JHENIDAH: Jakir Hossain Shanti, 38, a local Jubo League leader, finally died on Sunday morning after fighting for life for the last four days.   Assistant police super of Jhenidah Faisal Hossain told banglanews24.com.bd that Jakir came under a bomb attack on 7 July at around 9 pm near

GAZIPUR: Reckless truck driving took a college girl’s life in Gazipur on Saturday night as the lorry knocked her off a rickshaw and then ran over her on Dhaka bypass road. The deceased, Ruma, 21, daughter of Mir Abdul Matin of Meghdubi village in the district, was a final-year honours

DHAKA: Police arrested a man and his wife for torturing domestic help at Badda in the city Saturday.   Badda police said Alauddin and his wife Roksana Akter were arrested for torturing Fatema Akter.   Roksana Akter poured hot water on Fatema on Friday burning her body’s left side,

JHENIDAH: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun Saturday said the government would recruit 32,000 more personnel for the short-handed police in next three years, as “law and order could not be maintained duly for manpower shortages”.   The minister disclosed the plan while

BRAHMANBARIA: Unrelenting leakages in the pipeline of Titas gas field spread fear of blowout on both banks of the river, as the highly combustible fuel spews out with sparks.   Locals apprehend that big explosion might happen due to the leakages.       Besides, many aquatic

THAKURGAON: A new 50mw rental power plant here will go into operation Sunday to feed the power-hungry national grid. Project Dirrector of Thakurgaon Power Plant Shahadat Sohen and Project Manager Emdadul Haq told banglanews24.com.bd that some 41 generators of the power plant have been

DHAKA: bdjobs.com, a job portal of the country, has been conducting a survey to find out the best employer of the country. Employees and job seekers can participate in the survey, Prokash Roy Chowdhury, Marketing Manager of the bdjobs, told a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity

GAZIPUR: At least eight workers were injured in a brawl between two departments of Dana Sweeter factory over production-rate payments at Shardaganj in Kashimpur area on Saturday morning. Sub-Inspector of Chakraborty police outpost Syed Ajharul Islam told banglanews24.com.bd that eight

DHAKA: Speakers at a seminar here Saturday stressed the need for reforming the laws and issuing driving licenses through proper process to make the roads safe.The speakers also emphasized that the faulty vehicles should be checked to improve the situation.Said Foundation, Families United

KOLKATA:  Swine flu, a virus that is fatal for humans, erupted again in Kolkata, officials said.Ashit Biswas, a spokesman for the Health Ministry of the West Bengal State government, said, “Two kids of five and six years have been found suffering from swine flu in Kolkata.”The

DHAKA: Critical health conditions of former BNP secretary-general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, now under treatment of lung cancer at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital, improved a little Saturday. “He has his sense but unable to make any movement,” hospital’s ICU chief Mirza

COX’S BAZAR: Two people were killed and two injured in a road crash in Ramu upazila on the Cox’s Bazar-Chittagong Highway Friday night.The deceased were identified as Riaduddin, 24, and Manjur Ahmed, 19, hailed from Kharulia Dargahpara. They both were the passengers of a

DHAKA: Jute and Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui Saturday came to the rescue of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, from wide-scale criticisms for wrongdoings as he said BCL is not involved in extortion and tender manipulation.Siddiqui, also AL

DHAKA: After the Gazipur mass protests, speakers at a demonstration in the capital Saturday said the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) mooted by the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) is aimed at evicting middle-and lower middle-class people from Narayanganj district. They termed RAJUK a ‘den

JOYPURHAT: Police detained seven men of Shibir including its upazila unit president and general secretary on Friday midnight from a mosque at Boar village in Akkelpur Upazila of the district.Police sources said, “The Shibir activists were on a secret meeting in the name of Shab-e-Miraj

CHITTAGONG: District administration Saturday imposed section 144 in Sitakunda upazila to avoid a possible clash between the rival groups of Awami League and BNP as they called meetings at the same place. Additional police have been deployed in the upazila to avert any untoward incident as

DHAKA: Condition of former secretary general of BNP Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, suffering from lung cancer, improved slightly Saturday, said his personal physician Bazlul Gani Bhuiyan.“The physical condition of Mannan Bhuiyan is now a bit better as the temperature of his body has come down to

DHAKA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion and police, in separate drives on Friday night, held nine suspected militants from Kalabagan and Uttara in the city. Acting on secret information, a team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in association with Kalabagan Police Station,

DHAKA: After the Gazipur mass protests, speakers at a demonstration in the capital Saturday said the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) mooted by the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) is aimed at evicting middle-and lower middle-class people from Narayanganj district. They termed RAJUK a

MEHERPUR:  A head-on collision between two human haulers on Gangni-Hatbowali road in Gangni upazila left a septuagenarian man killed Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Jan Mohammad, 70, of Hemait village in Gangni upazila.Witnesses said the human haulers, locally known as