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World AIDS Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere in the world today. The health ministry has worked out elaborate programmes on the occasion. Various other organisations have also planned programmes to mark the day. The health minister, AFM Ruhal Haque, will address a seminar at the

A young engineer was arrested yesterday for harassing a female university student on the social networking site Facebook. Arrested Aleem Uddin, 28, an assistant engineer of Western Marine Shipyard in Chittagong, hails from Noakhali. Police said Aleem had opened a fake account of the victim, whom he termed his former girlfriend,

Bangladesh along with other weather-hit countries to raise voice once again for its quick release as UN starts Cancun summit today The 16th United Nations climate conference kicks off in Cancun, Mexico today amid this year’s experience of numerous extreme weather events, and doubling of related global human death toll compared to last year’s. Bangladesh ... Read more

The High Court on Sunday asked the chief controller (export and import) and the chairman of Chittagong Port Authority to inform the court within four weeks on how much soya bean oil had been imported in last six months and what their prices were. The president and secretary of Vegetable Oil Refiners’ and Vanaspati Manufacturers’ ... Read more

Railway proposes to buy 10 motors initially to improve travel to and from Dhaka; estimated Tk 210cr to come from Indian credit The government is going to introduce railcars between the capital and its adjoining districts next year to improve the transport of commuters to and from the capital. Bangladesh Railway recently submitted a proposal ... Read more

Leaders of the launch owners’ association on Sunday decided to pick up passengers in the middle of the River Buriganga and avoid using Sadarghat pontoons in protest at continued harassment by the pontoon leaseholder. The owners in the afternoon started picking up passengers in the mid-river after ferrying them

Actor and Dhaka City Corporation Councillor Monwar Hossain Dipjol turned himself in to the police last night, 12 days after he went into hiding to elude arrest over assault on a policeman. Abdul Malek, officer-in-charge of Darussalam Police Station, said Dipjol surrendered shortly before 10:00pm in connection with a case filed on November 17 for ... Read more

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a factory a record Tk 69.87 lakh for discharging untreated liquid waste in the Bhairab River in Jessore. This is the first ever punishment for polluting environment in the country’s South-Western region and also the highest ever penalty awarded to a factory by

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