DHAKA: Separate courts Monday granted bail to Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan in two more cases. With the latest two, he got bail in all seven ‘harassment’ cases filed against him. The hearings for the cases took place in the Additional Metropolitan Magistrates courts of

CHITTAGONG: A head-on collision between a truck and a bus on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Sitakunda upazila on Monday morning left two people killed and another three injured.The deceased were named as bus driver Yasin of Noakhali district and truck driver Joynal of Feni.Witnesses said

HABIGANJ: A worker was killed as a tractor crushed him on Monday in Machhulia Bridge area near Khoai River.The deceased was identified as Amir Ali, 24, son of late Idris Ali of Enatabad village under Sadar upazila.Witnesses said Amir fell down from the sand laden tractor and died on the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday issued arrest warrant against former lawmaker and Chairman of Partex Group MA Hashem shortly after he was sued for tax dodging. Mohammad Ismail Hossain, acting Judge of Senior Special Judge’s Court, passed the order after hearing on the tax-evasion case

DHAKA: Pointing the finger at her political foes once again, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday said none would be spared if found guilty about the August 21 grenade attack she had narrowly escaped. “All responsible for the heinous attack would be punished, how much powerful they may

BENAPOLE:  Bangladesh Border Guard (BBG) has constructed the first ever observation post on Kazipur border in Gangni of Meherpur district.According to the BBG source, some 100 observation posts would be set up in the border areas to strengthen vigilance along the border to stop

CHITTAGONG: An unidentified beggar was beaten to death in a lynch-mob attack in Beribadh area under Bandar thana on Saturday night.With the latest one, three such incidents of mass beating took place in Bandar area, Bahaddarhat crossing and Razakhali area in the port city within a span of

DHAKA: The Environment and Forest Ministry has taken decision in principle to provide cent percent family ration for its staffs who are working in the remote hilly areas. The decision was taken in the wake of demand made by officials and workers of the department.  If implemented, it

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni said the government is very much aware of the international standards to be maintained in the war crimes trial, now underway, as questions cropped up in this regard from different quarters.“As war crimes trial is a crucial issue, we are conscious

BAGERHAT: A court here on Sunday granted a  two-day remand for Mufti Hannan, chief of banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad (Huji), for quizzing him in Bagerhat bomb attack case.Bagerhat Judicial Magistrate M Nur Nabi passed the order as the investigating officer of the case produced him

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday turned down a writ petition seeking court’s order for bringing back the 195 prisoners of war from Pakistan to put them in the dock for war-crime trial.An HC bench comprising Justice Mamnun Rahman and Justice Syeda Afsar Jahan came up with the order upon a

DHAKA: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie left Dhaka on Sunday morning after their three-day private trip to Bangladesh.A plane carrying the Blairs took off from Shahjalal International Airport at about 10am. Foreign secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes and British

DHAKA: Peoples’ representatives and intellectuals Sunday underscored the need for introducing party-based local government elections and formulating a legal framework to make the local body self-reliant.  They also demanded enactment and implementation of ‘Comprehensive democratic

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday directed the government to make sure women are not forced to put on veils at workplaces and educational institutions, as such a coercive action hit headlines.   An HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh M Zakir Hossain also

DHAKA: Movement by private college teachers to press home an eight-point charter of demand has created uncertainty in around 130 private colleges.Private college teachers were engaged in movement and lobbying at different levels of the government since the beginning of this year with

NARAYANGANJ:  At least 22 people were injured, four by shotgun bullet, as an agitation by garment workers for salary and eid bonus erupted into a violent clash with police at Rupganj Sunday, witnesses said. Sources said the agitating workers of Rupashi Mairuli and Shikder Apparels of

DHAKA: A good number of staff members of the Environment and Forest Ministry keep most part of their salaries in their provident fund and run their families on extras they allegedly earn by unfair means. One of the office assistants of the Ministry has stashed 87 percent of his salary

DHAKA: The High Court adjourned the hearing on the petition filed by Jamaat challenging the legality of some provisions of the International Crimes Tribunal Act and the first amendment to the constitution till Monday.  An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Abdul Wahhub Mia and Justice

BOGRA: Show cause notices will be served on 14 educational institutions in Sherpur upazila for not observing the National Mourning day on August 15. Sherpur upazila Nirbahi Office Md. Manjur Alam, told banglanews24.com.bd, “Managements of those 14 schools did wrong for not observing the

SAVAR: Police seized 5,200 bottles of Phensidyl syrup and held two alleged drug peddlers on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital early Sunday.Acting on a secret information that a truck with a consignment of the smuggled phensidyl were being transported to