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A team of three students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has won the 2nd prize in the contest, ‘Imagine a City of Tomorrow’, at the final round held in Paris last month. The team of Tasnim Firoz Ananya, Kashfia Nehrin and Tasfia Tasnim of Urban and Regional Planning Department of BUET secured the ... Read more

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was found dead after being drugged and mugged by a gang of criminals on the capital’s Bijoy Sarani early yesterday, said police. The deceased was Yousuf Mridha, 42, son of Ali Akbar Mridha of Patuakhali. Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Kafrul police,

Dhaka Metro Rail Nippon Koei set to become consultant The government is going to appoint a consortium led by Nippon Koei Company, a Japanese firm, as consultant for Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project. A proposal for awarding the contract will be placed for approval at the meeting of the Cabinet committee on purchase today. The ... Read more

The country needs qualified and trained nurses for better healthcare services and the proper application of nursing services can ensure the health care for individuals, families, and communities of the country. Prof. Dr Sarder A Nayeem, chairman of Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital made the observation while addressing ‘The Capping Ceremony

Specialist surgeons have conducted free operations for 20 extremely poor female patients suffering from vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) diseases at Rangpur Community Medical College Hospital (RCMCH) in the city. The RCMCH authority arranged the cost-free surgeries on Friday and Saturday for the poor female VVF patients under financial assistance of the

Beautification of the Gulshan- Banani- Baridhara Lake missed the deadline as the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha failed to recover land from illegal possession. Taken in 2010, the lake beautification project was scheduled to be completed by June. Rajuk had taken the project to free the lake from pollution by

The Rajshahi city mayor, Mosaddeque Hussain Bulbul, has urged the students to groom themselves properly to build a happy and prosperous Bangladesh. Terming the students as the future leaders of the nation, he has said they should be well equipped with scientific and information and communication

The customs officials on Saturday seized over five kilograms of gold and 75 thousand Saudi riyals at Dhaka and Chittagong airports. New Age correspondent in Chittagong reported that the customs authorities seized 25 gold bars weighing 2.5 kilograms at Shah Amanat International Airport. The officials recovered the gold bars from a luggage which

Giving a firsthand idea on what happens during an earthquake, a Jica expert team yesterday conducted a 40-minute drill in the capital’s Motijheel government colony on evacuations and post-quake response. Simulating a massive tremor, sirens howled and smoke bellowed as four fire brigade units from Ramna evacuated residents of two four-storey buildings

A nine-day professional development discourse on technological innovation in organisations began in Dhaka on Friday participated by some 40 professionals representing both private and public sectors. The discourse, titled ‘Fundamentals of technological innovation in organisations’ and organised by Bangladesh Institute of Management at BIM headquarters,

Unconvinced by the government’s assurance to ensure that the proposed coal-fired power plant in Rampal has minimal environmental impacts on the nearby Sundarbans, experts and environmentalists reiterated their concerns yesterday. They said the government was saying the world’s largest mangrove forest would be safe, as it would lie 10km off, but what impacts

At least 50 fishermen were allegedly kidnapped by pirate gang and one of fisherman suffered bullet injuries in the bay on Friday night. The injured was identified as Abdul Haque, 60, a fisherman of FB Ma-Moni of Cox’s Bazar area. He was first admitted to Kalapara upazila hospital and then sent to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.

Nitor-Gb Link Road Yet another deadline missed The construction of the road linking Mirpur 2 with Agargaon in the capital has again missed its deadline as only one-seventh of the road has been completed till now. The construction work was supposed to be completed by June of this year as was said by the then ... Read more

Speakers at a meeting in the city on Friday underscored the need for imparting more knowledge to the new generation on climate change and its impact. Addressing a prize giving ceremony on Quiz Competition on Climate Change and Environment, they also underlined the need for building logic and science based society. Institute for Environment and ... Read more

The newly drilled 20th well of Titas Gas Field in Brahmanbaria started supplying 10 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) experimentally to the national grid on Wednesday. The well, which has been drilled for the last nine months at the field in Brahmanbaria municipality, will go in full production at 12mmcfd within a ... Read more

Uncertainty looms over the forthcoming honors admission test of Jahangirnagar University under the session 2013-14 is to be held in December because of the teachers’ movement demanding vice-chancellor’s resignation. Meanwhile, JU teachers’ association made an offer to vice-chancellor Professor Anwar Hossina to shift the responsibility of honors 1st year admission test to

The Barisal City Corporation is constructing shopping-stalls on the leased land of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority in the river port area on the bank of River Kirtankhola. The BIWTA authorities sent a letter to the BCC protesting against the construction but the BCC authorities ignored the letter. The BIWTA Barisal office

Twenty-five senior officials left on Friday to participate in a 14-day healthcare management training in Korea, reports UNB. They will participate in the course as a part of a project ‘Establishment of National Institute of Advanced Practice Nurses in Bangladesh’ supported by Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) with a budget of US$ 13.75 million. Kim Bok-Hee, the

Arms-ammo sized Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested three young men from Kazi Market area at Anarkoli road of Tongi under Gazipur town Thursday night. RAB also sized a foreign made pistol and two rounds of bullets from their possession. The arrested were identified as Sumon, 30,

Detective branch of police arrested an assistant of a lawyer along with 125 pieces of Yaba tablet and 35 grams of heroin in Sylhet on Friday. The arrestee was identified as Azad Ahmed, 35, a resident of Kazitula area in the city and assistant of a lawyer, sources in the police said.