CHATTOGRAM, Dec 09 (UNB): President Abdul Hamid said there is no alternative to a skilled and smart navy force for protecting the maritime sovereignty alongside ensure full utilisation of the potentials of increasing trade and investment and protect marine resources.He made the remarks while addressing the President Winter Parade of...
Read moreExhorting the people to say no to corruption, the chief justice has called for a social boycott of corrupt persons to free the country of this vice.Citing corruption as a social disease, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain said, "It (corruption) creates economic inequality in society and also obstructs balanced development of...
Read moreSpeakers at a programme said on Sunday the government, civil society and media can protect human rights as well can stop the violence against indigenous people across the world, reports UNB.Public awareness is also needed to protect the human rights, they said at a discussion.Dhaka University (DU) Film Society in...
Read moreA section of students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College observed a two-hour token hunger strike in front of the main gate of the school's Bailey Road branch on Sunday, reports UNB.They observed the hunger strike demanding immediate release of its teacher Hasna Hena who was sent to jail in...
Read moreChevron Bangladesh awarded scholarship among some 824 students from 24 educational institutions near Chevron's Bibiyana, Jalalabad and Moulavi Bazar natural gas fields, reports UNB.This was a part of its ongoing yearly scholarship distribution programme for financially disadvantaged, meritorious students, said a Chevron press release adding that around 66 per cent...
Read moreA schoolgirl was killed while her father and brother sustained injuries as a speeding bus ran over them in Bashtala area in Gulshan on Saturday evening, reports UNB.The deceased was identified as Israt Jahan Sneha, 13, a ninth-grade student of National Ideal School and College and daughter of Shajahan Mia...
Read moreCUMILLA, Dec 09 (UNB): At least 25 students of a private medical college were injured in a road crash on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Mainamati cantonment area on Saturday night.Mainamati Highway police sources said that the accident took place following a triangular collision among a covered van, a goods-laden truck and...
Read moreAmerican International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) Vice-chancellor Dr Charles C Villanueva posing for photograph with representatives of MetLife Foundation and Habitat for Humanity after the press conference on the occasion of International Volunteer Day on the AIUB campus in the city on Sunday
Read moreWeather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours until 06:00 pm today (Monday), reports UNB.Light to moderate fog may occur at places over the country during late night till morning, the Met Office said.Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged...
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