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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

Controversy follows as he denies stalking charges A mobile court yesterday convicted a young man for stalking a 13-year old girl and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment in the capital, but the trial gave rise to a controversy among local residents. The victim’s father Faruque Hossain filed a general diary with Ramna Police Station on Sunday ... Read more

Police yesterday appealed to the deputy commissioner of Dhaka to cancel four firearms licenses of film actor also Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Ward Councillor Monwar Hossain Dipjol, who has been on the run to avoid arrest. Officer-in-charge of Darus Salam Police Station Abdul Malek told The Daily Star last night that

8-yr-old boy murdered An 8-year-old boy was murdered for a mobile phone in Sujanagar upazila of the district. The boy, Md Rahat Pramanik, son of Md Hafiz Uddin of village Hassampur of Nazirganj union, was a student of class two at the local primary school. Rahat was missing since Sunday. Later, the police recovered his ... Read more

Regeneration of Rema-Kalinga forest threatened as saplings being felled by villagers In the first light of day, they stream out of the forest, one by one. They push their bicycles hard over muddy tracks, the tyres flatten under illegal loads. Each bicycle carries firewood tied to the handlebar and on the carrier at the back. ... Read more

At least 10 people were killed and about 40 injured in a head-on-collision between two 52-seat buses on the Dhaka–Tangail Highway at Kabirpur of Ashulia in Dhaka on Sunday evening. The police said the death figure could rise. A bus of Meem-Ovi Paribahan headed for Pabna collided with a bus of Borak Paribahan headed

Canada may hire agricultural workers first time from Bangladesh Malaysia has started regularising three lakh undocumented Bangladeshi workers and will hire more on completion of their regularisation, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said. The workers remained undocumented since they were employed through “underhand dealings”

At least 15 people were killed and 15 injured in road accidents in eight districts on Sunday and Saturday night. The accidents took place in Dhaka Gazipur, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Munshiganj, Rajbari, Brammanbaria and Bogra. Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation employee Abul Kashem, 52, of Sirajgaj, was run over by a

Increasing Road Accidents Unskilled drivers, faulty road design major reasons Human errors mostly by unskilled drivers and faulty designs of roads are the two big reasons for growing number of road accidents, transport and communications experts say. Poor maintenance of overused vehicles, inadequate road safety measures and lack of awareness among drivers and pedestrians are ... Read more

The number of patients suffering from cold-related diseases has increased in the country due to the change in the weather, health experts said on Sunday. People catch these diseases at this time of the year as the temperature varies a lot between day and night, they said, adding that common

Authorities say they have cleared view of university Shaheed Minar When the government is pursuing a tougher forest law to punish the tree plunderers, the Jahangirnagar University authorities have felled some 40 trees during the Eid vacation. Earlier in June, the JU administration could not cut down those trees for fierce protests by teachers and ... Read more

Primary Education Terminal Examination, 2010 of both general and madrasa students will begin tomorrow with around 25 lakh participants. The largest public examination in terms of number of examinees will start at 11:00am at 5,993 centres across the country and another

At least eight stalkers were sentenced to different terms in prison yesterday in separate incidents of stalking in Dinajpur, Pabna, Kurigram and Noakhali districts. A schoolteacher was sentenced one-year imprisonment for stalking a 13-year old female student of his school at Hakimpur upazila of