DHAKA: An elderly person was killed as a train ran over him on the Malibagh rail crossing in the city on Sunday Morning.The deceased was identified as Chan Mian, 70, a banana vendor hailed from Karimganj in Kishorganj district.Sub-Inspector of Government Railway Police (GRP) thana Abul

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission Sunday sued Sarika Sadeque, daughter of Dhaka City Corporation Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, on a graft charge as a long-pending notice seeking an account of her wealth went unheeded.Assistant Director of the anti-graft watchdog body Md Shamsul Alam

DHAKA: Jatiya Parity chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad had a parley with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office Sunday, in the wake of some important developments related to the former military ruler. Sunil Shubha Roy, Press Secretary to the ex-President and JP chief, confirmed

KUSHTIA:  Two suspected kidnappers were killed in mob beatings and another was held with bomb and explosive materials from Poradaho Hat of the district Sunday.One of the deceased was identified as Samir Uddin, 38, while the identity of the other could not be known immediately. Police

JHENIDAH: Six people were killed, including a baby, while 30 injured as a passenger bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Moheshpur Upazila Sunday.Moheshpur thana officer-in-charge Mamunur Rashid said that the bus driver lost his control trying to overtake a van on the Kaliganj-Jibannagar

NARSINGDI: High-speed Internet service with multimedia facility would be introduced under the state-sector telecommunications from next year. Post and Telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju unveiled the plan here Saturday, saying that satellite television service would be

GOPALGANJ: At least 37 people were injured, seven by air-gun bullet, in a clash between two groups of villagers in the district on Saturday morning, police said. Among the bullet-wounded are Miraj Mollah, 42, Monir Mollah, 36, Farhad Mollah, 33, and Osman Sheikh. They were rushed to

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Saturday made a clarion call for like-minded parties and people to get ready for movement against what she said government’s misrule. “Stand united against government misdeeds, including killings, repression, filing ‘false’

KURIGRAM:  Erosion by the River Dudhkumor has taken a serious turn in Bhurungamari upazila for last few days, threatening Sonahat Railway Bridge and Bhrungamari-Kochakata road. Bhurungamari Upazila chairman Abdul Hai Master said a stretch of 160 km, out of 170 km, on the west side of the

SATKHIRA: Two motorcyclists were crushed under the wheels of a recklessly driven bus in the district’s Shyam Nagar upazila on Saturday noon. The deceased were identified as Habibur Rahman, 25, son of Abul Kasim of village Koikhali, and Johor Ali Mallik, 28, son of Abdul Hamid of same

KOLKATA: A prestigious award introduced after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of independent Bangladesh, was given to three persons on behalf of ‘Chokh’, a Bengali magazine of Kolkata.The award was handed over on Saturday afternoon at Bangla Academy auditorium in the

DHAKA: Detective police held eight Myanmar citizens and a suspected trafficker from a hotel in the city’s Segun Bagicha area on Friday night.Deputy Commissioner of the Detective Branch (south) Md Monirul Islam said a team of DB police raided Nazma Hotel at around 11:15 pm and arrested

KOLKATA: The Indian central government has proposed to the state government of West Bengal to construct a flyover on the Teen Bigha corridor, which connects two cut-off localities of Bangladesh.With the construction, maintaining communications between the mainland of Bangladesh and its

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