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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

The sixth installation programme of Sylhet Valley Rotary Club was held in the city on Sunday night. The club outgoing president, Shawkatur Rahman, handed over the charge for 2013-14 rotary year to its incumbent president Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury at the programme held at a city hotel. Former rotary district government Manzurul Haque Chowdhury,

Every four out of seven children do well in school if they have a balanced diet and eat foods like fish, meat, milk, egg and vegetables, said researchers yesterday. On the other hand, only three out of four children, who are deprived of such foods, are able to succeed, they said referring to a study ... Read more

The Department of Environment on Sunday conducted a five-hour drive and demolished five chicken and fish feed factories at Hazaribagh of the capital for using tannery wastes to produce chicken and fish feed in unhygienic way. During the drive, DoE sealed four industries for producing feeds in an unhygienic way by processing tannery wastes. DoE ... Read more

Eminent journalist Nazim Uddin Mostan died at his journalist colony residence at Mirpur in the city on Sunday afternoon. He was 65. Nazim Uddin Mostan, also a recipient of Ekushey Padak, left wife, a son, two daughters, grand children and a host of friends and admirers to mourn his death. One of the legendary figures ... Read more

Sylhet MC College students on Sunday formed a human chain in demand of immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the attackers on their fellow. General student of the college formed the human chain in front of the college at around noon. Speakers in a rally during the programme blamed

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association on Sunday sought all documents relating to the environmental clearance certificate given by Department of #environment for the proposed Rampal Power Plant near the Sundarban under the Right to Information Act. The department recently gave the environmental clearance

A student of Chittagong University was found dead in his residence in the port city on Sunday. The family of the deceased claimed that it was an incident of suicide while police found no sign of such act. The deceased is Tasfia Tarannum, a first year student of law department under Chittagong University, also daughter ... Read more

The World Bank is providing about $170 million to the government to support improving water supply in Chittagong metropolis where nearly five million people suffer from inadequate water supply and poor sewerage system. The government will fund the rest of the project, cost of which

A tourist drowned in the Piyan River at Jaflong under Goainghat upazila in the district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Radwanush Shalehin Shuva, 25, son of Khorshed Alam at Kadamtaly Shanir Akhra area in capital city. Police said that Shuva along with his family member went to take a bath in the river ... Read more

A large number of fishermen, wood-cutters, mawalies and extractors of forest resources, are hostage in the hands of organised armed terrorists in the Bay of Bengal adjacent to the Sundarban during the peak Hilsa season. The pirates have gone out of control now as they use sophisticated arms for committing heinous crimes while the forest ... Read more

Bangladesh secretariat has turned into a virtual car parking lot for the ministries and divisions at night posing great risks to the ‘key point installation’ of the government, officials said. They said hundred of cars of the ministries and divisions are parked inside the secretariat illegally at night threatening security of the protected