DHAKA: Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad Thursday said the government is working to build a ‘digital’ Bangladesh for establishing good governance ensuring transparency and accountability, empowering people, alleviating poverty and making government services accessible. “All the

Dhaka: Akhtar-ul Alam, a veteran journalist and diplomat, died of kidney complications at the United Hospital early Thursday. He was 71. Alam left behind his wife, two sons, a daughter and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death. During his long professional life, Alam

DHAKA: The secretariat again saw a fire incident on Thursday afternoon, but the flames were soon doused before any damage done.Witnesses said a car of science and information technology ministry caught fire in front of 6 Number Building of the government’s administrative headquarters at

BENAPOLE: Export-import trade between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port halted for six hours Thursday following transport strike against the arrest of a trucker by Indian police.Jessore District Truck Sramik Samannoy Parishad enforced the strike from 9:00am demanding the

DHAKA: A six-year-old boy, the only child of his parents, has been cruelly killed through strangulating in the city’s Nabadoy Housing area under Adabor Thana.     The deceased was identified as Khandaker Samiul Azam, 6, a student of a kindergarten school and son of KR Azam, a

DHAKA: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Thursday suggested Dhaka City Corporation to redesign its waste-management system to solve the problem with garbage that often litters streets in the capital.Saeda Makimoto, Senior Representative of JICA, at a seminar here said loads of

DHAKA: Government agencies will launch a coordinated cleansing drive on July 15 to drive all outworn vehicles off Dhaka’s streets as a measure to discipline the chaotic traffic in the capital.A meeting at the Communications Ministry Thursday made the decision, at a time when the

DHAKA: In a bid to woo tourists, Bangladesh will arrange photo exhibition in different countries from next year, Tourism Minister said. “We will collaborate with the Foreign Ministry and arrange photo exhibition from 2011 in different counties to attract tourists,” Civil Aviation and

SIRAJGANJ: Two people were killed and two others injured as a rashly-driven bus ploughed through a rickshaw-van on Sirajganj-Pabna road in Ullapara upazila Wednesday night.The deceased were identified as Abdul Mannan, 40 and Fazar Ali, 45.Police and witnesses said the speeding bus rammed

SAVAR: Arrest of two garment workers on Wednesday night sparked fresh unrest in the trouble-prone apparel hub Ashulia Thursday morning. banglanews24.com.bd correspondent quoting witnesses and police said workers demonstrated in front of Ocean Gate Sweater Factory of Palli Bidyut Dendabor

DHAKA: Non-government primary school teachers Thursday demanded nationalisation of their jobs and other allowances removing what they said the “discrimination” between the teachers of government and non-government institutions. The demand came from a press conference organised by the

Comilla: Unknown assailants stabbed a local Chhatra League leader early Thursday in Dharmosagarpar area of Sadar upazila. Local sources told banglanews24.com.bd that a gang of 10/12 unidentified assailants attacked Ripon, former vice president of Comilla Polytechnic College Student

Manikganj: A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband at village Gopalkhali in Sadar upazila on Tuesday afternoon following family feuds.Meanwhile, police arrested the victim’s husband, Habibur Rahman, 56, Wednesday following a case filed by their son.Quoting family members, police

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a suspected hijacker injured in a shootout at South Keraniganj in the city on Tuesday night.The arrested person is Mizanur Rahman, 28.RAB sources said Mizan was arrested from Muslimpara under East Chunkutia Thana of South Keraniganj with a

Dhaka: The government is going to set up legal aid centers in all bar association offices in the country to provide legal aid to the poor justice-seekers in an easy way.Law Minister Barrister Shafiq Ahmed informed this while addressing a discussion on Legal Aid Act 2000 organized by

PABNA: Lawyers here Wednesday started court boycott demanding withdrawal of senior judicial magistrate Parvej Shahriar.“As the judge did not behave like judges, so we have started boycotting the court,” said advocate Ahad Babu.Sources said Parvej Shahriar could not start judicial

DHAKA: Speakers at a meet Wednesday urged government to go for creating a special fund for the local-government bodies to get quick response in facing any future disaster.The demand came from a workshop titled ‘Disaster Management Law, Policy and Work Plan’ at the LGED

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday assured the aviation authority that any kind of legal barrier would be removed promptly to speedy implement the big projects.She gave the assurance while inaugurating the construction of Civil Aviation Authority’s headquarters building,

DHAKA: Experts and policymakers Wednesday urged the government to review the National Youth Policy-2003 in keeping with the national and global changes taking place in the present times.They also demanded more participation of youths in policymaking and allocation for them to ensure

DHAKA: As many as 60,000 anonymous workers were sued over Tuesdays massive violence in the Ashulia industrial belt after all the shut-down garment factories reopened on Wednesday morning in an atmosphere of uneasy calm.Ashulia Thana SI Ahmed Manzur Morshed filed the case as plaintiff on