DHAKA: Health condition of eminent politician and former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan remained unchanged on Wednesday, doctors said. Bhuiyan has been on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital for a week. ICU chief of the hospital Dr Mirza Nazim

Dhaka: A Bangladesh Rifles junior officer died on Wednesday morning after a fatal fall in a bathroom of the BDR Headquarters at Pilkhana in the city, police said.The deceased was Naik Hiron Mia, 57, hailed from Sonapur village in Sadar thana of Feni district. New Market thana Duty Officer

  CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation (BRTF) has called for a 36-hour transport strike in the district from July 18. The BRTF sponsored the strike announced from a press conference to press home their 15-point demand including reclaiming its Fatikchhari branch

NARAYANGANJ: Two persons were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Araihazar upazila Wednesday.Police and eyewitnesses said the Dhaka-bound microbus collided head on with the goods-laden truck at Purinda at

DHAKA: The government is going to formulate ‘Health Policy-2010’ soon that will ensure access to health services for all, Health Minister AFM Ruhul Haque announced Wednesday. Addressing a meeting of the National Review Committee on Health Policy 2010 at the ministry, the minister said

DHAKA: Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 15. The chairmen of the Education Boards will hand over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at 9:30 am led by the Education Minister. The Education Ministry will

DHAKA: A Court on Wednesday sent BNP Vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury to jail after a day in remand for torching vehicles during the June 27 hartal. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ali Hossain passed the order when police produced him before the court. The court

NATORE: Police detained five leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organissation Chhatra Shibir, including Ameer of Sadar Municipality Unit Atiqul Islam Russell, from a hospital here on Wednesday morning.Other arrested are Jamaat activists Mehedi Hasan, Jalal Uddin, Nur

BOGRA: A court here Wednesday sent the arrested organizing chief of the banned Islamist outfit JMB, Anwar Alam Khoka alias Bhagne Shahid alias Nazmul, on five days’ remand for police interrogation over their mission.Chief Judicial Magistrate court’s Judge Hasanuzzaman granted the

DHAKA: Detained Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah were Wednesday taken on five days’ remand for interrogation in a belated case of war crimes.   Metropolitan Magistrate Roksana Begum Happy passed order granting the remand

BOGRA: A court here Wednesday sent the arrested organizing chief of the banned Islamist outfit JMB, Anwar Alam Khoka alias Bhagne Shahid alias Nazmul, on five days’ remand for police interrogation over their mission.Chief Judicial Magistrate court’s Judge Hasanuzzaman granted the

RAJSHAHI: A Rajshahi court Wednesday fixed September 21 for the next hearing in the sedition case filed against 93 BDR members in the city for their part in last year’s mass mutiny. District Judge Abdus Samad fixed the schedule as police produced the detained border guards before the

DHAKA: Mahanayak of Bangladeshi film industry actor Bulbul Ahmed passed away at about 11:30 Wednesday night. He died at the age of 70.  Bulbul was taken to Square Hospital Wednesday night as he had chest pain, family sources said. The duty-doctors declared him dead at the hospital.  His

RAJSHAHI: A Rajshahi court Wednesday fixed September 21 for the next hearing in the sedition case filed against 93 BDR members in the city for their part in last year’s mass mutiny. District Judge Abdus Samad fixed the schedule as police produced the detained border guards before the

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion personnel seized some 3,000 cans of foreign beer after trading fire with smugglers at Patenga coast of the bay in the port city on Tuesday night.RAB sources said the exchange of fire took place at about 11pm at jetty No 15 while the smugglers were

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