RAJSHAHI: An insurance official was crushed under the wheels of a Rajshahi University bus on the rail-crossing in the city Thursday.Police and his colleagues said the deceased, Shah Jamal Haq, 40, hailed from Kushtia, was a principle officer of Prime Islamia Life Insurance company’s

Pabna: A fratricidal fight between two rival groups in the local chapter of the ruling Awami League over farm-labor recruitment left one dead and 10 injured on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, 35, elder brother of Abul Hashem, Jubo League president of

Dhaka: Muggers stabbed to death a vegetable trader as he tried to resist them from robbing him in Bijoy Sarani area in the capital early Thursday while going home after buying vegetables for his day’s small trade.Kafrul police said Monir Hossain went to Karwanbazar business hub to buy

Dhaka: In a nonstop hunt after two suspected terrors were shot down in the city on Wednesday evening, a team of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) later in the night arrested another two members of the gang with a huge amount of Phensydil in Shahinbag area. The arrested persons were

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