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Bus trips from Gabtali terminal to and from Barisal have remained suspended since Thursday night after a bus was vandalised by local people at the terminal in Dhaka. The Barisal Bus Owners’ Association vice-president, Dipak Chandra Das, said the bus owners cancelled the trips from and to the Gabtali terminal because a bus of

An army man was killed allegedly by drugging gang at Khilkhet in the capital on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Tajerul Islam Taj, 35, a corporal of Bangladesh Army. Tajerul was found unconscious under the foot over-bridge at Khilkhet at about 10:30pm. He was rushed to Combined Military Hospital at 11:00am

Participants in a daylong divisional workshop on Friday in the Barisal city stressed strengthen capacity of local government institutions to play an instrumental role in transforming them into fully functional, democratic and transparent entities. They also underscored the need for drastic reforms to the existing local government system and amendments to the related acts to enable ... Read more

Water experts at a seminar on Thursday stressed providing legal water connection to the city slums with a view to ensuring access to safe water for the slum dwellers. They said the slum dwellers are always keen to have legal water connection of WASA and pay for the water, but often they are denied legal ... Read more

A web portal to provide comprehensive picture of people with disability at Shahrasti upazila in Chandpur was launched in the capital on Thursday. The online database, launched under a pilot project, would give information including number, types of disability, age, religion and social status of disabled people

Speakers at a sensitisation workshop underscored the necessity of monitoring the prisoners and take steps to prevent spread of HIV in the prisons. The Khulna Mukti Sheba Sangstha, a social development organisation, organised the workshop on Thursday at a Khulna city hotel. The Khulna BNP unit president,

The certificate award ceremony of No 93 Junior Command and Staff Course of Bangladesh Air Force was held at Bangladesh Air Force Command and Staff Training Institute at Dhaka Cantonment on Thursday. Assistant chief of Air Staff (operations & training) Air Vice Marshal Abu Esrar attended the ceremony as the chief guest and distributed certificates ... Read more

The intake tests for admission into the four year bachelor courses in Dhaka University under its 2013-14 academic sessions is likely to begin from November 1, said the university officials. The university’s deans committee took the decision on Thursday at a meeting, chaired by the university’s vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique, said DU public

Stagnant rain water accumulated in different parts of the capital after downpour under the influence of an active monsoon is causing sufferings to the city dwellers. The Dhaka met office said the intermittent raining under the influence of monsoon active over Bangladesh might continue till today and then

Unidentified miscreants killed a young businessman in Sylhet city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mazharul Islam alias Sohel Miah, 35, who lived in boarding house at Tantipara in the city, police said. Sohel, who was involved in manpower export,

Speakers at a community advocacy meeting in Rangpur on Tuesday stressed disseminating proper education, knowledge and social values to create awareness for preventing the threat of spreading the deadly HIV/AIDS diseases. They were addressing a seminar on ‘HIV Prevention and Control among High Risk Population and Vulnerable Young People in Bangladesh’

Some 220 different species of birds were seized from the capital’s Mirpur on Wednesday. Wildlife crime control unit of the Bangladesh forest department seized the birds during a drive at Mirpur section 13. The seized birds include tota, tia and munia, said the unit press release. Wildlife crime control unit inspector Sohel Rana

The authorities of Dhaka University and Presidency University, Kolkata are going to set up a collaborative centre of studies in culture and literature, said the universities’ high ups. Dhaka University vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique told New Age that a centre on culture and literature would be set up at Dhaka University.

At least ten activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal were injured in factional clash on Wednesday afternoon at a programme attended by the BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain. The party sources said that Sylhet district unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party held its workers’ convention at a community centre in the town’s Kumarpara.

The Rajshahi City Corporation is committed to delivering its civic services in a corruption and hustle-free manner, Shariful Islam Babu, mayor-in-charge of the corporation, has said. After taking charge, the present council has brought back and ensured transparency in the administrative and operational activities, he further said.

Frequent load shedding, accompanied with extreme heat, is plaguing life at different parts of Rajshahi city as well as the whole district for past two or three days. The authorities, however, said they were not getting enough supply from national grid, so the Rajshahi people would have to suffer for few more days.

Green right activists on Monday urged Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha to stop destruction in the name of Purbachal New Township Project at Barakau and Parabartha Mouja of Gazipur area. At a mass gathering, they demanded formation of an investigation committee to measure the extent of damage and exemplary punishment

Ten students of mass communication and journalism department of Dhaka University on Monday were awarded ‘Professor Sitara Parvin Award’ for their outstanding academic feats in honours final examination, 2012. The vice-chancellor, AAMS Arefin Siddique, distributed cheques for the award money among the winners at Ramesh Chandra Majumdar Arts

Alliance Francaise Chittagong organised a farewell function in honor of its outgoing director Samuel Berthet on its premises Sunday evening. The farewell function was addressed by Shamsuddin Khan, president of Chittagong Alliance Francaise, Professor Sekandor Khan, vice-chancellor

Bangladesh Chhatra League activists beat up one of their classmates, who is also an Islami Chhatra Shibir activist, on Chittagong University campus on Monday. The injured was identified as Ariful Islam, a third year student of economics department and also a resident of Alaol hall. Witnesses said the victim