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Chobi Mela VI, a two-week international photography festival, begins January 21, 2011 in the Dhaka city. It was disclosed at a press conference organised by Drik at its Dhanmondi office on Tuesday. Works of artistes from 30 countries will be put on display in the festival with the theme ‘dreams’, said Shahidul Alam, festival director ... Read more

Physical disability could not stop Lutfa Akhter, who became paralysed after falling from tree in July, from taking part in sports events organised by the National Association of Sports for the Persons with Disability at the Physical Training Institute at Mohammadpur on Tuesday. Lutfa, who won a number of prizes in sports and took the ... Read more

A two-day ‘digital fair’ begins today in the Rajshahi city to build up awareness of rights to information among the city dwellers. Rajshahi additional divisional commissioner Swapan Kumar Roy disclosed the information at a briefing at the conference room of his office Monday

A ten-member team of Korea Overseas Volunteers (KOVs) has arrived here aiming to provide training on different fields including nursing, community development, computer education, and automobile. Ambassador of Korea to Bangladesh, Cho Taiyoung, and Resident Representative of KOICA Bangladesh Office, Lee Jung Wook, welcomed them at the embassy yesterday, said a

The classes of the first year honours courses under the session 2010-11 of Rajshahi University (RU) will start form January 10, 2011. RU administration sources said the academic committee in a meeting decided to begin the classes from January 10 instead of January 1 scheduled earlier, said a

Police recovered body of a teenage girl from a house at Fulchar village in Keraniganj yesterday. The girl aged around 13 years. Hands, legs and mouth of the body were tied with a trouser. The body was recovered in a plastic sack at about 8:00am. There were several stab marks on the body of the ... Read more

A Dhaka Court yesterday allowed Mirpur police to interrogate Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Ward Councillor and film actor Monwar Hossain Dipjol at jail gate within two days in a case filed for snatching Tk 5 lakh from a businessman on August 1 this year. Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ismail Hossain passed the order after Sub-Inspector

The government initiative to revive the capital’s circular waterway communication in a bid to reduce pressure on the Dhaka city roads has fallen through for lack of adequate number of waterbuses and proper government initiatives. According to official sources in the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation, BIWTC

Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited donated Tk 5 lakh to the widow of diploma engineer Kazi Altaf Hossain who was abducted and killed by unknown men at Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan on December 17, says a press release. Meanwhile, Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) yesterday expressed deep shock over the death of Altaf, who was working with a ... Read more

A two-day ‘digital innovation fair’ inaugurated on Barisal Zilla School premises on Monday with a view to creating accountability and transparency in the country. A seminar styled ‘preferences in preparing strategy for digital Bangladesh’ was also organised on the occasion

Husband and in-laws allegedly beat a housewife to death in city’s Kadamtoli area early hours yesterday. Deceased 35-year-old Shilpi alias Shahinur Sarker, her husband Ripon Sarker and their children lived at a house in Muradpur High School Road. Shilpi’s sister-in-law Lipi and others brought her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)

Aliya Sharafi started the musical component of a programme organised by Bengal Foundation on Sunday commemorating her father, the late exponent of Tagore song Kalim Sharafi, by rendering the song ‘Tomari jharna tolar nirjoney’. After her, Tagore singer Mita Haque rendered two songs – ‘Koto ajanare janaile tumi’ and

Boishakhi Television, a private television channel, has stepped into the sixth year of its journey yesterday. Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad and Managing Director of Boishakhi Rafiqul Amin inaugurated the anniversary by cutting a cake at 12:01am yesterday, says a press release. Mohammad Hossain, chairman of Destiny Group; Farid Akter, executive director of

The fourth convocation of Khulna University will be held on the university campus today. The university authorities will confer degrees on 2,526 students in the convocation, said university vice-chancellor Professor Md Saifuddin Shah at a press conference at the university on Monday. Twenty graduates of different departments from 2006 to 2010 sessions will be awarded ... Read more

Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital (JBFH) has organised a fortnight programme to motivate parents of under-five children to provide their children with polio vaccine and Vitamin A capsule. On the eve of National Immunisation Day on January 8, JBFH has started registration of under-five children at Dhanmondi and its adjacent areas in the city, says

Bapa urges govt Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (Bapa) yesterday demanded of the government to take quick initiatives to restrict private cars on the roads of the capital to reduce traffic congestion. Bapa in a press release, signed by its general secretary Dr Md Abdul Matin, said newspapers reported that the government would restrict movement of private ... Read more

Form human chain demanding fresh tests The guardians in Rajshahi city demonstrated on Sunday, demanding holding of fresh tests for admission into Class III. They said that the results of the admission test held at six government schools in the city on Friday were tampered. They demanded holding of fresh tests without repeating the

At least seven people were killed and 11 others injured in separate road accidents in Bogra, Laxmipur and Dinajpur yesterday. Staff correspondent from Bogra reports: Four people were killed and eight injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a covered van on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway in Bogra Sadar upazila yesterday

Statisticians at an international conference at Dhaka University on Sunday stressed the need for improving the contents and teaching methods of statistics for its effective application. They said this at the inaugural session of the First International Conference on Theory and Applications of Statistics at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Hall Bhaban at Dhaka ... Read more

Owner of a chemical shop in city’s Kadamtali area allegedly killed the shop’s manager yesterday. Atiqur Rahman Mamun, 24, worked as the manager of Mita Chemicals at Shyampur in the city. Mamun’s brother Bashir Ahmed told The Daily Star that the shop owner and his men took Mamun to Kadamtali where piling work of the ... Read more