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The customs authorities on Tuesday said they seized 1,667 mobile sets including 200 I-Phone-V and Samsung galaxy-S from the capitals Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Customs assistant commissioner Kamrul Hasan told New Age that they seized a carton from the airport cargo on Sunday. Opening the cartoon Tuesday afternoon,

People With Disabilities Lack of data hampers planning Lack of credible data on people with disability remains the main barrier to mainstreaming them in society, said experts on the eve of International Day for People with Disabilities. Today is International Day of People with Disabilities. It is utterly regrettable that since independence

A trial court in Dhaka has sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment in Sima Mitra murder case. The fourth additional metropolitan sessions Judge, ATM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, handed down the verdict on the victim’s husband, Provath Chandra alias Bikash, on November 28. After 20 years, the court also acquitted

Rajshahi University admission tests for 2013-14 session had been rescheduled for the second time, said a university press release on Monday. According to the press release, signed by the RU public relations officer, Professor Eliyas Hossain, the tests will be held in December 25-28, which

A four-decade-old India-Bangladesh passport regime in India’s north-eastern and West Bengal states came to an end on Sunday following an instruction by the Ministry of External Affairs on the state governments. Passports under the old system are usable till the expiry date. This special passport, allowing

News Report Summit Group of Companies has extended supports for rehabilitation of the children with autism and other multiple disabilities. Summit Group Director Azeeza Aziz Khan said this at a function held in Drik Gallery in the city on Sunday marking International Day of Persons with Disabilities. She urged

Sachetan Sylhetbasi, a platform of a section of Sylhet people, on Sunday issued a 30-hour ultimatum to Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities to cancel the joint intake test process of the university with Jessore University of Science and Technology. The forum leaders declared that they would observe a sit-in in front of the SUST

The full-scale emergency exercise took place at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Sunday to meet the requirements set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, officials have said. Civil Aviation Authority Bangladesh hosted the ‘two-yearly’ airport emergency exercise 2013 in coordination with other agencies including fire service

Pro-VC still confined Stalemate continued in Jahangirnagar University as teachers teamed up under different banners have been on demonstrations to push for the vice-chancellor’s resignation. Students, teachers and other members on the staff teamed up as the Teachers, Students, Officers and Employees’ Unity Forum have been on

The government would provide round the clock safe delivery facilities at union level hospitals by June 2014, family planning director general AKM Amir Hossain said Saturday. Increased hospital based delivery would reduce child and maternal mortality rates, he said at the launching of a three-year family planning

Civil society members urge govt Civil society members on Saturday urged the government to work out a climate action plan with own resources and capacity to tackle climate-induced problems. At a press conference, they said that the government should move forward with its own capacity as the recent CoP-19 outcome had seriously

The Rajshahi University students staged a demonstration in front of the university’s administration building on Saturday protesting against the attack on them by the police as they blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway on Friday protesting at the death of a fellow student in a road accident. Over a hundred

A citizen platform of Narayanganj, Amra Narayanganjbashi, formed a human chain at the central rail station on Saturday demanding to increase the commuter trains as soon as possible to upgrade the city’s communication system. The participants sent an application to the

A four-storey under-construction building collapsed on Roghu Das Lane in the Old Town of Dhaka Friday morning. However, no casualty was reported in the incident. The building collapsed around 7:00am, said police. It had no approval from Rajuk, said Sutrapur

Political unrest has been hampering the safe return of recovered destitute or missing children to their families over the past couple of months. Within a fortnight at least five such victims were recovered in the Barisal city by the Bangladesh Women Lawyers’ Association. Masuk Kamal,

A female student of Rajshahi University (RU) was killed in a road accident in the university’s Main Gate area on Friday morning. The decased identified as Sabrin Jahan, a second year student of the Sociology department of RU, hails from Kahaloo upazila under Bogra district. A fellow student of Jahan, who accompanied her during the ... Read more

Fifteen couples ceremonially have registered their marriages in remote Arazi Kanua village under Kawnia upazila here after 20 to 35 years of beginning conjugal life through overcoming the wraths of social curses. Social Development Foundation with the assistances of Souhardo-II Programme of CARE Bangladesh assisted in registering the marriages at its office on

Most of the high-rise residential and commercial buildings in the Khulna city are extremely vulnerable to fire hazards, mainly in absence of fire protection and extinguishing systems, according to officials of the Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD), Khulna. As per the Fire Protection Act 2003, all the establishments must have sufficient fire safety equipment. ... Read more

The three-day Bangladesh International Tourism Fair 2013 began on Thursday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital. Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development and Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh in collaboration with Ministry of Civil Aviation

The staff of Khulna City Corporation on Thursday observed a two-hour work abstention from 12:00pm, protesting at attack on the city mayor, Md Moniruzzaman Moni, and withdrawal of cases against him. Most of the officials and workers of the city corporation, during the work abstention, observed the programme by closing doors of their chambers. The KCC