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Claims madrasa secretary Rajdhani Unnyan Kartripakhha (Rajuk) unjustly leased out a big plot to an association by taking the Waqf land of Naimuddin Madrasa at Baridhara in the city, claimed the secretary of madrasa at a press conference yesterday. Md Shahidur Rahman, secretary (Motowalli) of Moulavi Md Naimuddin Mia Waqf Estate

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) here yesterday destroyed a huge quantity of contraband liquor, phensidyl, yaba tablets and compact discs (CDs) containing pornographic material, seized in separate drives over the last six months. Members of the elite force destroyed the seized items worth over Tk 5 crore at around

30th BCS Preliminary Test HC asks PSC to give full marks for wrong questions The High Court yesterday directed the Public Service Commission to publish the results of 30th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary test and award candidates full marks for 11 wrong questions on the disputed set-2 question paper. There were three sets of question ... Read more

The online registration of US Diversity Visa (DV) 2012 lottery starts at 10:00pm tomorrow and will continue until November 3. A maximum of 6,000 Bangladeshis, on winning the lottery, can get the chance to become permanent US residents, said US Embassy officials in Dhaka at a press conference at the city’s

Health minister tells international conference At least 80 lakh people with hepatitis B are prone to serious kind of liver diseases, which should be handled by skilled hepatologists, said hepatologists at the inauguration of Livercon 2010, the 9th biannual international conference of Association for the Study of the Liver, Bangladesh (ASLB) held at a city ... Read more

The ICT fair at the Uttara Community Centre in the Rajshahi city drew a huge crowd on the concluding day of the fair on Saturday. A large number of students from different educational institutions in the city thronged the fair premises to have an overview of the state-of-the-art technology

The 28th BCS candidates, who were excluded from viva, demanded their immediate appointments to the non-cadre posts in the government services before the final results of 29th BCS exams are out. The job seekers made the demand at a human chain at the footstep of Aparajeyo Bangla at Dhaka University yesterday

Environment activists on Saturday urged the people to use traditional products made of earth, jute, bamboo and cane instead of polythene and plastic products to save the environment. They made the call at a discussion meeting titled ‘Use of plastic can, bottle and products: dangerous impact on human body’ and organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan ... Read more

Dakkhin Asia Sahitya Sangskriti Parishad has honoured 27 individuals with Mother Teresa Award for their contribution to their respective fields including literature, education, social work and peace. Dhaka University vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique handed over the awards at a ceremony presided over by Awami League’s presidium member Yusuf Hossain Humayun at

Shykh Seraj has achieved the Golden Jubilee Honour Awards for his contribution to increasing public awareness about agriculture and development through both print and broadcast media in Bangladesh, says a press release. Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA), UK’s only governing body for curry industry, will

New 7 Wonders of Nature Musa Ibrahim joins Sundarbans campaign Musa Ibrahim, the first Bangladeshi to conquer Mount Everest on May 23 this year, assured to do his best to help the Sundarbans become one of new seven wonders of nature in the world. Musa said this while addressing a reception programme at Khulna Press ... Read more

Speakers urge govt Speakers at a seminar yesterday demanded of the government to form a food and drug administration department to implement the laws to ensure food and drug safety as well as to check adulterated and toxic food. They placed the demand while addressing a seminar titled “Vision statement and necessity

A woman was strangled in her own flat at the city’s Mirpur Shah Ali yesterday afternoon. Aleya Begum, 35, wife of late Akkas Ali, a forest official lived in a flat on the top floor of a six-storey building at Mirpur Section-1. A woman living on the third floor said she saw three people were ... Read more

The East West University team has won the first prize in the inter-university debating competition’s Bangla event while the London College of Legal Studies ‘S’ group has won the first prize in the English event. The final round of the debating championship was held at East West University in the city on September 30, said ... Read more

Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster, will officially launch Bangla programme in DW-Radio from next Wednesday in Bangladesh, says a press release. The programme will be broadcasted via Bangladesh Betar’s FM network in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur daily from 8:00am to 8:30am and from 8:00pm to

Int’l Day of Older Persons ‘Take care, recognise efforts’ The International Day of Older Persons was observed yesterday across the country as elsewhere around the world in a befitting manner. The UN General Assembly designated October 1 as a day for elderly people in 1990, to recognise their contributions and to examine issues that affect ... Read more

Local people in different areas in the Sylhet city went out on demonstrations and blocked highway in protest at serious power disruption. Eyewitnesses said residents of Shibganj, that includes Sadipur, Senpara, Lakripara and Senpara, staged demonstrations at about 9:30pm, demanding immediate resumption of power supply to

Says ASK report At least 25 women committed suicide in the country in last nine months this year due to stalking while 17 others, including a woman, were killed for protesting the stalkers, said a report of human right organisation Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK). According to the report, 19 women fell victims of “fatwa” ... Read more

The government will soon start implementing the Private University Act involving all stakeholders, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said yesterday. “We have passed the law after holding talks with private university association for one year, so that they [private universities] can run their institutions successfully,”

Academics and rights activists at a discussion on Friday demanded recognition for the professions of different marginal communities including the Harijans and Dalits in the coming census. Bangladesh Harijan Oikya Parishad with the help of Manusher Jonno arranged the discussion on ‘Way to eliminate poverty of the Horijan community’ at the Public Library auditorium in