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Twelve alleged spurious medicine businessmen were fined and given different terms of imprisonment by a mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion in the capital on Monday. A RAB-3 mobile court, led by executive magistrate Sharif Md Forhad Hossain, conducted a drive against fake herbal medicine shops at Gulistan and arrested 10 fake

A school teacher was detained Monday morning in Rajshahi city on charge of trying to violate a student. The Shah Makhdhum police officer-in-charge, Hafizur Rahman, said arrestee Sajedur Rahman Mithun tried to rape a nine-year-old girl in Baya Bazar area of the city as the victim went to his house for dirking water. Local people caught ... Read more

A fire broke out in Bangladesh Steel Re-rolling Mill in the Rail Gate area under Baijid police station in the Chittagong city Monday morning. Deputy assistant director of Agrabad Fire Service and Civil Defence Md Jashim Uddin said the fire originated when melted iron started discharging through a dent of the Ledel Equipment, an apparatus where ... Read more

Police monthly earn at least Tk 10 lakh allowing illegal three-wheelers to ply Barisal city roads, alleged vehicle owners’ association on Sunday. At a press conference at the Barisal Reporters Unity, the district auto-rickshaw, auto-tempo, baby-taxi, taxi-cab owners’ association also demanded

Contractors besieged the local food office in the Rajshahi city, demanding removal of regional food controller and accountant officer over their alleged corruption. They also vandalised the doors, windows and furniture of the office while a case was filed against the attackers. Eyewitness said about 200 contractors’

Local goons injured at least 10 shopkeepers and vandalised some 20 shops at a market in Sylhet city on Sunday morning failing to extort money from the businessmen. The attackers also looted Tk 50,000 of a wholesale consumer during the attack, the shopkeepers alleged. Rakibul Islam, Maznu Miah, Layes Miah

Mahfuzur Rahman was elected president and Irtiza Ahmed Chowdhury general secretary of the Rangpur Division Unnayan Samity on Saturday, said a press release. Mahfuzur Rahman is the parliament affairs secretary and Irtiza Ahmed Chowdhury is project director of primary school stipend programme.

Some Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha employees on Sunday brought out a procession inside the Rajuk building, demanding regularisation of jobs of 431 employees. The top authorities were, however, absent from their offices during the demonstration. Witness said the aggrieved officials

Untreated sewage in most parts of the capital gets directly mixed with canal and river water due to ‘malpractice’ of house owners. City residents and experts have blamed the house owners for connecting sewerage line with storm water drainage system and the authorities concerned for negligence of duty. In Moghbazar area, some roads are covered

A polytechnic student was stabbed to death allegedly by his former fiancé’s boyfriend at Chawkbazar area of Chittagong yesterday. The deceased, Towfiqul Islam, 26, was a fifth semester student of EEE at Shamoli Ideal Polytechnic Institute at Muradpur. He was the only son of Shamsul Islam of Patiya. Jahed, a friend of the victim, said Towfiqul ... Read more

Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd yesterday awarded scholarships to 4,057 underprivileged, meritorious students who achieved GPA 5 in the SSC examinations this year. For the next two years of their higher secondary education, the awardees will get Tk 2,000 each month and a lump sum of Tk 11,000 for buying study materials

At least three people were killed in separate incidents in the capital early Saturday and on Friday night. One was stabbed to death at Mirpur early Saturday. A man was found dead in his house at Khilkhet and a woman died in a road accident on Airport Road late Friday. The Kafrul police found a ... Read more

The headquarters of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) – 12 was inaugurated on a land of more than 10 acres by Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir in Hati Kumrul of Sirajganj yesterday afternoon. The around 62.14 crore project will include an office building, barracks, an officers’ mess and armoury. Mokhlesur Rahman, director general of Rab,

A garment worker died after being allegedly pushed by her boyfriend off the roof of a five-storey building at Kalshi Dighir Par area in Chittagong early yesterday. The deceased, Khaleda Begum Maya, 21, daughter of Abdul Karim, hailed from Katharia under Banshkhali upazila of Chittagong, said police.

A two-day career fair started on Rajshahi University campus on Saturday. The fair, titled ‘Rajshahi University Career Club Career Fair-2013’ was ogranised by the Rajshahi University Career Club with the association of the university authorities. RU vice-chancellor Professor Muhammad Mizanuddin

A workshop on the world’s leading youth achievement award named after the ‘Duke of Edinburgh’ was held on the Jahangirnagar University campus on Saturday. DAE country director Professor Khandakar Shariful Huda inaugurated the workshop as the chief guest and award winners- assistant professor of the

Haphazard dumping of clinical wastes in the Sylhet city is a serious threat to public health in the absence of specific guideline and monitoring over the matter. According to the statistics available with the district health office there are more than 100 public and private hospitals and clinics as well as diagnostic

A weeklong drama festival began at Studio Theatre Stage of Shabdaboli Group Theatre in Barisal city Friday evening with a call to combat obscenity in culture. Shabdaboli Group Theatre organised the festival marking its 35th founding anniversary and in honour of its founding member and theatre organiser

Aklima Begum, a housewife of village Marichbunia under Patuakhali, delivered four babies at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical Collage Hospital Thursday night after 14 years of her marriage. Three of the neonatal babies are boys and rest one girl and till this report the mother and the babies were in a normal condition. Father of the babies Mahim ... Read more

A daylong training programme titled ‘public interest litigation’ was held at Rajshahi University on Friday. The training programme was organised by the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, marking the launch of Rajshahi Law Clinic. RU vice-chancellor Muhammad Mizanuddin was present as chief guest while pro-vice-chancellor Chowdhury Sarowar Jahan and BLAST executive director