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Popular and National Award winning singer Naznin Munir Nancy feels threatened that police would arrest her or any members of her family in false case, she has claimed. She has alleged that police went and searched her house without any cause at Netrakona on Tuesday after she had posted a status where she commented

Mahila Parishad national convention told Violence against women and lack of recognition of women’s contributions to the country’s economy is a huge deterrent to the empowerment of women, said speakers at the twelfth national convention of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad yesterday. Convening women from all over the country under the banner “Women’s rights and contributions to the ... Read more

The certificate awarding ceremony of the officers’ Gunnery Staff Course (Field) -15 was held at Artillery Centre and School at Halishahar in Chittagong city on Thursday. General commanding officer of Army Training and Doctrine Command Major General Abul Kalam Md Humayun Kabri distributed the certificates among

A lighter vessel with 1,800 tonnes of government-imported wheat capsized after an oil tanker hit it near Chittagong Port channel in the river Karnaphuli yesterday. Thirteen crew of the sunken vessel, however, got down safely, said Capt Najmul Alam, deputy conservator of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA).

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Wednesday announced the code of conduct, saying that the government would not be able to make any “policy-level decision”, and it would carry out only “routine work”, the way a caretaker government functions. The EC had finalised the draft code of conduct on Tuesday, imposing some

The largest safari park of Asia ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park’, Gazipur opens today. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the park, said Tapan Kumar Dey, conservator of forest, wildlife and nature conservation unit of Department of Forest. Department of Forest is implementing

The Model election code of conduct is not supported by the Constitution, Representation of the People Order (RPO) and Rules of Business, which will be the main hurdle to implementation of the code, said former Election Commissioner Brigadier (Rtd) Sakhawat Hossain. “Without amending the Constitution we cannot

Only 130, out of 20,000 rickshaw-pullers of Barisal city, have driving license and only 12,000 rickshaws have license, with more than half of them yet to renew their documents. The Barisal City Corporation transport section set a rule that rickshaw pullers and owners would have to collect their driving license and transport license

United Airways Ltd, a private airliner, on Wednesday launched its first flight on Dhaka-Ishwardi route. Civil aviation and tourism minister Faruk Khan inaugurated the flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. State minister for home Shamsul Huq Tuku, United Airways director general Tasbirul Ahmed Chowdhury and high officials concerned were present at

A Dash 8 aircraft of Regent Airways met an accident on the runway at the Cox’s Bazar Airport on Wednesday evening after a fox jumped on its front wheels. The 15 passengers and four crew on board, however, were unhurt when the accident took place at about 6:45pm, claimed the airway’s chief commercial officer,

Dhaka University’s ‘Gha’ unit intake test to enrol into its bachelor courses under 2013-14 academic sessions would be held tomorrow.  The one-hour written examination between 10:00am and 11:00am would be held in 19 centres on the campus and 31 centres outside the campus. The students can know their seat-plans

Officials of Dhaka University and United Nations Children’s Fund, Bangladesh on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to promoting health and nutrition, child protection, water, sanitation and hygiene education and research in the country, said a DU press release. Under the MoU, DU and UNICEF would organise

Government officials and experts in a programme on Wednesday stressed extending safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities to the rural and lower-income group-inhabited areas to ensure improvement health and hygienic status of the citizens. The programme titled ‘national sanitation month October-2013’ was held at the office of the deputy commissioner

Mosquito nuisance has added to the sufferings of the city dwellers in Dhaka, already dogged by multifarious problems, in absence of drives to check the breeding of the insect. Residents of different city areas have alleged that they saw no measures taken to control the mosquito breeding in October. Officials of the two city

The Khulna City Corporation has stopped the renovation work of 40 damaged city roads because of insufficient fund. The KCC started this renovation project for 80 damaged roads involving Tk 200 crore in the last financial year. The work orders were issued in February and March this year after completing the official formalities through inviting tenders

The government would show zero tolerance to negligence in duties of field level officials at the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution in monitoring food items and manufactured products, industries minister Dilip Barua said in Dhaka on Tuesday. ‘We want to show zero tolerance to negligence in duties of BSTI officials. Legal action would be taken against

The residential halls at Rajshahi University reopened on Tuesday amid tight security and the regular classes will resume today after the vacation of Eid-ul-Azha and Puja. The security measures have been tightened through deploying additional police at the halls and on the campus to avert any untoward situation.

Says study; blames unplanned industrialisation, city corporation’s lack of financial autonomy Narayanganj city’s land use pattern is changing fast due to unplanned industrialisation coupled with a new city corporation having no financial autonomy and constrained by the central government’s bureaucracy, says a study. The urbanisation rate is 3.5 percent in Narayanganj city while the national rate ... Read more

The Sylhet City Corporation authorities have taken a step to set up a total of 150 closed-circuit cameras at 35 main points in the city in a bid to ensure the citizen’s security and address traffic congestion in the city. Tender will be invited soon to start the work of installing the CC cameras that is ... Read more

Speakers at a conference in Rajshahi said wide-ranging community participation was very important for making the community policing forum effective and meaningful for the sake of building crime-free society. In the wake of gradually rising trend of social crimes especially addiction to drugs and its trafficking and trading, they viewed only the