DHAKA: Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain Thursday said the government is planning to build a separate rail-bridge for reducing pressure on the Bangabandhu Bridge, which recently developed cracks. Another bridge over the Jamuna would be built at Fuljhuri-Bahadurabad ghat point, he

DHAKA: Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed claimed the government is progressing in its move to bring back the condemned fugitives from the Bangabandhu murder case to execute the court verdict.  “The court verdict will be executed within the tenure of the present government,” he

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would clear Bangladesh’s position as an anti-terrorism and anti-militancy country at the 65th general assembly of the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry announced ahead of the PM’s trip to the UN headquarters.Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni Thursday

SYLHET: Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim Thursday asked judges and lawyers to be workaholic to get over the logjam of cases.“You should work together to discard complexity of the cases,” said the justice at a reception organized by Sylhet District Bar Association.“Everyone needs

DHAKA: A community policeman in Sutrapur thana area of Old Dhaka in the capital was killed.Police recovered the body in city’s Sutrapur colony early Thursday.The dead was identified as Abdul Barek, 45, a resident of the colony and hailed from Baufal upazila of Patuakhali.Sutrapur thana

DHAKA: Ruling-party lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon, quizzed over the murder of his party colleague Ibrahim Ahmed, said he had left his licensed pistol in his car “by mistake”.Shaon, however, denied his involvement in Ibrahim killing during the interrogation on Wednesday night,

DHAKA: Linguists and academics at a colloquium Thursday suggested close ties among the Bengali language researchers working worldwide for the development of the language as well as Bengali grammar.They made the observation at a colloquium on New Bengali Grammar at the Modern Language

MYMENSINGH: A roving investigation team of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday morning started their spot probe into the crimes committed in Mymensingh during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.Meanwhile, the investigators talked to local people during their spot visit, part of

DHAKA: Three terrorists including two outlaws were killed in separate ‘shootouts’ with the law enforcers in Kushtia and Chittagong early Thursday.In Kushtia, two members of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz were killed in a ‘gunfight’ between their cohorts and members of Rapid Action

SHERPUR: Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Jeyad Al Malum Wednesday said they got enough evidences through spot investigation against Jamaat leader Md Kamaruzzaman to prove his involvement in wartime crimes. “We have already detained identified war criminals, including

SUNAMGANJ: A head-on collision between a passenger minibus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chhatak left 3 people dead and two injured on Wednesday noon.The deceased were identified as Delwar, 35, and his niece Ruhela Begum, 22, hailed from Jolsi village in Doarbazar upazila.Witnesses and

DHAKA: Society is developing with the dynamics of faster development of the globe. Crimes, too, are getting globalized concomitant with the fast-moving world. The various offences now happening in society like cyber and email crimes, pornography on phone and Internet, eve-teasing, illicit

PABNA: State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku Wednesday alleged that the leaders of the main opposition BNP and war criminals are trying to destabilize the country in a planned way being envious of development in every sector. The state minister came up with the comment at a

DHAKA: A court here Wednesday declared a long adjournment till November 14 the hearing on charge framing against ex-PM and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her elder son Tarique Rahman and four others in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.Judge Muzammel Hossain of the Special Judge Court-3

DHAKA: The draft National Child Policy-2010 has been unveiled with the maximum age of the child raised to 18 from the previously defined 14 years, restricting certain works up to the two stages of childhood. As per the new policy, a child under 14 cannot be hired for any full-time job And

DHAKA: Government authorities cancelled the work order awarded to a Chinese firm for repairing the cracks on the Bangabandhu Bridge as the company is blacklisted for jerrybuilding an important link road.The Cabinet Purchase Committee also decided to invite fresh tender for the repairs to

SHERPUR: All Sherpur incidents of ‘crime against humanity’ during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war took place following direction from Kamaruzzaman, said Mohan Munshi, a self-declared `rajakar’, as a belated state-level investigation was now on steam. Kamaruzzaman, Assistant

DHAKA: Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, the sole government body to promote country’s much-neglected potential tourism sector, urged the government to pay sponsor money to the International Cricket Council as the BPC has been elected ICC’s local partner in staging the upcoming global

SHERPUR: The war-crime investigation team, on the second consecutive day of revisiting the 1971 carnage spots in Sherpur, walked around different areas of the frontier town talking to local people about the wartime happenings in sombre scenarios.Beginning at 9:00 in the morning, the

DHAKA: The government has invited bids from four short-listed investment companies for the construction of Dhaka Elevated Expressway, as preparation for building the motorway over the jammed capital city advanced steadily.According to a competent source the government sent ‘Request for