Metropolitan

Most drivers including those of heavy vehicles on busy highways lack institutional training and knowledge of traffic rules contributing to the increasing number of road accidents. They enter the profession as transport helpers or conductors at an early age and become drivers in a few years. A large number of them obtain fake driving licences ... Read more

The Civil Aviation and Tourism secretary, Shafique Alam Mehedi, on Monday inaugurated the seventh boarding bridge at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to ensure sooth movement of the passengers. The boarding bridge was built in 30 months at a cost of Tk 14 crore with a view to ensure speedy exits and entrance of the passengers ... Read more

Srishtigarh School of Digital Film Making, a school set up in the capital for encouraging film making among the youths, is going to launch a certificate course on cinematography with 35mm adapter, lens, light and composition. The courses would start from November 26 and the basic teachings would be offered in 12

Rajshahi University reopens today amid tight security after Eid-ul-Azha. Seven entry points on the campus have been given now in the charge of law enforcing agencies to avoid untoward situations, said a university release on Monday. RU assistant proctor Mustak Ahmed told New Age that the identity cards of the students and entry

Police raided different areas of the city early hours yesterday following a mugging incident on Sunday afternoon and arrested three muggers with robbed cash and firearms. Police recovered two locally made guns, five rounds of bullets, a machete and looted money worth Tk 13,000 from their possession and also seized a CNG-run

A young man died yesterday evening after being hit by a train in Shamantapur area of Gazipur Pourashava. The deceased was identified as Mohabbel Hossain, 34, of Shoylapangsa village in Rajbari. He was a tobacco distributor of Abul Khair Group. Police said Mohabbel was walking on the rail tracks with his mobile phone’s headphones

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-1) personnel yesterday arrested three alleged cheats from the city’s Uttara on charges of misappropriating money and valuables from people by identifying themselves as ‘Badshahs of Jinn’ (king of supernatural spirits). The arrestees are Kafil Uddin, 22, son of Abdul Kuddus, Abul Bashar Milon, 25, son of

The academic activities of Rajshahi College, one of the largest seats of learning in the north, are being seriously hampered for acute shortage of teacher, classroom, accommodation, transport and others necessary inputs. Official sources said the college has only 120 teachers to conduct the academic activities of more

Speakers at a programme yesterday said the quality of the country’s mathematics textbooks is the worst in the world. Quality textbooks are crucial as arithmetic and algorithmic knowledge are vital in almost every field of science including information communication technology (ICT), they

Ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s four-day visit to Japan from November 28, four important members of the House of Representatives of Japan yesterday met with foreign minister and discussed Japanese funding for the Padma Bridge. Official sources said the Japanese delegation also discussed various aspects of bilateral

People, who left the capital to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with their near and dear ones, are experiencing huge sufferings in their return journey. Apart from hassles in procuring bus ticket and booking berth in train or launch, overcrowded vehicles and tailbacks on almost all

WB supports studies for sustainable development of world’s single largest mangrove forest The World Bank (WB) is helping Bangladesh carry out a series of studies to develop a holistic programme for sustainable development of the Sundarbans, the world’s single largest mangrove forest. The Sundarbans is home to an estimated 425 species of wildlife, including 300 ... Read more

A mob yesterday beat up three persons who allegedly raped a housewife in Gudaraghat slum area under Mirpur-13 in the capital early hours Thursday. The accused — Shahid, Al Amin, and Abul Hossain — were handed over to Kafrul police station yesterday while one of their accomplices named

A youth was killed allegedly by the family members of his girlfriend at Sutrapur area in the city on Friday night. More than 50 local people brought out a procession in the area yesterday afternoon demanding trial of those responsible for the killing. The dead Mahbubur Rahman Robin, 23, used to run a video shop owned ... Read more

Locals beat up two criminals yesterday as they attempted to kidnap a 14-year-old girl forcefully while she was on her way to private tutor’s house with her father at Kamarpara in city’s Turag. The locals caught the goons Nazrul Islam, 18, and Faisal Ahmed, 22 and handed them over to police after giving them a ... Read more

A man died yesterday at city’s Pallabi area when he fell down on the floor during a scuffle with his wife over money to buy drugs. The deceased was identified as Sohrab Hossain, 40, a rickshaw puller of Block-D on Road-12 in the area. Sub Inspector Ansar Ali of Pallabi Police Station said police admitted ... Read more

Monwara Begum and Rahima Begum, aged over 40, arrived in the city along with their two boys the day before the Eid day by a train from Mymensingh. On Eid day, they collected meat from different houses in the city and left for homes by another train on that night. Monwara and Rahima, two siblings, ... Read more

About 200 years old three nights and two days long traditional Ras ustav and Ras mela, one of the biggest festival for the communities living in the country’s southern region, began in Kuakata coast yesterday. The festival also opens the fishing season in the region. Several thousands of people join and enjoy

A weeklong film festival kicks off in the port city today. Alliance Française de Chittagong in collaboration with Chittagong Film Center (CFC) will organise the screening of 13 documentary films. As a part of international film festival, the festival will be arranged in 46 countries all over

Cattle markets in the capital are yet to draw customers even though only two days are left for Eid-ul-Azha, one of the main festivals of Muslim Ummah. Until yesterday a very small number of cattle were sold at the city’s 14 cattle markets including the permanent one in Gabtali. But cattle traders are hoping that ... Read more