SYLHET: Two condemned convicts are going to be executed in Sylhet central jail on Wednesday night for committing two separate murders, official sources said.The convicts are Sabul Mia of Surma thana area in Sylhet and Alauddin Swapan of Baralekha in Moulvibazar.According to the case

DHAKA: A cross-border car rally through four countries, including Bangladesh, is being arranged to set the long-disputed Asian Highway route. The track of the car caravan has already been selected, competent sources said about the latest development.Vehicles in the long-haul traffic will

PABNA: A speeding truck rammed into a microbus in Ishwardi on Tuesday night, killing at least five people, including a union parishad chairman. The deceased are KM Akhter Hossain, UP chairman of Ataikula, Rajab Ali, Tipu Hossain, Ali and Shamim Hossain.Samiul Islam, Officer-in-Charge of

DHAKA: The government is going to buy new vehicles for use by the deputy commissioners of all the 64 districts at a cost of Tk 26 crore, official sources said.Sources in the Establishment Ministry said the vehicles would be bought for use in VIP protocol in the districts alongside use by

RAJSHAHI: Amid a flurry of fearsome foreboding about earthquake, triggered by a recent chain of tremors in different parts of the country, another quake was now felt in some areas of the metropolitan city Tuesday. The trembler, a milder one though in the current spell, was felt at around

DHAKA: Floods in riverside districts took a turn for the worse as 11 of the country’s rivers, including the major ones, remained in spate, flowing above the danger levels in the last 24 hours to 6pm Tuesday. The sudden swelling of waters in the rivers deteriorated the situation of late

DHAKA: A number of officials of senior assistant and deputy secretaries level have been given transfers and postings in a latest round of reshuffle in the administration.The establishment ministry Tuesday issued two separate notifications on the changes.According to the notifications,

DHAKA: The government has decided in principle to form a separate job commission styled Public Service Commission-Education, according a differential treatment to the teaching community. Sources in the ministry of establishment said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already given the go to

KOLKATA: The left-front government of Tripura has taken a number of initiatives to commemorate the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, as the eastern Indian state was a citadel for the freedom fighters.A 52-foot-tall liberation memorial would be built at Bilionia Chottakhola which can be

DHAKA: The proposed Chittagong-Cox’sbazar-Myanmar-Kunming highway for trans-border communications with China is going to be constructed soon, now that all the three countries are agreed on the scheme. Starting construction of the 150-kilometre-long highway is now a matter of time,

FENI: Three children, two siblings and their cousin, drowned in a pond at village Keronia in Daganbhuiyan upazila on Tuesday morning. The dead were identified as Nurer Rahman, 7, and Tahera Begum, 5, children of Nurul Amin of Daganbhuiyan, and their cousin Abu Tayeb, 7, son of Abul Kashem

COMILLA: A robber was caught and lynched by a mob at village Paschim Jangalia in Sadar upazila early Tuesday while fleeing after committing robbery at the house of an expatriate. SI Maniruzzaman of Comilla Kotwali Thana told Banglanews, “A gang of 15 robbers swooped on the house of

DHAKA: Two people were killed in separate mishaps in city’s Utarra and Mohammadpur areas on Monday night, including a road accident at a time when the capital’s streets still looked half-deserted for eid-festival hangover.The deceased were Sharif Uddin, 40, and Jewel Rana, 20,

DINAJPUR: Vexed by a double-crunch, thousands of villagers laid a siege to the coal-based Barapukuria Power Plant in Parbatipur upazila on Tuesday morning to press for uninterrupted supply of power and water. Army personnel were called out and deployed in the area, alongside police, to

SHERPUR: A six-member investigation team of the International Crimes Tribunal here Tuesday started spot investigation into the crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War with an exclusive parley with a Rajaker of that time.Deputy Commissioner M Nasiruzzaman and Police

SAVAR: At least 50 people were injured in a head-on collision between two passenger buses on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway Tuesday morning.Among the injured, 12 were rushed to different hospitals in Savar and Dhaka in critical condition.Ashulia thana Officer-in-Charge Sirajul Islam told

MEHERPUR: Police arrested a suspected regional commander of outlawed party ‘Lal Pataka’ from Hemayetpur village in Gangni upazila Tuesday morning.Police in association with local people arrested Jalaluddin alias Swapan Babu, 35, when he went to the house of one Dalim for collecting

COX`SBAZAR: A tourist drowned while bathing in the bay and seven others were rescued from the seawater in critical condition in Cox`sbazar Monday, as sea remained rough. Police and witnesses said swimmers of Yasin Lifeguards, a non-governmental organization that works at the seashore,

DHAKA: The government is going to review the recently published results of the primary schoolteacher recruitment test, sources said, adding that candidates who achieved success on the basis of quota will only come under the reappraisal. Abu Alam Md. Shahid Khan, secretary of the ministry

DHAKA: The flood situation in Jamalpur deteriorated Monday as the waters of Jamuna River kept swelling and some 150 villages were flooded as a dam collapsed in Madaripur.Jamalpur: The flood situation in the district deteriorated in the last 24 hours as the Jamuna water level rose