RAJSHAHI: Detective Branch (DB) of Police recovered some 65 cocktails and five-kg gunpowder at around 2:30am Monday from Binodpur area under Motihar Thana of the metropolitan city.Officer-in-Charge of Rajshahi Metropolitan DB Alamgir Hossain confirmed the matter to banglanews.BDST: 1132

PABNA: Three workers were killed in a road accident in Boalmari area under Sathia upazila of the district on Monday morning.Of the deceased, two were indentified as Driver Shah Alam, 34, Helper Nabir Uddin, 48 while the identity of another yet to know.Witnesses said that a good-laden

DHAKA: At least 55 shops were gutted, which damaged properties worth about Tk 80 lakhs, in Barisal and Patuakhali districts on Sunday night.In Barisal, 40 shops were gutted in a devastating fire at Saheber Hat area under Agailjhara Upazila in the district on Sunday night.Sources said fire

CHITTAGONG: At least two people were killed and four others injured in a road accident near Egaromail area at Hathazari upazila in the district on Sunday.The deceased were identified as Abdus Sabur, 40, Hathazari branch manager of Mercantile Bank and M Hasan, 35, son of Abdul Mannan

LAXMIPUR: A journalist was killed in a road crash at Chandraganj Bazar under Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday afternoon.The deceased was identified as M Zakir Hossain, 37, News Editor of local Daily Jatiya Noor and son of Abdul High hailed from Begumganj upazila under Noakhali

BRAHMANBARIA: At least two people were killed and 25 others, including police, were injured in a clash between two groups at Sohaghpur village under Ashuganj upazila of the district on Sunday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Hira Mia, 55 and Sharif, 15, son of Shajahan Mia.The

DHAKA: A security guard was killed as two cocktails were blasted in city’s Kamlapur Railway Station area on Friday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Kashem, an on duty security patrol man of Kamlapur Railway Station.Sources said miscreants blasted cocktails around 3:25pm in the

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Sunday acquitted London based tabloid newspaper ‘The Economist’ from a contempt of court case.A three-member tribunal bench led by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir passed the verdict as the allegation against ‘The Economist’ was not proved.On

DHAKA: Viqarunnisa Noon School and College attained the top position in the Junior School Certificate (JCD) examination in 2013.Besides, Rajuk Uttara Model School obtained third position in the country which was first in two previous years.On the other hand, Motijheel Ideal School and

NARAYANGANJ: A worker was killed and six others sustained burn injuries as a gas cylinder exploded in Sonakanda area of the port Thana of the district on Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Mamun alias Babul while injured are Md Rahim, 25, Haider, 20, Shafiqul, 36, Shipon, 26,

MUNSHIGANJ: Ferry services on Mawa-Kawrakandi river route resumed Sunday morning after a 13 hours suspension due to poor visibility for dense fog.Eight ferries started carrying vehicles from 10:30am.Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Mawa Assistant Manager (commerce)

DHAKA:  An activist of Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, was found dead in capital’s Malibagh area on Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Mansur, a Chhatra Shibir activist.Locals found Monsur who sustained bullet injuries lying on the ground at a lane in

DHAKA: Journalists and police locked into a scuffle at press club in city on Sunday morning following a bad comment by senior officers of police to journalists.Sources said that police obstructed the journalists who thronged the area for gathering news while they were trying to enter the

DHAKA: Dhaka-bound people are facing excessive search by law enforcers at every entry point of the capital on Sunday ahead of the opposition’s program ‘March for Democracy. Putting check posts and barricades on streets, law enforcers are checking the suspected people and vehicles

GAZIPUR: Three people, including a woman and her son, were killed and three others injured in a road accident near Salna bridge on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway on Sunday morning.Of the deceased, one was identified as Md Uzzal of Thrishal upazila of Mymensingh while the identity of the

TANGAIL: A nine-year old child was killed and four others injured in a road accident on Madhupur-Mymensingh highway of Telki area under Madhupur Thana of the district on Saturday afternoon.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Officer-in-Charge of Madhupur Thana

DHAKA: Awami League president Sheikh Hasina on Saturday announced her party’s goal as to reduce poverty in the country to 13 percent by 2021.She came up with the announcement while unveiling party’s 48-page manifesto for the upcoming 10th parliamentary elections at 3:30pm at city’s

MYMENSINGH: The movement of buses and trains from the district remained halted ahead of the BNP-led 18-party alliance rally ‘March for Democracy’ on Sunday.Apart from this, some 25 BNP-Jamaat men were picked up by the law enforcement agency from different points of the district for

RAJSHAHI: A schoolboy was killed and another two people were injured in a road accident at Bhugroil under Paba upazila of the division on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Sayem Ali, 14, student of class-VII of Rajshahi Collegiate School and son of Sazzad Ali, resident of

SIRAJGANJ: The 15-km tailback on the western side of Dhaka-Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge highway created and vehicles are slowly gaining their normal speed from Saturday noon.Highway police and local sources said the vehicles were moving slowly because of the gridlock of last 10-hour.Local