GOPALGANJ: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Tungipara here on Saturday to pay homage to her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. SM Khurshid-Ul-Alam, the protocol officer-2 of the premier, sent a fax message to Gopalganj Deputy Commissioner (DC) on Friday in this regard.

DHAKA: Indian government has sought cooperation from Bangladesh in an offensive against a tribal militant group, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), that had shot dead at least 80 people in Assam state this week. The government also sought help from Bhutan and Myanmar to hunt

DHAKA: BNP vice chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed on Friday alleged the government was not exposing the reasons of oil-tanker capsize in the Shela River due to involvement of one of the cabinet member’s brother-in-law with the incident. He was reading out the findings and

MUNSHIGANJ: A 20-kilometre-long tailback has been created on Dhaka-Chittagong highway after a truck went out of service on Meghna Bridge Thursday night.Sources told banglanews that long queue of vehicles was seen on both side of the highway, causing immense sufferings to passengers,

DHAKA: BNP Standing Committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy was detained by Detective Branch (DB) of police and shown arrested in the clash at Bakshibazar in the city. DB police sources said the BNP leader was picked-up by a team of DB police from city’s Siddheswari area at 6:30am

DHAKA: A director general-level (DG) meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India began at BGB Headquarters in the city’s Pilkhana Friday.A 23-member BGB team led by DG Major General Aziz Ahmed is holding the meeting with a 19-member BSF

CHITTAGONG: A worker was killed after a shipping container fell on him at jetty no. 13 of the Chittagong Port early Friday. The deceased was identified as Samir Nath, son of Kemosh Nath of Hashimpur village under Chandanaish Upazila. A rolling container fell on Samir, helper of a lorry

DHAKA: City covered under blanket of thick fog.  Mild cold wave is sweeping across the capital from Thursday midnight, affecting normal life and causing miseries to the common people.In the wake of poor visibility due to foggy weather, road traffic remained adversely affected, sources

GOALANDA: Ferry services in the Daulatdia-Paturia route in Padma River was disrupted due to dense fog on early Friday.Master of Kaberi ferry Shafi Uddin Ahmed said that as well as the plying of ferry services came to a halt at 4:30am due to blurred visibility caused by dense fog.The

SHERPUR: Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident in Kumri-Battala area under Sadar upazila of the district on Thursday night.The deceased were identified as Alimul Haque Arif, 32, son of Abdul Haque and Joynal Abedin Junu, 30, son of Ashraf Ali, residents of the

DHAKA: A woman out of four people, who sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a Gabtoli slum on Wednesday night, succumbed to her injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Friday.The deceased was identified as Shanta Akter, resident of the slum.The fire originated

DHAKA: Two men were shot by anonymous miscreants in city’s Gulshan area on early Friday.One of the victims is identified as Ramzan Ali, the name of the other one could not be known immediately.Ramzan’s father Saidur Rahman said that a gang of unidentified miscreants shot the duo in

DHAKA: Customs Intelligence Department held a person with three sacks of foreign currencies, Tk 4.5 crore and 528 gold bars from a house-cum shop at Purana Paltan area in city on Thursday night.The detainee is identified as Mohammad Ali, owner of the house.Director General of Customs

DHAKA: Christian community across the country celebrated the holy Christmas on Thursday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ amid festivity and religious fervor.Christians offered special prayers, illuminate churches, decorate Christmas trees at homes and places of worship and

DHAKA: Police recovered body of a young man from a drain in city’s Dakkhin Madartek area Thursday evening.The victim, Shakil Kazi, 30, son of Shamu Kazi of city’s Khilgaon area, went missing from December 18.Sabujbagh Thana sub-inspector (SI) Shawkat Ali said that the body was found

DHAKA: Atomenergoproekt, sister concern of Russian state nuclear company- ROSATOM, for general designing of nuclear power plants has announced a tender for engineering survey, environmental monitoring and development of project documents for the Rooppur NPP site. The contract value is

CHUADANGA: Border Security Force (BSF) of India gunned down a Bangladeshi farmer in Medenipur border under Jibonnagar upazila of the district on Thursday.Two other Bangladeshi nationals received bullet injury by the firing of BSF in the afternoon.Commander Lieutenant SM Moniruzzaman of

BHOLA: Some 74 passengers were recued alive, but a child remained untraced as a trawler capsized in Meghna River after hitting a hidden shoal in Badshaw Miah Char under Tazmuddin upazila on Thursday noon. Two rescued passenger, Riaz and Monir, said the 13-year old child, Akhter, son of

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said being a government institution the officials of Bangladesh Television (BTV) have to be a ‘true public service broadcasting institution’. She also asked the officials to upgrade the quality of programmes aired on BTV otherwise it is

DHAKA: Customs Intelligence Department officials on Thursday recovered three sacks of foreign exchanges and 480 gold bars from a house-cum-shop at Purana Paltan area in city on Thursday evening.Director General of Customs Intelligence Department Dr Moinul Khan confirmed the matter to