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A woman was killed yesterday as a piece of brick fell on her head when she was passing under a six-storey building being constructed at Banashree in the city. The deceased was Parvin Akhter, a domestic help of Mohammad Babul from Block-l, Road-6 of the area. Officer-in-charge Nazim Uddin of Khilgaon Police Station said two ... Read more

A Chittagong court yesterday fined two youths Tk 1,000 each and another youth Tk 500 on charge of stalking university students in the port city’s Dampara area. Police detained the three — Faisal Chowdhury, Abu Bakkar and Safayat Shakil — for stalking several female students of Asian University for Women (AUW) on

Manama: Kuwaiti police are investigating a claim by a Moroccan woman that her Kuwaiti husband had offered her to another man for sex to settle a loan. According to Kuwaiti daily Arab Times, the police launched a probe after the husband alerted the Maidan Hawalli police that his wife had been

In the gathering darkness of the fast-falling evening in the valley, a man appears with a monkey in one hand and a strange gun in the other. As he climbs up the slope from the Sangu river and steps into the Tindu market square, people gather around him, appreciative of

World cup cricket Ministry wants not to defer SSC exams The education ministry does not want to defer the Secondary School Certificate examinations because of the Cricket World Cup 2011 despite pressure from various government bodies, said concerned officials. As some of the matches of the Cricket World Cup 2011 will be held in Bangladesh, ... Read more

Death of three people feared to be caused by rabies in four days panicked the people of Dariakandi and Khuriagram at Kathalia in the Narsingdi district headquarters, residents said. The deceased were bitten by a cat more than two months ago and one of them received treatment late in Infectious Diseases Hospital at Mohakhali in ... Read more

About 15 thousand people of ten villages of Mohanganj union under Rajibpur upazil are facing problems while going to the upazila headquarters as Kolkihara Bridge on Mohanganj-Rajibpur road collapsed, only three months after its construction. “We have to walk a long way as no vehicles ply the road because of the broken bridge. We have ... Read more

EPZ in Dhaka 50 hurt as RMG workers clash At least 50 people, including 15 women workers, were injured yesterday in a clash between workers of a garment factory at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) and law enforcers over alleged extended working hours at the factory. The incident occurred at Actor Sports Ltd as the ... Read more

Diana was feeding salted soft rice to her one-year-old son Rahul, who was lying on the corridor of the family house at Bakhtrpur, a village in Savar, about 24 kilometres from the capital city. ‘This is my son’s supplementary food as I cannot afford anything better,’ she said, not happy about the family’s affordability

Rights activists on ‘eve teasing’ Rights activists yesterday called for using the term “sexual harassment” to describe bullying of young women saying the words “eve teasing” were too lenient a term to describe the nasty crime of the perpetrators. “In no way it should be seen as a minor offence, which is meant by the ... Read more

Several scores of Jagannath Hall residents laid siege to the Dhaka University vice-chancellor’s house on Friday night demanding restrictions on vehicle movement trough the campus, witnesses said. The students went out on demonstrations after a traffic accident in which a fourth-year student, Sadhan Kumar Gosh, was injured in a road accident on the campus on

The repeated incidents of lynching and their ferocity are increasingly causing concern among lawmen, psychologists and sociologists who believe people are taking law into their own hands because their confidence in the law enforcement agencies and justice delivery system is waning fast. The police were recording cases on some of the crimes as well as ... Read more

Health and nutrition experts blamed poor feeding practice due to lack of awareness as a major cause of malnutrition of children across Bangladesh. They told New Age that a large segment of the population is completely unaware about exclusive breast feeding and balanced

The 20th anniversary of the death of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, whose killing fuelled the anti-autocracy movement in 1990 and led to the fall of the Ershad regime, will be observed today. Milon, the then joint secretary general of the Bangladesh Medical Association, was shot dead on the Dhaka University campus on this day ... Read more

DMCH burn unit achieves commendable recovery rate, reduces number of deaths When success story is rare in public service institutions, the Burn and Plastic Surgery unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) is an exception with increasing recovery rate and sliding death toll since its inception in December 2003. The specialised unit can now cure ... Read more

The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has found it causes 6,00,000 deaths every year. One-third of those killed are children, often exposed to smoke at home, the World Health Organization (WHO) found. The study, in 192 countries, found that passive smoking is particularly dangerous for children,

Sixty-seven primary terminal exams candidates, 12 schoolteachers and three non-governmental agency officials were sued in Jaipurhat on Thursday in connection with cheating in the exams hall. The acting RB Government High School headmaster Afzal Hossain, also in charge of the primary terminal examinations centre, filed the

A mobile court yesterday sentenced a college teacher to one-year imprisonment for harassing a female admission seeker at Dhaka University. Saiful Islam, lecturer of physical education department of University Laboratory School and College, was accused of passing indecent

DU Vandalism All arrestees released Police yesterday released all the detainees of Thursday’s car accident and the subsequent vandalism on Dhaka University campus following a negotiation between the car owner and the DU authorities. They were freed around 12:30am yesterday when the owner of the car that hit Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, a fourth year DU ... Read more

Angry students of the Rajshahi University on Thursday evening blocked the Rajshahi-Dhaka highway in front the university’s main entrance after a bus supervisor allegedly stabbed their fellow pupil. Sources said that the bus supervisor of Tuhin Paribahan assaulted Anisur Rahman, a third year student of political science in Rajshahi University, over a trifling matter while ... Read more