BAGERHAT: Two people, including a school girl, were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Badhalbazar under Kachua upazila of the district on Thursday morning.The deceased were identified as Farzana Akter, 13, a class-VIII student upazila’s BK high school and Alamin

MADARIPUR: A college student was burnt to death as a fire broke at their house at Purbapuali village under Kalkini upazila of the district early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Roni Hassan, 25, honors first year student of Kalkini Syed Abul Hossain College.Sources said that the

BOGRA: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by Local BNP unit, is underway in the Gabtoli upazila of the district on Thursday to resist voting in the Bogra-7 constituency.    The movement of vehicles remained stopped. Beside shops and markets were closed in the area. Following violence by

DHAKA: With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, the first meeting of newly formed cabinet started on Thursday morning, breaking the general rule of holding cabinet meeting on Monday.Confirming the matter, deputy-chief Information officer AFM Aminul Islam told banglanews that the

DHAKA: Shahariar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, is set to sit with the diplomats of different countries on Thursday afternoon for the first time after the new government took charge.State Minister will brief the foreign envoys about post-election situation of the country around

LONDON: Bangladesh issue is going to be discussed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom on Thursday like in the European parliament.Sources said that the discussion will be held ongoing politics, just-concluded election, formation of new government and attacks on minority communities in

DHAKA: The voting is counting on as it ended in seven postponed constituencies of the 10th parliamentary elections Thursday.   The voting started at 8:00am and continued till 4:00pm without any break.  On January 5, the Election Commission (EC) postponed the voting in 392 polling

DHAKA: The European Parliament (EP) is scheduled to see a debate on recent Bangladesh elections at its debate chamber in Strasbourg France on Thursday.According to the European Parliament, the debate will focus on fundamental freedoms, human rights and democracy in general in

DHAKA: The rescheduled poll in two polling centres of Kurigram-4 constituency was postponed by an order of the High Court. Jatiya Party (JP) candidate Ruhul Amin bagged 30,544 votes while his nearest opponent Zakir Hossain of Awami League got 23,946 votes in 104 polling centres out of 106

DHAKA: Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich congratulates newly elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the confident victory in the recent General Parliaments Elections.External Publicity Wing of the Foreign Ministry made the disclosure in a

DHAKA: Director General of Environment Department Golam Rabbani was made acting secretary of Local Government and Rural Development Ministry.Public Administration Affairs Ministry issued a gazette notification to this effect on Wednesday.BDST: 1640 HRS, JAN 15, 2014Edited By: Shameem

COMILLA: Two people were killed and another injured in a road accident in Barapara area under Daudkandi Upazila of the district on Wednesday morning.The deceased were identified as Ruhul Amin, 55 and Moti Mia, 60.Sources said that after the driver lost control over the steering, a covered

GOPALGANJ: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, paid homage to the father of nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Wednesday.A team of three forces consisting Army, Navy and Air forces gave guard of honour.Later, the primer joined in a special prayer

CHITTAGONG: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, is underway in the port city on Wednesday.The organization is observing the shutdown in protest against killing of its leader of Chittagong University.Metropolitan Deputy Police

DAULATDIA: Ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia river route resumed on Wednesday morning after a 6-hour disruption due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.Zillur Rahman, manger of Daulatdia branch of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) said to banglanews that due

BHOLA: Coast Guard of Bangladesh in a drive seized 80-maund Jatka (young hilsa bellow nine inches long) from a passenger launch in Ilisha Bishwaroad area of the district Tuesday night. Coast Guard South zone operation officer Lieutenant Rakibul Hassan said to banglanews that a team of

DHAKA: A man, who sustained burn injuries when election protesters attacked him, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Bachchu Pradhania, 50, son of late Abdul Mazid Pradhania.Earlier on January 6, miscreants

KURIGRAM:  Miscreants slaughtered four members of a family at Diadanga village under Bhurungamari upazila of the district early Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Sultan Mia, 55, his wife hazera Begum, 45, their granddaughters Romana Begum, 14 and Anika, 7.Another granddaughter

CHITTAGONG: Two convicts of police killing case and ‘professional muggers’ were killed in ‘gunfight’ with cops at Beribadh in Halishahar of Chittagong Wednesday morning.The deceased were identified as Nasir, 25 and Razib, 25.Sources said that acting on a tip off police went to the

DHAKA: After India and China, the two big powerfull countries, Russia congratulated the newly formed Awami League government as it assumed on power.Russian ambassador Alexander Nikolaev handed over a letter on congratulate to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gono Bhaban on Tuesday