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The Election Commission (EC) yesterday issued a notice upon ruling Awami League (AL) lawmaker Shafiqul Azam Khan, asking him to explain within 10 days why his parliament membership should not be cancelled on grounds of

Japan’s Democratic Party yesterday began talks on forming a new government, faced with the challenge of reviving the struggling economy and reshaping ties with key allies after its crushing election

 Comilla University was closed for a month from today following a factional clash of Chhatra League on the campus. The authorities, in an emergency meeting of the academic council at noon, took the decision to suspend all classes and examinations

Unidentified criminals yesterday murdered two people, including a security guard of garment factory in separate incidents in the city’s Kafrul and Khilgaon areas while a grocer was shot at and his valuables snatched away at

Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide bombing on a police station killed 17 cadets, the army said

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nur Mohammad yesterday spelt out ‘special policing’ in outlaw-infested southwestern region to maintain law and

A moderate earthquake jolted the city and its adjoining areas early today. According to local Met Office, the 5.3 magnitude quake, felt at 2:3 am, lasted for a few

The Bangladesh Telecom-munications Regulatory Commission has blocked 113,880 SIMs of different phone operators for using illegal call

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to set up an information and communication technology (ICT) wing to ensure a hassle-free environment for taxpayers and net more tax

Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good, according to a new study by British

He fails to upgrade SSC results of Liton’s daughter, gets threats on his life; mayor now accuses him of defaming Bangabandhu Rajshahi Education Board Chairman Dipakendranath Das left the city Saturday night for Dhaka after filing general diaries with two police stations following threats on his life allegedly from the city Mayor

Experts say virus now quickly spreading in wider community; 31 new cases confirmed Thirty-one new cases of swine flu were detected yesterday with experts warning Bangladesh’s alert level may soon be upgraded to “level 3” as the virus is quickly spreading from small clusters to the wider

Swine flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 per cent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world’s top health official warned in an interview appearing Saturday. ‘This virus travels at an unbelievable, almost unheard of speed,’ the World Health Organisation

Each avoids other’s party Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia played truant with their invitation to each other for iftar yesterday as the two political camps virtually ignored the exchanged overtures. Neither the Prime Minister nor the

DTCB plans to discourage cars for school runs, reduce traffic jams The government is going to introduce exclusive bus services for school children by late October as part of its effort to ease terrible traffic jams that waste valuable time and energy of people living in

The project for construction of a friendship road between Bangladesh and Myanmar, undertaken in 2004 in line with the country’s ‘look east policy’ is in a state of limbo because of non-cooperation from the Yangon

A total of 3.34 lakh Solar Home System (SHS) installed in the rural and urban areas in the country, are producing 18MW of electricity everyday. The SHS covers at least 1.7 million people mainly in remote rural areas across the country,

Police inaction alleged Thugs beat up an Iranian national and snatched her cash and jewelries on August 26 while she was traveling on a taxi. The victim Ashraf Aghazadeh alias Mina is the vice-principal of Bailey Road branch of Gateway

He terms it conspiracy Police arrested Managing Director of triple super phosphate (TSP) fertiliser factory Zahirul Haq from his residence in the city early yesterday on charge of raping a domestic

Law enforcers neither brought any specific charges against the Azad Group chairman, Abul Kalam Azad, also the managing director of the company, nor produced him in court even after the expiry of his remand