CHUADANGA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people alongwith seven bottles of snake venom, worth about Tk 1 crore, from Damurhuda border area in the district Monday night. Acting on a tip off, members of the elite force went to the house of one Ghani Mia at Aramdanga

CHITTAGONG: A truck rammed into a CNG-run baby-taxi in the city’s Dampara area early Tuesday, leaving a police sub-inspector dead and two constables injured.The deceased was SI Mohammad Ferdous Ahmed, 32, hailed from Laksam upazlia in Comilla district.Injured constables Mohammad

DHAKA: A three-wheeler driver was killed following police baton charge Monday night at capital`s Noyatola area.   Ramna Police said they arrested CNG-run three-wheeler driver Babor Ali alias Babu, 40, Monday night from Noyatola.     “When he was brought to the Ramna police

DHAKA: A three-wheeler driver was killed following police baton charge Monday night at capital’s Noyatola area.Ramna Police said they arrested CNG-run three-wheeler driver Babor Ali alias Babu, 40, Monday night from Noyatola.  “When he was brought to the Ramna police station, he

DHAKA: The retirement age of government employees extends from 57 to 60 years as Parliament Monday passed a law for enactment to this effect.Labour and Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain placed the Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Bill 2010 providing for extension of the

NARAYANGANJ: Workers of a garment factory came under attack by a gang of hooligans at Nayabari in Kachpur Monday that left 15 labourers injured, police and workers said.Following the incident, the garment workers vandalized their own factory- Ananta Denim Technology – to protest attack

NATORE: Internal fight over domination between two rival groups of ruling Awami League left at least 10 people injured, including a woman, on Monday at Halsa bazar in Sadar upazila.Witnesses and police said the shopkeepers in the bazar closed around 100 shops as soon as the fight began

NARAYANGANJ: Police recovered body of an unidentified young girl from Chashara area Monday.Police suspects unknown assailants strangulated her to death and dumped the body on Nawab Salimullah Road.Fatulla police recovered the body and sent to Narayanganj General Hospital for

SYLHET: The suspended BDR mutiny trial of Sunamganj-8 rifle battalion began in Sylhet on Monday.Formation of allegations against 14 BDR soldiers were worked out as the trial began at the Special Court-3 at BDR Sector Headquarters here with Director General of BDR Rafiqul Islam as the

KURIGRAM : Onrush of hill waters across the border and incessant rain for last few days submerged a vast land in 12 unions of  five upazilas, leaving about 20,000 people virtually marooned.Rain-fed 16 rivers, including Brahmaputra, Dharala, Teesta and Dudhkumor marked a sharp rise on

DHAKA: Police Monday took BNP Vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury on a day’s remand for grilling in connection with troubles during Sunday’s hartal enforced by the opposition party.Shamsher Mobin, also ex-foreign secretary, is held on charges of obstructing police from discharging

DHAKA: Former journalists of the Bengali daily Jai Jai Din formed a human chain in front of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Monday for dues.At least 20 ex-journalists of the daily took part in the agitation, who later brought out a procession.Many journalists were sacked while many resigned

DHAKA: Separate road accidents in Comilla and Manikganj districts on Monday left one person killed and 25 others injured.banglanews24.com.bd’s Comilla Correspondent quoting sub-inspector Lutfur Rahman of Lalmai Police camp said, a speeding microbus ran over Jalal Hossain, 15, son of

DHAKA: Deputy Speaker Colonel (retd) Showkat Ali Monday said people of all religions had fought against Pakistan with the spirit of Bengali Nationalism in 1971.“But Adivasi people are yet to get their land rights and are displaced from their land,” he said.The deputy speaker was

DHAKA : Six people were killed, including two children and a woman, in lightning strikes in three districts Monday as inclement weather persists over the country amid rain coupled with gales of wind.The districts that came under the fatal cloudbursts are Chapainawabganj, Satkhira and

Rajbari:  Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Monday seized heroin worth about Tk. 85 lakh from a bus in the district town.Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-8 searched a Kushtia-bound passenger bus at Polash Filing Station near Sripur bus stand at about 2pm and recovered 850 grams

DHAKA: Detective police seized 21 stolen CNG-run auto-rickshaws and arrested four suspected ringleaders of a hijackers’ gang from different districts in an 18-hour nonstop drive to Monday morning.The arrested suspects are Shahid alias ‘Kana’ Shahid, 40, Mukul Bhuiyan Kabir, 43,

CHITTAGONG:  A chemical godown and a furniture shop went up in flames in the port city Monday, but the cause of the fire could not be known yet.Fire-service official Tapan Das said the fire broke out at the chemical godown first and then spread to the furniture shop nearby in the

DHAKA: Moderately heavy rain on Monday morning crippled city life, throwing thousands of office-and school-goers in abject misery a day after a general shutdown enforced by opposition politicians.Deputy Forecasting Officer of the Met office Shahidul Islam told banglanews24.com.bd that

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion crime-busters arrested Shamsuzzaman Arif, the prime suspect for the killing of schoolboy Samiul, and his younger brother Nuruzzaman in separate raids in the city and Tongi area early Monday.Legal and Media Wing Director of RAB Mohammad Sohail told