A woman and a minor domestic help allegedly committed suicide in the Dhaka city’s Tejgaon and Mazar Road on Wednesday. At Tejgaon, a minor domestic help allegedly committed suicide at her employer’s house at West Nakahlpara Wednesday.
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BCL man expelled for harassing girl at Ctg Univ
The Chittagong University authorities on Wednesday temporarily expelled an activist of the ruling Awami League-backed Chhatra League on charge of harassing a girl student. The expelled BCL man is Masum alias Moon Rozario who harassed a student of sociology on the campus on Monday.
MC College student stabbed to death in city
A college student was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in the Sylhet city Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Ahmed Imtiaz Parvez, 23, a third year economics student of Sylhet MC College and son of Mazamil Ali of village Chanpur
Ctg road accident kills one
An elderly man was killed in a road accident at Tiger-pass in the Chittagong city early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Pulin Shil, 66, a resident at Sholkata of Anwara upazila under the district.
EVM to be used in BCC elections
The Election Commission has decided to use electronic voting machine in two centres at one of the 30 wards in the third Barisal City Corporation election scheduled to be held on June 15. Returning officer’s office of third BCC election said EVM would be used in two vote centers of ward 16 having 4,181 voters.
VoIP equipment seized
The Rapid Action Battalion seized illegal voice over internet protocol equipment worth about 15 lakh from an apartment in Bashundhara residential area in the capital Wednesday and arrested one. RAB-4 company commander Lieutenant Commander BN KM Tanveer Anwar told New Age that RAB, on secrete information, they conducted a drive at
BR opens DEMU railcar service in Ctg May 25
Bangladesh Railway is set to open its Diesel Electrical Multiple Unit railcar service on two routes in Chittagong from May 25, said officials. It also has a plan to open DEMU railcar service between Chittagong University and the port city on the same day, they said.
Sylhet journalists demand arrest of attackers on fellow
Media people in Sylhet on Tuesday gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the administration for the arrest of the culprits, who hacked a reporter with sharp weapons in the city Saturday night. They blamed the failure of law-enforcing agencies to bring to book the attackers and killers of journalists across the country and said a tougher ... Read more
Rain disrupts Barisal city life
Heavy monsoon raining on Tuesday paralysed life in the Barisal city, inundating roads, lanes and by-lanes and confining people to their residents. Barisal met office said torrential rain, with thunderbolts and gusty wind, starting at around 12:30pm, continued till evening with short breaks.
President for increasing seats for engineering students
The president, Abdul Hamid, on Tuesday laid emphasis on increasing seats at the country’s engineering and technology universities for creating more engineers to expedite the ongoing development endeavors. He made the remark while a six-member delegation
Canals to be freed from illegal occupants: minister
Shipping minister Shajahan Khan on Tuesday said the city’s canals would be freed from illegal occupants to address water stagnation in the city. ‘We are working hard for solving city’s water stagnation through draining out rain water by removing illegal installations on canals in different places in the metropolis,’
Govt fails to protect rivers around city from pollution
Shipping minister Shajahan Khan has admitted that the government has not been able to stop Dhaka City Corporation and the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority from dumping the city’s solid and liquid wastes into the rivers. Expressing particular concern over the dumping
Nepal to assist CUET in tremor tech research
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology and National Earthquake Technological Society of Nepal Monday signed an agreement for cooperation of the scientific and technological research in the earthquake technology. The director of the Institute of Earth Quake Engineering
RCC polls candidate fears use of black money
THE Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed mayoral candidate for Rajshahi city corporation election feared use to black money during the upcoming election by the ruling Awami League-backed candidate. He expressed this concern while exchanging views with newsmen at Rajshahi Press Club on Monday noon.
Jatrabari-Kanchpur road upgrade to be completed by September: Quader
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader today said the upgrading work of the Jatrabari-Kanchpur stretch of Dhaka- Chittagong highway to eight-lane would be complete in next September as the work is going on in full swing. “This part will be the first eight-lane in the highway network
Three held with 740 pieces of Yaba tablets in Ctg
Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested three drug traders with 740 pieces of Yaba tablets from in front of Swadhinata Park under Chandgaon thana in the city on Sunday night. The arrested drug traders were identified as Mohammad Amin, 31, Ayub Ullah, 28 and Dilara Begum, all hailed from different upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district.
Boy killed in Ctg road mishap
A boy was killed and five others were injured as a bus hit a rickshaw and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Karnaphuli Bridge area in Chittagong city on Monday. The deceased could not be identified immediately. Sub-inspector Talat Hossain of Bakulia police station said
Resumption of waterbus service misses deadline
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation has failed to put six waterbuses in operation on the Dhaka circular waterway from May 15 according to its earlier plan. BIWTC officials said that the launching of the waterbuses has been delayed as the manufacturing company was yet to hand over four new buses
Students want death for killer of fellow
Students of Eden Girls College Dhaka on Sunday demanded death penalty of Shikdar Mahamud Alam who killed his wife Putul on May 13. Sharifa Akhter Putul, 22, was a third year (honours) student of history department at Eden girls’ College in Dhaka.
President emphasises quality edn at univs
The president, Abdul Hamid, on Sunday said the universities must ensure quality higher education. The president, also chancellor of all universities in the country, stressed the need when three vice-chancellors — Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique