FENI: Two minors drowned at Rajapur union in Dagonbhuiyan upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Faisal, 11, son of Abul Bashar and Rafi, 9, son of Abul Kashem, hailed from Bhabanipur village of Rajapur union in Dagonbhuiyan upazila.Local sources

DHAKA: Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus continued his week in New York addressing the special session on Haiti at the Clinton Global Initiative participated by President Clinton, Laurent Lamothe, Prime Minister of Haiti. Professor Yunus is a member of Presidential Advisory Council

CHITTAGONG: Three workers were electrocuted and another one injured in a unit of state-run Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizer factory in the port city on Saturday evening.The deceased were identified as M Sahabuddin, 30, M Maruf, 20, Waiz Nur, 40.Constable of Chittagong Medical College

CHITTAGONG: A minor was killed in a road mishap in Oxygen area at Bayezid Bostami Thana in the port city on Saturday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Fatema Akhter, 8, daughter of Bashir Mia, resident of Debidar upazila of Comilla district.Constable of Chittagong Medical College

DHAKA: The students of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute staged protest demo by blocking roads and ransacking building on Saturday morning to press home their 2-point demands. The agitating students blockaded at Satrastar Matha intersection in city Tejgaon industrial area that halted vehicular

DHAKA: A businessman was shot to dead by miscreants in capital’s Mirpur area on Saturday noon.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Jafrul Haque Mina, 55, a real estate businessman.Rupnagar police station officer-in-Charge Md. Shamim Hossain confirmed the matter to banglanews.Quoting

BOGRA: Five students sustained bullet injuries during a fierce clash between the students of Bogra Polytechnic College and police on Saturday. The clash erupted when students started pre-declared protest on demand of cancellation of examination which was scheduled to be held on September

DHAKA: Seventy-nine Bangladeshis have been detained for months without trial in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for illegal entry, and now their biggest fear is that they will be deported to Iran instead of being sent back home.As the police officer clangs open the door to the large prison

FROM UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY HALL: Prime Minister Sheikh Haisna said the present Election Commission can hold free, fair and credible national elections. She also said: “During our government`s tenure, the Election Commission has conducted 5,777 elections, electing 63,995 persons to the

DHAKA UNIVARSITY: The voting for electing 25 registered graduates’ representatives to the Dhaka University senate of Dhaka University ended at 5.30pm Saturday.Unofficial results of the election will be published on Sunday after completion of the counting of ballots.The election started

GAZIPUR: Agitated RMG workers staged protest by blocking Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in MC Bazar area under Sreepur upazila of the district on Saturday in protest against workers’ job cut by factory authority.Meanwhile, another factory authority declared the factory lay off to avoid

GAZIPUR: At least 20 readymade garment workers injured in a clash with police on Dhaka-Tangail highway on Saturday morning.Witnesses said that workers of SQ garments came out on roads at around 09:30am and attacked adjacent garments as the neighboring Kostoks garments workers did not

ASULIA, DHAKA: Authorities of five readymade garments in Ashulia shut their factories for Saturday following unwanted workers’ agitation.Locals said the agitated workers of Noble Comfort Composite Limited along with workers of four other factories started protest at the factory premises

DHAKA: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) submitted charge sheet against former state minister of Bangladesh Abul Hasan over Padma Bridge graft scam.Canadian police submitted charge against Abul Hasan and Julfikar Ali Bhuiyan on September 26, but the matter was disclosed on

DHAKA: At least eight people were injured in a road accident at golchattar in front of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of the city on Saturday morning.The injured were rushed to the nearby hospital.Sources said a Gazipur-bound bus of Balaka Paribahan turned into turtle at around

DHAKA: The 67th birth day of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Awami League is being celebrated across the country Saturday.Prime Minister Hasina is now in New York for attending the 68th UN General Assembly.On this day in 1947, Sheikh Hasina, elder daughter of

DHAKA: Four people were injured in head-on collision between a truck and a microbus in capital’s Basabo Buddhist Monastery area early Saturday.The identity of the injured could not be known immediately.Witnesses said a Khilgaon-bound goods-laden truck collided with microbus coming from

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents and with what little we had they were able to provide an education

THAKURGAON: Two devotees were killed as lighting struck them in Paria village of Baliadanga upazila of the district on Friday noon.The deceased were identified as Abul Hossain, 25 and Hasmat Uddin, 105.Witnesses said that they were returning home after saying Jumma prayer. On the way, it

KHULNA: The Long march towards Sundarbans demanding the cancellation of Rampal Power Project to save the mangrove forest reached at the Shaheed Hadis Park of the city on Friday afternoon.Here the participants of the Long march organized a rally. The Long march will stay in the city for