NARAYANGONJ: Police arrested BNP leader advocate Taimur Alam Khandaker on Tuesday afternoon, outside the district court here in connection with a violence…

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her little daughter from a house near Ahmedbagh Community Centre under Sabujbagh Police Station in the capital on Tuesday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Shantona Begum, 26, wife of Mamun, an electrician, and their daughter Mahfuza,2. Informed…

The historic Mass Upsurge Day will be observed today commemorating the 1969's movement for autonomy of the then East Pakistan that eventually led to Liberation War and emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, reports BSS. On this day in 1969 Matiur Rahman Mallik, a standard IX student of the Nabakumar Institution,…

State appointed counsel for BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday concluded placing arguments for his fugitive client in the August 21 grenade attack case of 2004, reports BSS. Advocate AKM Akhter Hossain started placing arguments yesterday and concluded yesterday morning. Judge Shahed Nur…

The third death anniversary of Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and current chairperson Khaleda Zia, will be observed today, reports UNB. BNP and its associate bodies have chalked out various programmes to mark the day. As part of the programmes, BNP will arrange a milad…

The area of the Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2018 has extended this year with the increase in the number of stalls compared to the previous years, reports BSS. The land earmarked for the fair has been increased to about 5,50,000 square feet from last year's 5,13,000 square feet, Bangla Academy sources…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at an advocacy meeting here unequivocally called for combating the existing violation of the amended tobacco control law for the sake of making the public health free from various non-contagious diseases caused by tobacco uses, reports BSS. They said the number of mobile court should…

KHULNA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a fugitive convict, who was sentenced to life term imprisonment in Ekusey Padak winning journalist Manik Saha murder case, from bus stand area of Satkhira district town on Monday night, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Billal…

Awami League lawmaker and former Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) president Saber Hossain Chowdhury has been honoured with ‘Friendship Order’, a service award of the government of Vietnam, reports UNB. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, the chairperson of the National Assembly of Vietnam, handed over the…

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Monday adjourned passing order on indictment against 17 Maheshkhali war crimes accused, till February 26, reports BSS. “Justice Md Shahinur Islam, chairman of the three-member panel of the ICT-1, passed the order accepting appearance by an engaged lawyer…

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperative Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday said the government has a plan to construct more 73 public toilets under modernisation of the open space, development and greening project of the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), reports BSS. “A…

20 shanties gutted in Gazipur At least 20 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out in a slum in Tongi railway station area of the Gazipur city early Tuesday.  Fire service sources said that the fire broke out around 1:45am when some residents of the slum lit fire using straw to protect them…

Orientation of Spring Semester held at AIUB The orientation of newly enrolled students of undergraduate and graduate programmes for the Spring Semester 2017-2018 of American International University – Bangladesh (AIUB) was held on Monday on the university campus in Kuril, says a press release.…