GAZIPUR: Oggyan Party robbed valuables from three persons making them unconscious by doping in Tongi Tuesday.Two of the victims have been identified as Anul Kumar Mandal, 27, son of Upendranath Mandal, resident of Tongi Tistargate area and Hafizul Islam, 42, son of Nasir Uddin of

DHAKA: Two more warships have been added to the Bangladesh Navy fleet.Narayanganj Dockyard and Engineering Works Limited made the duo landing craft tank (LCT). They have handed over the warships to the Navy on Tuesday.Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Muhammad Farid Habib attended the

BOGRA: Law enforcers detained three people and seized a foreign made pistol and magazine from the area adjacent to Katnarpara Coronation School of Sadar town Tuesday night.Senior Assistant Superintendant of Police Ujjal Kumar Roy told banglanews acting on tip-off, they conducted a

DHAKA: The members of India’s anti-terror organization National Investigation Agency (NIA) has given a list of 11 militants to the high officials of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on their alleged involvement in Burdwan blast.The team of NIA members gave the list to RAB officials after

KOLKATA: Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a Myanmar national from southern Indian city of Hyderabad in connection with the Burdwan blast case.The agency, probing the October 2 blast in Burdwan of West Bengal, identified the 38-year-old arrestee as Khaleed alias

DHAKA: Bangladesh Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque selected as a member of the 15-member Governing Board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). The GCERF has been launched in Geneva on Tuesday to support local community-level initiatives in some areas and

DHAKA: President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday said there no alternative to make skilled engineers to face the challenge of the world. “We have a lot of human resources and they can contribute to the national development if they can be skilled in information technology,” he said. The

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) has withdrawn the exemption letter of state Minister for Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Moshiur Rahman Ranga as JP Presidium Member. The party issued a press release signed by Ershad’s Press and Political Secretary Shunil Shuva Roy

DHAKA: The probe committee submitted the progress report to the High Court on Tuesday on the gruesome Narayanganj seven-murder case. An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore fixed December 10 for further order of next steps. Earlier on

DHAKA: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved eight projects, including Ashuganj-Bhulta 400kv Transmission Line, involving Tk 2,228 crore. The approval came from the ECNEC meeting on Monday held at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla

DHAKA: A construction contractor died after falling from the rooftop of an under-construction house at Kajla in the city on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Ataur Rahman Khokon, 35, resident of Jatrabari. Fellow workers, who witnessed the accident, told banglanews that

DHAKA: Dr Ferdinand von Weyhe, the Chargé d’Affaires of the German Embassy in Dhaka, travelled to Tangail in remembrance of Monir Hossain, an arson victim who faced an unfortunate death amidst the unrest situation that prevailed in the country during last fall. To pay homage to the

DHAKA: The Global Terrorism Index (GTI), a publication released by non-profit think tank Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) says Bangladesh is at considerable risk of terrorist activity. The country has been ranked 23 among 162 nations in the Global Terrorism Index. The index scores

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank asked all taxpayer identification number (TIN) account holders of scheduled banks and financing institutions to update their 12-digit TIN number. A circular signed by BB’s Department of Financial Institutions and Markets (DFIM) deputy general manager Mohammad

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted two cocktails in front of Hotel Victory, adjacent to BNP’s Naya Paltan central office on Tuesday noon.Quoting witnesses, Sub-Inspector of Paltan Thana Hasan told banglanews said, “the cocktails blasted around 1.55pm and we have sent out our team there to

DHAKA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) held three foreign nationals from city’s Moghbazar area for staying illegal in Bangladesh.The detainees included two Liberians and a Chadian.Confirming the matter RAB Headquarters Legal and Media Wing director Major Rumman Mahmud told

DHAKA: India’s anti-terror organization National Investigation Agency (NIA) is now staying at city’s Police Headquarters to hold a meeting with the Inspector General of Police (IGP) at Tuesday noon.The visiting team is scheduled to hold a meeting with the Inspector General of

DHAKA: Citing his favorite word ‘preparedness’, US ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena elaborated that it is possible to minimize casualties during a disaster by ensuring adequate preparedness. Mozena came up with this assertion at a program of fire extinguishing equipment handover to

DHAKA: For the fourth year, Hay Festival Dhaka is scheduled to be held from November 20–22 at the historic ground of the Bangla Academy in city. Hay Festival Dhaka Director Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi announced about the three-day long festival in a press briefing at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU)

It may give a sense of a nation’s pride and glory when the freedom fighters are in headlines days after days even 43 years after the liberation war. Unfortunately there is little to rejoice.  Years after years on previous occasions, we found the freedom fighters who fought for a new