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Traffic congestion in the capital causes a loss of about $1.68 billion a year. The estimate was given by SM Salehuddin, additional executive director of Dhaka Transport Coordination Board (DTCB), at a seminar on Modernisation of Bus Transport in Dhaka on wednesday. “Annual loss caused by traffic congestion in Dhaka city is approximately $1.68 billion,” ... Read more

Former chief justice M Tofazzul Islam on Thursday called for maintaining transparency and accountability in every sector to materialise the spirit and ideals of the liberation war. ‘We should have maintained accountability and transparency in every field of national life after the liberation war. As we have failed to do so, I think the liberation ... Read more

Boy Killing in Tangail One sentenced to death, another life A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced one person to death and another to life in jail in absentia for killing an eight-year-old boy in ransom in March 23, 2003 under Mirzapur upazilla in Tangail district. The convict with death is Mohammad Bakul while Mohammad Selim was ... Read more

Visitors from all walks of life thronged the Rajshahi Digital Fair 2010 on its concluding day on Thursday. Modern technological devices and information and communication appliances attracted most of the visitors, said the visitors on the fair ground while asked about their interest and causes that encouraged them to join the

Say experts Ten children die across the country every hour due to acute malnutrition which can be averted mostly through proper breastfeeding and complementary feeding, according to experts. They said promotion, protection, and support in both breastfeeding and complementary feeding are a must for building a healthy nation

Daughter cry for punishment before court Sumaiya Yasmin Bithi, daughter of Sadequr Rahman and Rumana Nargis and lone witness to the murder of her parents, appeared before a Dhaka court yesterday and demanded exemplary punishment to the killers. Judge Kaniz Akhter Nasrina Khanam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 recorded her

More than 250 undergraduate students of different universities of the country took part in the Inter-University Mathematics Olympiad 2010 on the North South University campus in the capital on Thursday. The NSU’s electrical engineering and computer science department in collaboration with

Guardians formed a human chain, held a rally and laid siege to the Rajshahi deputy commissioner’s office on Tuesday as part of their continued agitation demanding fresh admission tests for Class III in city government schools. At around 11:00am, several hundred people under the banner of ‘conscious guardians’ formed

Six people were killed and 73 others injured in road accidents in Comilla, Chapainawabganj, Brahmanbaria, Lalmonirhat and Kishoreganj districts yesterday. UNB, Comilla adds: Three people were killed and 40 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Chandina upazila

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)