DHAKA: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie left Dhaka on Sunday morning after their three-day private trip to Bangladesh.A plane carrying the Blairs took off from Shahjalal International Airport at about 10am. Foreign secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes and British

DHAKA: Peoples’ representatives and intellectuals Sunday underscored the need for introducing party-based local government elections and formulating a legal framework to make the local body self-reliant.  They also demanded enactment and implementation of ‘Comprehensive democratic

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday directed the government to make sure women are not forced to put on veils at workplaces and educational institutions, as such a coercive action hit headlines.   An HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh M Zakir Hossain also

DHAKA: Movement by private college teachers to press home an eight-point charter of demand has created uncertainty in around 130 private colleges.Private college teachers were engaged in movement and lobbying at different levels of the government since the beginning of this year with

NARAYANGANJ:  At least 22 people were injured, four by shotgun bullet, as an agitation by garment workers for salary and eid bonus erupted into a violent clash with police at Rupganj Sunday, witnesses said. Sources said the agitating workers of Rupashi Mairuli and Shikder Apparels of

DHAKA: A good number of staff members of the Environment and Forest Ministry keep most part of their salaries in their provident fund and run their families on extras they allegedly earn by unfair means. One of the office assistants of the Ministry has stashed 87 percent of his salary

DHAKA: The High Court adjourned the hearing on the petition filed by Jamaat challenging the legality of some provisions of the International Crimes Tribunal Act and the first amendment to the constitution till Monday.  An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Abdul Wahhub Mia and Justice

BOGRA: Show cause notices will be served on 14 educational institutions in Sherpur upazila for not observing the National Mourning day on August 15. Sherpur upazila Nirbahi Office Md. Manjur Alam, told banglanews24.com.bd, “Managements of those 14 schools did wrong for not observing the

SAVAR: Police seized 5,200 bottles of Phensidyl syrup and held two alleged drug peddlers on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital early Sunday.Acting on a secret information that a truck with a consignment of the smuggled phensidyl were being transported to

DHAKA: Separate courts have granted bail to Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam in four cases filed during the past caretaker regime under state of emergency.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Shahadat Hossain granted him the bail in a case filed by one

ASHUGANJ: A head-on collision between a truck and a bus on Dhaka-Sylhet highway here killed four people and injured another 27 on Sunday.The deceased bus passengers were Muslem Mia, 35, Shahin, 38, Khalilur Rahman, 42 and Renu Mia, 40 hailed from Sunamganj, Barisal, Dhaka and Comilla

DHAKA: The Liberation War Museum returns a donation made by Islami Bank on Sunday. “We will return their money on Sunday as the bank was closed for weekly holiday,” Museum’s trustee-board member Mofidul Huq told banglanews24.com.bd. Another trustee board member of the museum Akku

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Saturday urged the UK to continue its support for Bangladesh. Begum Zia’s call came as she met visiting former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the residence of British High Commissioner in Dhaka.BNP Vice President Shamsher

BRAHMANBARIA: At least 15 people, including jawans of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), were injured in a clash between BDR men and local people over taking photographs of smuggled goods at Brahmanbaria rail station Saturday. Witnesses said the BDR raided Dhaka-bound Mahanagar Prabhati train and

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday blamed the last BNP-led 4-party alliance government for the August 21 grisly grenade attack on her Awami League party rally she addressed in 2004.“There is no doubt that the BNP government was behind the grenade attack,” she told a meeting

DHAKA: A group of students of Business Studies Faculty of Dhaka University Saturday went on rampage on the campus to protest what they said ‘faulty grading system’ introduced by their faculty.   They demanded implementation of the common grading system introduced by the University

RANGPUR: Students of Rangpur Medical College Saturday boycotted classes and staged demonstration on the campus protesting terrorist attack on a teacher.The students also besieged the office of the college Principle demanding exemplary punishment to the miscreants. The doctors and teachers

GAZIPUR:  Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested two suspected terrorists after trading fire with them at Tongi Bazar on Friday night. According to a press release, signed by senior Assistant Director of RAB- 1, on Saturday, acting on information that a gang of gunrunners would

SYLHET: Thirteen people died in an alcoholic catastrophe after drinking fermented liquors in Balaganj upazila till Saturday morning, says a latest report.Local sources said a group of 14/15 people took local liquor at a house of Goabazar under Osmani Nagar Thana on Wednesday night and

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday blamed the last BNP-led 4-party alliance government for the August 21 grisly grenade attack on her Awami League party rally she addressed in 2004.“There is no doubt that the BNP government was behind the grenade attack,” she told a meeting