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Dhaka University on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation to provide scholarship to Bangladeshi students. A DU press release said under the MoU, signed at the vice-chancellor office, a total of 30 DU meritorious students of third and fourth year would get scholarships of $250 annually.

The capital on Monday witnessed agonising traffic congestion because of traffic mismanagement, pre-Eid shopping rush and movement of very important personalities. Passengers remained stranded for hours at almost all major city thoroughfares which were choked with traffic, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police traffic control room said.

40 die, 12 attempts fail in six months Incidence of suicide in the Rajshahi city as well as in the district has sent a wave of concern among guardians, human rights activists and non-government organisations’ workers of the district. Nazmun Nahar Merin, a female student of Rajshahi University, from Durgapur in Rajshahi, allegedly committed suicide ... Read more

Police arrested a most wanted criminal Sunday night from Jamira Road under Phultala upazila in Khulna. The arrestee was identified as Parvez Sheikh, 24. The Phultala police officer-in-charge, Md Imdad Hossain, said the arrestee was accused in several cases in the last two years.

Two mobile courts of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution on Monday in separate drives fined restaurants and bakeries Tk 9.75 lakh and sealed off a herbal cosmetics shop for manufacturing and marketing adulterated foods and herbal products. A BSTI mobile court fined four restaurants and bakeries

Two minor boys drowned in separate in Sylhet city on Monday. The deceased were identified as Opu, 5, son of Ameer Uddin of Sadarpara, and Jubayer Ahmed, 13, a Class V student of UCEF School at Gasitula and son of Ilu Miah of Sheikhghat. Family members said Jubayer, along with one of his friends,

Law enforcement agencies have taken extra security measures in the city and district to prevent any kind of criminal activities ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. At least 16 check posts were set up and 1200 police in 45 teams were patrolling the city from the first week of Ramadan, said Rashida Begum, additional deputy

A housewife, who tried to commit suicide through burning herself in Comilla, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday, 12 days after she was admitted with critical injuries. The deceased Salma Akhter, 18, allegedly burnt herself on July 11 when husband Md Baker Mia tortured her for dowry. Her sister Kusum Begum told New ... Read more

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

The Dhaka North City Corporation has cleared a big portion of a children’s park at Nayatola in Moghbazar to keep garbage container there. Though DNCC official said at present they suspended the work for a certain period as local people strongly opposed the idea of keeping garbage containers in the park.

Traffic at different parts of the Chittagong city, particularly in the shopping mall, virtually came to a standstill on Sunday, as the mobility of shoppers and vehicles significantly increased for Eid shopping. People in their hundreds came out of their houses for Eid

river transport oweners at a meeting on Sunday decided to implement government-fare chart by  increasing 20 to 30 per cent fare during Eid trips. The meeting was held at the Dhaka office of inland water transport (passenger service) owners association and ruling Awami League leader Mahbubuddin Birbikram presided

Leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, vandalised at least 50 shops and damaged more than 20 vehicles in Sylhet city on Saturday night after one of their fellows was stabbed to death. Local people said a group of some four miscreants

Locals caught a rapist red handed on Sunday while trying to escape after raping a 7-year-old girl at a shanty in Sylhet. The miscreant was identified as Mangal, 23, an employee of a shop owned by local Abdul Mannan at Ghasitula in the city.

At least two steel mill workers died and two others sustained injuries as iron bars fell on them inside a factory at Jatrabari area on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Jalal, 25, and Atique, 28, workers of Shahriar Steel Mill at Konabari under Jatrabari.

A tree plantation and plant preservation programme was observed on Jahangirnagar University campus on Sunday. Under joint initiatives of Banghabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall and Nature Conservation Initiatives, over a hundred trees were planted and some other trees, that had been planted earlier, were taken care

Hundreds of commercial establishments are operating illegally in Dhanmondi residential area but the city development authority has not taken any initiative to remove them despite the court’s order. The High Court on June 11 last year had declared illegal all commercial operations in Dhanmondi residential area and directed the authorities to remove

Politicians, right activists, academics and environmentalists on Saturday urged for a greater unity of citizens to save national pride Sundarban from all kinds of destructions including installation of power plant at Rampal in Bagerhat. At a citizens’ gathering at Mukti Bhaban in the capital, they also formed a 101-member national committee to steer the movement

The newly elected mayors of Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet city corporations will be sworn in on Sunday. The swearing-in ceremony will be held at International Conference Centre at the Prime Minister’s office in Dhaka at 9:30 am.

SYLHET INT’L UNIV Students rally for release four fellows Students of privately-run Sylhet International University on Saturday went on demonstrations in the city and boycott academic activities demanding an immediate release of four of their fellows arrested on Thursday in conneciton with Jamaat’s general strike. The students also exploded about 10 crude bombs