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Unicef yesterday awarded the Meena Media Award to 32 journalists from print and electronic media for their outstanding work in promoting child rights during the last one year. In “reporting category” of print media, Rabaya Borshe Onita of Dainik Satta Sangbad won the first prize among the under-18 contestants while Rita Bhowmik

Teachers and students of Rajshahi Education Board Model School and college formed a human chain in the city on Tuesday morning, protesting at the attack on a teacher of the college. Several hundred teachers, students and office staff gathered in the Rajshahi rail gate area at around 11.00am and formed the human chain,

The teachers of Madan Mohan College in Sylhet on Tuesday observed work abstention as miscreants beat a lecturer of the college on Monday night. A group of miscreants, armed with hockey sticks, beat Biplab Chandra Roy to serious injury. Miscreants beat him at Lamabazar in the city around 9:00pm

The newly elected Sylhet city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, has launched a move to make the city clean and traffic congestion-free immediately after he took the office. Arif formally began his office at Nagar Bhaban on September 18 and on that day he issued a press release asking the street vendors to remove their

The newly elected Khulna city mayor, Moniruzzaman Moni, said he would try his best to fulfill his poll pledges without being politically biased. He said this while attending a press conference Tuesday morning at Hotel Royal International in the city on the occasion of taking charge of the

A mobile court of consumer rights preservation directorate in Barisal fined five hotels and restaurants Tk 30,000 in the city on Tuesday. Directorate assistant director Md Selimuzzaman led the court in the presence of Dr SM Sarwar of Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College Hospital.

At least two clearing and forwarding agents died when a covered van hit them on Monday night at Banglabazar area under Sadarghat police station in the Chittagong city. The deceased were Shaymol Chowdhury, 40, son of Ramprasad from Baskhali upazila and Rubel Chowdhury, 33, son of Babul Chowdhury from

A major part of the 3,887-metre Segunbagicha canal in the capital has been illegally encroached upon as the government authorities concerned have failed over the years to take any initiative to check the grabbing of the canal. The Segunbagicha canal starts close to the Hotel Sheraton and passes through Ramna, Shipakala Academy area and Segunbagicha, with ... Read more

The Khulna regional office of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh on Monday started selling onion at Tk 55 per kilogram from 15 outlets under five police stations in the Khulna city. Five trucks, each with 500 kilograms of onion, have been deployed in the city for open market sale of this essential cooking ingredient. The TCB ... Read more

At least 25 people were injured and more than 40 CNG-run auto-rickshaws vandalised in a two-hour clash between two groups of auto-rickshaw drivers in Sylhet city Monday afternoon. Police took the situation in control after firing teargas and rubber bullets, police said. Local sources said the clash began at

Detectives arrested eight members of a miscreants’ gang on Sunday who took away Tk 9 lakh from a client inside the Sonali Bank’s Lalmatia branch in the capital on August 26. The arrestees were Harun-or-Rashid, Md Badal, Emdadul Haque, Razu, Md Liton, Md Harun, Younus and Md Hannan, the police said. The gang took away the

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