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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

The Armed Police Battalion arrested a man at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on early Saturday along with huge amount of undocumented cameras, mobile phone sets and gold worth about Tk 50 lakh, the police said. Mizanur Rahman Ripon, 32, was arrested at about 12:15am

Malls and markets in the capital witnessed a huge surge of shoppers on Friday, the first day of two-day weekly holiday, when salesmen passed busy time dealing with customers. After a four-day shutdown since Monday, people streamed into the shopping spots on the day for buying clothes, footwear, cosmetics and ornaments

Slum children in Dhaka suffer from different types of waterborne diseases caused by intake of polluted water and insufficient sanitation facilities, experts have said. They are of the opinion that the waterborne diseases cause drainage of nutrition form the slum children’s bodies and make them malnourished.

A housewife was hacked to death by her husband at village Painadi of Shiddhirganj in Narayanganj early Friday. The deceased was identified as Lata Begum Anna, 25, daughter of Kuti Mia and wife of Ashraful Islam Sagor.

Reporters of national and local media staged demonstration putting barricade on Sylhet-Sunamganj Road in the city on Thursday midnight to protest at the alleged incident of holding hostage a fellow for two hours by Chhatra League activists. Kotwali police arrested a Chhatra League activist

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

THE Rajshahi Metropolitan Police is finding it tough to deal with crimes and violence committed by political parties because of manpower shortage. In the past four days pickets committed five incidents of arson, seven incidents in which vehicles were damaged and at least 62 people including cops

The Chief Metropolitan Court in Sylhet starts its operation on Sunday with an attempt to reduce congestion of cases in the district judge court. Sylhet District Judge Court additional public prosecutor Shamsul Islam has told New Age that judges and necessary manpower have already been

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University is going to open a fullly-fledged emergency unit at the hospital in early November this year. ‘The emergency unit will be established at the ground floor of cabin block,’ Pran Gopal Datta, vice-chancellor of BSMMU told New Age on Thursday.

Iftar items at restaurants and roadside makeshift shops in the Barisal city are selling at exorbitant prices this Ramadan compared to previous year while use of chemicals and toxic colour in foods has become rampant. Sale of iftar items at different restaurants and roadside

Civil society representatives on Thursday demanded strict punishment for tree fellers who cut down trees in the name project development works at Purbachal and road repairing at Mirpur in Dhaka. In a press statement, Nagarik Sanghati president