Printing shops in the Sylhet city are up to their ears in work, bringing out posters, leaflets and others polls related materials as the city corporation elections are drawing closer. Market sources said the owners and employees of the publishing houses in the city are now working round the clock for meeting the demand of ... Read more
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Cut in internet price demanded
Several information and communication technology organisations in Rajshahi on Sunday formed a human chain and declared continued protests including sit-in, if internet prices for end users were not reduced. The human chain was formed at Shaheb Bazar Zero
One-third of Bangladeshi women iron deficient: seminar
Iron deficiency causes death of 3,000 women every year in Bangladesh because of severe anaemia during childbirth and iron deficiency anaemia is a common problem among Bangladeshi women. These were revealed at a scientific seminar organised jointly by Singapore General Hospital and Chittagong-based Surgiscope Fertility Centre on the Chittagong
CMCH interns continue indefinite strike
Intern doctors at Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Sunday continued their indefinite strike protesting against attack on a colleague, former president of the medical college unit Chhatra League, pushing the patients to suffer. While visiting the CMCH at noon, gates of
Fake food factory sealed off in Sylhet
Sylhet Metropolitan Police on Monday morning unearthed a factory producing fake food, drink and vitamin products from a house on the city outskirts. The detective branch of police also arrested the managing director and an employee of the factory. During a two-hour drive from 7:00am to 9:00am,
UGC chairman calls for foundation training for quality education
University Grants Commission chairman Professor AK Azad Chowdhury on Sunday said training, especially foundation training, is very vital for the young university teachers for producing quality faculty members at university levels. ‘Depth of knowledge is essential for the teaching
Rapist gets life-term in Ctg
A Chittagong metropolitan magistrate court on Sunday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment and fined him Tk 50,000 for violating a female student in Chittagong. The convict was identified as Nur Mohammed, 32, son of Abul Kashem, resident of Shah Mirpur area under Karnaphuli police station in the district.
Student killed in Ctg
A college student was killed early Sunday at Alkaran under Sadarghat police station in Chittagong. The deceased was identified as Rintu Ghosh, 25, a second year student of Gachbaria Government College under Chandanaish upazila in the district,
Experts stress decentralisation to ‘save’ Dhaka
Amid the mounting pressure of population on the sprawling Dhaka city, experts have said it is not mega structures but decentralisation can help solve the city’s growing problems. Talking to UNB on Saturday, the urban and local government experts said decentralisation can help ease many problems of the mega city, paving the way for overall
Arrest of Sylhet businessman’s killer demanded
Sylhet Bouddha Samiti, an organisation of the Buddhist community, formed a human chain at Sylhet on Saturday, demanding arrest of the killers of Ringku Barua, a businessman of Surma Market of the city. The Chittagong Samiti Sylhet, local unit of
BSMMU opens haematology evening outdoor
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University expanded its evening specialists’ consultation services with the addition of haematology department in the service from Saturday. Professors and associate professors will see patient at the department from Saturday to Wednesday evening, said BSMMU vice-chancellor Pran Gopal Datta
Khaleque announces 31-point manifesto
The Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khaleque has pledged to do his utmost for proper development of Khulna city if he is re-elected. He said this while presenting his 31-point election manifesto at a press conference at the Khulna Press Club on Saturday. Chairman of the Sammilita Nagarik Committee
Fire panic injures 14 RMG workers in Chittagong
At least 14 workers were injured while scrambling down the stairs of a garment factory in panic as a fire broke out in the building at Nasirabad in Chittagong on Saturday. The injured were Mahfuza, 21, Baby, 25, Rupa, 22, Rubi, 20, Jahanara, 28, Nazma, 26, Jaheda, 21, Rina, 22, Khadiza, 22, Ranu, 22, Banu ... Read more
CMCH interns go on indefinite strike
The interns at Chittagong Medical College Hospital on Saturday began an indefinite strike protesting against attack on a intern physician, also former medical college unit Chhatra League president. Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student organisation backed by the ruling Awami League, locked the gates of the medical college hospital blockaded
Private university students block road in Ctg
The students of BGC Trust University on Saturday blocked Chittagong –Cox’s Bazar highway for about 30 minutes as four students were injured by the police at Patiya upazila in Chittagong. Students and campus sources said that a student bus of the carrying the private university was hit from behind by a bus of Eagle Transport ... Read more
DSCC hospitals run in bad shape
Proposal for turning the hospitals into a medical college shelved for 7yrs after approval The proposal for tuning three Dhaka South City Corporation hospitals into a medical college and hospital, with the aim of improving quality of service, is still stuck with the ministry seven years after the local government ministry gave the approval. The ... Read more
RU teacher removed temporarily over MLM scam
A Rajshahi University teacher was removed from temporarily for cheating students through a fake multi-level-marketing business on the campus. The decision was taken at a syndicate meeting held Thursday night with the university vice-chancellor Professor Mizauddin in the chair.
Two killed in city traffic accidents
Two people including a woman died in road accidents in the city on Friday. At Phulbaria, a bus driver was killed when a truck ran over him when crossing the road early Friday. The deceased, Golap Mian, 30, a drive of a Suprvat Paribahan, was from Jaipurhat and lived at Bongram in the city’s Wari ... Read more
Youths found dead in city
Police interrogating cohabitants Two youths were killed at their bachelor quarter at West Shewrapara in the capital Dhaka Friday noon. The victims, Mohammad Rajib, 30, an MBA graduate from private Green University, was from Bogra and Abul Bashar, 31, an employee of Kazi Pharma,
Shabby underpasses fail to attract pedestrians
Underpasses in the capital city are in a shabby condition and are failing to serve the pedestrians for lack of proper maintenance. Users have alleged that neither the Dhaka South City Corporation, nor the Dhaka North City Corporation properly monitor and maintain the underpasses,