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CDA-CCC clash of interests over plum projects intensifies

CHITTAGONG, Feb 25: A tug-of-war between Chittagong Development Authority and Chittagong City Corporation over control of plum transport-development projects prolongs agonies of people, and risks loom large ahead of next monsoon.The residents of Chittagong suffer abjectly amid the city getting waterlogged perennially and road communications being cut off-the past ordeals...

Corruption exists but we can't stop it, says ACC chief

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman Iqbal Mahmood said on Sunday corruption happens in the country but we cannot stop it. If we cannot prevent it we are part of it. He made these remarks while briefing journalists on 'Bangladesh's position on TI corruption index and Transparency International Bangladesh's (TIB's) observation'...

B'desh wants continued pressure on Myanmar

Bangladesh has said it will not repatriate anybody 'without his or her will' but urged the international community to keep up pressure on Myanmar for creating conditions in Rakhine to make Rohingya repatriation sustainable, reports UNB."I urge the international community not to lose focus on Rohingya issue and continue to...

Chiefs of the three services paying their tributes

The chiefs of the three services paying their tributes to the slain army officers at the Banani Graveyard in the city on Sunday, marking the 9th anniversary of BDR carnage. — FE Photo

Prime Minister Gold Medal

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina decorating a student with Prime Minister Gold Medal for her outstanding achievement in her faculty at the PM's Office in the city Sunday. — PID Photo

Ex-Rangpur city mayor Jhantu dies

Former mayor of Rangpur City Corporation Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu died at a hospital in the capital on Sunday afternoon, reports UNB. He was 66.Jhantu, who was shifted to Dhaka from Rangpur on February 1 after he suffered a stroke, breathed his last around 3:30 am at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib...

Job seekers’ demo urging govt to reform quota system

A group of job seekers and students demonstrated in city's Shahbagh on Sunday urging the government to curb the percentage of quotas for jobs, reports bdnews24.com.Hundreds of people identifying themselves as an "alliance for preserving the rights of general students" gathered outside the Central Public Library at 11am.They carried placards...

RAB nab three over easy-bike snatching

FARIDPUR, Feb 25 (UNB): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested at least three members of inter-district easy-bike snatchers' gang from different areas of Jhenidah and Faridpur districts on Sunday.The arrestees were identifed as Rajib Hossain, 32, of Madaripur, Md Shariful Islam, 38, of Narail and Md...

Youth gets life term for violating Natore school girl

NATORE, Feb 25 (UNB):A young man was sentenced to life-term imprisonment on Sunday as he violated a minor school girl at Banurvag village of Naldanga in the district in 2011. Natore District and Sessions Judge Rezaul Karim handed down the verdict. The convict is identified as Monirul Islam.According to the...

WEATHER-26-02-2018

Rain/thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Khulna and Dhaka divisions and the regions of Comilla, Noakhali and Rangamati with hails at isolated places in the next 24 hours...