SAVAR: Nasa Group authorities suspended 109 workers and sued 619 others of their three garment factories in Ashulia area in tough punitive actions on charges of vandalism.Asaduzzaman, manager (admin) of the apparel industrial group, filed the case with Ashulia thana early Friday.Earlier

HABIGANJ: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal general secretary Amirul Islam Khan Alim and seven other leaders of the student wing of the opposition BNP were briefly held here by RAB “mistakenly”.Hafez Khan, Sub-Inspector of the RAB-9, told banglanews24.com.bd that the eight were taken in the

CHITTAGONG: A gang of at least 150 hooligans vandalized a residential hotel and a house following ownership conflict in Nandonkanon area of the port city early Friday.Hotel sources and witnesses said the miscreants continued ransacking rooms of the United Hotel and the house from 3.30am

SATKHIRA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday said the government wouldn’t let the Aila-affected people remain in misery and they would be provided with all supports until they are rehabilitated, as the super-cyclone has rendered many of them climate refugees.The premier held out the

DHAKA: Vice-Chancellors (VC) of different public universities will form a human chain on Saturday in front of the National Press Club demanding early trial of the war criminals. University Swadhinata Shikkhok Parishad, a newly formed platform of public university teachers arranged the

THAKURGAON: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel allegedly picked up five Bangladeshi children from the River Nagar on Minapur border in Haripur upazila on Friday morning. Haripur Company Commander of BDR Atiar Rahman told banglanews24.com.bd, “BSF members of Shangaon camp

PABNA: A district court on Friday sent Nader Pramanik and Wahed Ali, the accused of killing three policemen, to jail.Earlier on Thursday police arrested them from Sujanagar and Bera areas of the district for their alleged involvement in the murder of three cops at remote Dhalar Char Bazar

DHAKA: Hordes of garment workers barricaded roads and vandalized vehicles in the city’s Mirpur area as a female worker dropped dead from the roof of their seven-storied factory building Friday. Witnesses said a clash erupted when police charged baton on the unruly protestors and fired

DHAKA: The next drive to remove garbage from the Buriganga and the Turag is going to begin late September to sweep clean the two dirtied rivers around the capital.Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan told banglanews24.com.bd, “I’m hopeful about the start of the second-phase works under

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested 11 pickpockets, phensidyl and fake note traders from different areas of the capital in last 24 hours that ended Thursday night.They disclosed this in a press conference on Friday morning at DB police headquarters.Sadira Khatun, assistant

BANDARBAN: Police recovered the body of a minor boy from the Sangu River in Sadar upazila early Friday.The deceased was identified as Tanmoy Biswas Hridoy, 7, son of Chandan Biswas of Kachukhai village in Patiya upazila of Chittagong district.Family sources said Hridoy came to visit one

DHAKA: Condition of former BNP secretary-general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, who is undergoing treatment on artificial life support at the Square Hospital in the capital, aggravated slightly Friday, physicians said. His personal physician Dr. Bazlul Gani Bhuiyan told banglanews24.bd that oxygen

KUSHTIA: A father and his 12-year-old son were killed as a train knocked them down near Poradah railway junction in Mirpur upazila of the district on Friday noon.The deceased were identified as Badsha, 40, and Hridoy hailed from Simultola village in the upazila.GRP thana police said a

CHITTAGONG: A top-listed terrorist was killed in a shootout between his cohorts and law enforcers at Paindong village in Fatikchhari upazila of the district early Friday. The deceased was identified as Shawkat alias Sheakat, second-in-command of the outlawed ‘Osman-Bahini’. He was

SATKHIRA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday said the government wouldn’t let the Aila-affected people remain in misery and they would be provided with all supports until they are rehabilitated, as the super-cyclone has rendered many of them climate refugees.The premier held out the

DHAKA: The planned constitutional changeover canceling the 5th amendment and taking the country back to the 1972 constitution will take place without scrapping ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim’.Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina Thursday gave the decision in a

DHAKA: The budget session of parliament ended Thursday with the prorogation order from the President, after a long run since June 2. Deputy speaker Shawkat Ali, who was in the chair, read out the prorogation order after the valedictory speech made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina capping

CHITTAGONG: The Dock-Port workers’ federation called 18 hours of strike staggered over six days from July 26 at Chittagong Seaport to press home their four-point demand. The work-stoppage programme was announced through a press release of the labour coalition on Thursday evening,

DHAKA: Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defense on Thursday decided to allot flats instead of plots for the army personnel.The decision came from the 12th meeting of the committee with its Chairman M Idris Ali in the chair.The committee recommended that realistic steps should be taken

DHAKA: In a latest move, the government Thursday made significant changes to the public administration through 10 Deputy Secretary- level transfers and postings.  According to an Establishment Ministry notification, Shishir Kumar Roy, Deputy Director of Sylhet Youth Development