All eleven students who survived in Mirsarai road crash have returned to their respective homes on Saturday afternoon with sound health after five days of treatment at hospital. ‘We had never thought of survival, but we lost our 40 fellows to whom we would never meet,’ Zahidul and Shuba two students after returning from hospital ... Read more
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Low-income groups smoke more: study
Although use of tobacco is widespread in Bangladesh, it is higher among the lower socio-economic groups in both rural and urban areas. According to a recent study, the prevalence of smoking goes down with increasing levels of wealth in both rural and urban settings in the
22 drivers fined
Mobile-talking 22 drivers fined A mobile court yesterday fined 22 drivers a total of Tk 5,500 on different charges including careless driving and talking over the mobile phone while driving on the approach road to Bangabandhu Bridge in Tangail. Of the 22, the drivers of passenger buses and goods-laden trucks, who were seen talking over ... Read more
Traffic chaos reigns in city
The traffic system in the capital is in a shambles with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police failing to cope with the situation which has turned alarming with deadly road accidents taking place almost every day and tailbacks growing longer. Like the previous year, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has decided to take a number of measures,
Census begins in enclaves
Joint teams from Bangladesh and India on Friday began the first-ever headcount in enclaves along the border with an aim to exchange landlocked areas between the two neighbouring countries. The much-awaited census was launched from Bhotbari (Seat No 16), an Indian enclave at Patgram, amid cheers from the residents who have long been hoping to ... Read more
Driving schools charge for BRTA licences
About 500 city driving schools without approval Various driving schools in the city are charging money from the trainees for obtaining driving licences from the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority. But the BRTA’s officials claimed that they were unaware of the situation. According to them the fee for the non-professional licence’s fee, valid for ten years, ... Read more
Unauthorised driving to be stopped: Hasina
“I lost 18 of my near and dear ones, including my father and minor brother, Russel, on August 15, 1975. Since then I’ve been bearing the agony in my heart. So, I can realise your (victims’ families) pain in losing your sons in the July 11 accident,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in an emotion-choked ... Read more
Husband’s swindling proves too costly
Wife kills kid, herself to go beyond humiliation A woman committed suicide after killing her baby girl in the capital’s Nadda yesterday, failing to withstand the humiliation by people her husband had “cheated.” Sarjina Akhter, 30, slit open the throat of her one-and-a-half-years-old daughter Anifa Akhter before hanging herself from a ceiling fan of her ... Read more
Viqarunnisa students hailed for protests
People from different walks of life on Friday demanded exemplary punishment of Parimal Jayadhar, a teacher at Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, arrested on charge of sexual harassment of a student. Speakers at a protest rally also demanded action against the institution’s authorities for allegedly trying to suppress the incident
Govt releases preliminary census report today
Government officials on Friday ruled out any dispute with the United Nations Population Fund over the preliminary figure of the fifth population census carried out in March 15 to 19 this year. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics secretary Riti Ibrahim told New Age that UNFPA representatives were with them during the entire process of the census ... Read more
4 die, 25 missing in Netrakona trawler capsize
At least four people drowned and 25 went missing after a trawler with 70 passengers on board capsized at Chaitar Haor of the Kalmakanda upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Hasina, 10, hailed from Maheshkhola village, Sajeda, 50 and Shima, 28, of Moddhanagar while the identity of other victim could not be known
Bangladeshi engr designs largest US civil work
A Bangladeshi engineer has earned the repute of being the coordinator or principal engineer of the ever-largest project in US civil work’s history to save its coastlines from hurricane onslaughts. The United States army selected Anwar Zahid, a graduate of Bangladesh University of Engineers and Technology (Buet), to lead the construction of the two multi-billion ... Read more
Oil-gas body announces fresh programmes
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Friday reiterated its vow to continue movements until its seven-point demands including scraping of the deals with ConocoPhillips for extraction of gas from two offshore blocks in the Bay of Bengal. The national committee will continue its agitation programmes including hartals until ... Read more
10 killed, 27 wounded in road mishaps
Ten people were killed and 27 injured in road accidents in Munshiganj, Habiganj, Chandpur, Brahmanbaria, and Narayanganj districts on Thursday night and Friday. New Age correspondent in Munshiganj reported that four people including a member of the army was killed and 20 others wounded in a road mishap at Pakhi under Gajaria upazila on
BNP holds protests over Tarique warrant today
Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party will stage demonstration at all divisional and district headquarters across the country today in protest against issuing of arrest warrant against Tarique Rahman, the eldest son of the party chairperson Khaleda Zia. A Dhaka court on Thursday issued warrants for arrests of Tarique Rahman, also a senior
3 killed in rice mill boiler blast in Dinajpur
Three people were killed and three others injured when a boiler at a rice mill exploded at Pulhat in Dinajpur early Friday. The deceased Saddam Hossain, of Mahatullapur, and Suman, of Karimullapur of the district headquarters died on the post. The injured Motaleb, 38, died after being admitted to Rangpur Medical College
Journo’s house ransacked
Graft Report on Cop Journo’s house ransacked The officer-in-charge of Tanore Police Station was removed yesterday for raiding the house of the journalist he beat up on Thursday. Hours before his removal, Tanore police recorded an extortion case against Imran Hossain, Tanore upazila correspondent of Rajshahi-based
Second warrant issued for arrest of Tarique, 11 others
A Dhaka court on Thursday issued warrants for arrests of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s eldest son Tarique Rahman and 11 others in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act for the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge Mohammad Zohurul Haque also asked the police to ... Read more
Khaleda to stand by families of victims
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday visited the families of the schoolboys killed in a traffic accident at Mirsarai in Chittagong and said that the death of the children was a national loss. ‘I am here to share your pain. It is not only you who are grief-stricken but the entire nation ... Read more
Manju Ara acting principal
The government on Thursday appointed Manju Ara Begum the acting principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College after a week-long protest by students demanding removal of the principal Husne Ara Begum. Students of the school and their guardians had rallied against Husne Ara for the week demanding her removal as principal as she was defending and ... Read more