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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

Abdur Razzak’s hattrick, only the second in ODI history by a spinner, inspired Bangladesh to a series-levelling six-wicket victory over Zimbabwe at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday in the second one-dayer of the five-match series. The left-arm spinner first removed Prosper Utseya off the last ball of the 45th over, his ninth,

Grameen Bank has dismissed reports that its founder Muhammad Yunus had diverted nearly Tk 7 billion in aid to another company as ‘inaccurate and misleading’. It denied any wrongdoing and said ‘these reports are a total fabrication and baseless’. Norway’s national TV NRK aired a documentary on November 30 titled ‘Fanget i Mikrogjeld’ or

Three ‘gunfights’ between members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and criminal gangs left three offenders dead in the capital, Meherpur and Barisal districts early yesterday. The deceased are Abdullah Mohammad Nazimuddin alias Honda Babu, 30, of the city’s Malibagh Chowdhurypara, Durjoy Babu alias Bachchu, 36, of Gangni upazila in

Police yesterday arrested four bike-riding youths from Dhaka University campus for harassing a number of female students of the university. The arrestees were identified as Sohan, Ripon, Sonny and Tareq of Old Dhaka. Witnesses said the youths riding on three motorbikes behaved “indecently” with a group of

Draft law proposes pictorial warning on products, more tax and increased fine for smoking in public The government is moving to amend the tobacco control act and introduce powerful pictorial warnings on cigarette packets and other tobacco items in a bid to reduce tobacco consumption drastically. The Ministry of Health is drafting the amendment to ... Read more

An alleged robber was beaten to death by a mob in Ashulia on the outskirt of the city early yesterday. The deceased Alamgir Hossain, 32, hailed from Faridganj upazila of Chandpur. Dewan Kaushik Ahmed, sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, said locals chased a gang of 6-7 people while they were attempting a robbery at Nutupara ... Read more

The police arrested 28 workers of Hachong Sweater Factory in Hijal Hati area under Kaliakoir upazila of the district on Thursday and Friday on charge of ransacking the factory. Police and factory sources said the workers of the factory on Thursday staged a demonstration in demand of production bonus as per the old pay scale. ... Read more

A college girl died in Sylhet early Friday after she had been dipped into cold water frequently at night as part of a spiritual healing process advised by a so-called female pir. The police detained the son of the pir, Tafura Begum, and a domestic help of the girl’s house for interrogation in this connection

269 municipalities will go to polls, EC announces schedule Elections to 269 municipalities out of 310 across the country will be held in a staggered manner in January 12-18 next year, the Election Commission announced on Thursday. Of the remaining municipalities, the terms of 17 are yet to expire while there is a legal bar ... Read more

Millions of disabled children do not have access to normal education in the country due to failures in government policy and the attitude of the school authorities, said disability rights activists. Only the moderately disabled children are provided inclusive education, they said, when this kind of education should be provided to all disabled children as ... Read more

At least 60 geologists, geophysicists and drilling experts left BAPEX over the last ten years creating a shortage of skilled personnel in the state-run petroleum exploration and production company. Many of them left due to lack of job satisfaction as BAPEX had not been awarded any gas or oil blocks for several years

A 17-year-old welding assistant was allegedly tortured in police custody in Jatrabari, as result of which he died in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said his family members on Thursday. The victim, Sagar Ahmed, a resident of Kutubkhali, had been employed at a workshop in Nayan Nagar, said family members