DHAKA: Police recovered body of a housemaid in Dhanmondi area of the city on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Nurjahan Begum, 55, hailed from Kotwali area of Mymensingh, who used to work at the house of Professor Dr Mahabubur Rahman on Road No. 27 of the area.Dhanmondi Thana

DHAKA: Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) distinguished fellow Dr. Rounaq Jahan on Saturday said there is no alternative to practice of democracy inside the party, if we want to establish real democracy.  Rounaq came up with the assertion when presenting the key paper at a dialogue titled

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali will fly to India in next month after new government of India is formed.    Foreign ministry sources confirmed the matter to    banglanews.      Narendra Modi is expected to take oath as prime minister of India on May 21 as Bharatiya

KHULNA: Country’s first museum cum archive on genocide and torture during Liberation War in 1971 was inaugurated in Khulna on Saturday noon.   Bangladesh Itihas Sommiloni Khulna unit inaugurated it at late doctor M Nasim’s house at 334 Sher-e-Bangla Road in the town.    Noted

DHAKA: Four journalists from leading print and electronic media have received the UNESCO-Bangladesh Journalism Award-2014 in three categories on Saturday noon. The award recipients are Haydar Ali of the Kalerkantho and Muhammad Joynal Abedin in newspaper category, Ashikur Rahman

LONDON: The local government and European parliament elections of Great Britain will be held on May 22. On that day elections to 73 European parliament seats, in 32 Baras of Greater London, in 36 Metropolitan Baras, in 74 second tier district authorities, in 20 unitary authorities and in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League president, said that she wants to live with dignity in the world.  “I will not bow to anyone. I want to go forward with honesty and the ideology of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” she added. The

DHAKA: Security analysts (retd) Mohammad Ali Shikdar categorically said that the person who committed offense can be punished, but not the organization he works.  He came up with the assertion while addressing a round table meet organized by East West Media Group in city on 10:30am. 

DHAKA: Security analysts (retd) Mohammad Ali Shikdar categorically said that the person who committed offense can be punished, but not the organization he works.  He came up with the assertion while addressing a round table meet organized by East West Media Group in city on 10:30am. 

THAKURGAON: Border Security Force (BSF) of India abducted a Bangladeshi youth from Jagdal frontier under Ranishangkoil Upazila of the district on Saturday morning.  The victim is - Abu Hossain, 17. Sources said that Abu Hossain went India four months ago to work there and BSF Battalion

DHAKA: Golam Maula Rony, MP categorically said that he can’t rely on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) like before. He came up with the observation while addressing a round table meet titled ‘Demand to abolish RAB and Implementation’ at the conference room of East-West Media Group at

NARAYANGANJ: The mass hearing on the gruesome seven-murder in Narayanganj has begun for the 3rd day at the guest house of Siddirganj Power House  in the district on Saturday. The administrative investigation committee started the hearing at 11:00am where hundreds of people have already

DHAKA: Airport Customs intelligence officials detained three people with 101 gold bars weighing 12 kilogram from Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday morning. The detainees are- Joynal, Sabuj and Ruman. Airport Customs Assistant Commissioner Israt Jahan Ruman said that acting on

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will make a four-day official visit to Japan from May 25 for talks with her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Hasina and Abe are expected to discuss ways to strengthen economic cooperation. The premier will also have an

DHAKA: The Airport Customs Intelligence Department seized 1.89 lakh Saudi Riyal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Friday night.  Sources said that acting on a tip off, the law enforcers seized the foreign currency from an abandoned travel bag around 9:00pm.

MYMENSINGH: Three people were killed in a boiler explosion in a Rice mill at Dara bazaar of Halua ghat of the district early Saturday. Confirmed the matter, Halua ghat thana officer-in-charge Imarat Hossain Gazi told banglanews that the three sustained burn injuries in a blast at boiler

DHAKA: Police arrested two former Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officers from Dhaka cantonment area for their suspected link with sensational 7-killing after abduction in Nganj. The arrestees are - former Commanding Officer of RAB 11 Tareq Sayeed Mohammad and Major Arif Hossain. Sources

NARAYANGANJ: A Narayanganj court on Saturday placed two former RAB officer on a 5-day remand in sensational Narayanganj 7-murder for police interrogation. Senior Judicial Magistrate Chandni Rupam passed the order in response to a 10-day remand plea after the two accused were produced

MUNSHIGANJ: Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Chairman Dr. M Samsuddoha Khondaker on Saturday afternoon called off the search operation of capsized launch MV Miraz-4. While calling off, he also said that the launch lost control and capsized because its upper part was

HOBIGANJ: Three people including mother and son drowned in Kodalia River in Azmiriganj upazila of the district on Friday evening. The deceased were identified as Maksuda, 40 and her son Ershad, 23 and maternal aunty of Maksuda Jobeda 70, hailed from Jalshukha area of the upazila.