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Verification process to help find solutions for Rohingyas: UN

The United Nations (UN) has said the verification process of Rohingyas in Bangladesh will help to find solutions for the roughly 900,000 Rohingyas who have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh, reports UNB."Ultimately, it is hoped the exercise will help to find solutions for the Rohingyas," Deputy Spokesman for the UN...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurating the multi-storey

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurating the multi-storey buildings constructed for government employees at Motijheel in the city on Saturday Story on page 1 — PID Photo

Actress Rani Sarker dies PM mourns

Rani Sarker, one of the most prominent actresses of Bangla films in the 1960s, has died at the age of 86, reports bdnews24.com.She breathed her last after a long battle with old-age complications, according to actor Zayed Khan, the general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artistes' Association.The octogenarian actress had been...

Road crashes kill six across country

At least six people, including a schoolboy, were killed in separate road accidents in Habiganj, Thakurgaon and Satkhira districts and in the city on Friday, reports UNB.In Savar, two motorcyclists were killed on the spot when a bus rammed a motorbike on Dhaka-Aricha highway at Aminbazar Truck Stand around 7:30...

President flies to London for treatment

President M Abdul Hamid on Saturday left Dhaka for London for health check-up and treatment of eyes, reports UNB.President's Press Secretary Mohammad Joynal Abedin told the news agency that a VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited carrying the President took off from Shahjalal International Airport around11:00 am.The President is...

Thrust on bringing all edn institutions under MPO

Speakers at a city programme urged the government on Saturday to fulfil the pledge of the Liberation War through nationalising all educational institutions, reports UNB.During a discussion programme on government recognition for educational institutions under Monthly Pay Order (MPO) System, the speakers said, education is the responsibility of the government...

UN spl envoy on Myanmar due July 12

UN Special Envoy on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener will arrive in the city on July 12 on a three-day visit to see Rohingya situation in Bangladesh, reports UNB.This is going to be her maiden visit to Bangladesh since her appointment by the UN Secretary General on April 26.Burgener visited Myanmar...

Signal No. three for maritime ports (8-7-2018)

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal No. three as the low over the Northwest Bay and adjoining area has been formed and likely to intensify over the same area, reports UNB.Squally weather is likely to affect the maritime ports,...

RAB nab four 'drug traders' with Yaba

SYLHET, July 07 (UNB): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested four suspected drug traders along with 2,110 pieces of Yaba tablets from Zakiganj Upazila in Sylhet and EPZ area of Chattogram on Friday night and Saturday.In Sylhet, RAB members arrested a suspected drug trader along with...

Police arrest three 'robbers'

GOPALGANJ, July 07 (UNB): Police arrested three people from the backyard of Moharjpur Land Office in Maksudpur Upazila early Saturday while they were taking preparation to commit robbery in the area.The three were identified as Asad Munshi (36), son of late Kashem Munshi hailing from Jhuti village of the same...

WEATHER-8-07-2018

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind and lightning flashes is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur division, and at a few places over Rangpur, Sylhet, Barisal and Chattogram divisions, reports UNB.It may also occur at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Dhaka and...

Running train crushes youth in city

FE ReportAn unidentified youth died as a speeding train hit him in the capital's Jurain area on Saturday.A Narayanganj-bound train hit the man in Jurain rail gate area under Shyampur around 5:00pm while he was crossing the railway track.The identity of the victim, who was in his twenties, could not...