DHAKA: Arab League Secretary General Nabil El Araby praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her “guts and determination” to form and hold trials at the International Crimes Tribunals, Bangladesh (ICT-BD). The veteran diplomat recounted memories of the deliberations in the UN Security

DHAKA: Election Commissioner Mohammad Abu Hafiz on Wednesday termed the violence during elections natural.“It is unnatural not to have violence during elections,” he said while talking to journalists at his election commission secretariat office in the afternoon.He also said,

DHAKA: Housing and Public Works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain categorically said that the government is building one lakh flats for mid-income people.He said Wednesday morning at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at the inaugural ceremony of three-day exhibition and summit

DHAKA: State-owned Petrobangla has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) Wednesday) with Santos-Kris Energy, for searching oil-gas in the block No.SS-11 in the Bay of Bengal. State-run BAPEX will work with the two companies as a 10 percent partner.The deal was signed at Petro Center

RUPGANJ, NARAYANGAJ: A fire broke out at a dyeing factory in Barpa area under Rupganj Upazila of the district on Wednesday morning.The cause of fire origination could not be known immediately.Witnesses said that the fire originated at the chemical section of Antim Dyeing and Finishing

DHAKA: The voting in Supreme Court lawyer Association (SCBA) election 2014-15 is underway at Supreme Court Lawyers Association from Wednesday morning.Election Sub-Committee convener Noor Hossain said that the two-day long voting started at 10:00am Wednesday and will continue till 5:00pm

SAVAR, DHAKA:  At least 40 passengers were injured in a triangular collision among two buses and a truck in Radio Colony bus stand area on Wednesday morning.The accident took place around 9:00am on Dhaka-Aricha highway.Witnesses said at first, a bus carrying workers hit a parked bus in

DHAKA: Journalists and lawyers faced-off in the Supreme Court Wednesday following an altercation on that halted procedure of the concerned court.Witnesses said that after starting the procedure at 10:45am in the court of Judge Naima Haidar and Judge Jafar Ahmed, Dhaka Reporters Unity

KHULNA: The workers of all state-run jute mills across the country went on a 24-hour strike simultaneously to meet their 11-point demand from Wednesday morning.Earlier on Tuesday, the jute mill CBA (collective Bargaining Agent) leaders had a meeting with state minister for Textile and

SUNAMGANJ: Three persons, including a woman and her daughter, were killed in a road accident in Dharon Bazar area on Sunamganj-Sylhet highway on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Altafunnesa, wife of Babul Mia of Chhatak upazila, her daughter Sumena Akhter, 4 and Riaz

NARAYANGANJ: A devastating fire broke out at a shoe factory in Adamjee Export Processing Zone (EPZ) of the district on Tuesday night.The cause of fire origination could not be known yet.Haziganj Station of Narayanganj Fire Service Station Officer Aminul Islam said that the fire originated

DHAKA: The sharing of waters of the Teesta River will continue to remain a festering issue between India and Bangladesh. That`s because the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal not only remains strongly opposed to the equitable sharing of Teesta waters as envisaged in the draft

DHAKA: Renowned Indian music composer AR Rahman made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League president, on Tuesday evening.Oscar awarded singer AR Rahman met with the PM at her official Ganobhaban residence on Tuesday evening.Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of PM, Sheikh

DHAKA: A hanging body of a student was recovered from a hostel in city’s Monipuri area on Tuesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Mridul Kundu Halder, 23, a first year Honor’s student of Government Titumir College and hailed from Pirajpur district.Deceased’s friend Arif

PARBATIPUR (DINAJPUR): Three people, including two children, were killed and 20 others injured as a passenger bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Bejai intersection at the upazila in the district on Tuesday afternoon.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Police

DHAKA: Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved seven new projects involving Tk 3190 crore.The approval came from a meeting of the ECNEC held at NEC conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the city on Tuesday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ECNEC

DHAKA: A week-long Francophonie Festival will begin Thursday in Dhaka and Chittagong to celebrate the French language and the International Organisation of Francophonie.The seven Francophone diplomatic missions in Bangladesh, together with the Alliances françaises, are offering an

DHAKA: A boy drowned and another wounded while they were taking bath in Crescent Lake, near Chandrima Udyan, of the city on Tuesday afternoon.   The deceased was identified as Nahid, 14, and the injured was identified as Monir, 18.                Sources said around

DHAKA: The High Court on Tuesday fixed March 13 for the verdict in a case against The Daily Prothom Alo and The Daily Bhorer Kagoj editor, publisher and correspondents after appeal hearing ended.          An HC bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana fixed the date. Earlier, a case

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued arrest warrant against three people including, Quazi Faruque, chairman of Proshika, non-government organization, in a case of money embezzlement and threat of killing.    Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Hasibul Haque issued the arrest warrant.The