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A couple and their daughter, a university student, were stabbed early Saturday at Kalabagan in the capital by a boy, reportedly having an affair of love with the girl, after they had refused to give him money to go abroad. The victims are businessman Aminur Rahman, 55, his wife Rokhsana Momtaz, 48 and their

Killers still at large An ‘accomplice’ of the two absconding accused in Wednesday’s double murder at Gulshan in the capital was arrested yesterday. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) tracked him down at Tongi in Gazipur. Rab identified the arrestee as Delwar Hossain Dipu, a close friend of the accused on the

The Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) has detected the presence of harmful heavy metals in the Buriganga sludge, which is dangerous for public health. There is a presence of harmful matter like chromium in the Buriganga river sludge, the report

Westin known to be lone participant in Dhaka Earth Hour was observed worldwide, turning off lights at 8:30pm for one hour yesterday, to send a powerful message to the global leaders about environmental awareness and caring for the planet. On Earth Hour, hundreds of millions of people around the world came together to call for

The government will issue Machine Readable Passport and Machine Readable Visa from the first week of May to meet the deadline set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. Official sources said one can apply for MRP from April 1 and the authority will start the delivery from the first week of May after completion of

12-member prosecutors’ team named  The government yesterday announced a three-member international crimes tribunal, a seven-member investigating agency and a 12-member prosecutors team to try the people who committed crimes against humanity during the Libaration War in 1971. The crimes include helping the Pakistani

Thousands of people across the country switched off lights a minute before midnight past Thursday for a minute paying respect to the people killed in the 1971 independence war and demanding punishment of war criminals. Nearly a thousand people who gathered at Shikha Chirantan in Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka chanted

Sufferings of city dwellers would mount next days as the government decided to cut 200MW of electricity from Dhaka and its adjoining areas to divert it for Boro irrigation. The decision was taken at an inter-ministerial meeting yesterday to ensure 10-hour uninterrupted electricity supply instead of seven hours to make

The postal department is going to introduce ‘Electronic Money Order’ (EMO), ‘Mobile Money Order’ (MMO) and ‘Postal Cash Card’ (PCC) services for its millions of customers to transfer money within an hour to the remote areas. It will also help avoid the risk of carrying cash. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the ... Read more

Double Murder in Gulshan Teasing ended her school life year ago Investigation into the killing of a schoolgirl’s parents at Gulshan reveals a year’s history of fear and torment. Killer Rubel attempted to drag Iti from the house in front of her parents on Wednesday in order to forcefully marry her. As her father Sadequr ... Read more

Assailants on Wednesday morning shot dead a businessman and his wife in their rented house allegedly over their rejection of a marriage proposal for their daughter at Kalachandpur in the Gulshan area in Dhaka. The deceased were fisheries and nursery businessman Sadikur Rahman, 50, and his wife,

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Wednesday sealed off the switch rooms of private landline operators RanksTel and Dhaka Phone again for their failure to provide lists of their subscribers. The commission chairman, Zia Ahmed, told New Age the landline operators had failed to provide

Customers bribe linemen, clerks for phone connections; ministry’s influence major hurdle, says TIB study Most of the BTCL customers have to pay an average of Tk 6,000 as bribe for telephone connection, revealed a report of Transparent International Bangladesh yesterday. Under its research report titled “Lack of good governance in government’s telecom sector and

Reopens two PSTN companies The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Tuesday sealed off the National Telecom Ltd for its suspected involvement in illegal voice over internet protocol business and reopened the switch rooms of two private landline operators. The commission shut down the operation of RanksTel on March 19 and of Dhaka Phone on

Private Real Estate Act Developers-turned-MPs stand in its way Allege environmentalists, submit memo to PM Real estate developers turned lawmakers have held back the passage of a proposed private real estate development act, said leading environmental and professional organisations at a press conference

Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzak told the House yesterday that Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) is among city’s 72,000 buildings vulnerable to earthquake. In reply to a supplementary question of ruling party lawmaker Major (retd) Rafiqul Islam, the food minister said that the hospital buildings in the

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday stayed for six weeks a High Court verdict that directed the government to appoint 197 candidates, who qualified the first viva voce for 27th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination, to the services. Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice SK Sinha passed the order upon a petition filed

Many native species of fish are facing extinction in the natural water bodies of Netrakona day by day due to various reasons including adverse impact of climate change. People of the district, which was once popularly known as ‘grain vowel and fish resourceful area’ of the country, are now facing an acute shortage of the

Lawyers condemn Drik closure unlawful Police yesterday closed down a photo exhibition at the Drik Gallery in Dhaka just half an hour before the inauguration of the show, relating to deaths by RAB ‘crossfire’ or extra-judicial killings. The exhibition was due to open at 4:00pm, but a contingent of police took up position in front

A paper released yesterday has revealed that the country’s food security is at risk due to threats of arsenic contamination in groundwater and food chains posing severe health hazards to millions of people. This was revealed at the launching ceremony of a publication titled “Towards an arsenic safe