Dhaka: Police arrested two persons with a firearm in the city’s Dakkhin Dania area under Kadamtali thana early Thursday.Acting on a tip-off, a special team led by Demra zone AC Gias Uddin raided a house around 2:45am and picked up Zonaed Hassan Shanto with a foreign-made pistol in his

Dhaka: The High Court Thursday quashed a case filed against Sheikh Selim, Presidium Member of the ruling Awami League, over an attack on former Prime Minister and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s motorcade on her Pirojpur trip in 2001. A High Court bench comprising justices Mohammad

DHAKA: The government has decided to give state recognition to the foreign nationals and expatriate Bangladeshis who contributed remarkably to the Liberation War in 1971. Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni disclosed this to reporters Thursday after an inter-ministrial meeting on `Contribution

Dhaka: After declaring "zero tolerance" against custodial deaths, the High Court now asked the government to explain why it should not be directed to discharge its constitutional duty of protecting peoples life while in custody.The High Court issued the rule upon the government Thursday

DHAKA:  The Criminal Investigation Department got three more months for further investigation to report the findings on the Aug 21 grenade attack on Awami League rally. A Dhaka court Thursday fixed August 3 as the date for submitting the probe report. With this, the law got extension

DHAKA: Rescuers Thursday officially called off their operation after pulling up another body from under the debris of the Begunbari building that took the death toll to 24 in the catastrophic house collapse.The dead was identified as 3-month-old baby Bishal. Of the total 24, eight are

Dhaka: A young man was slaughtered inside their phone-fax shop in Dhalpur of Jatrabari on Tuesday night while a woman was found dead near Fatema Naz Filling Station in the same area Wednesday. Police recovered the body of the slaughtered boy from the shop on Dhalpur Commissioner Road.

DHAKA: As expatriates remitted generously into the central bank to create a glut of the greenback, experts suggested the government to make one-percent allocation in the upcoming budget for providing them logistic supports. They reminded the government that expatriates are sending home

Bagerhat: At least 16 people were killed and 40 injured in a fatal traffic mishap as a bus and a truck collided on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Mollahat upazila early Wednesday, police and locals said.Five of the deceased were identified as truck-driver Moniruzzaman, 45, of Satkhira,

Panchagarh: A Panchagarh court Wednesday rejected a defamation case filed against Advocate Qumrul Islam, State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.    Chief Judicial Magistrate Dilip Kumar Debnath ordered the rejection of the case after hearing. The Magistrate said in

Dhaka: Two suspected criminals were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) troubleshooters in the capital’s Hatirjheel area on Wednesday evening.The deceased were identified as Jabbar and Selim alias Sailya. Rab claimed they were ‘identified terrorists’ in

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Wednesday said no to police plea for remanding arrested acting editor of Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman and sent him to jail, amid a row over government action closing down the Bengali daily.The court, instead, asked the cops to quiz him at jail gate within the next three

Dhaka: The High Court Wednesday ordered the police to ensure safety of the fatwa victim young girl who was subjected to an agonizing 101 lashes of whip as extra-judicial punishment as per edicts of clerics at Bancharampur of Brahmanbaria.Earlier, the 17-year-old girl was brought before

The United States and Bangladesh will jointly work in a humanitarian cooperation codenamed Operation Pacific Angel 2010 in mid-June in the western part of the country, official sources said.   Over 40 members of the US Air Force, Army and Navy will join the effort to provide general

A plenary session on Child and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) will be held at the high-level evaluation meeting on ‘MDG achievements’ scheduled for September 20-22 at the UN Headquarters in New York. “Child and MDG issues would get special preference in the special session of

Dhaka: The High Court Tuesday warned it would “not tolerate” any more custodial death as the court is oath-bound to protect people’s right to life under the Constitution. An HC bench comprising justices AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Mohammad Delwar Hossain also ordered the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Tuesday called for collective international action for an immediate end to Israeli siege to Gaza and allowing the Palestinian people to return to normal life. The country condemned the attack by the Israeli troops on the Freedom flotilla transporting humanitarian aid to

Dhaka: Bodies of two unfortunate men, long time dead and buried, were Tuesday dug up by police from graves in the city for autopsy on court orders.Police said the body of Hazi Abul Hossain was exhumed from Jurain graveyard and of Qudrat-e-Mawla Tusher, 15, from Shahjahanpur graveyard in

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday rejected a bail petition by detained former home minister Lutfozzaman Babar in the twin-case of grisly grenade attack on the Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. Acting judge of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court Ismail Hossain issued the order

Dhaka: The journalists and officials of the Bengali daily Amar Desh panicked lest the newspaper should be closed down anytime, as its publisher Tuesday passed through an ordeal over ownership-transfer tangle.Hashmat Ali, the publisher of the newspaper that is leant toward opposition BNP,