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At least 10 people were killed and 32 others injured in separate road accidents in Manikganj and Natore districts on Monday night and yesterday. Our correspondent from Manikganj reports: Five people were killed and 30 others injured in two separate road accidents in Manikganj on Monday

Lottery to be held in December 21-22 The results of primary selection of forms for admission in Class I of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College will be disclosed today, principal of the school Husne Ara Begum told New Age on Monday. The results will be available at the branches of the school at 11:00am. This ... Read more

More than 400 participants, including about a hundred renowned academics and experts from across the world, will join the first ever South Asia Regional Conference on ‘early childhood development’ beginning in Dhaka today. The primary and mass education minister, Md Afsarul Ameen, will inaugurate the meet to be

The two-day third grand conference of development organisations will begin at RRF Training Centre in Jessore today. The conference has been jointly organised by Ganokendro, Lokkendro, Ekota, CBO and Lahanti Akhra, being managed by Dhaka Ahsania Mission, ActionAid Bangladesh, CARE Bangladesh,

Four people were killed and 37 others injured in road accidents in Bagerhat and Netrakona on Sunday night. A correspondent from Bagerhat reports: Three people died on the spot and 37 others were injured when a bus collided head-on with a truck on Bagerhat-Mawa highway in the district’s Mollarhat on Sunday night. The deceased are ... Read more

A three-day international exposition of medical furniture, equipment and services, Medexpo-2010, will begin on December 9 at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital. The inaugural ceremony will be held at 10:30am and prime minister’s health adviser Syed Modasser Ali is scheduled to inaugurate fair, the organisers

The Gemcon Group awarded two writers with the Gemcon Literary Award 2010 in a function held at Sheraton Hotel in Dhaka on Monday. Wasi Ahmed got the award for his book ‘Trishimana’ and Emran Kabir for ‘Nidragahan Mohashunney’. The program was inaugurated by a welcome speech from Gemcon Group director

The concluding and certificate awarding ceremony of a month long training course titled ‘TV News Presentation’ organised by Bangladesh Institute of Journalism and Electronic Media (BIJEM) was held on Sunday. Ministry of Labour and Employment Secretary Md Nurul Haque was present as the chief guest and distributed certificates among the participants at the institute’s conference ... Read more

Arifa, a private jobholder, left her Shahjahanpur residence at 9:00am to attend a very important meeting scheduled to be held at 10:00am at her Shahbagh office. But she failed to reach her destination on time as she reached the office at 12:00 noon due to huge traffic congestion yesterday

Residential students of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haque Hall at Rajshahi University staged demonstrations on Sunday after they found body parts of rats in their meals served at the hall dining room. Agitating students beat up the chief cook of the hall dining Sultanul Islam. The hall sources said Abdul Matin, a student of the hall ... Read more

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected a bail petition of actor and Dhaka City Corporation Ward Councilor Dipjol in a case filed against him for assaulting a traffic police constable on November 16 in the city’s Gabtoli area. Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofail Hassan passed the order after Dipjol’s lawyers submitted a petition seeking bail in the case

Some early marriage victims say they suffer from various ailments “When I was only ten years old, parents gave my marriage with a man who was 24 years older than me,” said Rumi of Barguna at a view-exchange meeting at a hotel in the city yesterday. “I was always afraid of facing my husband at ... Read more

A gang of criminals attacked a schoolgirl and slit different parts of her body with razor blades in Parnaogaon area of the district town of Naogaon yesterday. The victim Asha Alamgir Mili, 13, daughter of Alamgir Hossain of Parnaogaon area, is a class seven student of Naogaon Government Girls High School

At least four people were killed in separate road accidents in Barisal and Chittagong on Saturday night and yesterday. A correspondent from Barisal reports: Three people were killed in separate road accidents on the outskirts of Barisal city on Saturday night

Rajshahi University and the University of Education, Fryeburg, Germany signed a memorandum of understanding to exchange students, teachers, scientists and researchers for the development of education in higher studies at Rajshahi on Sunday. The RU vice-chancellor, Abdus Sobhan, and the University of Education,

Each to be sold at Tk 60 lakh, import price now Tk 1.2 crore Pragati Industries Limited (PIL), the lone state-run automobile assembling industry of the country, has started assembling Mitsubishi’s most modern Pajero jeep in Bangladesh. PIL has already completed assembling of two jeeps in its own plant in Chittagong on experimental basis and ... Read more

Book Fair at weekend The Dhaka International Book Fair witnessed a low turnout on Friday, the first weekend after the fair began at the Dhaka University playground on December 1. Visitors at the fair said absence of new titles and lack of publicity of the fair were the main reasons for the low-key state of ... Read more

A cyclist in his odyssey on pedal from Teknaf to Tetulia in 65 days is now in the city with a message to “save the nature.” Sulal Barua Chunni, 30, from Chittagong has pedalled over 530 kilometres (329 miles) in 20 days to the city. “I plan to cycle around the country and spread my ... Read more

Green activists on Friday urged manufacturers to stop mixing toxic colours, chemicals and preservatives in food and soft drinks. They also demanded government steps to ensure quality and safe food and soft drinks to protect the consumers’ rights at a discussion meeting, said a press release

Qualifiers of the 28th BCS recruitment test on Friday demanded they should be appointed in non-cadre positions before the publication of the results of the 29th BCS test. They began fast-unto-death at the Central Shaheed Minar in the morning to push for their demands. In the 28th BCS examinations, 5,105 examinees qualified for appointment in ... Read more