Dhaka: The three-member probe committee formed for investigating the fire havoc in old Dhaka collected clues from witnesses and local panchaet committee on Saturday morning, trying to get at the root cause of the big blaze.After visiting the spot, Iqbal Khan Chowdhury, chief of the probe

Dhaka: Yet another city building came on the verge of imploding under the weight of its inbuilt faults on KP Road in Gendaria area at around 1:30pm, one and a half hours after a high-rise cracked at Shantinagar.Witnesses and inmates of the 6-story building told banglanews24.com.bd

LALMONIRHAT: Flashfloods triggered by incessant rain for the last three days and onrush of hill waters flooded 40 villages in four upazilas of the northern frontier district, leaving about 15,000 people virtually marooned.Standing crops on a vast tract of land in Hatibandha, Kaliganj,

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Saturday placed Saikat alias Babu on a four-day remand in a case filed against him for throwing grenade on Gendaria police patrols.Magistrate Abdullah Al Mamun of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court granted the remand as investigating officer (IO) of the case SI

Dhaka: Three people, including a woman, were killed and four injured in lightning strikes in Chittagong and Patuakhali districts on Friday night, as the weather remained inclement.In Chittagong, two people were killed and another two injured as lightning struck them at village Mirzakhil

Jhenidah: An outlawed party leader was killed in a ‘shootout’ between his supporters and police at Kamalnagar village in Shailakupa upazila early Saturday, official sources said. Police said Nasirul Islam alias Suknal, 50, the chief of his own underground group styled Suknal bahini,

Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday directed the authorities concerned to provide best treatment to the people who survived Thursday night’s old-Dhaka inferno with severe burns.While visiting the injured at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the morning after the nightmare that

Dhaka: The nation will observe a day of mourning Saturday for the victims of Thursday night`s devastating house fire in Old Dhaka`s Nimtali area that left piles of charred dead bodies and scores in agonies of burn injuries.Officials and witnesses said after an overnight haul of around a

Dhaka: A seven-story building tilted to one side at Uttar Begunbari area Friday, only three days after a house collapsed in the same area of the capital, and when the nation is fighting a grim fire tragedy in the city.A fire unit and a team from RAJUK rushed to the spot and evacuated the

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government

Chandpur: A Chandpur court Thursday granted one-day remand for interrogating former State Minister Ehsanul Haque Milon in a case of attempt to murder and arson attack.Senior Judicial Magistrate Abdur Rahman granted the remand when police prayed for 10 days’ remand after producing Milon

RAJSHAHI: An insurance official was crushed under the wheels of a Rajshahi University bus on the rail-crossing in the city Thursday.Police and his colleagues said the deceased, Shah Jamal Haq, 40, hailed from Kushtia, was a principle officer of Prime Islamia Life Insurance company’s

Pabna: A fratricidal fight between two rival groups in the local chapter of the ruling Awami League over farm-labor recruitment left one dead and 10 injured on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, 35, elder brother of Abul Hashem, Jubo League president of

Dhaka: Muggers stabbed to death a vegetable trader as he tried to resist them from robbing him in Bijoy Sarani area in the capital early Thursday while going home after buying vegetables for his day’s small trade.Kafrul police said Monir Hossain went to Karwanbazar business hub to buy

Dhaka: In a nonstop hunt after two suspected terrors were shot down in the city on Wednesday evening, a team of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) later in the night arrested another two members of the gang with a huge amount of Phensydil in Shahinbag area. The arrested persons were

Dhaka: Police arrested two persons with a firearm in the city’s Dakkhin Dania area under Kadamtali thana early Thursday.Acting on a tip-off, a special team led by Demra zone AC Gias Uddin raided a house around 2:45am and picked up Zonaed Hassan Shanto with a foreign-made pistol in his

Dhaka: The High Court Thursday quashed a case filed against Sheikh Selim, Presidium Member of the ruling Awami League, over an attack on former Prime Minister and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s motorcade on her Pirojpur trip in 2001. A High Court bench comprising justices Mohammad

DHAKA: The government has decided to give state recognition to the foreign nationals and expatriate Bangladeshis who contributed remarkably to the Liberation War in 1971. Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni disclosed this to reporters Thursday after an inter-ministrial meeting on `Contribution

Dhaka: After declaring "zero tolerance" against custodial deaths, the High Court now asked the government to explain why it should not be directed to discharge its constitutional duty of protecting peoples life while in custody.The High Court issued the rule upon the government Thursday