DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed restriction on vehicular movement on some specific roads and areas in the city on the occasion of Victory Day, to be celebrated on Tuesday.The restriction will continue till the end of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s courtesy meeting

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) issued a rule upon the government to explain within three weeks why the order should not be given to stop bull-goat-cock fighting across the country. An HC bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice M Jahangir Hossain passed the order after the hearing

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday grilled Dhaka Mill Barack Range Reserve Force commandant Mizanur Rahman on charge of earning illegal wealth.He was quizzed at ACC headquarters in city’s Segun Bagicha area for one and a half hours starting from 11:00am.ACC deputy

DHAKA: An elderly person was killed as a passenger bus knocked him down in city’s Jatrabari area on Sunday.The ill-fated man was identified as Abu Hanif, 58, resident of North Jatrabari area.The deceased’s nephew Shafiqul Islam told banglanews that a rashly driven passenger bus

Friday Spot Reporting, a new initiative of banglanews, selected its hotspot on the construction areas of much-waited bridge on the banks of the mighty river Padma. The team included its Head of News Mahmood Menon, Senior Newsroom Editor Asif Aziz, Newsroom Editor Hussian Azad, Staff

DHAKA: The government is going to increase the price of collected furnace oil spilled from a tanker which sank at the river Shela in the Sundarbans. Apart from this, authorities concerned will hold meeting with the experts for foreign help to speedy removal of the spilled oil to save

BARISAL: Four personnel of Barisal Metropolitan Police have been suspended for charging baton on the students of Institutes of Health Technology (IHT).Barisal Metropolitan Detective Branch issued a press release on Sunday.   The accused police men are Monwar Hossain, M Khalil, M Rafiq

CHITTAGONG: A Chittagong court on Sunday sent Delwar Hossain, owner of Tazreen Fashion, to jail in a fraud case.Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mashfiqul Islam passed the order after he appeared before the court with bail plea.The court sources said Tazreen Fashion purchased accessories

LAXMIPUR: Two youths were killed in a road accident in Women College area on Roypur-Laxmipur road Sunday afternoon. The deceased were identified as M Shakil, 17, son of Belal Hossain and Azim, 18, son of Nasiruddin of Sadar upazila. Both of them were workers of Yusuf Metal

DHAKA: A “terrorist” was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Hazaribagh area of the capital on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Afjal Hossain Sattar, 50, son of late Abdul Aziz, of Hazaribagh Tannery Intersection.Brother of the deceased Motaleb said Sattar received severe

JESSORE: Two people were killed in a road accident on Jessore-Khulna highway in Padmabila area under Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Shahin, 31, son of Abul Hossain and Ramjan Ali, 35, son of Makbul Ali. Both hailed from Narendrapur village of the

DHAKA: The nation is paying rich tributes to the glorious sons of the country, placing floral wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals’ Memorial at Mirpur in the city on Sunday.The day’s programme began with paying tributes by President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

COX’S BAZAR: A mobile court seized huge amount of government drugs worth about Tk 15 lakhs from two medicine stores in Panbazar of the district town on Saturday night.The court, led by District administration executive magistrate Sadekur Rahman, also sealed off the medicine stores

DHAKA: Law enforcers, in separate drives, detained four arms smugglers and four robbers from different places of the capital on Saturday night. During the drives, Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) also seized six firearms and TK45,000 from their possession. DMP media

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing floral wreath at the portrait of him in city’s Dhanmondi area on Sunday morning.The premier arrived at Bangabandhu Bhaban on Dhanmondi Road No. 32 at 8:40am.Later, as

CHITTAGONG: A man, who sustained injuries in a blast during a jewelry shop robbing in the port city, succumbed at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Sayed, 45, a jewelry shop employee.CMCH police outpost In-Charge Zahir Uddin

Energy Projects:Bangladesh was suffering from chronic energy security problem for a long time. The demand supply imbalance in power and gas grid created huge operational problems in the operation and management of energy using industries. Investors investing huge investment in setting

NEW YORK: A Bangladeshi expatriate died of heart attack in New York City on Thursday. The deceased Sazzad Hossain, 34, hailed from Adabari village under Mirzapur upazilla of Tangail district. Sazzad’s friend Mahfujur Rahman said, Sazzad suddenly fell sick at his house around 5:30am

This very day 14 December – Intellectual Martyrs day has great significance in the life of Bangladeshi nation. On this very day at least a thousand of celebrated Bangladeshi intellectuals –engineers, doctors, teachers, journalists, poets, writers, and singers were butchered by

KHULNA: Police on Sunday recovered the body of Mokhlesur Rahman, 50, the master of “OT Southern Star 7’ that sank in Shela River of Sundarbans on December 9.The body was found floating on the river from a nearby place at Mrigmari area around 7:00am six days after the tanker had