DHAKA: The Criminal Investigation Department of police has finalized charges against 824 of the BDR mutineers for committing various crimes at the Pilkhana headquarters of the border force and could submit those in a couple of days. Competent sources said 25 out of the big group,

DHAKA: The Secretary committee for administrative development will sit for its 11th meeting on July 13, officials said.   Cabinet division secretary M Abdul Aziz, ndc will chair the meeting.   The meeting will discuss six issues that include formation of National Telecommunication

BARGUNA: Two persons suspected as pirates were killed in a ‘shootout’ with a combined force of Coastguard, RAB and police in Geanpara area in Pathorgata upazila of the backwater coastal district on Friday morning.    Official sources said the law-enforcers recovered three pistols

DHAKA:  The International Crime Tribunal will show the arrested top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami arrested in war-crime cases, said State Minister for Law Advocate Kamrul Islam Friday, scuttling the other view that it’s not right now.    He said the inquiry into the 1971 war crimes is

DHAKA: Rumours that Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader resigned were in the air all day long Friday, as there was no official confirmation.   His close acquaintances as well as responsible people in the Jatiya Party, a major component of the ruling Awami League-led grand

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: State Minister for Home Affairs Advocate Shamsul Haque Tuku Friday said the three arrested top Jamaat leaders would not be put in the dock of the War Crimes Tribunal right now.“Though Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and Delwar Hossain Sayedee are

MANIKGANJ: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) held two people alongwith arms and ammunition from Sanbandha village in Sadar upazila on Thursday evening. After interrogation, arrested Sirajul Islam Siraj, 26, and Didarul Islam Dipon, 25, were handed over to Sadar thana early

LALMONIRHAT: An adolescent girl was allegedly strangled by her mother at Kisamat Boraibari village in Aditmari upazila on Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Archana Rani, 12, a class VII student of Kharua Para School. Police recovered the body and sent it to Sadar Hospital

SATKHIRA: One person was killed and 50 others were injured as a bus plunged into a roadside pond on Satkhira-Kaliganj road in Kaliganj upazila Friday morning.Kaliganj police station officer- in-charge Fariduddin said the Satkhira-bound bus fell into the pond at about 10am as the driver

LALMONIRHAT: Rail communications in the northern-most part of the country snapped as three compartments of a passenger train on Lalmonirhat-Burimari route derailed in Kuchlibari area on Friday morning.Office Assistant of Lalmonirhat Train Control Office Abul Kalam said the train was on

MADARIPUR: Three ferries with 70 vehicles aboard ran aground on a shoal in Hazra channel on the Mawa-Kawrakandi route Friday. Movement of ferries through the channel remained suspended for eight hours after the three, including two Ro-Ro ferries, remained stranded since 8am with hundreds

DHAKA: Over 200 senior leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, including ex-ameer Prof Golam Azam, are learnt to be under intelligence surveillance in connection with various contentious matters evolving after the arrest of the party’s three key men. Competent sources said acting ameer Makbul

SAVAR: Ruling Awami League MP Ilias Uddin Mollah was sued early Friday on charge of beating up a police sergeant in Ashulia area following traffic jam on his way.   Savar police sergeant Shariful Islam filed a case against him late Thursday night accusing the lawmaker of obstructing

DHAKA: The government on Thursday night suspended recruitment examination for Assistant Teacher of government high schools.Senior Information Officer of Education Ministry Subodh Chandra Dhali confirmed the decision.“The decision came following leakage of question papers in Gangchara of

DHAKA: The government on Thursday approved purchases of 12.54 lakh metric tonnes petroleum from Kuwait, the Philippines and Malaysia. The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchases approved the decision with Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair, cabinet division Deputy Secretary

DHAKA: Bangladesh Communist Party (CPB) President Manzurul Ahsan Khan Thursday said any compromise on trial of war criminals will be suicidal for Awami League.   “If the government takes the path of compromise on trial of war criminals, it would be suicidal for the Awami League,” he

DHAKA: Supreme Court’s Appellate Division upheld a High Court order declaring “illegal” the charge taken from patients as Value Added Tax (VAT) on prescriptions and diagnostics. A full bench of the Appellate Division, led by chief justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, rejected a government

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman and former Communications Minister Anwar Hossain Manju finally won the final battle for ownership of the oldest Bangla Daily Ittefaq.The High Court bench comprising Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Govinda Chandra Thakur granted the appeal from

DHAKA: Twenty-nine more applicants have received security clearances for setting up community radio stations in the country.“Government will issue the licenses to the applicants within a month”, source in the ministry of information told banglanews24.com.bd Thursday. Aminul Islam, a

DHAKA: The government plans taking punitive actions against several hundred civil, military and police officials of the administration on various charges of offence. Officials are accused of patronizing militants, obstructing development initiatives of the government and having their