DHAKA:  State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury Wednesday urged mass media to play a vital role along with the government to prevent oppression against women.     “Government alone cannot stop repression against women and ensure their rights. A

DHAKA: The CMM Court of Dhaka Wednesday recorded confessional statement of Anwar Alam alias Bhagne Shahid, the stand-in chief of the banned militant outfit JMB, in the case of attempt to murder Dr Humayun Azad.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Emdadul Haque recorded the statement under

DHAKA: A suspected mugger was shot dead during a shootout after a woman was mugged in the capital’s posh Gulshan area in broad daylight Wednesday, police and witnesses said.During the exchange of fire, a bullet holed into the car of Awami League leader and former minister Abdur Razzak

DHAKA: Some workers of the ruling Awami League and its youth front Juba League swooped on police in Nikunja area under city’s Khilkhet thana on Tuesday night during an eve-teasing incident, leaving four policepersons injured.  The attackers also snatched away the pistol of a

DHAKA: Awami League MP Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon was Wednesday sued for the killing of party leader Ibrahim Ahmed in the capital.Victim’s brother Masum Ahmed filed a murder case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court implicating the ruling-party lawmaker as the main accused.Delwar

Dhaka: A woman was killed in a road accident in the city’s Farmgate area under Tejgaon thana on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Mahmuda Begum, 56. Duty Officer of Tejgaon thana ASI Mohammad Lokman told banglanews24.com.bd a bus crashed into a motorcycle, on which

GAZIPUR: Garment workers blockaded the Dhaka–Mymensingh highway and vandalized vehicles in a violent protest after a fellow worker was killed in a road accident on Wednesday morning.Police said Sujan Mia, 30, knitting operator of World Fashion garment factory, was run over by a bus in

PIROJPUR: The investigation team of the International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday morning began investigation on two cases filed against detained Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee in Pirojpur. The team has already started quizzing plaintiffs, witnesses and people concerned

SYLHET:  Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)  held four arms traders alongwith arms and ammunition after trading fire with the gang in  South Surma upazila early Wednesday.Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-9 in the guise of buyers went  to the arms traders near Humayun Rashid

DHAKA: Market monitoring team of the Commerce Ministry has fined 11 businessmen of four markets in the city for over pricing the goods.The teams realised Tk 3 lakh from the drives conducted in Hatirpul Bazar, New Market, Karwanbazar and Kalmilata markets.Director general of National

DHAKA: A minor schoolboy was killed when a wall collapsed on him at TSC of Dhaka University campus on Tuesday.The victim Jakaria Hossain, 11, was student of Class III of Neelkhet School. His father is a Class III staff of the university and lives near TSC. Shahbag Thana source said the

DHAKA:  Police stations in the capital did not get expected responses in filing the general diaries (GDs) online even after five months of launching the service. Senior police officials blamed poor publicity for such responses.The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) introduced the modern

GAZIPUR: Commerce Minister Col. (retd) Faruk Khan Tuesday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would complete Bangabandhu`s incomplete tasks as the father of the nation could not complete those for conspirators.    "Bangabandhu’s dream was that the Bengali nation would be the number one

PIROJPUR : An investigation team of the International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday night arrived here to probe into the allegations of war crimes against detained Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee. A source said ASP Helaluddin is leading the four-member investigation team. The

DHAKA: The High Court set August 22 for hearing the petition filed by Jamaat challenging the legality of some provisions of the International Crimes Tribunal Act and the first amendment to the constitution, hence the trial of its leaders on war-crime charges.  An HC bench comprising

MYMENSINGH: The first-ever fish museum of Southeast Asia styled Fish Museum and Biodiversity Center is going to open at Bangladesh Agriculture University (BAU) Wednesday.This is the first example of setting up an exclusive fish museum among the Southeast Asian countries although a few

DHAKA: Now ‘regionalism’ outweighs nepotism in recruitment of manpower for the Civil Aviation Authority, informed sources said, as one district made the most out of the job cake.  The Authority recently recruited 82 people on contract basis, and among them, 48 came from Gopalganj,

DHAKA: The Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment is set to appoint labour councilors in six countries. The countries are Korea, Japan, England, Russia, Egypt and South Africa, according to official sources. The appointment is expected to help Bangladesh to expand its

DHAKA: The Supreme Court issued another contempt-of-court rule against detained acting editor of the Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman and its publisher Hashmat Ali Tuesday for publishing a commentary in the Bengali daily.In the rule the apex court gave them up to August 24 to explain why they

DHAKA: A Dhaka court for the fifth time deferred the date for the hearing on charge framing in a tax-evasion case against former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar till October 10. Mojammel Hossain, acting judge of Dhaka Special Judges` Court-3, issued the order after Babar’s