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Children abducted, maimed, forced to begging Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday night arrested an alleged member of a gang that abducts and maims children, and then forces them into begging on streets or prostitution, just to take away the money from them. Shariful Islam alias Korban was arrested from Uttara of the capital. Earlier, he ... Read more

The results of Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) exams will be simultaneously published today instead of December 31 as was announced earlier. Some 15,05,391 students of class-VIII from 27,221 educational institutions sat for the exams. Of them, 12,33,391 were from eight education boards and 2,72,000 from the

The two Bangladeshi crewmen of MT Marida Marguerite, a German chemical tanker which was hijacked by Somali pirates on May 8, were released along with 20 others on Tuesday. The Bangladeshis are chief officer of the tanker Mohammad Zafar Iqbal and second engineer ABM Giasuddin Azam Khan. Family members of both of them are residents ... Read more

Bandarban, Dec 29: An under-construction church in Bandarban town has collapsed, killing at least one worker and injuring 26 others. The deceased was identified as Selim Khan, 40, of Wapda Bridge area in the district town. Deputy commissioner Mizanur Rahman said the third floor roof of the three-storey

The government will soon make licence mandatory for foodstuff business and impose restriction on hoarding against the backdrop of its failure to control price hike of essentials. The Ministry of Food and Disaster Management yesterday decided to revive the East Bengal (Foodstuff) Price Control and Anti-Hoarding Ordinance, 1953 that was not in force for

About 92.34 per cent of the examinees have passed the primary terminal examinations for class V students held from November 23 to 29. The pass rate in Ebtedaye terminal examinations is 83.93. The results of the primary terminal examinations were published on Tuesday. Last year, the pass

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Transparency International, Bangladesh, to submit the report of its household survey which found the judiciary to be the most corrupt among the service sectors in the country followed by the law enforcement agencies and the land administration. In a letter to the TIB’s executive director Iftekharuzzaman, the deputy registrar ... Read more

Primary terminal exams results Students from outlying areas top merit list The first, second and third in the merit list of primary terminal examinations are from schools outside the capital, according to the results published on Tuesday. Al Yasa of the Kodalia Government Primary School in Tangail stood first, securing 598 marks. Yasa is the ... Read more

Despite witnessing a good result in this year’s primary education terminal examinations, a significant number of students out of over four lakh may drop out from the primary education level, posing a threat in attaining the goal of ensuring cent percent enrolment by 2011. A total of 2.81 lakh students out of some 24.88 lakh ... Read more

At least 11 people were killed and 40 others injured when two buses collided on Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Kather Pool of Chandina upazila in Comilla yesterday. Witnesses said six people, including a woman, died on the spot and five others soon after being taken to hospital

No rehabilitation yet in worst-hit Koyra, Shyamnagar Hundreds of victims of the cyclone Aila in the worst affected areas of Koyra and Dacope in Khulna and Shyamnagar in Satkhira are still living in roadside shacks as the authorities have neither completed repairs in the badly-damaged embankments nor released funds for construction of houses. Sufferings of ... Read more

DCC built community centre at Narinda Park, more structures came up over the years Fatima, a student of class ten at Bangla Bazar Government Girls High School, spent her entire childhood confined within her house in Narinda for lack of open space for outdoor activities. “Watching TV and playing games on computer are the ways ... Read more

Speakers at roundtable express concern over rule of law Rule of law in the country is at stake now as people are worried they won’t get justice from the existing system, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday. The speakers also stressed the need for a mass movement saying rule of law won’t be established until ... Read more

Cyber café across the country will be accessible for persons with disabilities for ensuring the rights of country’s 10 percent population to Information Communication Technology. To this effect, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed among Cyber Café Owners Association of Bangladesh (CCOAB), Centre for Services and Information on

Survey on Corruption TIB high-ups sued in Ctg Comilla court receives case in the morning, dismisses in the evening Three defamation cases were filed yesterday against Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairman M Hafizuddin Khan, Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman and Senior Fellow Wahid Alam for “demeaning the judiciary.” However, the case filed in Comilla was dismissed on ... Read more

Road Accidents in City Intersections most risky Some busy intersections of Dhaka have been identified as accident hotspots where more than half of the city’s fatal crashes occur every year. Accidents Research Institute (ARI) of Buet has detected 54 such intersections, many with engineering faults. Most of them are exposed to jaywalking and uncontrolled movement ... Read more

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday sentenced a doctor to seven days in prison for running a hospital without licence in the capital and allowing blood transfusion without any blood tests of donors. The mobile court assisted by a representative of the Directorate of Health also fined the

The Thai ship, hijacked by Somali pirates on Saturday, was carrying 15,750 tonnes of urea fertiliser worth about Tk 44 crore to the Chittagong Port imported by Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation. Sources at the office of the local agent of the Thai bulk carrier, Hai Shipping Limited, said the consignment of fertiliser was loaded on ... Read more

The results of Primary Education Terminal Examination and Ebtedayee (madrasa) will be simultaneously published tomorrow. The results will be available on the website of the primary education directorate http://www.dpe.gov.bd/ and website of the primary and mass education ministry

A group of alleged extortionists shot dead a shop employee in the city’s Pallabi area on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as Sajib Ahmed, son of Anwar Hossain, a resident of Teker Ghat under Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj. Sub-inspector Ejazul Islam of Pallabi police station said a group of armed assailants entered