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Participants in a meeting in Rajshahi city on Tuesday urged people to change their attitude towards the transgender people and demanded quota for them in education and job sectors. Light House, a non-government human rights organisation, organised the programme titled

A 500-bed general hospital at Khilgaon in the capital will be opened on Friday without any inpatient and emergency department. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is expected to open the hospital, the project director of the 500-bed general hospital, M Abdul Basit, told New Age on Tuesday.

AMIN BAZAR KILLING Two accused sent to jail A trial court on Tuesday sent two accused of Aminbazaar six students killing case to jail after they had appeared in the court seeking bail. Two accused — Hazi Mohammad Akhil Uddin and Mohammad Saiful Islam — surrendered before the court and sought bail in the case.

Students of Barisal University formed a human chain and held a rally Tuesday afternoon, demanding reforms in the quota system in all public service examinations, including Bangladesh Civil Service. They held the human chain rally at Bibir Pukur Paar of the city centre, where leaders of the students demanded recruitment in government job on the ... Read more

The 24th council of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Rajshahi University unit will be held on July 20, said a press release on Tuesday. The collection of nomination papers for the posts of president and general secretary, which will cost Tk 5,000, started on July 16 and the submission deadline

The parliamentary standing committee on housing and public works ministry on Tuesday recommended quick implementation of the directive to resolve complications over allotment of plots to the affected people in Karwan Bazar. The committee made the recommendation at its 48th

The Rajshahi city is experiencing severe traffic congestion because of illegal parking of unauthorised rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and human-haulers near markets, key installations and the problem is intensified when there is a huge of people to markets for Eid shopping. According to a source, there are 30,000 rickshaws,

Speakers at a human chain in Rajshahi city on Monday urged the government to allocate sufficient fund, easier bank loan and other supports for the women entrepreneurs to run their business. They said that the women entrepreneurs needed enough training and financial help to conduct their business and the government should allocate money for

The forty articulated buses introduced by the government in the capital are yet to have registration numbers even after four months of operation. These buses were seen having AFR and On-test plates instead of a registration numbers. According to the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983, no

Low quality elements blamed Several cracks have been detected in the first floor of the newly constructed Motihar Hall at Rajshahi University. Officials of the shifted the students from the risky floor after the cracks were found on Monday. The authorities concerned blamed low quality materials

Members of Rapid Action battalion on Sunday rescued a girl from the Aichpur area in Tangi six days after her abduction. She was abducted from village Ullapara under Sirajganj on July 8. RAB arrested four persons in this connection. The arrested were Rimon, 24, son of Mainul Sarker,

Only one, out of the eight interested companies, has got permission from the communications ministry to run taxicab in the capital. The ministry on Sunday gave the permission to the Toma Construction Limited to put in service 250 taxicabs on the Dhaka city roads in the next four months.

BISHWAJIT KILLING Plaintiff makes deposition The plaintiff of Bishwajit murder on Sunday narrated how Bangladesh Chhatra League activists carried out attack on him on December 9, 2012 on his way to his tailor-shop. About 25 activists of Chattra League attacked the victim by sharp weapons and stick and iron rot following a blast, the plaintiff, ... Read more

Bureaucrats, lawyers, academicians, NGOs working for people with disabilities on Sunday urged political parties to choose people with disabilities as candidates to ensure their representation in parliament. At a roundtable discussion, they urged the government to develop a guideline for accessible voting system to ensure the rights of around 1.6 crore people with disabilities.

The Mongla Port Authority has issued work order in favour of Messrs China Harbour and Engineering Company Limited to remove 35 lakh cubic feet silt from the River Passur at an estimated cost of Tk 106.51 crore. The process of removing silt is expected to start in

The detective branch police arrested five suspected hijackers in different drives in the Sylhet city Saturday night. The arrested were identified as Jamal Ahmed alias Kala Jamal, son of Taiyab Ali Khan of Nurani residential area at Subidbazar, Mirza Aslam Beg alias Atiq Mirza,

Almost 70 per cent of the capital is outside the sewerage network of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority resulting in significant amounts of untreated sewage goes straight into rivers, canals and other water bodies. DWASA superintending engineer AKM Shahiduddin

Communications minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday inaugurated new air conditioned single-decker bus service in the capital by pressing 30 buses into service. The minister, who was supposed to launch 88 such buses on long routes on the day to ease the transport crisis, said that the long route buses would be pressed

Khulna city and its adjoining areas are going to have a modern look with the implementation of a number of development projects taken by the authorities. The projects for modernisation of the city and the areas in its vicinity have been taken under a mega plan. The projects include renovation of KDA New Market,

A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League men stabbed a leader of the the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation at Rajshahi University on early Saturday. Sources in the organisation said that Rajshahi University unit programme and planning secretary Sheikh Maruf Hossain was stabbed at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman