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Post and telecommunication minister Sahara Khatun on Saturday said information communication technology-based services should be introduced to the postal department for its survival. Services of the postal department should go online through utilising ICT, she told a function in Dhaka, an official release said.

Diploma engineers staged a demonstration in Chittagong on Saturday pressing for their two-point demands. The students of private polytechnic institutes also joined the demonstration at SholoShahar in the city.

Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan on Friday expressed its deep concern over the construction of different establishments in Suhrawardy Udyan, which it thinks will spoil the place. The environmental organisation expressed the fear while presenting a report at a press conference at Moni Singh Memorial Trust Auditorium in the capital.

A woman was stabbed to death by a robber in her residence in the Barisal city early Friday. The victim was identified as Dil Afroza Shimu, 40, lecturer of Bangladesh Open University and wife of Mahmud Al Jalal, a teacher of Amrita Lal Dey College in the city. The Kawnia police officer-in-charge, Mahbubur Rahman,

The Rajshahi district police on Friday organised a daylong workshop emphasising people’s knowledge of law for stopping unexpected police harassment. The workshop was held at Kaisar Rahman Auditorium of Rajshahi Medical College in the city.

Rajshahi University is celebrating its 60th founding anniversary today. The authorities have chalked out different programmes including colorful procession, discussion and cultural programme to celebrate the university day amid festivity and enthusiasm. Academic buildings, residential halls and main streets

Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation on Friday was awarded the national award by Nawab Bahadur Syed Ali-Hasan Ali Foundation in recognition of its significant contribution to tourism at Dhaka University Senate Building. The foundation president, Akbar Uddin Ahmed,

Chittagong University on Friday approved its annual budget for the year 2013-2014. It was approved at the 25th annual senate meeting. The budget was for Tk 1338.10 million with a deficit of Tk 8 millions for the next fiscal year. The budget meeting was chaired by vice-chancellor

A mobile court on Friday jailed for three months the managers of two drinking water producing factories at Tejgaon in the capital. The court, jointly launched by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and the Dhaka administration, and led by magistrate Md Saiful Islam, awarded

Sets a target to use 52pc of revenue income as expenditure The Dhaka South City Corporation on Thursday announced its Tk 1,876.08 budget for 2013-14 fiscal, of which about 69 per cent would come from government grants and donors. This year budget is Tk 94.4 crore higher than that of the past fiscal ended on ... Read more

The time for the National Tree Fair 2013 has been extended by one day in response to the demands of the visitors. The fair, near the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital, was scheduled to end on Thursday.

The central fish fair at the city’s Ramna Batamul looked dull with a small number of visitors on Thursday as inclement weather held back the city people from visiting the fair, officials and participating traders said. The number of visitors including students and officials

A schoolboy was strangled at Kalachandpur of Gulshan in the capital Thursday mooring. The victim was identified as Tilak Augustine Palma, 15, a Class IX student of Kalachandpur High School and College. The victim’s father, Komol Patrick Palma, told New Age that

Students and cultural activists on Thursday formed human chain in the Barisal city, protesting at growing incidents of sexual harassment and rape in the country. Their other demands include speedy trial and execution of capital punishment for the rapists, rejecting bail prayers of the accused, restricting publication of

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation said it would press 88 new air conditioned buses on long distance routes from Dhaka before Eid to cope with the growing pressure of passengers. On Wednesday, communications minister Obaidul Quader said that BRTC would press the buses into service before Eid.

The shipping minister, Shahjahan Khan, formally re-launched the waterbus service at Gabtoli Water Bus Landing Station in the capital on Thursday. He said with the launch of four more new waterbuses, the total number stood at six. Each of the two old water buses — ‘M L Buriganga’

The Dhaka North City Corporation on Wednesday announced its budget of Tk 1,984.53 crore for 2013-14 fiscal, Tk 279.32 crore higher than that of the outgoing fiscal. The DNCC administrator, Akhter Hossain Bhuiyan, announced the budget at the Spectra Convention Centre auditorium in the capital.

The modernisation work of Shaheed Hadis Park in the Khulna city has remained stalled for two months after cracks developed in the walkway pillars and other faults were detected in the construction. The Khulna City Corporation took the modernisation

Students of seven disciplines of life science school of Khulna University have threatened to go on fast-unto-death if the authorities concerned do not announce the specific date for holding term final examination by 1:00pm on July 7. They made the announcement at a press conference

A three-day university journalists’ conference, jointly organised by Rajshahi University Journalists’ Association and Transparency International Bangladesh, begins today on the university campus. The conference titled ‘TIB-RUJA 1st University Journalists’