DHAKA: In a latest move, the government Monday made significant changes to the administration, including reshuffle in two Secretary and Joint-secretary posts. According to separate Establishment Ministry notifications, Rowshan Ara Begum, Director of Women Affairs Department, was made OSD.

DHAKA: The Cabinet Monday approved the draft Border Guard Bangladesh Act 2010 with death sentence as maximum penalty for a mutineer in the frontier force reborn under the new law.The approval came from a regular meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her press secretary Abul

GAIBANDHA: A court sent three policemen, including the former Officer-in-Charge of Gaibandha sadar thana, to jail Monday, as higher court’s strict rulings against “extra-judicial killings” continued to be followed up of late.This is the second time all in a row this month court

DHAKA: The High Court on Monday issued a rule upon the government to explain within three weeks why directives should not be given to demolish and remove all illegal structures on the banks of rivers Dhaleshwari and Meghna and demarcate the boundaries. The court also asked the

DHAKA: Four day labourers were killed as a truck tumbled into a roadside ditch at Diyabari in city’s Mirpur area Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Aktar Hossain, 29, Sirajuddin, 46, Jafarullah, 18, and Al amin, 25. Sub-inspector of Turag police station Azizur Rahman told

NATORE: Seven people at Bamihal village in Singra of the district were sent to jail on Monday for assisting police during a crossfire. A Natore court on Sunday sent an officer-in-charge including 10 other policemen of Singra Police Station to jail for the same incident. The accused

PABNA: Severe erosion of river Jamuna has left age-old Nagarbari Ghat and the river port on the verge of destruction.  Several hundred families became homeless caused by the erosion while the affected people demanded removal of director general of Water Development Board (WDB) and

DHAKA: Police Monday charged 824 persons with serious crimes like killings, raping, looting and so in the Pilkhana BDR headquarters during last year’s mass mutiny in the country’s border force. Simultaneously, the cabinet Monday approved a draft law reforming the mutiny-ridden

 DHAKA: The government has appointed some 1,445 senior staff nurses to the vacant posts under the Health and Family Welfare Ministry. The appointments have been given according to their batch, merit and seniority, a notification of the directorate said Monday. The recruited nurses have

PABNA: Three children drowned in ponds in Chatmohar and Shujanagar upazillas in the district Monday. The deceased were identified as Sathi, 3, daughter of Akkas Ali of Shomaj village, and Arif, 5, son of Rafiqul Islam of Doyarampur village, in Chatmohar upazilla, and Kawser, 6, son of

DHAKA: A special court on BDR mutiny trial fixed February 2, 2011 for the next hearing on charge framing against 735 suspected mutineers of Sadar Rifles Battalion, after all of them were roped in the dock Monday.The Special Court 6, led by BDR Director-General Major-General Rafiqul Islam,

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday placed Saidur Rahman, the new chief of the banned Islamist organization Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), on four days police remand for interrogating on one of the charges against him.Judge Syeda Minhaz um Munira of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

DHAKA:  An old man was killed in a road accident in the city’s Mirpur area on Monday morning, triggering a violent backlash.Police said a bus knocked down Abdul Baki Mia, 75, a resident of Pallabi, on the road near Mirpur 11 bus stand at about 7:30am. He died on the spot. “Enraged by

DHAKA: Health condition of former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, lying on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital, remained unchanged on Monday. ICU Chief of the hospital Dr Mirza Nazim Uddin told banglanews24.com.bd, “Bhuiyan’s condition did

DHAKA: The Postal Department is going to sign a deal with the Passport Department this week for issuing machine-readable passports (MRP) through post offices from August 1. “In the first phase, three post offices in Dhaka will introduce the service which will later be implemented at 81

CHUADANGA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) held a man and recovered a revolver and two sharp weapons from Bakshipur Sakin village in Alamdanga upazila early Monday.Acting on a tip-off, a special team of RAB-6, led by DAD HM Nurul Islam, raided the house of Khabir Uddin at the

DHAKA: Do as I preach, not as I practise. Many officials leading government campaign for family planning of the public are blessed with families large enough to make one raise their eyebrow. Most officials of the Family Planning Department have a good number of children in their own

NATORE: The district and session judge’s court Sunday sent 11 policemen to jail in connection with the killing of a businessman in so-called ‘crossfire’. They are former office-in-charge of Singra thana Abu Bakkar, SI Liakat Ali, ASI Praddyut Kar, constable Jasim, constable Asir

DHAKA: The Mawa-Kaorakandi channel that was closed for dredging will be opened within a week. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan Sunday told journalists that a dredger would reach there in a day or two. “Dredging of necessary points of five emergency channels will then take place as

DHAKA: Norway will provide Tk 116 crore to Bangladesh for community-level disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change under the Comprehensive Disaster Management Program (CDMP). Norwegian Ambassador to Dhaka Ingebjorg Stofring and UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Prisner