DHAKA: New Delhi has agreed to allow trucks from Nepal to enter Bangladesh through the land customs station at Banglabandha, apparently reciprocating the transit facility India seeks from Dhaka. “India is fully ready now,” Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said at a joint press

BRAHMANBARIA: Export-import trade through A Akhaura land port bordering India’s landlocked northeast would resume Sunday, after suspension Saturday over the death of an Indian worker run over by a bus.    General Secretary M Monir Hossain Babul of C&F Association of the land port

RAJSHAHI: At least 10 students were injured in a fierce factional clash of Chhatra League at Rajshahi University on Saturday afternoon in a sequel to rivalries for establishing supremacy over the campus, witnesses said. Local administration imposed restrictions on the campus following the

DHAKA: In a suspected move to halt the war crimes trial, huge amounts of firearms and foreign currencies are being brought into the country through at least 10 routes, according to intelligence sources.The smugglers of firearms managed to escape the eyes of the law-enforcing agencies,

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League`s Advisory Council Member Suranjit Sengupta Saturday said the war-crime trial could also be held under the Collaborators Act now as the cancellation of the constitutional 5th amendment by the Supreme Court revived the law. "Trial of crimes against humanity

DHAKA: Journalists and officials of Jamuna TV on Saturday observed a token hunger strike and staged sit-in demanding that the government allow the private television channel to broadcast its programmes.The six-hour sit-in and hunger strike began on the National Press Club premises at

COMILLA: Rail communications on 30 routes to the capital, Dhaka, and country’s eastern parts remained suspended as a train derailed at Borol in Sadar South upazila on Saturday.Railway sources said two goods-laden bogies of Jalalabad Express fell off the track in-between Lalmai and

GAZIPUR: A college teacher was killed and 14 other people were injured in a head–on collision between a peak-up van and a human hauler on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in  South Salna area on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Abdul Karim,42, Associate Professor of History

DHAKA:  Deputy Leader of the House in Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury Saturday said money from foreign countries is flowing in to finance certain quarters to halt the trial of the war criminals.  She made the remark while speaking as chief guest at a seminar arranged on the occasion

DHAKA: Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, revered as a key patron of the Bengalis in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, Saturday paid a short but significant visit to Dhaka that yielded a development-financing deal between the two countries. A red carpet was rolled out at the

DHAKA: A human chain was formed in front of the National Press Club Saturday demanding unconditional release of acting editor of the daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman.The speakers at the human chain organized by Engineers’ Association of Bangladesh (EAB) blamed the government for

DHAKA: A running train hit a taxi-cab on Khilgaon level crossing in the city on Saturday morning, leaving its driver injured.Injured cab driver Monir Hossain was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.According to the witnesses, the Jamalpur-bound Intercity train

DHAKA: Speakers at a human-chain demo here have demanded arrest and punishment of the perpetrators and masterminds behind the August 21grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004 in the capital. Paribartan Foundation, a non-government organization, organized the demo in front of the

PABNA: Two children drowned in water bodies in Sujanagar and Chatmohar upazilas Saturday morning.The dead were identified as Raju, 6, son of Kiam Uddin of Sreenagar village in Sujanagar upazila and Ashik, 5, son of Rabiul Islam of Dayarampur village in Chatmohar upazila.BDST: 1240 HRS,

DHAKA: Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, revered as a key patron of the Bengalis in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, Saturday paid a short but significant visit to Dhaka that yielded a development-financing deal between the two countries. A red carpet was rolled out at the

SATHKHIRA: A man was killed as a covered van crashed into his motorcycle in Tala upazila here Saturday morning.The deceased was named as Shahidul Islam, 40, owner of Shuvo Diagnostic in Tala upazila headquarters.Police and witnesses said the Paikgachha-bound van of Aarong Dairy smashed

NARSINGDI: Seven people were killed and 20 injured in a terrible traffic mishap as a loaded truck rammed into a bus on the Dhaka–Sylhet Highway in Shibpur upazila on Saturday morning.According to police and witnesses, a rice-laden truck collided head-on with a Dhaka-bound bus of Swapno

DHAKA: Bangladeshi vehicles will have to halt on domestic roads when Indian heavy-duty trucks and lories will be carrying heavy goods over to Tripura from 12am to 6am for the construction of a proposed power plant.The decision is learnt to be laid down in a summary titled ‘Over

DHAKA: Police will go tough for easing traffic jams in the capital during the holy month of Ramadan and a campaign against transgressors of rules will begin on August 8 for indefinite period.During the drive, the law enforcers will take stringent legal action against the violators of

DHAKA: Bangabandhu Sangskritic Jote staged a human-chain demonstration in the capital Friday to drum up their demand to different foreign countries for sending back the “fugitive killers of Bangabandhu” through Interpol intervention.The cultural front leaders, from the human chain on