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
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Hatirjheel project to go ahead without affecting BGMEA Bhaban
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
MK Anwar wants inquiry into graft since independence
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
Unified education, upgradation of teachers needed: DU VC
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
Charge of plagiarising manuscript denied
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
Yunus for more stress on IT for prosperity
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
Two Jamaat leaders arrested for war crimes in Rajshahi
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
Death toll in Bandarban accident rises to 8
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
Ntv official shot dead in city
Staff Correspondent Armed assailants shot dead a video editor of private television channel NTV and hijacked his motorbike in a Taltola alley near the Moghbazar level crossing Friday night. Atiqul Islam Atiq, 35, who was shot, died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital at about 10:15pm. Witnesses said a gang of three armed thugs on a ... Read more
Three books on Bangabandhu reintroduced
Islamic Foundation Three books on Bangabandhu reintroduced Bss, Dhaka The Islamic Foundation has reintroduced three books on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The books–Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Mohan Neta Bangabandhu and Hridoy Jure Bangabandhu — were banned by the past four-party alliance government, a press release of the foundation said ... Read more
49 killed in US plane crash
Afp, New York A commuter plane crashed into a house in New York state unleashing a fireball and killing all 48 passengers and crew and one person on the ground, officials said yesterday. Flames higher than nearby houses lit up the night sky for hours. Firefighters from a nearby fire station were quickly at the ... Read more
Taiwanese reluctant to marry amid slowdown
Afp, Taipei An overwhelming 82 percent of Taiwanese people who are in relationships do not plan to get married this year, mainly because of lack of money and the economic downturn, a poll showed yesterday. Nearly half of respondents reluctant to tie the knot cited financial woes while 31.77 percent of them said their relationships ... Read more
‘Whether or not flower blooms today is Spring’
M Syfullah ‘Whether or not flower blooms today is spring’ is an aft quoted line of the late poet Subash Mukhapadya. Today is Pahela Falgun, the first day of spring in the Bangla seasonal chain. It begins colour and festivities in the minds of
US envoy for transparent investigation
Extra-judicial Killings US envoy for transparent investigation Staff Correspondent US Ambassador James F Moriarty has said that extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh should be investigated through a transparent process. The US envoy’s comments came while talking to reporters yesterday during a visit to Odhikar, a human rights organisation, in the city. “I think all extra judicial ... Read more
PSC introduces new system for BCS exam
Staff Correspondent The Public Service Commission (PSC) is going to introduce a new system for form collection, submission and issuing admit card for BCS examinations to cut in the time limit for procedural matters. As per the new system, candidates will collect application forms from the designated branches of the Sonali Bank located under their ... Read more
Teesta Bridge turned risky by allowing heavy vehicles
A Correspondent, Lalmonirhat Thousands of commuters cross the age-old Teesta Bridge everyday risking lives as the leaseholder turns it vulnerable to collapse any time by illegally allowing heavy vehicles for ‘extra money’. Known as the doorway to Lalmonirhat and
DMP likely to go digital by June
Bibhas Chandra Saha The Dhaka Metropolitan Police is going digital by June this year with the modernisation of its control room for better policing and traffic management. Automatic vehicle location surveillance system, digital database map, mobile command post, four channel-tracking wireless and closed-circuit television cameras are some of the features of the planned modern control ... Read more
SAFMA conference ends adopting 11-point Cox’s Bazar declaration
BSS, Cox’s Bazar The two-day seventh South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) conference ended here on Wednesday adopting eleven point declaration making a call to the governments of the region to strengthen democratic values, open and plural societies, liberal culture and safeguard the rights of women, minorities and the dispossessed. The declaration called as Cox’s ... Read more
Eradication of child marriage stressed
BSS, Sonatola Speakers here at a meeting stressed the need for creating mass awareness against child marriage to build a better and sound society free from domestic violence, dowry, maternal and child mortality. Thengamara Mohila Sobuz Sangha (TMMS) under the National Nutrition Programme organised the views-exchange meeting at Sonatola upazila parishad auditorium in the upazila ... Read more
Joint forces destroy poppy fields near Myanmar border
Our Correspondent, Bandarban Joint forces have launched a special operation to destroy poppy fields in the areas near the border with Myanmar. About 300 army and BDR personnel along with paratrooper commandos took part in the operation on Tuesday, official source told. Security sources confirmed the operation, but did not give details. According to a ... Read more