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Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni told the House that a total of 2,449 Bangladesh nationals are in the prisons of 32 countries at present and the government is trying to bring them back home through diplomatic efforts. In her written statement in the house the FM, mentioned that of those ill-fated Bangladeshi citizens, some 843 are ... Read more

Veteran comedy actor Saifuddin Ahmed has died. He died of old-age complications at Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital at 3:00pm on Monday, his son major Sayeed Ahmed told bdnews24.com. He would be buried at Banani graveyard, he

The Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh on Monday opposed jail sentence for fraud and deception in housing and land development business. They preferred financial penalty to the provision for jail sentence in the recently passed real estate development and management

Two million bottles of smuggled Phensedyl seized since 2009 Smuggling of banned codeine syrup Phensedyl has increased manifold in recent times causing alarm among the agencies concerned. Nearly two million bottles of Phensidyl have been seized across the country by the law enforcers and the narcotics control department since January 2009, officials

The government on Sunday signed an amended production sharing contract with UK-based Cairn Energy and its partners for the block 16, allowing the companies to sell gas directly to a third party from the newly found structures in the block. The government for the first time took such a decision to allow any international

Justice ABM Khairul Haque on Sunday was appointed the 19th chief justice of Bangladesh. The president, Zillur Rahman, made the appointment with effect from September 30. Justice Khairul Haque will replace the incumbent chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, who will retire on September

Victim was a jeweller of city’s Pallabi The body recovered from a roadside dustbin near the Mirpur Ansar camp Saturday noon was identified as of a jewellery shop owner of the city’s Pallabi yesterday. Ayub Ali Bhuiyan identified the body as his brother Mizanur Rahman at Dhaka Medical College morgue. Mizan, 25, was the owner ... Read more

Bapex hits oil-gas structure in Sunamganj-Netrokona, expects over 2 trillion cubic feet gas reserve; drilling next year to confirm discovery Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration Company (Bapex) has discovered a potentially large oil and gas structure in Sunamganj-Netrokona districts and is preparing to drill an exploratory well there. According to Bapex Managing Director Mortuza Ahmad Faruque, while ... Read more

Student’s death in road accident 30 hurt as police, students clash World University of Bangladesh students on Saturday rampaged through the Science Laboratory crossing and adjoining areas in sequel to clashes that took place on Friday after a fellow had been killed in a road accident near Lab Aid Hospital Friday morning. At least 30 ... Read more

Arifur Rahman, a 17-year old first year HSC student of Adamjee Cantonment College, died on the spot run over by a speeding bus at the busy Farmgate crossing in the city on Saturday. He became the second victim of road accident in the city in as many days, osing life only a day after a ... Read more

An alleged robber was beaten to death by a mob at Alekerchar village in Comilla Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Md Abdul Matin alias Motinya Dakat of the upazila’s Amratoli village. Police and locals said, at about 2:30am, a gang of six robbers stormed into the house of a local businessman of ... Read more

An assailant stabbed Rangpur correspondent of The Daily Jugantor at Jahaj Company intersection in the town yesterday evening, leaving him critically injured. Victim Mahbubur Rahman Habu was rushed to Good Health Clinic. Doctors at the clinic said he needed 32 stitches in his

Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth from a roadside dustbin near the Ansar camp at Mirpur in the city yesterday. They suspect the victim, aged around 22, might have been strangled. After recovering the body around 8:30pm, Mirpur police sent it to Dhaka Medical College

The government has already made arrangements for booking air tickets for record 93,761 Hajj pilgrims this year. “We have already signed agreements with other airlines as third carrier to ensure of carrying all hajj pilgrims on time,” Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader told BSS on

Thousands of inhabitants in Old Dhaka’s Shankhari Bazar area and surrounding neighbourhoods are living in old and rundown buildings – some of them built over 100 years ago – putting their lives at great risks as an earthquake with even a moderate intensity can level hundreds of such structures to ground. Collapse of dilapidated structures, without ... Read more

Several thousand Bangladeshis overstaying their visas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) can return home without facing punishment after the kingdom announced a six-month amnesty for overstayers of certain categories. The grace period starts today. The Saudi interior ministry said the amnesty will cover those who arrived in the kingdom on

sparking mob protest Reckless driving claimed the life of a private university student on Friday in front of Lab Aid Hospital in the capital, sparking off angry protests. The deceased, Mustafizur Rahman, son of Nazir Hossain, was a student of World University in the city’s Dhanmondi

Load shedding in every alternate hour has made a come back in the city in last few days because of a decline in power generation due to gas shortage and increase in demand after the Eid holidays. Power generation declined to around 4,000MW this week from around 4,200-4,400MW last week whereas official demand of electricity ... Read more

A fighter of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed into the Chittagong Port channel on Thursday but the pilot survived by ejecting himself just before the crash. Air Force sources said flight lieutenant Ahmed Sanjid had taken off the Jahurul Haque Air Base at Patenga at 1:48pm in an F-7 fighter aircraft and the plane

Cattle cannot be slaughtered in 45 days after being given anthrax vaccine and antibiotic as human beings can be infected by consumption of its meat, physicians and veterinary experts said. ‘Vaccinated cattle should not be slaughtered during the period when the antibody grows in its blood. The vaccine needs 21 to 45 days to produce ... Read more