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The government as well as the citizens of the country should come forward to ensure rights of people with disabilities so that they can contribute to the development of the country. People should give more opportunities instead of negligence to the people with disability so that they can uphold their dignity in society, said speakers ... Read more

The detective branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested seven alleged robbers during different drives on Saturday. The detainees are also accused of the murders of two people — driver of a truck and his assistant on Thursday mid-night.

A three-day celebration of 150 years of the Chittagong city ended on Sunday. Politicians, CCC employees, councillors and other professionals were present at the concluding day’s seminar where BNP vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman said the coming national election must be held under caretaker government.

The students of Barisal Nursing College at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital held demonstrations on Sunday to press home their six-point charter of demands. Their demands include introduction of a six-to-twelve-month internship after the completion of four-year BSC in Nursing , fixing stipend at Tk 3,000 for each student

London College of Legal Studies South on Sunday organised a Pre-Training Preparation for Bar Professional Training Course that would lead the students to the qualification of a Bar-at-Law on its own premises. The course designers M Istiaq Hasan and Rezwanul Haque Mazumdar

The Sylhet District Restaurant Owners’ Association on Sunday announced all restaurants in the district ‘smoking free’. The association president, Ataur Rahman, made the announcement in a discussion programme jointly held by the Ahsania Mission, Dhaka, and Sylhet Restaurant Owners’

The president, Abdul Hamid, on Sunday asked vice-chancellors of all public universities to be more careful to maintain images of their respective universities. ‘The quality of education as well as campus atmosphere must be enhanced at all universities,’ he said while a delegation of the Association of Universities of Bangladesh

Commission agents of physicians and clinics have long been dominating the premises of the Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, causing severe difficulties to the patients and their attendants. Sources in the hospital said assistants and agents

The speaker, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, on Saturday stressed enactment of new legislation to stop use of unparliamentary and abusive words in parliament sessions. ‘The unparliamentary abusive and vulgar words,

The teachers of Jahangirnagar University continued their agitation for the third consecutive day on Saturday and laid siege to the administrative building, demanding resignation of the vice-chancellor, Professor Anwar Hossain. ‘We (teachers) will continue the siege programme

The High Court has issued a rule on the Khulna University authorities, asking why a rule should not be issued to continue academic activities of the life science school of the university. A two-member division bench comprising Justice Mirza Hossain Haider and Justice Khorshed Alam Sarker issued this rule on Thursday upon the vice-chancellor,

At least four people died in separate incidents in the capital and on its outskirts on Saturday. At Savar, police recovered the bodies of two youths from the River Turag. The deceased were identified as Abdul Majid, 27, a trucker, and his assistant Saidul Hossain, 30. Both of them are from Kushtia.

Valuables and cash of a jewellery shop were stolen in the Sylhet city on Saturday. Nilmani Karmakar, owner of Swarna Jewellers at Bandarbazar in the city, claimed that he left the shop Thursday night after closing it properly, but he found the lock of his shop broken when he came to open it in the ... Read more

The two-day divisional level National Nazrul Conference began in Barisal on Friday. Participants in the programme said the message of humanity and self-dignity that Nazrul gives in his poetry to the world must be promoted to check violence, fundamentalism and bigotry. The programme was organised by Nazrul Institute

10 injured Masked robbers stormed into a jeweller blasting bombs on AC Dhar Road at Kalirbazar of Narayanganj and made off with ornaments on Thursday night. At least ten people were injured in the attack by the robbers. Witness said that about 12-14 robbers on motorcycles

The mayor-elect of Khulna City Corporation, Moniruzzaman Mohi, said he would give top priority to waging a social movement with help of socio-cultural, professional and NGOs, irrespective of political affiliation, for evicting encroachers on all canals. Without this the nagging water-stagnation in the city

Campaign posters and banners put up across the Sylhet city have not yet been taken off, which resulted in a difficult situation for the pedestrians and commuters. It has been six days since the city corporation polls took place and still the campaign adverts are seen tangled up with electric poles, walls and railings

Noted music organisation of the country Uttarayan celebrated its third founding anniversary through a cultural programme at the National Museum auditorium on Friday. Titled ‘Phuler Preme Rabindranath’, the programme was designed to cover some best-known songs and poems by Tagore that have allusions to different flowers

A seasonal fruit festival was held at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus on Friday. Theater SUST, a cultural orgnisation of the students, arranged the festival in front of the university

The Chittagong City Corporation on Friday launched its three-day programme to celebrate 150 years of the city. On the occasion, a rally was organised at the outer stadium at 4:00pm and later its participants, led by the city mayor, Monjur Alam, moved in a procession to