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The Chittagong City Corporation organised a get-together at the Engineers Institute Chittagong on Wednesday, marking the third anniversary of the incumbent executives. People from all political parties and local elites attended the programme. The BNP central committee vice-president,

AC buses get good response The Barisal depot of the state-owned Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation has started operating 10 new air-conditioned buses on four routes, with a good response from the people using the service. At present, 40 vehicles of the depot are now carrying more than 3,000 passengers daily on 20 routes. Passengers, meanwhile, ... Read more

The fourth grade employees of Dhaka University on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor, AAMS Arefin Siddique, demanding a rise in the current age limit for employees to 62 years from 60. DU pro-vice-chancellor Shahid Akhtar Hossain received the memorandum at his office. DU 4th grade employees’ association, earlier in the morning,

The majority inhabitants of three union councils became happy as they heard the district administration served public notice to include three union councils in the Narayanganj City Corporation while some political leaders differed with people’s opinion. A resident of Kashipur union council, Halim Shikdar,

Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested the prime suspect in the robbery in three jewellery shops and the killing of a night guard at Zindabazar in Sylhet. The arrested was identified as Manik Miah, 40, a technician of gold ornaments, the sources said. A team of Kotwali police arrested Manik Miah in

At least eight left-leaning student leaders and activists of Chittagong University were detained when they were on a strike on the campus to press home their demand of reducing the admission form price for undergraduate students in 2013-2014 session. Police attack on activists of Progatishil Chhatra Jote,

Acting mayor of the Barisal City Corporation will announce the 11th budget of the city corporation for the current fiscal today, more than 100 days after the schedule. The city corporation sources said the size of the budget would be around Tk 380-395 crore without imposing any fresh tax against the revised budget

A mobile court by Rapid Action Battalion sentenced 11 businessmen to one year imprisonment each and sealed two herbal shops and a warehouse in the capital’s Farmgate area on Tuesday. RAB executive magistrate Sharif M Farhad Hossain sentenced 11 ‘dishonest’ herbal businessmen to one year imprisonment each. The accused used

The Sylhet Metropolitan Police and businesspersons are on a move to set up closed-circuit cameras at main city points and in the shopping centers and markets for ensuring security of business establishments. The initiative has been taken following the robbery at three jewellery shops of Nehar Market at Zindabazar in the city. Armed robbers on

The teachers and students of Rajshahi University on Monday formed a human chain and brought out a mourning procession on the campus demanding exemplary punishment to Shahadat Hossain’s killer. On Friday Rajpara police recovered the body of Shahadat Hossain, a third year student of physics department of RU from an under-construction

Students of Barisal University on Monday held a rally and sit-in on the campus as part of their continued agitation demanding immediate arrest of the killer of Saoda. Meanwhile, police sought remand of the arrested friend of the killer, Russel. The students at the rally said class boycott,

A National Policy Consultation Workshop on ‘Bringing Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Together: Towards Resilience’ will be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center today. The UNDP Bangladesh is hosting the workshop in collaboration with the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme of the government,

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested a drug trafficker and seized 4.8kg ganja from his possession in Sylhet city Sunday night. The RAB officials identified the arrestee as Jubel Miah, 18, of village Badatipur under sadar upazila in Moulvibazar. Acting on a tip-off, a RAB-9 team conducted

Five mathematics department students of Dhaka University have received AF Mujibur Rahman Foundation Gold Medal for their outstanding academic performances. The DU vice-chancellor, Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique handed the medals and cheques for stipend over to them on Monday. The award recipients

The admission tests of 2013-14 academic year at the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology would be held on November 16, said the university administration. The authorities said two more departments, architecture and mechatronics engineering, would be added this year and 30 students for each department

Two mobile courts of the Chittagong City Corporation and the Chittagong Development Authority fined two restaurants and demolished nearly 100 illegal establishments on Monday. The CDA executive magistrate, Mohammad Ashraful Alam, conducted a drive at the city’s Muradpur in Bibirhat area at about 11:00am and pulled down

A fire burnt valuables in a compartment of a Sylhet-bound train at Kamalapur rail station in the capital early Sunday. Abdul Majid, officer-in-charge of Kamalapur railway police station, said the fire broke out in a compartment of ‘Parabat Express’ train at a wash-shed of the station around 4:00am. Few minutes after the train stood in the wash-shed,

Rajshahi and Rangpur medical students formed human chains on their respective campuses on Sunday, demanding road safety and ‘guarantee of natural death’. They formed the human chains protesting against the road accident in Bogra in which their fellow Mehnaj Sultana Happy, student of Rangpur Medical College,

Saoda Killing BU students continue agitation Students of Barisal University continued their agitation on Sunday blocking roads and holding procession in the city, demanding immediate arrest of the killer of their fellow Saoda. The university authorities, suspending classes on Sunday, held a condolence meeting on Saoda on the campus. The meeting was presided over

Police arrested a multi-level marketing businessman at Crescent Road in the capital Saturday night on allegation of fraudulence. Abdur Rahman, who claimed himself as managing director of Sun Group, was arrested at around 11:30pm on Saturday and later handed over to Ramna police station, said Md Iqbal, officer-in-charge of Kalabagan police station.