SYLHET: A Sylhet court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to a man to and lifetime imprisonment to two others in the sensational industrialist Atikur Rahman killing case. Metropolitan Magistrate Akbar Ali Mrdiha passed the order. The death row convict is Shafiqur Rahman Shafiq, 32, son

DHAKA: The customs authorities detained a cabin crew along with gold bars weighting 2.50kg from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city on Wednesday. The detainee was identified as Mazharul Afsar Rasel, 38. Customs assistant commissioner Juela Khanam confirmed the matter. She

SYLHET: The airport immigration police detained a Pakistani national along with Indian currency worth Tk 1.15 crore from MAG Osmani International Airport of the district on Wednesday.Inspector Bashir Ahmed of Sylhet airport immigration police confirmed the matter to banglanews.The

CHITTAGONG: Rail communication of Chittagong halted with other parts of the country after three compartments of a train derailed in Faujdarhat of Sitakunda on Wednesday.Official of Railway East Zone Firoz Iftekhar said the three bogies of a container-laden Chittagong-bound train,

FROM KISHOREGANJ RALLY: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, also the former prime minister, on Wednesday alleged that the incumbent government is “killer”. “The government is killing people by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), and police and leaders and activists of Chhatra League,” she

DHAKA: The National Mausoleum-famed architect Syed Mainul Hossain’s body has been taken to the Central Shaheed Minar on Wednesday so that people from all walks of life can pay homage to him.His body was taken to the Shaheed Minar at 11:20am. Sommilito Sanskritik Jote has organised the

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 fixed Thursday for pronouncing the verdict against self-proclaimed razakar Zahid Hossain alias Khokon Razakar for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.Justice Enayetur Rahim of ICT-1 fixed the date

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday morning reached the port city to lay the foundation stone of a new flyover and participate in a program arranged by Bangladesh Army.A special helicopter, carrying the premier, landed at Chittagong cantonment around 10:15am.Additional

GAZIPUR: The train services of Dhaka-Chittagong route has been resumed after more than two hours of halt as the Indian Maitree Express train went crippled at Kaliakoir upazila of the district around 7:45pm Tuesday.Assistant Station Master of Joydebpur Station Nasir Uddin confirmed the

NILPHAMARI: A Bangladeshi fisherman was shot by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Charkharibari frontier area under Dimla upazila of the district on Tuesday afternoon. The victim is Mosharraf Hossain, son of Abdus Samad of the area. Locals said BSF members tried to abduct

Khustia: Three minor boys drowned in an abandoned well in Barkhada village of Sadar upazila of the district Tuesday morning, police says. District additional superintendent of police Abu Bakkar Sikkidque told banglanews that the three boys went missing since Tuesday morning. One of the

KUSHTIA: Three minor boys drowned in an abandoned well in Barokhada village under Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.The deceased were identified as Shakil, 5, son of Majibor of the area, Liton, 5, and Tarun.Quoting locals, district additional superintendent of police Abu Bakar Siddique

GAZIPUR: Rail communications with Khulna and the country’s northern region to Dhaka came to halt since Tuesday night after Indian Maitree Express crippled at Kaliakoir upazila of the district. The engine of the train developed the technical glitch around 7:45pm in Kalampur area of the

DHAKA: A youth was killed as he was thrown from an under-construction building in Shantinagar area of the capital on Tuesday noon.The deceased was identified as Jamal, 35.Witness Harun said that Jamal along with three others was taking drug in the building. They locked into an

RANGPUR: The indefinite transport strike in Rangpur division, called by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers' Federation, has been halted for 72 hours till next Friday afternoon.General secretary of the organization MA Mazid made the announcement on Tuesday afternoon considering the

KATHMANDU: Parliamentarians, civil society leaders, academia and government officials from South Asian countries called upon the SAARC leaders to reaffirm their commitments and pledges for a coordinated regional response to meet the interdependent challenges of climate change,

DHAKA: The Supreme Court has taken away Crime Investigation Department (CID) from the investigation of gruesome seven-murder case of Narayanganj. A five-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Mohammad Mozammel Hossain passed the order in response to a review petition

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) held a member of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from city’s Mohammadpur area on Monday night.The accused Ahmed Wadud Jumman alias Saiful alias Arnab was detained from a house near Shershah Suri

RAJBARI: Two minor girls drowned in a pond at Mohadebpur village under Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Subarna, 7, daughter of Akan Mondal of the village and Dola, 6, daughter of Abdur Razzak of Dayalnagar village of the upazila.Locals said they

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained Mohammad Monayem, brother of main accused of India’s Burdwan blast, from Farajikanda of Narayanganj early Tuesday.Media Wing Deputy Director of RAB Maksudul Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews.Regarding the matter, Rab-11 CEO Anwar