DHAKA: A Bangladeshi is going to join US Administration for the very first time, White House press release said early Saturday.It said, Dr N Nina Ahmad, got that opportunity.President of United States of America, Barack Obama announced to appoint Nina as his 14-member advisory commission

DHAKA: Bangladesh has become the model of world’s most modern and democratic country, said renowned French journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy who had took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.The journalist termed Bangladesh liberation war period the best chapter in his

DHAKA: A total of 106-kilogram gold bars were seized from a flight of Bangladesh Biman from Dubai at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday noon.          Customs intelligence of the airport held an engineer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in this connection.     

DHAKA: Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said that the bilateral relations between the United States of America and Bangladesh are not comfortable nowadays as it was earlier.The minister came up with the disclosure in a press briefing at the secretariat in city on Saturday.Muhith

RAJSHAHI: No national dailies have been reached at the doors of the readers during dawn for three consecutive days as local agents halted newspaper distribution amid ongoing agent-hawker row.Angry reaction appeared among the readers whereas the online news portals are only sources of the

DHAKA: A college student was burnt to death in a fire incident at capital’s Tejgaon-Shahinbagh area early Saturday.The deceased was identified Raihan Rahman Avik, 19, a class-XI student of Dhanmondi Ideal College, resident of the area and hailed from Noakhali. Selim, cousin of the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the administration of its member countries to be sincere in implementing decisions of SAARC leaders for overall development of the region.The Premier came up with the urge when SAARC Cabinet Secretaries met her at the Gono Bhaban,

DHAKA: A 7-member delegation of the German Parliamentary Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development will visit Bangladesh on Saturday.They will assess the situation in the RMG Sector and get information about the initiatives taken so far in this sector to improve the health and

DHAKA: Slum dwellers beat a police constable at Rupnagar slum when he went there to cut off illegal power connections at 11:00am Saturday.Victim’s details could not be known immediately. He was admitted to a local hospital.BDST: 1149 HRS APR 26, 2014

BENAPOLE (JESSORE): Two local Awami League activists were killed in separate incidents of miscreants’ attack within a one hour gap in Baropota village under Benapole Port Thana of the district on Saturday morning.The deceased were identified as Imanur, 27, activist of Putkhali Union

DHAKA: Kamalesh Sharma, the Commonwealth Secretary General, welcomed the stabilized political climate in Bangladesh.He said “It is good to see that the political climate in Bangladesh has stabilized and that right-minded thinking is percolating through all political camps as evident

SYLHET: Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury has been admitted to the city’s Mount Adora Hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.Family sources said that Ariful Haque suddenly became ill and complained with chest pain while on his way back to home after attending the

GAZIPUR: Three alleged thieves were killed in a lynch-mob action at Sohadia village under Sreepur upazila of the district early Saturday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.Police sources said that a gang of thieves tried to flee after stealing a motorcycle from

DHAKA: Saima Wazed Hossain, Chair of the Advisory Committee of Autism and Neuro-developmental Disabilities in Bangladesh, participated in an International Seminar on autism with the theme ‘Autism is not a Tragedy, Ignorance is’ in Putrajaya of Malaysia from April 22-23.The seminar,

COX’S BAZAR: Three yaba smugglers were killed and another one injured in a gunfight with Coast Guards in Teknaf upazila of the district early Friday. The deceased could not be identified immediately.Public Relations officer of Coast Guards of Chittagong (east zone) confirmed the matter

DHAKA: Seven people were injured including three sustained bullet injury in a clash over land property at Bijoynagar area of the capital on Friday noon.Of the injured, six are Nazma Begum, 60, owner of Nazma Developers and workers Rubia Khatun, Razia, Rashid, Emdad Hawlader and

DHAKA: To make men and women looking elegant and exclusive, Vasavi Fashions introduced varieties of gorgeous attires for both.Responses by its buyers and encouraged by the overwhelming success, in this happening they inaugurated a Summer Live Fashion Show at the premises of Vasavi

SYLHET: Two housewives in Gowainghat of Sylhet were chopped to death by their brother-in-law over family feud on Friday noon.The deceased were identified as Hasina Begum, 40, wife of one Azir Uddin and Maleka Begum, 38, wife of one Jamsu Mia while the killer was identified as Makon Mia,

DHAKA: The first Orthotics & Prosthetics School in Bangladesh has been launched at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) on Thursday to teach Rana Plaza victims with permanent disabilities how to effectively use artificial limbs in day to day life.German Development

DHAKA: Nine more Bangladeshis, kidnapped in Iran by several cheating groups, were brought back home on Friday morning.The fight carrying the victims landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:00am.The returnees are Tamiz Uddin, Zillur Rahman, Ramij Ali, Mohsin, Sohrab, Hridoy