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Final report on education policy placed to govt The National Education Policy Formulation Committee has suggested extension of free primary education up to class VIII and secondary education up to

Criminals, toll collectors are prime targets A massive crackdown on extortionists and criminals engaged in collecting tolls and other crimes on different highways across the country, is likely to be launched any time soon with a view to ensuring round-the-clock vigilance on

Around 300,000 sharecroppers of the country are expected to get agriculture credit of Tk 500 crore during the current fiscal year. Brac, a non-government organization, will disburse the loans through their 150 branch networks in 150 upazilas in 35 districts under

US Deputy Secretary of State James B Steinberg on Tuesday said Bangladesh is a model in South Asia and has the potential to become a middle-income country

A parliamentary watchdog has finally given backing to two of the proposed routes for the Asian Highway Network through Bangladesh, amid continued opposition from

12 fresh swine flu infection reported The government’s swine flu management system seems to have failed to keep pace with the increasing number of patients as most of the 15 hospitals brought under the system are yet to set up separate corners at their

Foreign minister Dipu Moni is scheduled to leave for Washington on September 14 on a three-day official trip at the invitation of her US counterpart

Digital phone sets hit the market next month; fibre-optic cables on the cards Telephone Shilpo Sangstha and Cable Shilpo Sangstha have taken up three mega projects to produce digital telephone sets, cellphones, fibre-optic cables, solar panels and laptops in the

The government is going to purchase a total of 267 new vehicles including 172 Pajero jeeps for use by the VIPs, secretaries, upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) and private secretaries (PSs) to ministers and secretaries of ministries at a

The Election Commission on Wednesday notified another ruling Awami League lawmaker, Kabirul Huq, asking him to explain why he should not be stripped of the parliament membership for contesting polls while holding a public

Chairman and managing director of the Azad Group, Abul Kalam Azad, who was arrested on August 28 on charge of assaulting a police officer, was released on bail from the Dhaka Central Jail last evening. Jail super of the

Mother, son spend in vain 6 hours for test A desperate mother of a seven-year-old ailing boy failed to receive any assistance after six agonising hours spent rushing to four different hospitals, which the government said to be providing treatment for swine flu or

The public prosecutor at Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court has recommended cancellation of a case against BNP’s senior joint secretary general Tarique Rahman on

A helicopter carrying a powerful politician from southern India disappeared in heavy rains yesterday as it flew over a forested region largely controlled by Maoist

Joynal Hazari, a former Awami League MP, was today set free from Feni jail following the High Court granted bail in an arms case in which was awarded life imprisonment six years

Start attending office wearing trousers, shirts Giving up 27 years’ official dress code, bureaucrats at the Bangladesh Secretariat have started attending their offices wearing trousers and shirts in a more business-like

The results of the written examinations of the 28th BCS were published yesterday. According to a press release of the Public Service Commission(PSC), 5,881 candidates passed the exams

Anti-viral drug Oseltamivir is available in all public medical colleges, hospitals, civil surgeon’s offices in districts and upazila hospitals free of

A lecturer of Uttara Women’s Medical College allegedly committed suicide at her in-laws residence in the city’s Purba Rampura area yesterday.he dead was identified as Nusrat Sharmin, 33, wife of Badruddaza Dipu, a doctor of

The government yesterday signed a credit agreement worth $ 130 million with the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessionary arm, to help increase access to electricity through installation