DHAKA: The Postal Department is going to sign a deal with the Passport Department this week for issuing machine-readable passports (MRP) through post offices from August 1. “In the first phase, three post offices in Dhaka will introduce the service which will later be implemented at 81

CHUADANGA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) held a man and recovered a revolver and two sharp weapons from Bakshipur Sakin village in Alamdanga upazila early Monday.Acting on a tip-off, a special team of RAB-6, led by DAD HM Nurul Islam, raided the house of Khabir Uddin at the

DHAKA: Do as I preach, not as I practise. Many officials leading government campaign for family planning of the public are blessed with families large enough to make one raise their eyebrow. Most officials of the Family Planning Department have a good number of children in their own

NATORE: The district and session judge’s court Sunday sent 11 policemen to jail in connection with the killing of a businessman in so-called ‘crossfire’. They are former office-in-charge of Singra thana Abu Bakkar, SI Liakat Ali, ASI Praddyut Kar, constable Jasim, constable Asir

DHAKA: The Mawa-Kaorakandi channel that was closed for dredging will be opened within a week. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan Sunday told journalists that a dredger would reach there in a day or two. “Dredging of necessary points of five emergency channels will then take place as

DHAKA: Norway will provide Tk 116 crore to Bangladesh for community-level disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change under the Comprehensive Disaster Management Program (CDMP). Norwegian Ambassador to Dhaka Ingebjorg Stofring and UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Prisner

DHAKA: The government has appointed Muhammad Ali Sarker as the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Netherlands. A Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Muhammad belongs to the 1986 batch of BCS (Foreign Affairs) Cadre. He joined the service in 1989, said a press release of Foreign

BRAHMANBARIA: Yet another death in police custody was reported in the district Sunday, after last week’s High Court order for the government to punish such excesses following a number of custodial deaths in the capital.This time the deceased is a poor rickshaw-puller, Nurul Haque,

DHAKA: The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) received 100 containers for recycling waste with support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) “The Prime Minister will inaugurate the containers soon,” Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan told journalists.Ending a meeting with

DHAKA: Bangladeshi-made sleeping bags retained the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) on the US market.A government handout on Sunday said the Obama administration on July 1 turned down an appeal by US manufacturing company Excel Outdoor in this regard. Excel filed the writ with

DHAKA: When the law-enforcing agencies are on high alert to thwart any apprehended sabotage following the arrest of top Jamaat trio, there is no trace of over 40,000 licensed firearms, competent sources said, indicating it as a major threat to country’s internal security. All these

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday issued a rule upon the government to explain within two weeks why it should not be asked to preserve the 30 percent quota fixed for the children of freedom fighters in police Sub-Inspector recruitment.Eight government high officials have been made respondents.

COMILLA: Rail communications on 30 routes to the capital, Dhaka, and country’s eastern part halted as a passenger train derailed near Lalmai station here Sunday afternoon.Railway sources said three compartments of Chittagong-bound ‘Mahanagar Provati’ from Dhaka fell off the tract at

SIRAJGANJ: Four people, three of them members of a family, were killed as a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Choria under Salonga thana on Sunday noon.The deceased are auto-rickshaw passengers Md Sobhan Ali, 65, his son-in-law Monir Hossain, 35, and granddaughter Amena Khatun,

SIRAJGANJ: Head-on collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw left four people killed at Choria of Solonga thana here Sunday.Three of the deceased were from a family and the other was the driver of the auto-rickshaw, police said. The deceased are Md Sobhan Ali, 65, his son-in-law Monir

DHAKA: A special court Sunday ordered the arrest of 735 suspected mutineers from Sadar Rifles Battalion and producing them on Monday morning to stand trial, being held in phases at different BDR garrisons across the country.The special court-6, led by BDR Director-General Major-General

DHAKA: The World Population Day was observed in the country as also elsewhere across the globe Sunday, renewing a universal campaign for rearing everyone born as a competent citizen with a decent life.With the slogan ‘Everyone counts’, different organisations carried various

MEHERPUR: A live bomb and warning chit under the name of an outlawed left political outfit were left inside Kumaridanga police camp under Gangni upazila in the district sometime on Saturday night. The chit, carrying a note of warning from the banned extremist outfit ‘Lal Pataka’,

DHAKA: Physical condition of former BNP secretary-general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, lying on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital, improved a little on Sunday.Hospital ICU chief Mirza Nazim Uddin informed journalists on Sunday noon about the latest state of failing

JHENIDAH: Jakir Hossain Shanti, 38, a local Jubo League leader, finally died on Sunday morning after fighting for life for the last four days.   Assistant police super of Jhenidah Faisal Hossain told banglanews24.com.bd that Jakir came under a bomb attack on 7 July at around 9 pm near