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A 10-year boy, Ridoy, was killed on Thursday when a bus ran over him while he was selling newspapers on Badda Link road the city. The poor boy was knocked down by a bus of Dibanishi Paribahan at about 7:30am while he was trying get onto the bus to sell newspapers to the

Yet Turag rescue called off Though the authorities called off the rescue operation Wednesday afternoon, relatives of the missing passengers of the ill-fated Baishakhi Paribahan bus continued their isolated search efforts in the Turag river and its adjacent areas yesterday looking for dead bodies. No more body was found yesterday as nobody could still ascertain ... Read more

Unidentified robbers snatched a submachine gun and 30 rounds of ammunition from a policeman, after severely injuring him in the head with a sharp weapon, at Baniakhali Bazaar under Dumuria upazila in Khulna district in the early hours of Thursday. Naik Abul Bashar, 45, of the Sharafpur Armed Police Battalion camp, was admitted to the

Thousands of students of Dhaka University (DU) are living in a risky condition in different dormitories as many of their infrastructures have already become outdated. According to structural engineers and experts, any kind of tragedy may occur in such buildings if an earthquake with a moderate to strong magnitude struck the

Troops were deployed at the Chittagong Port on Wednesday afternoon to contain labour unrest that has crippled activities at the sea port for six days, officials said. ‘The army has been deployed to ensure security of the protected areas and restore operational activities that had been disrupted because of the labour unrest,’ said the Chittagong ... Read more

PM’s adviser, LGRD minister call on CEC The local government elections, particularly the long overdue Dhaka City Corporation polls planned for December this year, are probably going to be deferred again. The chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, made this plain after a meeting with LGRD and cooperatives minister Syed Ashraful Islam and prime minister’s ... Read more

Two more bodies were recovered yesterday from the Turag river at Amin Bazar in Savar where a bus plunged into the river on Sunday. Rescuers have so far recovered 13 bodies. The bodies rescued yesterday were identified as Maulana Hafizur Rahman, 45, Imam of

Cross-Border Power Tranmission $100m loan deal signed with ADB Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank yesterday signed a $100 million loan agreement for a cross border electricity transmission deal between Bangladesh and India under which Dhaka will be able to import up to 500 megawatts of power. Dhaka signed another $40m loan agreement with the ADB ... Read more

At least six people were killed and 25 others injured when a microbus and a pick-up van collided head-on at Harbang under Chokoria upazila on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway yesterday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Amir Ali, 40, of Sonarpara in Ukhia upazila, Anwar Hossain, 60, and Shamsul Alam, 45, of Harbang in Chokoria upazila, ... Read more

Police officials for integrated law to curb cyber crime, pornography The government is considering enactment of a law particularly to curb cyber crimes and pornography in the country. The home ministry has already prepared a draft bill titled Pornography Control Bill-2010 outlined by the police headquarters

The government has decided to suspend the anthrax vaccination programme across the country from October 14 until after Eid-ul-Azha keeping in mind that cattle should not be slaughtered 21 days inside vaccination. Mahmudur Rahman, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, said, ‘The Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated next month. As we have ... Read more

A young man allegedly hacked his elder brother’s wife to death and also injured his brother over a trifling matter in the city’s Sabujbagh area yesterday. The victim was identified as Rabeya Begum, 25, wife of Mostafizur Rahman, 32. Police quoting family members of the victim said Shahin, 20, had an altercation with

Just before dusk the rescuers succeeded in getting the plunged bus nearer to the bank. The rescue team said no dead body was found inside the bus. The UNO of Savar, Rabbi Mia informed reporters the rescued dead bodies are being handed over to the relatives. He said after bringing the bus ashore, the Fire ... Read more

Greatest religious festival of the Hindu community, the Sharadiya Durga Puja begins today (Wednesday) with much enthusiasm. This year Durga puja is going to celebrate in around 27,000 mandaps across the country with pomp and grandeur from October 13 to October 17. 191 pandals have been erected in the

Cargo handling yet to resume as dockers continue agitation; negotiations on  The impasse over container handling at all the 12 jetties of general cargo berths (GCBs) at Chittagong Port continued for the second day yesterday with dock workers still agitating to realise their demands. Officials of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) and labour leaders were chased ... Read more

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined three dyeing factories Tk 24.17 lakh for draining untreated liquid waste into Karnaphuli River in Chittagong. The factories are Arina Composite and Spinning Mills, NFZ Terry Textile Limited at West Gomdandy and Desh Denim Limited at Shakpura in Boalkhali

Upazila Parishads Changed law okayed to give govt more power The Cabinet on Monday approved amendments to the upazila parishad law, proposing a provision for empowering the government to declare vacant any position of chairman or vice-chairman if the other members of the council express no-confidence in him/her. The LGRD and cooperatives ministry placed a ... Read more

One more body found in Turag The rescuers yesterday recovered a passenger’s body from near the bus that plunged into the Turag river at Amin Bazar on Sunday. They, however, could not yet get inside the sunken vehicle where many more bodies are still feared trapped. The body retrieved was identified to be of Mokbul ... Read more

Stalemate at the six General Cargo Berths (GCB) of Chittagong Port prevailed till yesterday evening as the agitating dockworkers and newly appointed private berth operators failed to reach a consensus. The container operators failed to begin handling as of 9.00pm yesterday in spite of a series of meetings between the officials of Chittagong Port Authority ... Read more

‘I was cooking in my kitchen in the morning and suddenly flames of burner went out that gave me no scope to cook for my family till evening,’ said Shafinaz Sultana, a resident of Kalyanpur in the capital on Monday. This was almost a common scenario of the consumers of state-owned gas transport and supply ... Read more