blockade supporters vandalized and torched six vehicles, including truck and auto-rickshaws, on Jaksin-Podder bazaar road of the district sadar on Saturday morning.  A cement-laden truck came under arson attack by BNP-sponsored nationwide blockade at dawn. Later, five CNG and