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Bulbul Ahmed, the celebrity silver screen actor popularly known as Devdas, passed away at 1:00am yesterday at the age of 69. Doctors on duty declared him dead after he was taken to Square hospital. Bulbul had been suffering from diabetes and cardiac diseases. His death came unexpectedly, although for sometime he

Local pharmaceutical companies are engaged in an intense battle to persuade physicians with costly gifts to prescribe their drugs for patients as the growing drug and health business in Bangladesh is witnessing a fierce

AMENDED PVT UNIV ACT Relaxation to allow more univs to meet criteria Only one private university could meet all the requirements for the permanent approval during 18 years of private university operation and two more university can now meet the requirements because of some relaxation

The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published today. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid made the announcement through a press conference at the secretariat office

20-25 years old buses, minibuses to be phased out of city The government launches a drive from this morning to remove unfit and unregistered vehicles from city streets in efforts to improve traffic situation and prevent road accidents. Sixteen mobile courts, each headed by an executive magistrate, will carry out the crackdown at different

Ailing pop singer and freedom fighter Azam Khan flew to Singapore on Wednesday for better medical treatment. Azam’s only son Hriday Khan is accompanying him. At about 1:30pm they left for Singapore in a Thai Airlines flight from Shahjalal International Airport

BDR REBELLION Charges pressed against 801 BDR soldiers, 23 civilians The Criminal Investigation Department on Monday pressed charges against 801 soldiers and 23 civilians for committing criminal offences, including murder and robbery, during the soldiers’ rebellion at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka in February 25-26, 2009 that killed 74 persons, including 57

The Government yesterday approved the draft Border Guard Bangladesh Act 2010, having a provision of death as maximum penalty for mutiny. The decision came following the weekly cabinet meeting yesterday. Once the law is passed, the current Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Order of 1972 and Bangladesh Rifles

The High Court yesterday stayed for three months the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission’s (BTRC) decision of cancelling licences of five PSTN operators. The court also issued a rule upon BTRC and the government to explain within three weeks why the BTRC decision should not be declared

Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Kandaker Mosharraf Hossain has informed the Jatiya Sangsad that currently 70 lakh skilled and unskilled Bangladesh citizens are working in about 100 countries of the world. Replying to a query of lawmaker AKM Maidul Islam during a question-answer session in the

Downpour has disrupted normal life in Chittagong. The downpour which began on Sunday continued throughout yesterday. The low-lying areas of the port city including Bakalia, Chandgaon, Bahadderhat, Chawk Bazar, Badurtala, Nasirabad, Halishahar, Patenga, Kattali, and Chaktai have come under knee-deep

The holy Shab-e-Barat will be observed on the night of July 27 as the Shaban moon was not sighted anywhere in the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee at the Islamic Foundation yesterday evening. Vice President of the Committee and Secretary of the Ministry of the

A Natore court on Sunday sent 11 policemen, including the then Singra police officer-in-charge, to jail on charges of killing a young man in the name of ‘crossfire’ on July 23, 2008 at Singra in Natore. The Natore district and sessions judge, Abdul Majid, sent the cops to jail rejecting their bail petitions in the ... Read more

Campus on own land, sufficient reserved funds made mandatory Parliament on Sunday passed a bill to streamline the private-run universities. The House approved the bill on voice vote as the opposition BNP-led alliance lawmakers continued to abstain saying they were not allowed to speak. They said that they would return to parliament if proper atmosphere ... Read more

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) yesterday directed the concerned authorities to nail those making ‘nude’ cinema and selling pornographic CDs and other such audio-visual material which poses a threat to the society and its social mores. A letter to this effect has been sent to the secretaries of the ministries of the telecommunications. The PMO ... Read more

The Appellate Division on Sunday upheld the High Court’s verdict that had declared the cancellation of the first result of the 27th BCS examinations to be legal. The full court of all six Appellate Division judges, chaired by Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, delivered the judgement, rejecting a petition filed, seeking permission to appeal against ... Read more

Harassment by street beggars in Dhaka City is going on unabated despite there being the law for the police to stop them. The car users at Gulshan and Dhanmondi are their special targets. At every important traffic light point professional beggars coming from slums to be found in the every residential area in the capital ... Read more

World Population Day today  Over 2 million new faces adding up every year to the total population in Bangladesh which is frustrating all development efforts, family welfare minister AFM Ruhal Haque has said. The population has doubled within 39 years of independence, which is alarming for the densely populated poor

Over six months after Bangladeshi-born conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna were separated through a marathon surgery, their mother has finally succeeded to have a long cherished reunion with her daughters in Australia. The father Kartik Mallick, who lives in Khulna, said yesterday that his wife Lovely Mallick reached Australia on July 7

The existing unplanned fish inbreeding may cause a genetic deterioration into the aquaculture production and open water fisheries resources in terms of hatchery stock breed seeds in floodplain and other open waters. “Unconscious negative selection of brood-stock, mating of female and male spawns from a finite population and