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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

Production materials and machinery worth around Tk 1.5 crore were burnt to ashes at a foam factory in Sylhet on Thursday night. The conflagration took place at Khadim Nagar BSIC industrial area of the city. Local sources said the fire broke out in the Dunlop

Recurring water logging in the capital even after short duration rainfall exposes the authorities’ inability to plan and build a proper drainage system for the rapidly growing city. Residents said that they had virtually nowhere to seek a solution to their sufferings caused by water logging on a rainy day, not to speak of the ... Read more

At the advent of monsoon, the Bangladesh Railway started eviction of unauthorized dwellings illegally set up on the hillocks at Central Railway Building area. Huge causalities in different hill collapses and mud slugging took place in the previous rainy seasons forced the BR authorities to conduct such drives for

A school building featuring special amenities — computers with Braille software and Braille dictionaries — for visually impaired girls has been inaugurated in the capital with the financial assistance of the government of Japan. The Embassy of Japan has donated $102,057 for

Chittagong, the country’s second biggest city, celebrates its 150th anniversary with a series of festivities beginning today. Chittagong City Corporation took a three-day programme to celebrate the port city’s founding.

The president, Abdul Hamid, has laid emphasis on building hydro power generation cooperation with  Bhutan for fulfilling increasing power demand of the country. ‘There are ample of scopes for increasing cooperation  between Bhutan and Bangladesh in various sectors,’ he said while outgoing ambassador of Bhutan to Bangladesh

A three-day mango, silk fair and public festival was launched at Green Plaza ground of Rajshahi City Corporation on Thursday. Amra Rajshahibasi, a civic front of Rajshahi people, organised the festival in  collaboration with mobile operator Banglalink.

The government is yet to decide over placing the drainage system of the Dhaka city under a single authority, a move initiated 10 years ago. The city corporations and the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority officials said the ministry concerned did not hold any meeting on the issue in 2013.

The Dhaka South City Corporation officials Wednesday afternoon visited the site where Juba League men have been constructing a market on the footpath at Gulistan in the capital and only asked the builders to pause the construction. Some Juba League leaders, in connivance with businessmen at Bangabazar, are constructing the ‘market’ and selling ‘possessions’