Dhaka: The nation will observe a day of mourning Saturday for the victims of Thursday night`s devastating house fire in Old Dhaka`s Nimtali area that left piles of charred dead bodies and scores in agonies of burn injuries.Officials and witnesses said after an overnight haul of around a

Dhaka: A seven-story building tilted to one side at Uttar Begunbari area Friday, only three days after a house collapsed in the same area of the capital, and when the nation is fighting a grim fire tragedy in the city.A fire unit and a team from RAJUK rushed to the spot and evacuated the

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government

Chandpur: A Chandpur court Thursday granted one-day remand for interrogating former State Minister Ehsanul Haque Milon in a case of attempt to murder and arson attack.Senior Judicial Magistrate Abdur Rahman granted the remand when police prayed for 10 days’ remand after producing Milon

RAJSHAHI: An insurance official was crushed under the wheels of a Rajshahi University bus on the rail-crossing in the city Thursday.Police and his colleagues said the deceased, Shah Jamal Haq, 40, hailed from Kushtia, was a principle officer of Prime Islamia Life Insurance company’s

Pabna: A fratricidal fight between two rival groups in the local chapter of the ruling Awami League over farm-labor recruitment left one dead and 10 injured on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, 35, elder brother of Abul Hashem, Jubo League president of

Dhaka: Muggers stabbed to death a vegetable trader as he tried to resist them from robbing him in Bijoy Sarani area in the capital early Thursday while going home after buying vegetables for his day’s small trade.Kafrul police said Monir Hossain went to Karwanbazar business hub to buy

Dhaka: In a nonstop hunt after two suspected terrors were shot down in the city on Wednesday evening, a team of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) later in the night arrested another two members of the gang with a huge amount of Phensydil in Shahinbag area. The arrested persons were

Dhaka: Police arrested two persons with a firearm in the city’s Dakkhin Dania area under Kadamtali thana early Thursday.Acting on a tip-off, a special team led by Demra zone AC Gias Uddin raided a house around 2:45am and picked up Zonaed Hassan Shanto with a foreign-made pistol in his

Dhaka: The High Court Thursday quashed a case filed against Sheikh Selim, Presidium Member of the ruling Awami League, over an attack on former Prime Minister and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s motorcade on her Pirojpur trip in 2001. A High Court bench comprising justices Mohammad

DHAKA: The government has decided to give state recognition to the foreign nationals and expatriate Bangladeshis who contributed remarkably to the Liberation War in 1971. Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni disclosed this to reporters Thursday after an inter-ministrial meeting on `Contribution

Dhaka: After declaring "zero tolerance" against custodial deaths, the High Court now asked the government to explain why it should not be directed to discharge its constitutional duty of protecting peoples life while in custody.The High Court issued the rule upon the government Thursday

DHAKA:  The Criminal Investigation Department got three more months for further investigation to report the findings on the Aug 21 grenade attack on Awami League rally. A Dhaka court Thursday fixed August 3 as the date for submitting the probe report. With this, the law got extension

DHAKA: Rescuers Thursday officially called off their operation after pulling up another body from under the debris of the Begunbari building that took the death toll to 24 in the catastrophic house collapse.The dead was identified as 3-month-old baby Bishal. Of the total 24, eight are

Dhaka: A young man was slaughtered inside their phone-fax shop in Dhalpur of Jatrabari on Tuesday night while a woman was found dead near Fatema Naz Filling Station in the same area Wednesday. Police recovered the body of the slaughtered boy from the shop on Dhalpur Commissioner Road.

DHAKA: As expatriates remitted generously into the central bank to create a glut of the greenback, experts suggested the government to make one-percent allocation in the upcoming budget for providing them logistic supports. They reminded the government that expatriates are sending home

Bagerhat: At least 16 people were killed and 40 injured in a fatal traffic mishap as a bus and a truck collided on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Mollahat upazila early Wednesday, police and locals said.Five of the deceased were identified as truck-driver Moniruzzaman, 45, of Satkhira,

Panchagarh: A Panchagarh court Wednesday rejected a defamation case filed against Advocate Qumrul Islam, State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.    Chief Judicial Magistrate Dilip Kumar Debnath ordered the rejection of the case after hearing. The Magistrate said in

Dhaka: Two suspected criminals were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) troubleshooters in the capital’s Hatirjheel area on Wednesday evening.The deceased were identified as Jabbar and Selim alias Sailya. Rab claimed they were ‘identified terrorists’ in