SAVAR: The workers of three garment factories in Savar-Ashulia area Thursday began agitation on various demands, mainly pay and perk hike, generating fresh unrest in the industrial hub.  Witnesses said the workers of Natural Benin Limited company’s apparel factory in Tangabari area of

CHITTAGONG: A police constable on traffic duty was killed as a defiantly driven microbus ran over him in Patia pourashava area early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Golam Mostafa, 43, hailed from Comilla.Police and hospital sources said Mostofa asked a speeding microbus to halt at

PABNA: A group of Rab-12 Pabna camp Wednesday night held a young man with a foreign revolver in the district.Rab sources said on secret information the Rab held Azad Kalam, son of Nader Ali khan of Maligachha under sadar upazila. They seized a foreign revolver from him.Azad was sent to

DHAKA: A couple of general diaries have been lodged with Shahbagh police station against an emailed threat of blowing up important establishments if four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders facing the war-crime trial are not freed. Supreme Court Deputy Registrar Sheikh Hafizur Rahman and Shahbagh

DHAKA: State Minister for Power Enamul Haque urged the power distribution companies to invest their profits in improving distribution system and ensuring quality services. “You can improve the quality of services using the profit you made. You can improve the distribution system and

DHAKA: Labour and Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain Wednesday asked recruiting agencies not to destroy the overseas labour market through cheating, as some nefarious scams came to light. "Some recruiting agencies are sending manpower on `jiarat visa`. As a result, the

DHAKA: Dhaka district administration with the assistance of Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI) begins anti-adulteration drive Monday ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.“Two mobile courts will conduct drive on the first day while four mobile courts will be on the street

DHAKA: Law Minister Barrister Shafiq Ahmed said the government cannot be cowed out from the trial of war criminals by issuing threats. “No one can stop the trial of war criminals by threat or coercion,” he told banglanews24.com.bd. His comment came in the wake of threat over email,

DHAKA: The government is bent on introducing Industrial Police at a cost of Tk 20.30 crore with around 3,000 members in the force to start with. A high-level meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office will finalise the new police unit’s formation and discuss its modus operandi, official

SIRAJGANJ: At least three people were killed and seven injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Naimuri under Salonga thana in Ullapara upazila on Wednesday evening. One of the deceased was identified as Sukumar Saha, 45, son of late Sushil Saha of Kalikapur village

GOPALGANJ: Commerce Minister Lt. Col. (rtd) Faruk Khan said the killings of the past will be tried and the killers would not be able to save their skin in hiding. “The trial will take place to establish rule of law...no one will go unpunished,” Khan said. The Minister was addressing

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave for New York on September 18 to attend the 65th General Assembly of the United Nations, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. “Prime Minister will leave Dhaka on September 18 with an around 80-member delegation of government officials and

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Chased by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, a teenage Bangladeshi cattle trader jumped into the Mahananda for life and drowned in the brimming river along Bholahat border on Tuesday night, sources here said.The deceased was identified as Abdus Sabur,

DHAKA: With no exception ever, going home for Eid vacationing is bedeviled by sufferings, mental stresses and physical toil before the pleasure.This time, too, it makes little difference in the common scenario, as it has already been proved. Barely nine days left before the Eid vacation,

ASHUGANJ: A 20-member joint team of Bangladesh and India visited Ashuganj river port Wednesday to monitor the infrastructure-and road-development works for the transshipment centre in the making for freight transportation to India’s northeast.Additional secretary of Communications

CHITTAGONG: State Minister for Home Affairs Advocate Shamsul Haque Tuku Wednesday said the “illegal military rulers” introduced communal politics in the country after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to serve their perverse purpose. “They (the military rulers)

DHAKA: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will investigate the incident of torture on a preteen boy in police custody in Mymensingh, as the watchdog begins to chase predators. A team of investigators goes to Mymensingh on September 5. Commission members Fouzia Karim and Aroma

COMILLA: The local administration Wednesday imposed section 144 in Daudkandi upazila to avert a possible clash between rival BNP and Shramik League as they arranged iftar mahfil at the same place and same time.Daudkandi Thana OC SM Kawsar Uddin Chowdhury told banglanews24.com.bd, “Both

CHITTAGONG: Country’s first case under cyber law has been registered in the port city against seven businessmen on charges of email-password piracy and server hacking. Captain Mohiuddin Abdul Kader, a marine businessman and managing director of Hareson International in Agrabad business

SHARIATPUR: Yet another custodial death was reported, now in this southwestern district, despite last July’s High Court directive for the government to punish such excesses following a number of deaths in custody in the capital.The deceased was identified as Mokhlesur Rahman, 40, of