CHITTAGONG: A suspected burglar was beaten to death by a mob of villagers at Gabindorkhil village under Patia upazila in the district early Monday.    Imtiaz Ahmed, Officer-in-Charge of Patia Thana, said local people caught a young stranger at around 4am in front of one Mohammad

DHAKA: The government Monday brought some changes in the administration in a latest spell of reshuffle, including removal of an official of the crisis-ridden power sector.According to separate notifications issued by the Establishment Ministry Monday, member of the Power Development Board

DINAJPUR: Hordes of affected locals Monday laid an indefinite siege to Barapukuria coalmine amid a rowdy demonstration to realize compensation for the homesteads and farmlands they lost.Witnesses said the demonstrators also enforced road-rail blockade piling up logs on the Dhaka-Dinajpur

DHAKA: Inspector-General of Police Nur Mohammad Monday raised a riddle over ward councilor and BNP leader Chowdhury Alam’s disappearance as he said it could be an act of “sabotage” centering “business conflict” or next Dhaka City Corporation election. “Investigation is

DHAKA: The government is working to achieve cent-percent literacy in the country by the year 2014, ensuring education for all the children aged 6-18, an international meet in Dhaka was told Monday, as Bangladesh still hosts a large number of illiterates.  State Minister for Primary and

DHAKA: The Government has gone for enhancing health and housing facilities for officials and employees by establishing a modern hospital and constructing multistoried buildings in the capital. An official source said the initiatives have been taken mainly for those government officials

DHAKA: Detained Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was Monday taken on three days’ remand for grilling over the ‘attempt to murder’ Dhaka University Professor Dr. Humayun Azad.Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofael Hasan granted the remand when he was produced in the court, at the end

DHAKA : A student of Open University was shot dead by unidentifiedassailants at capital`s Khilgaon area Sunday, police said.Sub-inspector of Khilgaon police station Mostafizur Rahman said some10 to 12 unidentified youths sprayed bullet indiscriminately on ShetuReza at around 9.30pm while

DHAKA: The High Commission of India here introduced online submission of visa applications. Visa seekers to India may visit www.hcidhaka.org or www.ivacbd.com to register applications online, a press release of Indian High Commission here said on Sunday. However, online submission of visa

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel rescued a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the city’s Banasree area Saturday, 13 days after she had allegedly been abducted from Kushtia.The girl was identified as Alo Khatun, daughter of Mosharaf Hossain of Jugia Mathpara village and a class-ten

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni MP said Bangladesh will open a resident mission in Lisbon soon to serve the needs of the growing Bangladesh community in Portugal. “The community in Portugal is growing and they are contributing positively there,” she said as a Special Envoy of

DHAKA: The government will award 108 foreign nationals recognizing their contribution to the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.A national committee has prepared a preliminary list by evaluating the contribution of foreigners to the War of Liberation, official sources said.  ``Further

DHAKA: The government on Sunday extended the contracts of Bangladesh Tariff Commission Chairman Dr Mojibur Rahman for two years, a notification by the Establishment Ministry said. The government also made some changes in a number of positions in the civil bureaucracy.Deputy secretaries of

BAGERHAT: Two employees of Bagerhat Court were temporarily suspended on Sunday on charge of hunting 10 water ducks which are on the verge of extinction. Bagerhat District and Sessions Judge GM Salauddin issued the order suspending Md Abdul Hannan alias Moni and Sharoj Kumar Biswas.Court

NARSINGDI: Country’s tenuous electricity supply took a knock as a major unit of Ghorasal power hub tripped Sunday following a baffling fire incident. Official sources said the fire broke out at unit-6 at about 3pm and burnt the turbine rotor. The blaze halted generation of 210-megawatt

GOPALGANJ:  A court here on Sunday granted a three-day remand for quizzing Harkatul Jihad (HuJi) leader Mufti Hannan in Baniarchar bomb explosion case. Gopalganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Molla Saiful Alam passed the order as the investigation officer made a 10-day remand plea.The court

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday ordered the government to stop all kinds of encroachment, earth filling and construction of structures on the Karnaphuli river in Chittagong for next three months, as river gobbling goes on recklessly.It also issued a rule upon government to explain within

DINAJPUR: A Court here on Monday rejected bail petitions of 20 accused in BDR carnage of 40 Rifles Battalion of Phulbari thana in Dinajpur. The court has set August 31 for hearing the charges.The accused were produced before the court of District and Sessions Judge of Dinajpur Sarker

DHAKA: The appointment of two High Court judges to the International Crimes Tribunal for war-crime trial came under challenge put up through a writ petition filed with the High Court Sunday.On March 25, the government appointed Justice Nizamul Huq Nasim chairman of the tribunal and

DHKA: A Dhaka court Sunday fixed August 18 for reporting arrest of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s younger son Arafat Rahman Koko on charge of tax evasion.  Acting Judge of Senior Special Judge Court’s of Dhaka Ismail Hossain fixed the schedule. Taherul Islam, a lawyer for