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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

Independent University, Bangladesh on Friday observed Alumni Campus Day on its permanent campus in Bashundhara Residential Area in the capital, said a press release. IUB Founding Trust chairman Saifur Rahman, IUB board of trustees chairman Rashed Chowdhury and IUB vice-chancellor M Omar Rahman, among others, spoke

A group of academics, journalists and political analysts on Thursday asked all political parties to find a solution to the crisis over the form of interim-government for the upcoming parliamentary elections. They made the call while addressing a seminar on ‘democracy, elections and political crisis: role of mass media’ organised by Dhaka University Journalists’

Speakers at a workshop on Thursday said there should be adequate measures for providing water supply and sanitation facilities for the slum dwellers to bring them out of the vicious circle of poverty. The number of such people is gradually increasing in the urban areas for various manmade and natural catastrophes and they need some necessary

The four-day event ‘Dhaka University National Model of United Nations -2013’ will end today at the university’s Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban. With a view to engaging young people in setting peace and prosperity across the world and negotiation and understanding among the nations,

A two-day career fair will start at Rajshahi University on September 21. The fair, titled ‘Rajshahi University Career Club Career Fair-2013’, is ogranised by the Rajshahi University Career Club, a students’ organisation on the campus, in association with the university authorities. The RUCC president, Syeed Abdullah Shaon,

Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul, new mayor of the Rajshahi city, took his office on Wednesday with a vow to build a planned and model city. ‘I want to be a servant not the city father,’ he said in the charge taking programme held at Nagar Bhaban in the afternoon. Shariful Islam Babu, mayor-in-charge of RCC,

The newly elected Sylhet city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, on Wednesday vowed to keep the corporation free from the influence of any political quarter. ‘Development of any political polarisation centring the city corporation will not be allowed and the corporation will run as an institution of all citizens,’ he said.

The students of Shaheed Sohrawardy Hall at Rajshahi University went on a demonstration on Wednesday and confined the hall provost, Professor Asabul Haque, for his alleged negligence of responsibilities. Witnesses said the studentsl brought out a demonstration inside the hall at about 11:00am in front of the hall provost office protesting against his

The seven-day ‘Fourth income-tax fair-2013’, organised by the National Board of Revenue in Barisal city, drew a huge crow on Wednesday. The fair began on the Barisal Ashiwini Kumar Hall premises September 16. During the fair, the visitors were provided