DHAKA: Bangladesh High Commissioner to Kenya Wahidur Rahman was attacked and robbed of cash and valuables at his residence in Nairobi on Saturday night. Police and guards at his compound said Rahman escaped unhurt after the 9:00pm incident in which he was robbed more than Sh170,000, a

TANGAIL: Law enforcers arrested Rakib Hasan, who was snatched by his fellow JMB members from police custody.  He was arrested from Sakhipur of Tangail around 3:45pm on Sunday.      Police Super of Mymensingh district Moinul Haque confirmed the matter to banglanews.Police trying to

CHITTAGONG: A housewife allegedly committed suicide at Muslimabad Jail Para of Patenga Thana in the port city on Saturday late night.          The deceased was identified as Mita Barua, 19, daughter of Kanun Basu, hailed from Chandina upazila of Comilla district.  She used to

DHAKA: The elections to reserve women seat will be held at Election Commsion office on March 29.Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed on Sunday announced the schedule of the polls.The voting will start 9:00am and continue till 5:00pm without any break.Joint secretary

DHAKA: Supreme Court Justice M Enayetur Rahim has been appointed as chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday.Law and Justice Department of the Law, Justice and Parliament Affairs ministry has issued a gazette notification in this regard.The post of the ICT-1 chairman fell

DINAJPUR: Two people including a school girl were killed and 30 others injured in a road accident in Suzalpur village under Birganj Upazila of the district on Sunday morning.The deceased were identified as Soma Rani Roy, 14 and her mother Malati Rani Roy, 65.Sources said that a bus

DHAKA: Four accused of Jubayer Ahmed, a former student of Jahangirnagar University, killing case fled from dock of a Dhaka court on Sunday.The accused are Khandaker Ashikul Islam Ashik, Khan M Roichh, Istiak Mehbub Arup and Mahbub Akram.Earlier on the day, they were appeared before the

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained two people with fire arms from Shyampur playground under Kadamtali Thana of the city on Saturday noon.Officer-in-Charge Kadamtali Thana Mostafijur Rahman told banglanews: “Acting on a tip-off, police held them from the spot with a foreign pistol and local

DHAKA: Executive Director of rights organization ‘Ain o Salish Kendra’ Advocate Sultana Kamal on Saturday said “militancy is a game of international politics”. She came up with the observation while addressing a discussion on ‘Threats of Militancy: Bangladesh Perspective’

DHAKA: A businessman was killed in a road accident in Jatrabari area in the capital on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Mainuddin, 45, resident of Dhalpur area under Jatrabari Thana of the capital.Police sources said that a rashly driven CNG-run auto-rickshaw knocked Mainuddin down

DHAKA: Editor of the Daily Samakal Golam Sarwar on Saturday urged the authorities concerned to form a special tribunal for curbing militancy in the country.The senior journalist of the country came up with the plea while addressing a seminar on ‘Threats of Militancy: Bangladesh’s

DHAKA: Around 1,01,000 pilgrims are to perform Hajj in Mecca from Bangladesh this year where only 10-thousand people get a chance under government management and rest pilgrims by non-government management.The President of Hajj Agency Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) M Ibrahim Bahar said

DHAKA: Body of an unidentified youth, aged about 25, who was crushed under train wheels, was found at the rail line of city’s Kamlapur Railway Station on Saturday.Police sources said that on information, Railway Police recovered the body from the rail line of platform-7 around

DHAKA: There are around 40 militant organizations in the country including Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Jama`atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and so on.The lawyer of the Apex court of the country Barrister Abdur Rashid was addressing a program at capital’s Radisson Hotel,

DHAMRAI, DHAKA: At least 20 passengers were injured in a road accident in Joypura area on Dhaka-Aricha highway on Saturday morning.The accident took place around 11:00am.Witnesses said a passenger bus heading to Satkhira from Dhaka collided head-on with a brick-laden truck in the area,

DHAKA: A businessman, who was drugged by a gang of Agyan Party on Friday midnight at Karwan bazar, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Delwar Hosain, 55, hailed from Nagarkanda upazila of Faridpur district.The members of Agyan

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Siraj, key planner of Kishoreganj Sonali Bank loot, from Bhairab early Saturday. Robbers made away with Tk 16.40 crore from a Sonali Bank branch in Kishoreganj by digging a tunnel into the bank’s vault.Some 17 people including 12 officials of

DHAKA: The Malaysian police rescued 11 Bangladeshis who were abducted by a human trafficking syndicate, reports the Star.    Besides, four Myanmar citizens were among the 15 foreigners rescued by police in raids in George Town, Penang.They were found in a room when the police raided

CHITTAGONG: Rafique Uddin, father of head of marketing of banglanews24.com Sirajul Islam, died on Friday noon for old age complexity.  He breathed his last on the way to Chittagong Medical College Hospital. He was 80.He left behind six sons, five daughters and many well wishers including

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said there was no country in the world which had to fight for their mother language like Bangladesh.  “Bengali is our mother tongue and we had to sacrifice lives for it. We had to fight for it. Bangladeshis got the mother language by fighting,” she