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Jahangirnagar University Information and Technology Society on Thursday launched some initiatives in developing information and technology on the campus and its outside. A view exchange meeting and iftar party was arranged by JUITS in the seminar room of Zahir Raihan Auditorium in this regard.

Transport operators in the capital have increased fares for long-distance routes during the Eid-ul-Fitr rush, flouting a government directive. The private bus companies start selling advance tickets for Eid today. Employees of different transport companies at Gabtoli

A mobile court on Thursday fined five restaurants of Moghbazar and Mouchak areas Tk 7 lakh on charge of producing and selling substandard food items. Dhaka district administration and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution jointly conducted the mobile court led by executive magistrate Abeda Ansari.

The Zakat Foundation of America, a US-based charity organisation, recently distributed 40 sewing machines among poor women of Hajaribag slum who participated in its training programme. The foundation also distributed food packages and new clothes among 100 poor families as Eid gifts.

The participants in a daylong workshop on Thursday demanded unitary and equity-based inheritance and family laws to secure land rights of women. They demanded effective strategies and programmes for advancing women’s land rights as a key to rural poverty reduction by empowering women and enacting

The Press Institute of Bangladesh organised a training workshop on ‘reporting related to digital Bangladesh’ in Khulna city on Thursday. The daylong training workshop, held at the circuit house, was organised in cooperation with Access to Information Project of the prime minister’s office and the

The Khulna City Corporation on Thursday announced its Tk 345.4 crore budget for the 2013-14 financial year. Ajmol Ahmed Tapon, who is carrying out the temporary charge as the city mayor, presented the proposed annual budget at a press conference held at KCC auditorium.

A total of 200 parrots were seized from Abdullahpur of Uttara in the capital on Thursday. Dhaka Wildlife Crime Control Unit of the Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Department seized the 200 Basonti Latkan Tota in a drive conducted near the Abdullahpur bus stand. They also arrested the salesman, said a forest department

As three out of four vessels of the long route rocket steamer service of the Bangladesh Water Transport Corporation have remained out of order, seriously threatening the service as Eid draws near. Meanwhile, the sea-truck service on the Barisal-Laxmipur route has also remained disrupted after the only vessel of the route went out of order ... Read more

Tailors are passing hectic days as orders pours in ahead of the Eid festival. Though some tailors have already stopped taking new orders for Eid, people were seen to gather at tailors and fabrics shops on Wednesday to order dresses for their Eid celebrations. Despite huge availability of readymade garments,

The Bangladesh Railway and the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation are going to launch special services for the coming Eid-ul-Fitr, officials have said. A senior railway officer told New Age on Wednesday that about seven-pair special inter-city trains would run during Eid holidays on different routes including

Interns of Rangpur Medical College and Hospital withdrew their indefinite strike on Wednesday noon being assured by the authorities of meeting their demands. The interns went on strike in the hospital demanding payment of their monthly allowance regularly. They brought out a procession in the hospital compound

Left-leaning political leaders on Wednesday urged the government to cancel the project of setting up the 1,320 megawatt coal-based power plant at Rampal, which they said would affect the biodiversity of Sundarban. The Barisal district unit of United Communist League

The Japan International Co-operative Agency on Wednesday nominated a teacher for Jahangirnagar University language centre. Takashi Ykoda, representatives of JICA in Dhaka, introduced the teacher, Takada Mayu, to the university vice-chancellor Professor Anwar Hossain at his residence later.

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions till 6:00pm today. Moderately heavy falls are also likely at places,

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has not yet started construction of ‘Rajuk Central Park Gulshan’ for which it had demolished Wonderland Amusement Park for children in May 2012. More than one year already passed but the development authorities failed to do anything in this regard, alleged residents of that area. Shaheda Manzur, a banker

The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities on Monday night evacuated the residents of a female dormitory after several cracks developed on its wall. Campus sources said the university authorities rented a four-storey building near the main entrance of the university at Akhalia and allotted the rooms among 100 female

The burn and plastic surgery unit of Khulna Medical College Hospital has become practically inoperative as there is no Class III and IV employees for nursing patients when need arises. Two victims of acid attack — Sonia and Halima of Khulna city — died in April this year while they were under treatment in the ... Read more

SHAMSUNNAHAR HALL ATROCITY No punitive action taken yet The 11th anniversary of police atrocities in Dhaka University’s Shamsunnahar Hall was observed on Tuesday amid frustration for failure of the authorities concerned to ensure punishment of the perpetrators involved. Even one decade after the incident, neither any legal

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police authorities on Tuesday hosted an iftar party and prayer session in the honour of journalists. The inspector general of police, Hassan Mahmood Khandker, was present at the iftar organised at the police officers’ mess on Old Elephant Road in Eskaton Garden.