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Natore Murder Asif sent to jail, Rajon produced to court Police yesterday produced Abdul Awal Rajon, the prime accused in Natore college teacher Mizanur Rashid killing case, before a court seeking seven-day remand and sent the co-accused Mamunur Rashid Asif to jail on completion of his three-day remand. The arrested murder suspect Rajon in primary ... Read more

Officials of the education ministry have said all preparations have been completed for the maiden Junior School Certificate examinations scheduled to begin on November 4. Dhaka education board chairman Fahima Khatun said this year 15, 05,391 students would take the examinations in 1806 centres across the

Rab yesterday arrested a gang of eight students who sent answers to multiple-choice questions via SMS to freshmen aspirants inside Dhaka University admission test halls. A team of Rab-3 and officials of DU administration tracked the gang for a week after an admission seeker, who was approached by the gang, gave them the

8 flights cancelled yesterday, 60 pilots call in ‘sick’, 1,000 passengers uncertain about travel plans There will be no flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines today and tomorrow. For the first time in over two decades Biman has cancelled all international and domestic flights for two days. Hajj flights, however, will take to the sky as ... Read more

Unauthorized guidebooks Publishers, writers shirk blame Publishers and writers of unauthorised guidebooks are applying various devices to outwit the National Curriculum and Text Book Board authorities who have initiated a move to take action against the wrongdoers. A number of publishers flatly denied their involvement in marketing such illegal guidebooks and blamed ‘invisible hands’ for the ... Read more

Champa Rani murder Police pick up two women Faridpur: The police on Thursday interrogated two women, including stepmother of Rony Saha, who killed Champa Rani Saha at Madhukhali in Faridpur after Champa had protested at the harassment of her daughter on Tuesday. The police said they had picked up Rony’s stepmother Pramita Rani Saha and ... Read more

Natore: Abdul Awal Rajan, one of the two accused of killing Lokmanpur college teacher Mizanur Rashid, was arrested on Thursday. Mizanur died in BSMMU Hospital in Dhaka on October 24 after being wounded in an attack by Rajan and Asif Ali on October 12 as he protested at the harassment of

CNG refueling station owners’ scheduled strike from November 1 was deferred until November 25, following a meeting yesterday with State Minister for Power and Energy Mohammad Enamul Haque. The owners had earlier announced a non-stop strike from November 1 to press home their six-point demand, including withdrawal of Government order for six-hour closure of

Doctors remove pouch with 1,500 tablets Doctors of a private clinic in the port city removed a pouch of Yaba tablets from the abdomen of a middle-aged male patient last Tuesday. Bulu Miah, the 44-year-old patient, wanted to make some quick money, Tk 2,000. In exchange, all he had to do was to transport around ... Read more

Pilot strike continues, old fliers called for emergency duty, hundreds of passengers stranded at airports Hundreds of passengers of international and domestic routes have been stranded at the Shahjalal International Airport for the last couple of days as the authorities were forced to cancel or reschedule flights of the national flag carrier Biman following strike ... Read more

Girl’s harassment Stalker kills mother Stalkers in killed a mother at Madhukhali in Faridpur and severely injured two brothers in Chandpur for their protest at harassment of girls on Tuesday. In Faridpur, Champa Rani Biswas, 52, wife of Swapan Biswas, was killed in the evening when a stalker riding a motorcycle ran into her after ... Read more

Stalking has led many impressionable schoolgirls to commit suicide, and these social crimes are going on unabatedly in spite of the government’s repeated declarations that they will not be tolerated. Such debasement of females has become one the most serious social problems although the government has launched several awareness programmes, and the police have been ... Read more

Prosperity Score Bangladesh slips to 96th position Bangladesh has slipped nine places to 96th on a list of the world’s most successful countries, mainly due to lower performances in education, personal freedom, health, and safety and security. The country stood 87th in the 2009 ranking of Prosperity Index, a survey of the Legatum Institute, a ... Read more

Nat’l Medical College Interns go on strike Protest assault by patient’s relatives, demand security Following an intern doctor’s assault by a patient’s relatives, the Interns of Dhaka National Medical College Hospital go on an indefinite strike protesting the assault and demanding their security in the hospital premises at Sutrapur in Old Dhaka yesterday. The emergency ... Read more

Successive governments have been shelving the initiative to establish an oceanographic institute which is essential for doing research on marine and seabed resources, experts told New Age. ‘For several years successive governments have been talking about establishing an Institute of Oceanography under the Ministry of Science and Technology, but there has been no

Pilots swing into strike after 4 ‘suspended’; hajj flights to continue Biman Bangladesh Airlines last night “suspended” four pilots, prompting a pilots’ strike from 9:00pm that might see most of its aircraft grounded for an indefinite period. Hajj flights will, however, remain out of the purview of the strike, Bangladesh Airline Pilots’ Association (Bapa) sources ... Read more

Experts see making ACC toothless, withdrawal of many cases as reasons Bangladesh has attained 12th position among the most corrupt countries across the globe scoring 2.4 in Transparency International (TI) index. In the previous year, country’s ranking was 13th while position 139th among 180 countries, according to the watchdog’s corruption-measuring barometer. This year, it has

Normalcy is yet to return to the many villages in Roopganj and Kaitpara where most of the males fled home fearing arrest in the cases filed by the Rapid Action Battalion and the police after Saturday’s clashes between the locals and the army over land purchase. One person had died and two people remained missing ... Read more

Selim Mallik, who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of killing his mother, son and nephew in Keraniganj on Monday, confessed to the crime. Assistant Superintendent of Police Faruk Hossain of Keraniganj said Selim killed his mother as she refused to give him Tk 60,000 that he demanded, and the two kids as they started to

A Dhaka University student was killed in a road accident at the Hazrat Shahjalal Airport roundabout on Tuesday afternoon. The student was Billal Hossain, 25, a master’s student of sociology and resident of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall. One of his relatives, Mizanur Rahman, was also seriously