Dhaka: Jamaat’s defiant bid to stage a grand rally in the capital Monday failed as police enforced a government ban rounding up anyone who moved towards the venue at Paltan Maidan.“The government imposed ‘political curfew’ to foil our scheduled rally,” Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

DHAKA: The government Monday appointed additional secretary of the Finance Division M Fazle Kabir as Director-General of the BCS Administration Academy, said an official notification on the latest administrative reshuffle. In another change, two of the secretaries of the administration

Dhaka: Police herded up over 50 activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in raids in the city’s Paltan Maidan area from Sunday midnight to Monday noon, in a preemptive action against the Islamic party’s defiant move to hold a rally. “They were accused of taking preparation to attend

NOAKHALI: Four people were killed and 40 injured in house-collapse incidents as a tornado lashed Shubarnachar and Hatiya upazilas on Monday afternoon, as the weather was inclement across the country since early hours.Charklark UP chairman Khairul Alam Selim said the twister swept the

Dhaka: A young man was found dead and dumped near Motijheel AGB Colony in the capital early Monday. “A patrol team found the body of a male, aged around 25,” said Motijheel thana SI Mizanur Rahman.The body of the unidentified boy was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue. A

DHAKA: Police held a young girl with arms and ammunition in the city on Sunday night, indicating a new turn in the paradigm of crime.Jatrabari Thana sub-inspector Majharul Islam said acting on intelligence report, they raided Selim Haji’s residence at Dholaipar Kobirajbagh village and

DHAKA: Three people were severely burnt as a gas cylinder of a car exploded in the city’s Shyamoli area on Sunday night. The injured were identified as band musician Tanjib Ahmed, 32, businessman Ajadur Rahman Shimul, 30, and car-driver Hafiz Uddin. They were admitted to the burn unit

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina got a clean sheet with the last one of 15 graft cases filed against her during the past BNP government and the immediate-past interim regime now gone on Sunday’s High Court orders.      The High Court quashed the proceedings of the Bepza

DHAKA: Irked by the blocking of facebook following the satirical cartooning of country’s top politicians, technology-crazy youngsters Sunday warned the government against taking stand against the young generation.The warning came from a human-chain demo staged by the students of Dhaka

DHAKA: Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov expressed his keen inteerst in a close cooperation with Bangaldesh in exploring gas and oil, as the two countries just initialled a framework accord on joint action in energey turf.”He made the comment in meeting with Foreign Minister Dr.

DHAKA: Chairman of the Information Commission Mahammad Jamir Sunday emphasized the imperative of creating mass awareness about the Right to Information Act 2009 to make common people conscious about their rights and responsibilities.He also suggested bringing private and multinational

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