DHAKA: Two people were found dead in Gabtoli area of the city on Wednesday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Azharul Islam and Rafiqul Islam.On information, law enforcers recovered the bodies.Second Officer of Darus Salam Thana Imranul Kabir told banglanews that police recovered

CHITTAGONG: A Chittagong court issued arrest warrant against four top industrialists of the port city in cheque fraudulent cases filed by commercial banks.The accused are Noorjahan Group’s Merin Vegetable Oil Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Jahir Ahmed, Masers Jusmia Vegetable Oil

JHENAIDAH: The Election Commission has postponed voting in two centers of Shailokupa upazila of the district on Wednesday morning.Police and witnesses said that centering the Upazila election, supporters of BNP and Awami League locked into clash at around 9:00am, leaving 20 people

DHAKA: BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal in nine upazilas for Thursday protesting vote rigging and capturing polling centres in the first phase upazila polls.Joint secretary general of the party Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the announcement in a press conference at Naya Paltan party office

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Wednesday granted bail to popular singer Arefin Rumi on condition of negotiation in a case for repression allegations over dowry filed by his wife Ananya.Women and Children Oppression prevention tribunal Dhaka-5 Judge Tanjina Ismail of the court passed the order.

RAJSHAHI: US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena visited three vote centers in Mohanpur Upazila Parishad elections in the district on Wednesday morning.The US envoy went to Mohanpur Government High School polling center first then visited two other centers.He was given special security by

LONDON: BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman met Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba, the Deputy Secretary-General of Commonwealth, at its headquarter in London.Local BNP sources said that in the meeting Tarique talked with the Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General regarding ongoing political and

DHAKA: Police held three high-ups of Hotel Dhaka Regency including its director of for their alleged involvement in embezzling money on Tuesday night.The detainees are- Hotel Regency Director Musleh Ahmed, 38, his business partner Arif Motahar, 44 and Manager Kayes Munshi, 43. Sources

DHAKA: A lawyer has sought legal permission to file a contempt of court case against journalist David Bergman for his derogatory comments on the International Criminal Tribunal-2 in his blog.Petitioner Abul Kalam Azad, who is a High Court lawyer, also sought a directive as to why a show

MADARIPUR:  An outlawed leader was killed in a gunfight between police and his associates at Nilkhi in Shibpur upazila of the district early Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Kiran Bepari, leader of Sarbahara, an outlawed party. Police sources said that sending letter on February

DHAKA: The voting in 97 Upazilas in first phase Upazila Parishad election is underway on Wednesday morning.The polling started at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm without any break.The Election Commission (EC) Secretariat declared poll schedule to hold election at first phase in 102

NOAKHALI: Four people were killed and 25 others injured in a road accident   in North Wapda area on Sonapur-Char Jabber road under Sadar upazila in the district Tuesday night.The deceased were identified as Nabin, 40, Masud, 38, Nur Nobi, 27 and Azad, 27.Witnesses said a truck carrying

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) summoned the Investigating Officer (IO) of the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi.AN HC bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah passed the order on Tuesday as the investigation work did not advance.The HC bench

Dhaka: About 50 crore youths of the emerging Asian markets including Bangladesh will likely to be connected to internet for the first time through mobile phone, says a forecast of Telenor group. Telenor hopes that within the next three years about 8.50 crore children of those countries

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday nabbed a youth for his alleged involvement in circulating the so-called audiovisual message from al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. RAB personnel also seized three mobile phone sets, two laptops and several books related to extremism, it was

DHAKA: Trading firm Glencore won a tender to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat to the country after submitting the lowest offer at $303 a tonne including CIF liner out. This was the lowest price it has paid in tenders for wheat in the current financial year that began in July 2013.The source

SYLHET: Prime Minister Sheikh Haisna, also ruling Awami League president, is set to visit Sylhet on February 28.Central organizing secretary of the party Misbah Uddin Siraj confirmed the matter to banglanews.Source said the Premier will visit Sylhet to inaugurate the newly made divisional

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel, in a drive, held one person and recovered Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) tools worth Tk one crore from Mohammadpur area of the city on Monday night.Operation officer of RAB-4 Quamrul Hasan told banglanews that acting on tip off they

COX’S BAZAR: Ambassadors from 20 countries along with state minister for foreign affairs of Bangladesh are now at world’s longest sea-beach Cox’s Bazar.Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Netherland, Turkey, Russia, Malaysia, North-Korea, South-Korea ambassadors among 20 other

JHENIDAH: Rail communications of Khulna with rest of the country halted as a bogey of a cargo train derailed at Kaliganj upazila of the district on Monday evening.Station Master of Mobarakganj Rail Station Fazlur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.He added: “We have informed the