BRAHMANBARIA: The train services on Dhaka-Chittagong and Chittagong-Sylhet routes halted as a container train derailed in Ashuganj of the district on Friday morning.Sources said that a compartment of a Chittagong-bound train derailed in outer area of Ashuganj rail station at around

MANIKGANJ: Ferry services on Daulatdia-Paturia river route resumed Friday morning after a six and half an hour suspension due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.Earlier, the authority suspended the ferry services at 2:00pm to avoid accident.Later, the ferry services on the route

RANGPUR: Two suspected robbers were shot to death and another sustained bullet injuries in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Shotbari area under Mithapukur upazila of the district early Friday.The law enforcers, however, held three ‘robbers’ with a pistol and two choppers.The deceased

DHAKA: A youth was killed in a road accident at capital’s Tejgaon area on Friday morning.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Sources said that a rashly driven vehicle ran over the youth while he was crossing road at around 7:30am. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical

GAZIPUR: At least four devotees died due to cold related diseases and accident in Tongi Biswa Ijtema at Gazipur from Thursday night to Friday morning.Three of the deceased were identified as Hedayet Ullah, 70 and Nure Alam, 65, hailed from Noakhali Sadar, Tozammel Sarkar, 72, hailed from

DHAKA: Altaf Mahmud-Kuddus Afrad parisad won the election of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ). Election Commissioner Hasan Shahriar declared the result on Thursday night at Jatiya Press club.The voting started at 9:00am Thursday and continued till 5:30pm without break. Some 1,612 voters

GAZIPUR: The second phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after the holy Hajj, has begun on Friday on the banks of the Turag River at Tongi after Fazr prayer.  The second phase of Ijtema started after giving four days pause which will end February 2. The first

DHAKA: Experts on the north-east India say the death sentence awarded to United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) chief Paresh Barua and 13 others will have little impact on the outfit as both Barua and most of his cadres have already shifted base out of Bangladesh. They were handed

DHAKA: The second phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after the holy Hajj, will begin on Friday on the banks of the Turag River at Tongi after Fazr prayer.    The first phase of Biswa Ijtema took at the same venue on January 24-26.  Sources said thousands of

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday filed a case against the mother-in-law of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for not submitting wealth statement to it in time.ACC deputy director RK Majumdar filed the case against Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu with Ramna Thana in the

FENI: A Jubo Dal leader was killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police at Fazilpur union under Sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Golam Sarwar, 32, son of late Nurul Haque at the same area. He was accused in several cases, including

DHAKA: Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will submit the chargesheet of much-talked-about Rana Plaza Collapse case on February 19.Confirming the matter, senior assistant superintendent of police Bijoy Krishna Dhor told banglanews that the court directed them to file chargesheet by

DHAKA: The proposal for the establishment of a ‘Bangladesh Bhaban’ at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, has been under consideration between the authorities of Bangladesh and India.In pursuance to this effect, the Visva-Bharati University has now identified a

DHAKA: Some 11 renowned littérateurs of the country were nominated for the Bangla Academy Literature Award 2014.Director General of the academy Dr Shamsuzzaman Khan announced the names of 11 winners in nine categories at the Bangla Academy auditorium on Thursday afternoon.The awardees

KISHOREGANJ: A Kishoreganj court Thursday placed a seven-day remand to Habibur Rahman Sohel alias Yusuf Munsi and his brother Idris in a case filed for burgling Tk 16.40 crore from a branch of Sonali Bank in the district.Kishoreganj-1 Judicial Magistrate Hamidul Haque granted the

CHANDPUR: Two people were killed and two others injured in a road accident at Hajiganj upazila of the district on Thursday noon.The deceased were identified as Sumon Jomader, 30, son of one late Noab Ali, and Biplob Paul, 35, son of a late Prokash Paul, hailed from Chandpur Sadar

DHAKA: A Dhaka speedy tribunal on Thursday handed life sentences to eight people for murdering two brothers in Galachipa village under Kaliakair in Gazipur.The convicts were also fined TK 20,000 each and in default one more year imprisonment.Dhaka-4 speedy trial tribunal judge ABM Nizamul

DHAKA: The High Court on Thursday scraped section 32 (Ka) of amended Anti-Corruption Commission law that curtailed its authority to sue government officials. The verdict declared the provision of curtailing the power of the ACC to sue government officials as ‘unconstitutional’.After

CHITTAGONG: Fourteen people including Jamaat-e-Islami leader Matiur Rahman Nizami and former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar were awarded death penalty in smuggling case in much-talked-about sensational 10-truck arms haul.  Judge SM Mojibur Rahman of Special Tribunal

DHAKA: Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury nominated a 5-member panel Speaker conducting sessions in absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker at the first sitting of first session of the 10th parliament on Wednesday evening.The panel speakers are Abul Kalam Azad, Ashiqur Rahman,