MADARIPUR: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four suspected traffickers with 17 deerskins from village Shatpar in neighboring Gopalganj district. The arrested persons are Pabitra Thakur, 45, of Shingra village of Gopalganj, Amar Mondol, 40, of Mahersherpury village of Khulna, Nishi

Dhaka: The door is shut on the cyber cafes so far freewheeling on bandwidth for internet service without taking license as the government regulatory body Thursday wrapped up the licensing opportunity.Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission or BTRC earlier had directed the

FARIDPUR: Three people were killed and 30 injured as a Dhaka-bound bus of Shakura Paribahan skidded off the Dhaka-Barisal highway into a ditch near Maligram in Bhanga upazila of the district early Thursday.The deceased were identified as Nasima Akter, 35,of Kishorganj, Nasima’s daughter

DHAKA: The Buddhist community observed their biggest religious festival Buddha Purnima in a befitting manner and with various religious rituals in the country as elsewhere across the world Thursday.Buddha Purnima marks three significant events that took place in the life of Lord

DHAKA: A private company man was found dead in his closed bedroom in city’s Monipuripara area on Wednesday night, and the cause of his death still remained clouded.Police said the deceased, Liton Gomez, 32, hailed from Mativanga village in the costal district of Patuakhali, was working

DHAKA: A rights group emphasized improving human rights training and education for judges in three South Asian countries- Bangladesh, India and Nepal—as justice allegedly eludes their peoples in may cases. In a written statement the group titled Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a

Panchagarh: Riverbank-protection works in the frontier district have been stalled at Indian Border Security Force (BSF) intervention, creating concern among the people ahead of rainy season as onrush of hill waters during monsoon flood vast areas in Bangladesh.   Residents of the

Chittagong: Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Wednesday called 15 leaders of the party, including seven local MPs, to a meeting in Dhaka to resolve the inner-conflict in the AL Chittagong unit ahead of Chittagong City Corporation polls. The meeting will be held Friday at

DHAKA: Rights organizations Wednesday urged the government to take development activities down to grassroots level abolishing the centralization, as people’s tendency is to move out to cities being whipped by agonies of employment in rural areas.    As a result of the rural-to-urban

Dhaka: Detective police took Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) chief Maulana Saidur Rahman and two of his associates on a six-day remand for grilling about their redesigned militant network.The two others are Abdullah–hel-Kafi and Saidur’s wife Ayesha Khatun.Metropolitan

DHAKA: A two-day regional meeting of the top election commission officials of the SAARC states begins on May 29 in the capital, in a maiden effort of peering among the kingmakers. Bangladesh Election Commission is hosting the meet where Chief Election Commissioners from eight

Dhaka: The High Court Wednesday summoned two RAB officials for conducting an operation at the residence of a local businessman on a ‘false' charge of illegally possessing arms in Satkhira.Terming the arm-seizure case ‘fabricated’, the HC ordered Rab-6 official Major Kamruzzaman and

Dinajpur: The provisional miners of Maddhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd (MGMCL) called off their indefinite strike Wednesday, four days after they struck demanding job regularization and payment of arrears, following a fruitful negotiation.The hardrock workers withdrew the strike after

Sirajganj: A newly wed couple fell victims to reckless driving of a vehicle at Nalka on the connecting road to the Bangabandhu Bridge on Wednesday morning.The victims were senior officer of Jamalpur Krishi Bank Mohammad Farhad Hossain, 30, and his wife Munni, 22.Sub-inspector of

Rajshahi: Country’s entire northwestern zone, especially the brand place Rajshahi, is now abuzz with a mango festival, with the delicious sweet fruit starting to arrive in the local markets. However, the orchard owners’ happiness over a bumper production appeared a bit tinged with

Sirajganj: A defamation case was filed here Wednesday against State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam for calling BNP founder President Ziaur Rahman ‘Pakistani spy’.District Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum general secretary Advocate Meer Ruhul Amin filed the Tk 5,000 crore case with Sirajganj

DHAKA: A coalition of campaigners for women’s rights urged mass media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to work with a synergy in tackling the incidents of sexual harassment of women at workplace. At a workshop Wednesday they also underscored the need for creating awareness

Rajbari: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday night stormed a hideout of suspected outlaws and seized firearms and ammunition at Radhakantapur in the district town.Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-8 raided the house of one Nihar Ranjan at about 9pm and seized six firearms, five

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute reopened Wednesday after nearly five months’ forced closure following the killing of a student leader amid campus violence on January 7.The polytechnic authorities have now made it mandatory for the students to wear specific uniform and bear

DHAKA: The High Court Tuesday dismissed a case facing 12 pro-Awami League and leftist lawyers for vandalizing the Supreme Court, a charge that stood in the way of one of them being sworn in the bench. A division bench of Justice Shamsul Huda and Justice Abu Bakar Siddique passed the