DHAKA: Home Minister Sahara Khatun Sunday asked the paramilitary BDR and coastguards to act more carefully in protecting the border as she said India fenced off the frontier and sometimes BSF soldiers try to trespass into Bangladesh.The instructions came from a press briefing after a

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday asked the government to explain within three weeks why it should not be directed to remove a salt industry built on the Buriganga riverbank in the city’s Lalbagh area in defiance of prohibition.A division bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and

Dhaka: Unidentified goons stabbed and critically wounded a dyeing trader as he denied them toll in the city’s Shyampur area Sunday. The injured, Ismail Hossain, 50, the owner of King Enterprise and Dyeing Mill, from Postagola Industrial Area in the capital claimed that local gang-leader

NARAYANGANJ: A local leader of the ruling party’s student arm Bangladesh Chhatra League was killed and ten other people were injured in a fighting over control of toll from sand-carrying barges in the river Dhaleswari in Munshiganj on Sunday morning.The deceased, Mohammad Mamun, 25, son

Dhaka: A defamation suit was lodged against acting Editor of the daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman, its publisher Alhaj Mohammad Hasmat Ali and two reporters with a Dhaka court Sunday for reporting that State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam came of a ‘rajakar family’.Taking the case into

Dhaka: Thousands of community clinics, laid waste by the BNP regime as redundant, will now be revived by the present government by recruiting some 13,500 healthcare providers to ensure “better health services” for the rural people, said a minister Sunday. State Minister for Health and

Dhaka: The sluggish privatization programme is going to gain pace again as the present government is finalizing an amended industrial policy that will remove the roadblocks to transfer of the losing or laid-off enterprises to private owners. A meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office

DHAKA: A suspected bandit was killed by bullet as police on Sunday morning fired on an armed gang of muggers in front of Govt. Bangla College in the city’s Mirpur area, according to an official account of the shootout.Police and witnesses said police opened fire as the mugger was

Jhenidah: Two people were found dead and dumped in fields in sadar and Kaliganj upazilas of the district on Sunday morning.Police recovered the bodies in the morning and said both the victims were strangled to death. One of the deceased, Biplob, 22, was lying dead in Kawsar’s brickfield

Comilla: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in separate midnight raids on Saturday night held three suspected drug peddlers with some 35,000 narcotic Yaba tablets worth about Tk 1.75 crore in the district.A team of the crime-prevention company-2 of RAB-11 raided the

Dhaka: Three people were shot and chopped with knives by roving armed extortionists at Senpara Parbata of Kafrul in the city on Saturday morning, amid a latest spurt in the incidence of crime. Witnesses said a gang of 3 miscreants was looking for the contractor of an under-construction

DHAKA: A two-day Asia Conference of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) begins at a city hotel tomorrow (Sunday), in the wake of growing worry of the host country about the adverse impacts of climate change caused by global warming. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would inaugurate the

Dhaka: Elder brother Mostafizur Rahman allegedly killed his younger Maksudur Rahman Bhuiyan, 45, following family feuds at Uttara in the city on Friday midnight. Police recovered and sent the body to DMCH morgue. Police couldn’t arrest the killer yet.Police sources said Maksud lived at

DHAKA: State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Qamrul Islam once again said slain President Ziaur Rahman was an undercover “spy” of Pakistan, both during and after the liberation war.  “Being a freedom fighter, he was also a Pakistani spy. He

MOULVIBAZAR: A triangular clash among the activists of Chhatra League, Chhatra Dal and Shibir on Moulvibazar Government College campus Saturday left 15 people injured. Police, however, arrested a journalist and six Shibir activists from the campus after the clash that ensued in the

Kushtia: Police Saturday arrested a Habilder of the district detective police and two Ansar men for allegedly committing robbery at a house here. The arrested are Abul Kalam Azad, in-charge of the permanent police camp of Khustia Housing estate, and Ansar members Jahangir Ali and Safar

Jamalpur: Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira Saturday disclosed that the government has decided to return the vested property and the acquired lands lying abandoned to the real owners or their successors. He also said his ministry would try its level best to reclaim some 2.5 lakh acres of

Dhaka: Police on Friday night arrested another young man on charge of setting fire to the body of a teenage girl named Aleya Akhter in the city’s Pallabi area.Police picked up Belal from Shah Ali thana area at about 11pm Friday, acting on the statement given by main accused Khokon, who

DHAKA: Most invited leaders of different political parties at a regional meet arranged by the Election Commission Saturday felt “embarrassed” finding seated beside them top Jamaat leaders accused of crimes against humanity during the 1971 War of Liberation.  Jamaat Ameer Matiur

Chandpur: Rail communications on the Chtittagong-Laksham section of the railways snapped as an oil-laden train derailed in Kalibari area on Saturday morning in an accident fraught with dangers.Railway sources said four of the 25 containers of the “Tank Special” train from Chittagong