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Students of Secondary School Certificate Examination, 2015 and 2016 batches in Barisal held demonstrations on Tuesday, protesting against the introduction of creative-system in mathematics. Tanvir Ahmed Ayon and Rifat Hasan, both students of Barisal Government Zilla School, on behalf of the participants in a human chain formed in the city, said not only the

The Dhaka Water and Sewage Authority has introduced a link number ‘16162’ to take the city dwellers’ compliant on water and sewerage services, a DWASA official said on Tuesday. ‘From now on city dwellers would not have to go for section to section to lodge compliant. Anyone can now post compliant about service delivery by ... Read more

Aarong, a leading fashion and lifestyle brand in the country, opened its first discount sales centre on occasion of Ramadan at the basement of K Jahan Centre on Sadar Road in Barisal city on Tuesday. Ripan Chandra Mandal, Barisal district BRAC representative,

No meeting of transport committee held in six months The public transport problem aggravated in recent months due to the indifference of the Dhaka Metropolitan Regional Transport Committee, headed by the city’s police commissioner, to address the issues. Several transport companies were unable to press

Three more police stations are likely to be set up soon taking to eight the number of police stations in Khulna city. A gazette notification for the setting up of Labonchora, Arhonghata and Sundarban police stations is likely to be issued soon, Khulna Metropolitan Police

The international human rights organisation Human Rights Watch questioned the condition of the leather industries in Bangladesh by tagging an accusation of ‘systematic human rights violations’ on it. In recent years leather industry of Bangladesh is witnessing a boom with an expectation to be worth $1 billion annually. It has emerged as a major supplier

HOSTEL FIRE MC College students demand arrest of perpetrators Students demand reopening of hostel Sylhet MC College students on Monday demanded immediate arrest of the people who set he college hostel on fire on July 8, 2012. At a human chain in front of the college hostel at Baluchar in the city, Student Movement Council ... Read more

A residential-cum-commercial building, ‘Rahat Tower’, in the capital’s Bangla Motor area caught fire Monday morning. The fire service officials said the fire originated from the eighth floor of the twelve-storey building at around 07:50am and it spread around quickly.

Traffic through the Farmgate intersection remained suspended for about three hours causing enormous sufferings to the commuters as the students of Dhaka University and Tejgaon College locked in a clash on Sunday. Dhaka University students also vandalised at Tejgaon College.

The Khulna Water and Sewerage Authority is failing to serve the city dwellers as it is beset with manifold problems, including manpower shortage, even five years after its inception. According to deputy managing director of the organsiaiton Kamal uddin Ahmed, Khulna WASA supplies 13 crore litres of water against the daily need for 24 crore ... Read more

Health experts have said they are facing problems in conducting surgery and giving post-surgery care to the patients at the child cardiac surgery centre of Dhaka Shishu Hospital because of inadequate manpower and logistics. As there is no error margin here, a very small error can

Bangladesh Chhatra Union Dhaka University unit held its 29th council session on Sunday, with a call for resisting the trend of ‘commercial orientation and communalism’ in the education sector. Freedom fighter Shirin Banu Mitil inaugurated the two-day programme at Aparajeya Bangla of the university, hoisting the national and the organisation flags.

Dhaka University’s department of accounting and information science on Sunday distributed scholarships among its 62 students of bachelor’s and Master’s levels. The state minister of science and technology, Yeafes Osman, distributed the scholarships at a function held in the morning at the faculty conference hall and presided over

The fortnight-long Barisal divisional tree fair started on Bangabandhu Udyan premises of the city Sunday. The fair was aimed at raising awareness of tree plantation and social forestation in the region.

Waste dumping and poor safety measures made the city’s Hatirjheel- Begunbari twin lake unsafe to visitors. The twin lake, separated by the Tongi Diversion Road, was hastily opened to public six months ago even before the development plans around it could be completed.

One of the three robbery suspects wounded in a ‘gunfight’ near Golap Shah Mazar in the capital on July 2 died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday. The victim, Mohammad Yasin Bapari, 27, of Madaripur died at about 1:00pm while he was kept under observation after a surgery at the hospital, the hospital ... Read more

Rajshahi University on Saturday celebrated its 60th founding anniversary amid festivity and fanfare mood on the campus. The day-long programme included colourful processions, discussions, cultural events, debate competition and tree plantation.

A construction worker fell to death while working at an under-construction building at city’s Lalkhan Bazar under Khulshi police station in Chittagong Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Shukkur Ahmad, 35, hailed from Gopalpur upazila of Tangail district.

Customs officials recovered 217 bars of gold weighting 25.310 kilograms kept abandoned in a Bangladesh Biman aircraft at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday. ‘We recovered the gold bars based on intelligence information,’ airport customs assistant commissioner Golam Mostafa Kamal told New Age.

Government officials and development activists at a workshop in Rajshahi on Saturday stressed the need for strict monitoring to stop the misuse of foreign aids. They said that due to the lack of proper monitoring system the foreign funds were being misused depriving the grassroots people.