DHAKA: The Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 Wednesday convicted two members of Jama`atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and sentenced them to 50 years imprisonment each for exploding bombs in RK Mission Road area under Kotwali thana.Justice Rezaul Karim handed down the verdict at 12:10 pm. The

JESSORE: Police held three people and seized huge quantum of posters and leaflets from a printing press in the district town Tuesday night. Acting on secret information, the law enforcers raided Ansar and Nahar Printing Press at Jam-e-Mashjid Lane at about 11pm and seized some 60,000

KUSHTIA: Police arrested a suspected extremist along with a firearm and bullets from Madhupur near Islami University in the district town early Wednesday.Police said arrested Mannan Dhali, 45, of village Piarpur in Sadar upazila, is a member of JSD GanobahiniActing on a tip-off, a

NILPHAMARI: Two bikers were killed in a road accident near Dhuhuli bazar in the northern district town on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Bishal, 30, and Babu, 21, both hailed from Shantinagar area of the district.Witnesses and police told banglanews24.com.bd that at around

JESSORE: Police detained a youth named Sakhawat Hossain from Paulbari area of the town on Tuesday night with four bullets, half-kg gunpowder, watch, pencil batteries and scotch-tape.All the materials are used for making bombs or other destructive explosive devices, police said. They also

DHAKA: Farm-produced poultry birds are rapidly replacing the market of comparatively dear domestic chickens in the country, bringing a change in the dishes of consumers.While visiting different poultry markets in city’s Fakirerpul, Hatirpul, Rampura, Malibagh, Mirpur and Shantinagar

DHAKA: India will use Bangladesh’s Ashuganj river port and road for transporting heavy machinery for setting up a power plant in their landlocked northeastern state of Tripura. “In this regard, India will excavate waterways from Kolkata to Ashuganj and develop 40-kilometer road from

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to deposit the money and gold ornaments seized following the BDR mutiny and marauding on February 25-26 last year with Bangladesh Bank.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka Mohammad Ali Hossain also

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku Tuesday said BNP leader Chowdhury Alam, who has been missing for over a fortnight, was “kidnapped” from a city street.“All the law-enforcing agencies are now looking for the Dhaka City Corporation Councillor on the basis of

GAZIPUR: The workers of two garment factories in Gazipur Tuesday ran riot ransacking a security booth and halting traffic on the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh highway to press for regular payment of salary and attendance bonus.Witnesses said the angry workers came out of the factories,

BOGRA: Six kingpins of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, including its Bogra district chief, were arrested on Monday evening in the wake of a latest countrywide crackdown on Islamist operatives.   Police said JMB Shura member Anwar Alam alias Nazmul alias

DHAKA: The High Court sharply acted setting Wednesday for hearing on a petition filed for canceling the ongoing remand of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayab-e Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee.A High Court bench comprising Justice

DHAKA: Miscreants shot two businessmen and snatched away Tk 3.8 lakh at Pallabi in the city on Tuesday. Witnesses said the incident took place in a broad daylight near Chalantika Club. The injured are Shahidul Haque 52, Manager of Tisha Timber Traders, and Atiqur Rahman, 40. They were

DHAKA: A writ petition was filed with the High Court Tuesday challenging Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) decision switching off RanksTel and National Telecom, two of the five landline-phone operators recently shutdown.Barrister Rafiq-ul-Haque filed the writ

DHAKA: The government has given seniority to 13 deputy secretaries.A notification of the Establishment Ministry Tuesday said the 13 deputy secretaries will get financial facilities they are entitled to from due date. The deputy secretaries are- Director of Bangladesh Forest Industries

JOYPURHAT: Five suspected militants of banned outfit Jama`atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were detained from Tazpur village of Panchbibi upazila Monday.Panchbibi Thana OC Biman Chandra Kormokar said, “They were picked up from a resedence of a JMB member Shirajul Islam, who was on

DHAKA : Erosion by the rivers Padma and Jamuna has taken a serious turn in Shariatpur and Manikganj districts for last few days, threatening a vast tract of crop lands and establishments. In Shariatpur, a vast lands of 12 villages in Naria and Jazira upazillas disappeared into the River

DHAKA:  A teenaged boy allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the city’s Malibagh area Monday night. Police, however, recovered the body of Zubayer Hossain Leon, 18, son of Mobarak Hossain, on Tuesday morning. Zubayer, appeared in the HSC examination this year, was living

DHAKA: Police Tuesday picked up Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary-general Abdul Quader Molla from the High Court premises. “A group of detective police picked him up from Gate 2 of the High Court at around 4:10pm,” banglanews24.com.bd Staff Correspondent Jakia Ahmed reported from

COX’S BAZAR:  Heavy rain coupled with onrush of hill waters caused flashfloods in at least 50 low-lying villages of Chakaria upazila, including its municipality, leaving hundreds of families marooned.Two people, including Chakaria Municipal Awami Krishak League president Badiur Rahman,