KHULNA: Ringleader of a robber gang was killed in a gunfight with police in Kumarkhali Char under Paikgachha early Monday.The deceased was identified as Amin Hossain Ranga, 40, head of Ranga bahini.Confirming the matter, Officer-in-Charge of Khulna DB police Rukonozzaman said, on

NOAKHALI: Four Bangladeshi nationals died from suffocation due to the shortage of oxygen in the room where they lived at Tripoli town of North Lebanon on Saturday night (Lebanon local time).The deceased were identified as Din Islam Babul, 35, son of late Joynal Abedin of Ganipur

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu from city’s Mirpur area of the city on Sunday night. BNP Chairperson’s press wing sources confirmed the matter to banglanews. Shamsuzzaman was detained around 9:00pm while he was going to join a

DHAKA: Driver of a human hauler, locally named Leguna, was injured critically after miscreants threw a petrol bomb in his vehicle on Sunday evening during 20-party blockade.The injured driver, Selim, 35, told banglanews: “I was taking my leguna to Motijheel with no passenger. Two youths

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted two cocktails inside the gate of foreign ministry of the city on Sunday evening.Witnesses said two young men riding with a motorbike came in front of the ministry and blasted two cocktails inside the ministry gate around 7:15pm.The on duty law enforcers failed to

DHAKA: The customs police detained a man with 80 gold bars weighting 9kg from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of the city on Sunday.The detainee was identified as Enamul Haque, 35.Airport customs joint commissioner Kazi M Ziauddin confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said Enamul

FARIDPUR: Police recovered Tk 1.22 crore out of looted Tk 1.57 crore from the house of Abul Kalam Azad, office assistant of Rupali Bank Faridpur Branch, on Sunday.Police Super Jamil Hasan said that the money was found under ground at the yard of the house of the office assistant. Earlier,

RANGAMATI: District Administration imposed curfew from Sunday evening to 8:00am Monday following a clash between groups of indigenous people and Bangali settlers on Sunday.Deputy Commissioner Shamsul Arefin of the district made the announcement in this regard across the district town at

HILI (DINAJPUR): India’s Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday returned three Bangladesh nationals, who were detained in accusation of illegal entrance to India. They handed over the detainees, Jobaer Hossain (19), Ratan Sandail (18) and Babul Sandail (18), to the members of Border

DHAKA: Three time bombs were found in two books at High Court on Sunday afternoon. In-Charge of Bomb Disposal Unit Senior Assistant Police Commissioner Rahamatullah said the bombs are not high powered and could hurt merely 4/5 people if exploded. Earlier in the day, panic gripped in

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) separately observed hartal in four districts and an upazila on Sunday amid the BNP called nationwide indefinite blockade.Sources told banglanews that dawn-to-dusk hartal was observed in Sirajganj, Lalmonirhat, and Patuakhli

HABIGANJ: Two people were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shahpur area of Madhabpur upazila in the district on Sunday.The deceased were identified as Safiq Mia, 40, son of late Talib Mollah and Masuk Mia, 50, son of late Mukter Hossain of Shimulghar village under the

MUNSHIGANJ: The late Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winning filmmaker Chashi Nazrul Islam will be buried beside his father’s grave at their family graveyard at Samashpur village of Sreenagar upazila of the district.His cousin Nasir Uddin told banglanews that Chashi Nazrul will be

DHAKA: Three people, including a woman police constable, were killed as a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in South Keraniganj upazila of the district on Sunday.Of the deceased, the woman police constable was identified as Soheli Akhter, 25.Officer-in-Charge Jamal Uddin of South

DHAKA: Railway Minister M Mujibul Haque on Sunday categorically said over 8,000 Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) members would be deployed to protect the railway from sabotage.Currently, 4,000 members of Railway Nirapatta Bahini (RNB) and Government Railway Police (GRP) are serving

DHAKA: A total of Tk 1.57 crore was stolen from Faridpur branch of Rupali Bank Limited on Saturday night.  Police detained a Rupali Bank officer and four Ansar members for their alleged involved in the theft.Details of the detainees could not be known immediately.Following the incident,

RUPGANJ (NARAYANGANJ): Miscreants vandalized vehicles and blasted cocktails in Moikuli area at Rupganj upazila of the district on Sunday. The incident took place on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at 11:30am on the day during the ongoing nationwide blockade, imposed by BNP-led 20-party

DHAKA: Bomb-like material found inside a book at the court No-9 of Justice Jinat Ara in High Court building. Panic spread around the court premises.BDST: 1515 HRS, JAN 11, 2015

DHAKA: Latif Siddique’s wife Laila Siddique urged the government to take necessary steps within seven days to release her husband from jail. Barrister Jotirmoy Barua, on behalf of Laila Siddique, sent a legal notice seeking release of Latif Siddique, who landed in jail for hurting

DHAKA: A court on Sunday granted bail to Rubel Hossain, member of Tigers’ squad for World Cup 2015, in a rape case filed by actress Naznin Aktar Happy.Acting Judge Imrul Kayes of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Court passed order in the noon after bail hearing.Barrister Muniruzzaman