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Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Dakhil examinations of 2011 would begin on February 1 and end before March 23 across the country. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday announced this at a press briefing at his ministry. The minister said examination schedules have been prepared keeping in mind the fixture of the

A teacher’s indecent punishment and humiliation to a female student at Kushtia Polytechnic Institution triggered agitation on the campus yesterday. According to students, Mannan Baig, a teacher of civil engineering, in his class with the 5th batch on Monday told Jamila Marium to kneel down on the bench, as she could not give satisfactory

Construction Site Pedestrian dies as brick falls on his head A pedestrian yesterday met his end as a brick crashed on his head from an under-construction building at Jatrabari of the capital. The deceased Noor Alam, 30, a banana trader, was a resident of Chhapra Mosque area of Shanir Akhra. Locals said Alam received a ... Read more

Contacts snapped The fate of the Bangladeshi vessel, which was reportedly hijacked from the high seas about 80 nautical miles west of the Indian port of Cochin, remained unclear as all contacts with the ship remained snapped since 6:00 pm Sunday, shipping officials said. The ship has 25 crew members on

The government is planning to double the price of electricity in six phases, once every six months, by 2013. Power Development Board general manager Abduhu Ruhulullah told New Age that the PDB had been planning to raise the bulk rate of electricity to Tk 4.68 from Tk 2.12 for each unit in six phases by ... Read more

Two people were killed and five injured as robbers opened fire on the villagers in Derai upazila of Sunamganj Sunday night. The deceased were Dipon Bala Das, 16, daughter of Sudhir Ranjan Das and Anup Das, 26, son of Baroda Das of Sutargaon village of the

Communications chief tells JS A guideline for introduction of modern communication technology in taxicabs has been prepared to reduce harassments to passengers and improve cab service, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain told the House yesterday. He also said the construction of elevated expressway would begin from

A mobile court yesterday awarded three months’ jail term to a caretaker of a residential building in the city’s Banashri Housing Project on charges of stalking a female tenant of the house. It also ordered police to produce another caretaker before a judicial magistrate’s court on the same charges. Executive Magistrate Al Amin told The ... Read more

Haikkar Khal disappearing as encroachment goes unabated Natural canals crisscrossing the low-lying areas along the Mohammadpur flood protection dam are disappearing fast due to encroachment by land grabbers. The famous Haikkar Khal, which links the Turag river with the Buriganga, faces obliteration as the “so-called” landowners continue to fill it

Proposal gets finance ministry nod The finance minister, AMA Muhith, approved a proposal on Sunday to increase maternity leave to six months, despite the fact that most female workers now are not receiving the statutory required current minimum of four months. Finance ministry officials told New Age that now that the minister had signed the ... Read more

Targets Rajuk for housing of middle income group The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is going to build more than 50,000 apartments in three different housing projects for middle and lower-middle income groups in the capital in next three to five years. As many as 22,500 apartments will be ready for handover in Uttara model town ... Read more

Left daughter, father injured An exasperated stalker went wild and attacked the girl and her father with a sharp weapon in Barguna. Her father Yunus Howlader was escorting Shormi Akhter Suma, 18, a higher secondary student of Ghatbaria Adarsha College in Barguna, to college Saturday morning when stalker Mohsin Shikder, 29, attacked them. Critically injured ... Read more

Bangladesh will play the 3rd One Day International (ODI) against visiting Zimbabwe in the five-match ODI series today (Monday) at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (SBNS) in the city, reports UNB. The scheduled day/night match will now begin at 9:00 am (BST) due to fault in the flood light system. Earlier, Zimbabwe took 1-0 lead in ... Read more

Five people were jailed for varying terms on charges of harassing girls in Sylhet and Nilphamari on Saturday and Sunday. The New Age correspondent in Sylhet said two young men were jailed by a mobile court in the district for harassing schoolgirls

A trader was shot dead on Noorjahan Road in the capital’s Mohammadpur area last night. The motive behind the murder was not clear. A gang of three fired shots at Tazzil Hossain Johny, 28, son of Mokbul Hossain in Mohammadpur, on his way back home from a tea stall on Noorjahan Road

The total number of unemployed people in the country is 2.1 million, labour and employment minister Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain said in parliament on Sunday Answering to a question from Moshtak Ahmed Rumi, the minister gave the information quoting the labour force survey of the statistics bureau

The 30th BCS written exam will be held from Jan 11 simultaneously in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet centres, public service commission public relations officer Mir Mosharraf Hossain has said. “The exam centres and schedules will be published in newspapers,” he told bdnews24.com on Sunday. The preliminary test results of 30th BCS were ... Read more

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) with the help of two organisations has successfully field-tested a drought-tolerant rice variety in the northern part of the country. The IRRI in collaboration with Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) and Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) had been experimenting on the rice variety over the last two

A month long drive by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police failed to enhance enforcement or compliance of traffic rules in the city. The drive utterly failed to ensure seatbelt and motorbike helmet compliance, said critics. Dhaka shows little sign of enhanced enforcement or compliance with traffic safety rules, they