DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) held a woman while she was demanding extortion introducing her as an official of the anti-graft body.An ACC team led by Senior Deputy Director Joynul Abedin Shibli and Abdulla Al Jahid detained the woman from ACC office on Monday afternoon.ACC

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived New York on Monday morning on an eight-day official visit to attend the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).An Emirates flight carrying the Prime Minister and the members of her entourage landed at John F Kennedy

DHAKA: Democracy International (DI) is providing training to the women aspirants, both reserved and non-reserved seats, for the upcoming national parliamentary elections of Bangladesh. DI’s International Director of Programs and a former official for Hillary Clinton’s US Presidential

FENI: At least six police personnel were injured as Chhatra Shibir activists attacked them at Sonagazi upazila in the district on Monday.The clash took place in front of Enayet Ullah Market around 12:00 noon.    The injured police personnel are Sub-Inspector Mohammad Ullah, constable

GAZIPUR: Readymade garment workers attacked an Ansar Camp in Bhogra area and looted four firearms and 135 round bullets on Monday morning.Sources said hundreds of garment workers brought out a protest procession demanding salary and allowance hike on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the

DHAKA: Readymade garment workers went berserk in the capital’s Mohakhali area demanding salary and allowance hike on Monday.Sources said that hundreds of garments workers locked into sporadic clashes with police from 11:00am to 12:30pm when police tried to disperse them from the road.

RIYADH: Two more Bangladeshi pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia on Saturday and Sunday.The deceased were identified as M Abdul Momen 77, passport number- AF1084349 and M Showkat Hossain 64, passport number- AF2054893.Altogether eight Bangladeshi pilgrims were died in Saudi this year.Sources

BANDARBAN: Two soldiers of Bangladesh Army electrocuted inside the army region of Bandarban early Monday.The deceased were identified as M Rubel, 24, son of M Muslem Uddin, hailed from Virlar Tekram village of Dinajpur and Zenerul Haque, 23, son of Alkas Islam, from Shibganj of

DHAKA: Apple’s new iPhone 5S and 5C and last year’s iPhone 5 are alike in many ways.All three phones have a touch screen measuring 4 inches (10 centimeters) diagonally, with a resolution of 326 pixels per inch. That pixel density is better than Apple’s iPads, though not as good as

GAZIPUR: A bus driver, victim of Jamaat hartal violence, succumbed to his injuries on Monday after four-day fighting for life.The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam Bhuian 35, resident of Haydrabad village of the district.Sources said that during the second day of Jamaat called

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) summoned former state minister of Housing and Public Works ministry Alamgir Kabir for his alleged involvement in misusing power and corruption.ACC deputy director Jatan Kumar Roy on Monday said that a letter was sent to Alamgir Kabir asking him to

DHAKA: Thousands of workers of hundreds of readymade garments factories on Monday started protest in the capital, Savar and Gazipur to press their demand for Tk 8,000 minimum salary. The protest of third day turned into a violence when workers blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail

NEW YORK: An expatriate Bangladeshi woman was killed in a road accident in Queensor Seventh Avenue in New York on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Nishat Hossain 58, a staff of chain fast food Mc Donald’s and wife of late Monir Hossain, hailed from Chandpur Sadar upazila of

DHAKA: A police source was chopped to death by assailants in capital’s Razabazar area on Indira road early Monday.The deceased was identified as Nasim, 30.Sources said that miscreants chopped him to death in between 02:00am to 03:00am. Later, on information police recovered his body and

DHAKA: The Mayor of the Philippines’ Central Business District (CBD) welcomed last week a group of high-level delegates from Bangladesh, to share the city’s best practices and lessons learned on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM).The delegation comprises of senior officials

DHAKA: At least 50 people were injured in a triangular clash of garments workers, police and owners on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar at around 8.00am Monday.Sources said that workers of Standard Group started demonstration inside the factory demanding pay rise at Olail area of Savar

DHAKA: General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army Commander of Indian Army at Fort William in Kolkata, Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh, UYSM, AVSM, VSM paid homage to Shikha Anirban at capital’s Cantonment on Monday.He paid honor to martyrs of Liberation War placing floral

SYLHET: Miscreants attacked at the resident of the principal Osul Ahmed Chowdhury of Sylhet Osmani Medical College (SOMC) on Sunday night.Sources suspected that Chahatra Dal activists might have done this violence.Osmani Medical College source said that there was a clash between Chhatra

PANCHAGARH: Two people were killed and 20 more injured in electric transformer blast in Muhurijot village under Tetulia Upazila of the district on Sunday night.The deceased were identified as Shohida Begum, 35 and Yakub Ali, 50.Sources said that the 11000 kilowatt electric transformer

DHAKA: At least two people were injured critically as a train knocked a stuck passenger bus at Mohakhali rail crossing in the capital on Sunday night.The injured were sent to Ayesha Memorial Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital.Witnesses said that a Mirpur-bound bus of Bengal