RUPGANJ, NARAYANGANJ: Two workers were killed and seven others injured in a gas cylinder explosion at AK Oxygen Factory in Barpa area of Tarabo municipality of the district on Wednesday afternoon.   The deceased were identified as Razzak and Jafar, workers of the factory.   Factory

CHITTAGONG: Metropolitan Police have received weapons and ammunitions provided by United States of America to perform duty in T-20 World Cup Cricket.       The weapons and ammunitions were reached at the Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) on Wednesday.    Supplied arms and

DHAKA: The High Court on Wednesday exempted Dhaka Reporters Unity president and general secretary from contempt of court charges.An HC bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed the order, in their presence, in the afternoon.HC summoned journalist leaders for

DHAKA: Abdelilah Benkirane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her re-election as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.External Publicity Wing of the Foreign Ministry made the disclosure on Wednesday. The Moroccan Prime Minister expressed his keen

GAZIPUR: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday categorically said an international standard IT University would be established at Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park in the district.He claimed that it would be such an institute where students from different countries will

DHAKA: Arab League Secretary General Nabil El Araby praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her “guts and determination” to form and hold trials at the International Crimes Tribunals, Bangladesh (ICT-BD). The veteran diplomat recounted memories of the deliberations in the UN Security

DHAKA: Election Commissioner Mohammad Abu Hafiz on Wednesday termed the violence during elections natural.“It is unnatural not to have violence during elections,” he said while talking to journalists at his election commission secretariat office in the afternoon.He also said,

DHAKA: Housing and Public Works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain categorically said that the government is building one lakh flats for mid-income people.He said Wednesday morning at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at the inaugural ceremony of three-day exhibition and summit

DHAKA: State-owned Petrobangla has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) Wednesday) with Santos-Kris Energy, for searching oil-gas in the block No.SS-11 in the Bay of Bengal. State-run BAPEX will work with the two companies as a 10 percent partner.The deal was signed at Petro Center

RUPGANJ, NARAYANGAJ: A fire broke out at a dyeing factory in Barpa area under Rupganj Upazila of the district on Wednesday morning.The cause of fire origination could not be known immediately.Witnesses said that the fire originated at the chemical section of Antim Dyeing and Finishing

DHAKA: The voting in Supreme Court lawyer Association (SCBA) election 2014-15 is underway at Supreme Court Lawyers Association from Wednesday morning.Election Sub-Committee convener Noor Hossain said that the two-day long voting started at 10:00am Wednesday and will continue till 5:00pm

SAVAR, DHAKA:  At least 40 passengers were injured in a triangular collision among two buses and a truck in Radio Colony bus stand area on Wednesday morning.The accident took place around 9:00am on Dhaka-Aricha highway.Witnesses said at first, a bus carrying workers hit a parked bus in

DHAKA: Journalists and lawyers faced-off in the Supreme Court Wednesday following an altercation on that halted procedure of the concerned court.Witnesses said that after starting the procedure at 10:45am in the court of Judge Naima Haidar and Judge Jafar Ahmed, Dhaka Reporters Unity

KHULNA: The workers of all state-run jute mills across the country went on a 24-hour strike simultaneously to meet their 11-point demand from Wednesday morning.Earlier on Tuesday, the jute mill CBA (collective Bargaining Agent) leaders had a meeting with state minister for Textile and

SUNAMGANJ: Three persons, including a woman and her daughter, were killed in a road accident in Dharon Bazar area on Sunamganj-Sylhet highway on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Altafunnesa, wife of Babul Mia of Chhatak upazila, her daughter Sumena Akhter, 4 and Riaz

NARAYANGANJ: A devastating fire broke out at a shoe factory in Adamjee Export Processing Zone (EPZ) of the district on Tuesday night.The cause of fire origination could not be known yet.Haziganj Station of Narayanganj Fire Service Station Officer Aminul Islam said that the fire originated

DHAKA: The sharing of waters of the Teesta River will continue to remain a festering issue between India and Bangladesh. That`s because the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal not only remains strongly opposed to the equitable sharing of Teesta waters as envisaged in the draft

DHAKA: Renowned Indian music composer AR Rahman made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League president, on Tuesday evening.Oscar awarded singer AR Rahman met with the PM at her official Ganobhaban residence on Tuesday evening.Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of PM, Sheikh

DHAKA: A hanging body of a student was recovered from a hostel in city’s Monipuri area on Tuesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Mridul Kundu Halder, 23, a first year Honor’s student of Government Titumir College and hailed from Pirajpur district.Deceased’s friend Arif

PARBATIPUR (DINAJPUR): Three people, including two children, were killed and 20 others injured as a passenger bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Bejai intersection at the upazila in the district on Tuesday afternoon.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Police