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Japan’s Fukuoka city mayor teams up with Yunus Japan has established a social business hub in Asia in collaboration with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre said in a statement yesterday. The hub launched in Fukuoka city on Kyushu Island, Japan, will promote social business, a

Liberation War Govt to honour foreign friends on Independence Day 2011 The government has decided to accord honour to distinguished foreign nationals and organisations from the Independence Day next year for their extraordinary contribution in the War of Independence in 1971. The decision to honour the heads of state and government, philosophers, litterateurs,

Environmentalists demand The government must go for implementation of Detailed Area Plan (DAP) to make the capital liveable, said noted urban planners and environmentalists yesterday at a discussion. It is bad that a section of land businessmen is opposing the DAP and mislead the people with

A young man stabbed his friend to death at Kazirkhola of Surma upazila yesterday as the victim’s family failed to pay the young man Tk 18 lakh in ransom. Deceased Zamrul Hossain was a 30-year-old businessman of Kajolshah area in

The Dhaka City Corporation will soon press into service 100 environmentally friendly garbage trucks to reduce pollution and carbon emission in the capital. Of the vehicles, 35 are trash compactors with a capacity of up to five tonnes. They also include 20 arm-roll carriers with a capacity of seven tonnes and 45 containers

At least 40 people were injured after three compartments of a Nilphamari-bound passenger train derailed at Parbatipur upazila yesterday. According to sources, Titumir Express heading for Nilphamari from Rajshahi got derailed

July 17: The oath taking ceremony of the newly elected Mayor of the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC), M Manzurul Alam, will be held tomorrow (Sunday) at 10 am in Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lead the oath taking ceremony at her office in

The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports will hold a long march from Dhaka to Phulbari-Barapukuria in Dinajpur in October 24–30 to push for its seven-point demands. The demands include enactment of a law banning export of mineral resources, cancelling the

Polashbari area of Ashulia saw violence Saturday morning as infuriated garment workers vandalised vehicles and put barricades on the Nabinagar-Kaliakoir road after a fellow worker was killed in a road accident in front of his work place in Savar. Hundreds of garment workers took to the street and went on the rampage, blocking the

A young girl burned to death as a fire broke out at a city restaurant on Saturday night. Police and fire service officials said a devastating fire broke out at Déjà Vu Café and Lounge on the second floor of 118 Gulshan Avenue at around

Private diagnostic centres and clinics set charges for pathological tests at their whim as the government has no control over the matter. Against the backdrop, diagnostic centres and clinics in the capital charge varying prices, even by a degree of six times in some cases, for similar medical

Bangladeshi workers’ hassle ends The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has started accepting Bangladeshi manual passports again two weeks after imposing a restriction. “The UAE authorities have started to allow manual passports along with machine-readable passports (MRP) from Sunday [July 11],” said

Murder Follow-up Kabir confesses killing Menoka The youth who stabbed the Eden College student Menoka to death in the capital on Thursday confessed the murder before a Dhaka court yesterday saying he did it because the girl cheated on him, police said. Meanwhile, police checked out the call lists of cell phones of the victim ... Read more

Three physicians of a hospital in the capital on Friday were sent to jail after their arrest in connection with ‘wrong’ treatment which allegedly caused the death of a patient on Thursday. The arrested are Amjad Ali, Hashem Tareque and Sayed Hossain Sayeed Ahmed Ali working with

A record number of GPA-5 students in HSC examinations this year have brought joy and jubilation for the students and the institutions concerned, but the public universities may not be able to accommodate even half of them because of shortage of seats. And there are others who have missed the GPA-5, but yet are

Environmentalists urge govt Green activists yesterday demanded immediate arrest and punishment of the alleged individuals responsible for forming propaganda against Dhaka’s Detailed Area Plan (DAP) recently published as a gazette. At a rally in front of the National Press Club, they also insisted on fast implementation of DAP, which was

A man jumped out of the window of the third floor of a three-storey building and died at Bangshal in Dhaka early Friday when the police went to arrest him. The deceased was Haji Saber Hossain, an automobile spare parts trader. Witnesses said the Bangladesh Motor Parts Businessmen’s Association president Solaiman Hossain Moina

Agriculture, ecology and bio-diversity are on the verge of peril due to drying up of water bodies every year and excessive  and indiscriminate use  of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in crop fields in the district, Maynul Alam, Executive Director of SUBAH a non-governmental organization working for the development

Sirajganj police arrested an army major and his cousin from the west end of Bangabandhu Bridge on charge of carrying 780 bottles of phensidyl early yesterday. Police said the arrestees were Major Reza Shah Mohammad Zillullah of Dhaka Engineering Corps,

Only 4 old buses seized; 236 fined for not having documents At least 236 buses and minibuses were fined Tk 1.94 lakh in the capital for not having fitness, tax and insurance certificates yesterday, the first day of a drive against unfit vehicles. Only four old buses could be seized as the owners of most ... Read more