DHAKA: Bangladesh Tuesday called for collective international action for an immediate end to Israeli siege to Gaza and allowing the Palestinian people to return to normal life. The country condemned the attack by the Israeli troops on the Freedom flotilla transporting humanitarian aid to

Dhaka: Bodies of two unfortunate men, long time dead and buried, were Tuesday dug up by police from graves in the city for autopsy on court orders.Police said the body of Hazi Abul Hossain was exhumed from Jurain graveyard and of Qudrat-e-Mawla Tusher, 15, from Shahjahanpur graveyard in

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday rejected a bail petition by detained former home minister Lutfozzaman Babar in the twin-case of grisly grenade attack on the Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. Acting judge of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court Ismail Hossain issued the order

Dhaka: The journalists and officials of the Bengali daily Amar Desh panicked lest the newspaper should be closed down anytime, as its publisher Tuesday passed through an ordeal over ownership-transfer tangle.Hashmat Ali, the publisher of the newspaper that is leant toward opposition BNP,

Dhaka: The High Court Tuesday declined to grant bail to Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam in a bunch of seven cases and asked the owner of the big business house to surrender before the lower court within eight weeks.An HC bench comprising justices Samsul Huda

Dhaka: A truck rammed into an auto-rickshaw just as it was getting out after refueling at a gas station in the city’s Shanirakhra area early Tuesday, killing the three-wheeler’s driver instantly.The deceased was identified as Anwar Hossain, 45.According to witnesses and police, when

Dhaka: Parliament goes into its budget session tomorrow (Wednesday) with the disenchanted main opposition BNP participation remaining clouded in doubts.  Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith is likely to place the budget for the fiscal 2010-11 on June 10. This will be the second budget

Dhaka: Lack of fuel reservoir and proper supply chain to the rental and major power plants remains an Achilles’ heel in government’s plan for generating 2220MW electricity by 2014 under a blueprint devised for the top-priority sector, officials said. “Although the government has

DHAKA: A select group of 25,000 Chittagong voters will become the trailblazers when the Election Commission tosses its preparation for the launch of electronic voting system in the country, graduating from the outworn balloting.    Officials said the Election Commission has decided to

Narayanganj: Workers blustered out of a garment factory and blockaded the Dhaka-Chittagong highway on Tuesday morning to press for a pay hike, creating severe traffic congestion on the busy route. Police said hundreds of workers of ‘Ananto Denim Apparels’ took to the street at about

DHAKA: Yet another student was killed in road accident in the capital as a recklessly driven minibus rammed his bicycle in front of Motijheel ICD gate on Monday night. The deceased, Rahatuzzaman, was a class-ten student of Postogola Bright High School in Shyampur. His classmate Niaz

Dhaka: Anti-tobacco move got a new momentum as works for making country’s all police stations smoking-free began Monday following a government initiative.Home Minister Sahara Khatun announced the plan Sunday at a seminar here marking the World No-Tobacco Day. And freeing the police

Dhaka: Anther quantum of 519-megawatt electricity will be added to the national power grid by next February as the government Monday approved deals with another six private companies under a crash course. The cabinet committee on public purchase gave the nod to the unsolicited project

Dhaka: A group of unidentified outsiders Monday ransacked three teachers’ rooms at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University—a repeat of such incident of violence at the country’s highest seat of medical education and medicare. Sources said the agitated strangers at about 11:00am

DHAKA: The cabinet Monday approved the much-talked-about National Education Policy 2010, aimed at updating country’s outmoded educational system in tune with needs of the new millennium.A regular meeting of the cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair approved the policy

Dhaka: The seven Jamaat activists, including an Indian national, who were held at Uttara on Sunday evening were all sued early Monday. Uttra thana SI Salim told banglanews24.com.bd, “The case was filed on the allegation of hindering traffic movement on the busy road of the capital. As a

Dhaka: Jamaat’s defiant bid to stage a grand rally in the capital Monday failed as police enforced a government ban rounding up anyone who moved towards the venue at Paltan Maidan.“The government imposed ‘political curfew’ to foil our scheduled rally,” Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

DHAKA: The government Monday appointed additional secretary of the Finance Division M Fazle Kabir as Director-General of the BCS Administration Academy, said an official notification on the latest administrative reshuffle. In another change, two of the secretaries of the administration

Dhaka: Police herded up over 50 activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in raids in the city’s Paltan Maidan area from Sunday midnight to Monday noon, in a preemptive action against the Islamic party’s defiant move to hold a rally. “They were accused of taking preparation to attend

NOAKHALI: Four people were killed and 40 injured in house-collapse incidents as a tornado lashed Shubarnachar and Hatiya upazilas on Monday afternoon, as the weather was inclement across the country since early hours.Charklark UP chairman Khairul Alam Selim said the twister swept the