Metropolitan

The Rapid Action Battalion seized 450gm heroin, 5.9kg cannabis and 139 bottles of smuggled liquor in Sylhet city during separate drives between Tuesday late night and Wednesday early hours. The elite force, however, failed to detain anyone during the drive, the sources said. Acting on a tip-off, a RAB-9 team conducted a drive

Speakers in a programme in Sylhet on Sunday stressed the need for social forestation for preserving ecological balance. They said more forestation was needed to maintain ecological balance and mitigate the adverse impact of global climate change. Trees not only provide oxygen, but also have

A two-day anti-corruption conference was inaugurated at Dhaka University on Wednesday. Vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the function titled ‘Dhaka Yes Conference-2013’ organised by the Transparency International Bangladesh at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban. Arefin in his speech termed the grenade bomb

A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Kakrail in Dhaka early Wednesday, the police said. The deceased was identified as Pola Datta, 12, a Class VIII student of Viqarunnisa Noon School. Pola, youngest daughter of Prodip Kumar Datta, used to live at house 36 on Pioneer Road at Kakrail. Family sources said Pola killed ... Read more

A woman was severely injured in a bomb blast in the capital’s Matuail on Wednesday afternoon. The victim, Kalpana Akhter, 25, a cleaner of the Dhaka South City Corporation, sustained wounds at around 4:00pm when she was cleaning garbage at Matuail cleaning project, said her husband Sanju Mia. She was rushed to Dhaka Medical College ... Read more

The authorities of the Sylhet education board, which has the highest pass rate in the Higher Secondary Certificate examination this year, has decided to take punitive step against five colleges for their poor results in the examination. The board authorities already have served show-cause notices to the authorities of the five institutions asking them to ... Read more

Jahangirnagar University teachers under the banner of General Teachers’ Forum on Tuesday formed a human chain, demanding the resignation of vice-chancellor Professor Anwar Hossain. Teachers formed the human chain in front of the university administrative building at about 12:30pm as part of their pre-declared fresh

Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Rajshahi University beat up a student suspecting him as an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Mohammad Bin Kashem, a fourth year student of Arabic department. Witness sources said, BCL activists, led by the

The primary and mass education minister, Afsarul Ameen, inaugurated multimedia classrooms at Agargaon Taltola Government Primary School on Tuesday. ‘Multimedia classrooms and digital learning system would be introduced to some 37,672 government primary schools across the country within June, 2016,’

The police recovered the body of a female student from the Foislake area of the Chittagong city Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Nihar Nigar Nova, 20, daughter of Jahir Ahmad of the Kutkali area and student of the Chittagong University of Science and Technology and a resident of Green Leaf dormitory. The Khulsi ... Read more

Hazrat Shahjalal International customs authorities seized 65 gold bars weighing around eight kilograms; 11 thousand memory-cards and arrested an Indian national Monday night. The arrestee, Dipok Kumar Acharya, 55, was a transit passenger who travelled from Hong Kong. His India-bound flight was scheduled at 10:00am

The Rapid Action Battalion detained two men with 2,000 pieces of Yaba from their possession at a restaurant in Muradpur area of Kotowali Police Station in Chittagong Tuesday noon. The detainees are identified as Md Shafiul, 50, and Md Helal Uddin, 30. RAB-7 Chandgao unit Commander Suggan Chakma said,

The police recovered the body of a female student hanging from a ceiling fan at Sylhet Agricultural Training Institution in the city Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Aklima Aktar, 19, daughter of Habibur Rahman of village Baktarpur in Sunamganj, a third year agricultural diploma student

Solid wastes with rainwater are entering the Hatirjheel-Bagunbari Lake, polluting its water as the authorities stopped screening wastes before letting them into the lake. The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology experts worried that the pollution would worsen if the present situation continued.

The assistant general manager of Meghna Petroleum Limited, AKM Akhter Kamal Chowdhury, was closed to the Chittagong head office on Monday as demanded by four distribution organisations of petroleum products. As a result, Khulna divisional committee of the Bangladesh Petroleum Dealers, Distributors, Agents and Petrol Pump Owners’ Association

Agitated businessmen at Battala Bazaar in the Barisal city Monday noon cordoned a team of mobile court conducting drive against illegal polythene products. Businessmen and environment department sources said a DoE mobile, led by Muktadir Hussain and accompanied by Papiya Sultana, administrative magistrates,

Two people were killed in separate incidents on Monday in capital’s Hazaribagh and Shampur areas. The victims were identified as Alen Hossain Rana, 30, and Ismat Ara, 28. Abdur Rasid, officer-in-charge of Shampur police station, told New Age that they recovered blood-drenched body of Alen Hossain Rana in front

A Chinese national died at Abul Khair Steel Mills at Shitakunda in Chittagong when a clamp fell on him on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Chan Chiyen Joe, 42. He was working for the MCC-19, a China company which got the contract to build factory in the area.

Two people were killed and two others injured in a road accident at Lalati in Narayanganj on Monday. The deceased were identified as Jilani, 30, son Abdul Barek and Abdul Khalek, 27, son of Kalu Mia, both were residents of Char Manikpur village under Brahmanbaria district. The injured — Sharmin, 25, and Zahid Mia, 5 ... Read more

Members of Rapid Action Battalion seized unauthorised firearms and huge ammunition from a licensed firearms shop in Rajshahi city last night. On a tip-off, a RAB team conducted a sudden raid in the shop named ‘K Ahmed Arms Company’ at Mianpara in the metropolis at around 9:30pm and seized