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At least three people, including a couple and a woman, were killed in a collision between a battery-run easy-bike and a passenger bus at Shanir Akhra area in the city on Tuesday. However, a four-year-old physically challenged girl, Meem, survived the crash. She suffered minor injuries. The victims were identified as Ajmeri Begum Merry, 35, ... Read more

Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said there was no evidence so far that British Special Forces played a role in India’s 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault, reprots AFP Cameron ordered an inquiry after previously secret documents showed that former premier Margaret Thatcher approved sending an officer from the elite

Court stays voting in Kurigram-4 The Election Commission (EC) is all set to conduct polls in seven constituencies, where polling was put off following violence during the January 5 general election. The constituencies that will cast their votes on Thursday are Jessore-5, Laxmipur-1, Dinajpuir-4, Gaibandha-1, 3 and 4 and Bagura-7. According to the EC, voting was ... Read more

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is likely to file a case against five officials of a MLM company on charge of swindling nearly Tk 33 crore of the investors’ money, reports UNB. The Commission has already given clearance to file a case against five officials of Aimway Corporation, a multi-level marketing (MLM) company, for swindling ... Read more

cientists have built what they say is the first flying machine that hovers in a stable manner by flapping its wings. Previous designs for so-called flapping wing aircraft have mimicked the wing motions of insects, but the new design is based on the way jellyfish swim. The prototype built by scientists at

Govt expresses intention to start dialogue with BNP Apart from absorbing the pressure from the international community for holding early elections, one of the government’s key priorities is to ensure good governance and law and order in a bid to have better electoral performance in the next election whenever it is held. Though the new ... Read more

The rank and file of the Jatiya Party (JP), especially grassroots activists of the party, are still not clear whether party chief HM Ershad has willingly joined the government or has been forced to do so. Though a section of JP leaders, including Rawshan Ershad, wife of the JP chief, claimed that Ershad was in ... Read more

BNP briefs foreign diplomats The BNP-led 18-party alliance is planning a fresh spell of anti-government campaigns for the sake of its political existence and to mount a pressure on the government for immediate negotiations that will lead to a free, fair, inclusive, and peaceful election, party insiders said. To put an uninterrupted pressure on the ... Read more

Pranab telephones PM Chinese premier Li KeQiang have congratulated Sheikh Hasina for being the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the third time. The Chinese premier, in his message on behalf of the Chinese government and people, extended warm congratulations and best wishes to Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of assuming the office of the prime ... Read more

President Abdul Hamid has summoned the first session of the 10th parliament on January 29, reports UNB. The session will start at 6:00 pm on the day, said a Parliament Secretariat media release on Monday. It said the President summoned the maiden session of the new parliament exercising the power bestowed upon him as per article 72 ... Read more

First cabinet meeting of the newly formed Awami League-led 14-party government will hold at 10 am on Thursday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The cabinet division issued a circular in this regard on Monday and it was sent to the cabinet ministers for attending the meeting. Led by Hasina, 29 ministers,

Holy Eid- e-Miladunnabi to be observed in the country today commemorating the birth of Great Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) 1,441 years ago on this day of the month of Rabiul Awal with divine blessings for the mankind. The Muslims across the country will join special prayers and stage colourful street marches to mark ... Read more

Former Chief Justice Habibur Rahman was laid to rest at city’s Banani graveyard following his second Namaz-e-Janaza at the Gulshan Azad mosque after Asar prayer yesterday. Justice Habibur Rahman, also a former chief adviser to the caretaker government, died of brain haemorrhage on Saturday night after falling sick at his Gulshan

The Election Commission (EC) has sent letters to the political parties to learn about their positions in the 10th Parliament so that 50 women candidates can be elected to the reserved seats of the national assembly. “We need to know the parties’ positions — whether they are in coalition or are independent. Then we can distribute ... Read more

Superintendent of Police in Dinajpur Ruhul Amin on Monday admitted that the police had failed to control the situation before and after the attack on Hindus at Kornai in Dinajpur Sadar upazila on January 5. The Dinajpur district authorities on Monday held a meeting at the Kornai Government Primary School and told the local people that ... Read more

The High Court (HC) yesterday granted bail to Abdul Majid, the chairman of a union under Satkhira district, on condition that he will plant 50 trees. The HC bench of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah granted the bail for six months to Abdul Majid, chairman of Shialdanga union parishad,

Professor Anwar Hossain has finally resigned as the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, after nearly a year-long protest by teachers, students and staff of the university. Talking to this correspondent yesterday, Anwar Hossain said, ‘I have sent my resignation letter to President Abdul Hamid, the chancellor of the university’.

The court of SM Mojibur Rahman, judge of the Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1, is scheduled to hand down the verdict in the Chittagong arms haul cases on January 30. Rahman on Monday fixed the date to pass the verdict, nine years after the country’s biggest arms haul cases, after hearing the argument of defence lawyers. Defence lawyers ... Read more

Two young men, including a suspected extortionist, were stabbed to death in separate incidents in the city’ s Mirpur and Bangshal areas on Monday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Fazal, 21, son of Sirajul Islam of Third Colony under Darus Salam police station and Sahid, 25, of Gobinda Das Lane under Bangshal police ... Read more

Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives and will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed, reports AP from Stockholm. The women were born without a uterus or had it removed because of cervical cancer. Most are in their 30s and are ... Read more