DHAKA: Internet service providers said full removal of overhead cables is not possible within November 30, the government-set deadline, as the construction of underground ducts is yet to be completed. “We will remove overhead cables within the quickest possible time after constructing

DHAKA: Two water buses began ferrying passengers on the Gabtali-Sadarghat route Saturday to bypass traffic tailbacks in the overcrowded capital city. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan inaugurated the waterway passenger-transportation service as the ‘Turag’ and ‘Buriganga’ set sail

DHAKA:  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the abrogation of the 5th and the 7th amendments to the constitution would strengthen the democracy, as the judiciary disapproved of extra-constitutional regimes.She made the comments Friday, a day after the High Court in its verdict declared

DHAKA: Huge valuables and gift items, lying unprotected in the warehouses of the Postal Department, are getting damaged, depriving the clients of getting their parcel intact. While visiting the storehouses of the Postal Department, this correspondent saw rats and insects frolicking

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni informed the British media that Bangladesh is not facing any pressure from any countries, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, about conducting the war crimes trial. She was speaking at a press conference with the British media in London organized by

SIRAJGANJ: Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas Friday said the owners of cattle which died of anthrax pestilence would not get any compensation but the government plans to introduce livestock insurance for the future. “If any cattle-head die because of irregularities of

NARSINGDI: At least 80 people were injured as hordes of rival villagers fought a fierce harpoon fight over a trifling matter at Nilakhshya in Raipura upazila Friday.  Witnesses said the village turned into a veritable battlefield as over 30,000 inhabitants of Darigaon and Haripur

KHULNA: A pickup van crashed into a motorcycle on the Khulna-Satkhira Highway in Dumuria Friday, leaving a bank official killed and his wife injured.The deceased was named as Bappi Sadhuka, 35, an official of BRAC Bank.Bappi’s wife, Shampa Rani, was admitted to Khulna Medical College

DHAKA: A suspected terrorist was killed in a gunfight between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members and his cohorts in the city’s Tejgaon industrial area early Friday. The deceased was identified as Shahidul Islam or Chanchal alias ‘Bhagne Shahid’, nephew of detained ‘top

DHAKA: The 34th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was observed in the country on Friday with due respect.Nazrul Islam, popularly known as ‘Bidrohi Kabi’, died on Bhadra 12, 1383, (August 29, 1976) at the age of 77 after prolonged sufferings. His death anniversary is

MADARIPUR: An eight-year-old child drowned in a pond in Kadirpur union under Shibchar upazila on Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Saim, son of Lavlu Madbor from Forazikandi village.The victim’s father said that Saim fell in a pond adjacent to the house eluding everyone’s

DINAJPUR: Journalists in the district observed the 27th of August as Dinajpur Tragedy and Newspaper Black Day, commemorating a carnage stemming from the raping of a teenager. Amid a mayhem triggered by the incident, seven protestors were killed and eventually two policemen and their

DHAKA: Syed Manjurul Islam, an English Professor of Dhaka University, hailed the High Court verdict on the 7th amendment as a historic one as he said it would help the nation make up for the damage done due to martial laws.In an instant reaction after the verdict Syed Manjur told

DHAKA: A coalition of three UN agencies would jointly provide food, shelter package, and water and sanitation facilities to 14,000 Aila-hit families still living on embankments in Khulna and Satkhira districts. The Aila-affected families in Dacope and Koyra Upazilas under Khulna and

DHAKA: The government decided to import one-tonne `Atop (non-parboiled)’ rice from Vietnam and 30,000 tonnes of `non-Basmati’ boiled rice through international tender under a contingency measure against any food crisis. “Rice will be bought to meet our demand as the government has

DHAKA: Now go boating round the capital to avoid getting caught in impassable traffic tailbacks in the overcrowded city.      The alternative route to and from the metropolis opens Saturday with the government launching ‘waterbus’ services from Sadarghat to Gabtoli in the first

DHAKA: This year`s fitra has been fixed at Tk 100 per head for Dhaka and its adjoining areas.A committee of the Islamic Foundation for determining fitra took the decision in a meeting Thursday.Committee members and ulema (Islamic scholars) fixed the amount of fitra in proportion to the

DHAKA: The High Court Thursday cancelled the election results of the Noakhali-6 constituency and asked the Election Commission to hold reelection to the vacated parliament seat. A one-member bench comprising Justice Md Emdadul Haque delivered the verdict after the hearing on a writ

SATKHIRA: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead an Indian cowboy early Thursday in Jalalpur frontier area of India, according to information received here.Local sources told banglanews24.com.bd that the members of BSF from their temporary camp at Jalalpur fired towards Bangladesh

DHAKA: The fifth census of the country will begin on March 15 and continue till March 19, 2011 to determine the latest size of the population and the number of households.National Statistics Council Thursday fixed the schedule in a meeting held at the auditorium of Bangladesh Bureau of