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Staff Correspondent By-elections to seven parliamentary constituencies vacated by four top leaders will be held on March 30, the Election Commission (EC) announced yesterday. The constituencies are Kishoreganj-6, Bagerhat-1, Rangpur-3 and 6, Bogra-6 and 7, and Kurigram-2. According to the polls schedule, the deadline for filing nomination papers is March 2 while the scrutiny of ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Dhaka China will fully cooperate with Bangladesh in its bid to set up a nuclear power plant, the Chinese ambassador said on Sunday. “We welcome the Bangla-deshi side to communicate on this issue,” Zheng Qingdian said at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity auditorium in the city. Bangladesh and China had signed ... Read more

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka The 25th death anniversary of Bangabir General Mohammad Ataul Gani Osmani will be observed today with due respect. General Osmani, the commander-in-chief of the liberation forces in 1971, died on February 16, 1984 at a London hospital. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and the leader of the opposition in parliament, ... Read more

Staff Reporter The opposition BNP has decided not only to abstain from attending the parliament sessions but also to avoid the special committee meetings from now on. The decision was taken at BNP Parliamentary Party [BNPPP] meeting held at its chamber in the House yesterday to protest against inclusion of two BNP MPs bypassing one ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Five-year-old boy Shuvo, who suffered fatal burns at the hands of his stepmother, died of his wounds yesterday morning after fighting for his life for almost a month. The woman Shuvo’s father married to take care of the motherless boy, killed the child instead. The chilling incident occurred at city’s Kachukhet Puranbazar area. ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA) has placed 5-point demand including withdrawing the bank guarantee, fixing up 3 per cent tax on local industry instead of 7 per cent and building up a plastic industrial city. The demands came when a delegation of BPGMEA, lead by its president Md Jashim Uddin ... Read more

WB invites RDA to present the model at its HQ on Feb 19 Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Bogra Rural Development Academy (RDA), Bogra, is to present RDA-Model of Water Management at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC on February 19 for its adaptation across the globe. The water management model uses underground pipes to irrigate ... Read more

Over 10 lakh to appear as exams start tomorrow Suranjith Deabnath Over 42 percent registered candidates for SSC and equivalent certificates dropped out this year even before the examinations begin tomorrow, due to a plethora of social and financial obstacles. About 5.34 lakh of a total 12.67 lakh high school students who had registered in ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will conduct a special drive from Friday midnight to hunt down criminals in the capital. The decision of launching the special drive came within five days of another drive that continued from February 3-7. The special drive against the criminals comes in the wake of success of the ... Read more

Mustafizur Rahman The Awami League-led government is likely to go ahead with the much-talked about Hatirjheel development project without affecting the BGMEA Bhaban, constructed ‘illegally’ on the wetland in the city. ‘We must go ahead with the project which includes construction of lakes, waterways and walkways to ease traffic congestion and remove water-logging – major ... Read more

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka BNP vice-chairman MK Anwar has said if the prime minister is sincere to combat corruption, a powerful anti-corruption commission should be established to inquire into corruption since the independence of Bangladesh. The BNP leader said this to reporters on Friday at his residence responding to prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Dhaka University Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique on Friday underscored the need for introducing a unified education system in the primary and secondary levels in line with the recommendations of the Kudrat-e-Khoda Commission to generate productive manpower. As the chief guest at a seminar titled “Quality of Higher Secondary Education & Social Position ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The authors of the controversial book ‘contribution of women in the liberation war’ have denied the charge of plagiarising the manuscript of the book claimed to have been written by Rokeya Kabir. Earlier, on Wednesday, Rokeya Kabir, executive director of Nari Pragati Sangha at a press conference at the National Press Club alleged ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Noble laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said Bangladesh needs more motivation in information technology for achieving swift prosperity. He was speaking as the chief guest at the BUET Alumnae Association reunion programme at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury, president of the association, chaired the inaugural session of ... Read more

Central leader says they have no info Our Correspondent . Rajshahi The police arrested two local leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh at Mohanpur in Rajshahi on Friday on charge of killing a freedom-fighter during the War of Independence in 1971. The officer-in-charge of the Mohanpur police station, Asaduzzaman Milon, told New Age that the police ... Read more

Tushar Hayat . Chittagong Death toll in Thursday’s road accident in Bandarban on Friday rose to at least eight, including six Chittagong College students. Thirty-four were critically injured and one remained missing till Friday evening. One of the five buses, carrying Chittagong College students from a picnic in Bandarban to Chittagong, fell 300 feet down ... Read more