BENAPOLE: Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni said India, Nepal and Bhutan can use Mongla and Chittagong seaports as transit in the future, as regional connectivity is being tossed as a forward-looking concept of the day. “Economic advances of the country are possible letting neighboring

DHAKA: A leader of the ruling Awami League and probable councilor candidate for Dhaka City Ward No 56 was shot dead on Friday evening in the capital’s Segunbagicha area, police and locals said. Shahbagh police officer-in-charge Rezaul Karim said Ibrahim Ahmed, 40, an Awami League leader

DHAKA: A team of Rapid Action Battalion on early Friday arrested five drug peddlers alongwith a firearm and Yaba tablets from different areas in the capital.The arrested were identified as Sahadat Hossain Munna alias Joy, 29, Manjur Hossain, 25, Salimuddin Salim, 24, Jamal Hossain Ripon,

THAKURGAON: A bus hit a parked van and killed the van puller on the spot in Baliadangi town of Thakurgaon Friday morning.Witnesses said that a Dhaka bound bus of Babul Enterprise from Ranisangkoil hit the parked van, killing its puller Rafiqul on the spot at around 9 am.Boliadangi thana

CHITTAGONG: Police arrested two activists of banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir while pasting posters at Badsha Mia road in the city Friday.Arrested Anwar Parvez Shikdar, 22, and Mohammad Habibullah alias Habib alias Hafiz, 22, are the third year students of Electrical Engineering dept

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Friday granted a 4-day remand for the stand-in chief of the banned militant outfit JMB, Anwar Alam alias ‘Bhagne’ Shahid, in a case filed for the attempt to murder Dr Humayun Azad.Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Emdadul Haque issued the order after CID

CHITTAGONG: The laid-off Raozan and Shikalbaha thermal power plants resumed operation generating 200 megawatts of electricity with the gas diverted from Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO) Friday.On Thursday, the government suspended gas supply to KAFCO, the last

DHAKA: Veteran leader of the ruling Awami League Suranjit Sengupta MP stood against the government decisions on closing car-refueling stations, mill-factories and educational institutions during the month of Ramadan as remedies for gas crunch and traffic tailback.“The government should

DHAKA: A group of young professionals on Friday demanded the government to stop oppression on garments workers.They also demanded immediate release of garment workers arrested during the recent unrest in the garment industries and fix the minimum wage at Tk 5000 for workers.Without any

GAZIPUR: A mobile court led by an executive magistrate conducted raids in Gazipur Thursday and  fined 11 offenders, including hospitals and clinics, to pay Tk 2.9 lakh  and arrested two persons on different allegations.The mobile court led by executive magistrate of Gazipur District,

CHITTAGONG: The government Friday suspended gas supply to Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO), the last fertilizer-manufacturing factory to lie down under a gas-rationing plan prepared to gear up power plants to tackle electricity shortages in the country.With this, officials said,

BOGRA: Eight people including a ward councilor have been sued here in BNP leader Shahin Ali murder case.Dulal Hossain, brother of slain BNP leader Shahin Ali, filed the case with Sadar thana on Thursday midnight against pourashava ward councilor and Jubo Dal leader Delwar Hossain Poshari

DHAKA: Paribortan Foundation (PF) Friday demanded trial of militant Moulana Tajuddin and his so-called mentor Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman for allegedly planning the grenade attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while she was in the opposition on August 21, 2004.The PF leaders formed

KUSHTIA: A contractor was shot at Sheikhpara Bazar near Islami University on Thursday night as he refused to pay toll.Victim Raju Ahmed, 45, of Sheikhpara village in Jhenidah district, was admitted to Kushtia Genaral Hospital in a critical condition.Kushtia Islami University thana OC

DHAKA: Armed assailants shot a man to death and wounded another at Nayatola in city’s Moghbazar area Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Swapan Talukder, 35, a brick and sand trader.Victim’s family members said Sawpan left home for a pharmacy to buy medicine at

DHAKA: Planning Ramadan vacation for educational institutions across the country laid bare a lack of coordination between ministries with the holiday beginning next week on different dates. The Ministery of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education lacked the coordination

NATORE: Two farmers were killed and three others injured in Singra area of Natore-Bogra highway Thursday when a passenger bus and a truck collided head on, police said.The deceased were identified as Belal, 47, and Shardul, 25.The injured were Shahidul, another farmer, and two passengers

DHAKA: The honking gaggles of cars in the capital have to drive in low gear amid Ramadan rush, as the government opted for shutdown of gas stations at peak hour of the day.  Under the rationing recipe to make do with the limited output of the fuel, the CNG refueling stations in and

CHITTAGONG: The government is going to stop gas supply to Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO) anytime now, days after suspending the fuel supply to another fertilizer factory, for running power plants in full gear to tackle troubling electricity shortages in the country. Petrobangla and

DHAKA: Some 13,500 officials and employees of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) have been left in the lurch to count days in the dark to know their future.The members of the staff of the now-defunct Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) were absorbed in the