DHAKA: A writ petition was filed with the Supreme Court seeking its directives for the continuity of High Court bench proceedings amid hartal-blockade programmes.SC lawyer Advocate Yunus Ali Akand submitted the petition to the concerned department of the apex court on Wednesday morning.In

SIRAJGANJ: Another burned body of a person, who remained trapped under the truck after petrol bomb attack in Panchlia area of the district, was recovered early Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Imran Hossain, 29, a potato trader and son of Amzad Hossain hailed from Goneshpur

DHAKA: Three top leaders of opposition BNP, including its vice-chairman Selima Rahman, chairperson’s adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and organizing Secretary Fazlul Hauque Milon, were shown arrested in bomb attack case.Police will produce the BNP leaders before the court of Chief

DHAKA: The Home Ministry decided to use trained dogs to search suspects on two points of Cox’s Bazar border to stop the Yaba smuggling from Myanmar.Besides, the joint forces consisting Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), police, customs and forest officials will be deployed at the key points

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) took additional security measures on Wednesday apprehending subversive activities as hatral and blockade, called by 18-party alliance, are underway. Additional law enforcers were seen patrolling in capital’s Nayapaltan, Press club, Gulistan,

DHAKA: Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary of human rights organization Odhikar, and its director ASM Nasiruddin Elan were indicted for publishing ‘fake, distorted and defamatory’ information.Cyber Crime Tribunal Judge AKM Shamsul Alam on Wednesday morning framed the charges against the duo

DHAKA: France urged all parties in Bangladesh to demonstrate calm and restraint and resume dialogue within the framework of the country’s democratic institutions.The urges made by the spokesperson of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press briefing on December 7 over the just

DHAKA: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad sent a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina just a day after 10th parliamentary polls.JP senior leadership confirmed the matter to banglanews.Sources said Ershad sent the letter with an urge to give chance his brother GM Quader to contest in

NEW YORK: New York police recovered beheaded body of a Bangladeshi expatriate at Brooklyn in the city on Monday night (US time).The deceased was identified as Mohiuddin Mahmud Dulal, 57, son of Muhammed Hossain hailed from Sandwip Upazila of Chittagong district.Victim’s younger brother

KISHOREGANJ: A mail train derailed as blockaders unscrewed fishplates of rail line near to Halimpur railway station of the district on Wednesday morning.Due to the derailment around 7.00am, rail link of Kishoreganj with Chittagong was halted.Halimpur railway station master Jayanto

SYLHET: Four people were killed in a road crash on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Osmaninagar area of the metropolitan on Wednesday morning.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Sources said that a pick-up van collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw due to poor

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer professor Nazir Ahmed, 72, died on Tuesday night from a heart attack. He breathed his last at capital’s Ibne Sina Hospital around 11:45pm.Jamaat’s executive council member Nurul Islam Bulbul confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said after

SIRAJGANJ: A truck driver was killed and three others sustained burn injuries as blockaders hurled petrol bomb at a goods-laden truck in Bangabandhu Bridge area on Tuesday night.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Sources said miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a

BANDARBAN: A woman along with her baby girl was burnt to death and six others sustained injuries as a fire broke out in Bandarban Tuesday afternoon.The victims were identified as Aklima Akter Lucky, 28, wife of a Detective Branch (DB) officer Nurul Islam and their only three-year old

DHAKA: Japan has expressed deep concerned over the political violence which resulted in death and injury of so many people over the last several months in Bangladesh.   In a written statement on Tuesday, Japan ambassador to Dhaka Shiro Sadoshima said, “We strongly condemn all sorts of

DHAKA: Ganajagaran Mancha has announced a road-march programme in protest against the attack on minorities across the country.The road-march programme will begin from city’s Shahagh intersection to sectarian violence torn Malopara area of Jessore district from January 10 to 11 January.

DHAKA: Chris Tobit, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Bangladesh Limited, has been appointed as the Chairman of AMTOB, Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh.AMTOB is the national trade body representing all six mobile network operators--Airtel,

DHAKA: Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance has extended 48-hour hartal by 12-hour till Wednesday 6:00pm in protest against detaining the party leaders.Vice-Chairman of the party Selima Rahman made the announcement while talking to journalist at her Gulshan residence on Tuesday

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) has transferred eight Upazila Nirbahi Officers for their negligence in performing duty during the 10th parliamentary elections held on Sunday.The Election Commission issued the direction on Tuesday.    According to the orders, the UNO are Chilmari

BARISAL: An elderly woman along with her son was hacked to death by the miscreants in Gati area under Babuganj upazila of the district on Tuesday morning.   The deceased were identified as Monika Mridha, 65, wife of Anil Mridha and her son Sushil Mridha, 45, residents of the