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Neighbours are asking for private universities in the capital city to move out of residential areas, as the law requires. People living around said that the private universities were causing them problems. Residents complained to New Age about violence from student demonstrations and the bad

Padma Bridge ADB, IDB okay $755m credit WB’s $1.5b in process Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank have approved loans of $615 million and $140 million for the construction of Padma Multipurpose Bridge. The development partners took the decisions at their board meetings yesterday, said Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain

9 more youths jailed The father of a stalking victim was assaulted yesterday while nine stalkers were jailed and another nine were fined in Sirajganj, Bagerhat, Tangail, Netrokona and Madaripur. SSC examinee Bipasha of Belkuchi upazila was harassed by Babu, a local youth, on her way home from a coaching centre yesterday morning, reports our

Bangladesh men’s cricket team stand on the brink of bringing the country’s first-ever Asian Games gold home when they take on surprise package Afghanistan in the final in Guangzhou today. Mohammad Ashraful’s boys confirmed the title clash with a five-wicket defeat of a strong Sri Lankan team in the second semifinal of the 16th Asian ... Read more

Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan is going to perform live at Army Stadium in Dhaka and campaign for the Sundarbans to help it become one of the Seven Wonders of the World on December 10. He will vote for the largest mangrove forest on stage. Local private television channel Boishakhi TV will telecast the megastar’s voting ... Read more

A 25-year-old student of the Government Bangla College at Mirpur was killed as train hit him in the Kuril-Bishwa Road level crossing in Dhaka on Thursday, the police said. The victim, Billal Hossain, of Bhola, was a first-year student of mathematics and had lived in Gazipur. The police said a train had hit Billal in ... Read more

Three teenage boys have been found alive after being lost in their boat in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days. The boys, from the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand-administered territory in the South Pacific, had been given up for dead. A tuna fishing boat picked them up near Fiji and is taking them to hospital ... Read more

The nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way — Andromeda — was born when two smaller galaxies collided, say astronomers. An international team conducted a computer simulation of how Andromeda evolved over time. The results suggest that two galaxies collided some nine billion years ago and

The number of incidents of women’s repression is on the rise and the law on domestic violence is yet to come into force even 56 days inside its enactment, marking that observance of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the country as nothing but a farce. Nine hundred and forty-five women ... Read more

Teachers, students demand punishment of the killer The prime suspect in the killing of Sylhet Government Women’s College teacher was arrested in a Sunamganj village early Wednesday, eight months after the killing. The arrested Abdul Latif alias Kawsar, 28, an expatriate in the United Kingdom, was sent to the RAB headquarters in Dhaka by air ... Read more

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women will be observed today in Bangladesh like elsewhere across the world. This year’s theme of the day is building partnerships to combat violence against women. The United Nations has been observing the day since 1999 starting with a 16-day global

The Special Court-10 of the Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday framed charges against 256 medical personnel and other soldiers from attached units at the BDR Hospital for the February 2009 mutiny in the BDR headquarters in Dhaka. After framing the charges the three-member special court, presided over by the BDR’s

Telenor chief spurs telecom regulator Telenor President Jon Fredrik Baksaas yesterday urged the telecom regulator in Bangladesh to expedite the process of introducing 3G network, as at least half the local telecom market is now ready for the third generation technology. Speaking at a press meet in the capital, he said, “The introduction of 3G ... Read more

A special court yesterday sentenced 23 border guards to different terms in jail for their involvement in 2009 BDR mutiny in Lalmonirhat. The court acquitted one of the 24 accused jawans of the district’s 31 Rifles Battalion. A three-member panel handed down the 23 jawans prison terms ranging from four months to five

A child who was set afire by a quack for treatment died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday after fighting for life for 34 days. Seven-year-old Fazle Rabbi of Bagmara in Rajshahi, who had neurological problems, was taken to local quack Abdul Wahed. The quack told his guardians the boy was caught by a genie ... Read more

One hundred and eighty-six students were expelled for cheating on the first day of the primary and ibtedayi terminal examinations on Tuesday, said the personnel of the control room of the Directorate of Primary Education. They said that 174 were expelled from the primary and 12 from the

Three people were jailed by mobile courts on charges of harassing girl students in Faridpur, Natore and Nilphamari on Tuesday. A mobile court jailed for six months Mithu Shiekh for harassing girls of a government child home at Tepakhola in the Faridpur town, the New Age correspondent in the district

Dhaka-Ctg highway project freed of consultancy glitch after a year; new firm gets the job; govt to purchase 211 vehicles for upazila parishads The cabinet committee on purchase yesterday approved proposed appointment of a new consulting firm as a consultancy glitch already delayed by a year the upgrading of Dhaka-Chittagong highway. It gave the approval ... Read more

CAB says BERC has favoured producers, not consumers The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission is going to submit a comprehensive proposal to the power, energy and mineral resources ministry on benchmarks for the prices and rents of power generation, transmission and distribution today (Tuesday). A top official of the commission said that they were hoping to ... Read more

The primary terminal examinations and ibtedayi terminal examinations for Class V students begin today. On the first day, the students across the country will take the Bangla examination, according to the exam schedule. The examinations will end on November