The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched a fresh move to examine freedom fighter (FF) certificates of its 9 officials, including a director general, on completion of a probe against 6 senior government officials who managed FF certificates without fulfilling...
The 61st death anniversary of poet Jibanananda Das is being observed in the country through various programmes today (Wednesday). Oct 22). Different organisations, including literary and cultural ones, chalked out various programmes to mark October 22, the day poet Jabanananda...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet the press on Thursday afternoon to brief journalists about her recent Italy tour. The press conference will be held at 4:30pm at her official residence Ganabhaban. Sheikh Hasina attended the 10th summit of the...
A court in Netrakona sentenced a man on Wednesday to death for killing his wife and son in 2003. The convict is Hashem, 35, son of late Iman Ali of Satia village in the sadar upazila. According to the prosecution,...
A farmer died from electrocution at Jamadarpara village in Boda upazila of Panchagarh district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Kawsar Ali, 25, a resident of the same village. Locals said Kawsar came in contact with a snapped...
Water Resources Minister Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud has stressed redesigning embankments to protect the country’s coastal region from salinity intrusion caused by sea-level rise. ‘Climate change is going to reclaim one-third of our coastal land by 2050. So, we should...
A parliamentary body on Wednesday formed a 5-member sub-committee to submit recommendations over the steps taken for reclaiming the grabbed land of government primary schools and its progress report to it. The decision came from the 7th meeting of the...
Syed Muazzem Ali, Bangladesh High Commissioner designate to India, will enjoy the status of a state minister once he takes over. The Cabinet Division has issued a notification this effect, said a Foreign Ministry media release on Wednesday. Muazzem Ali...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) set November 5 Monday for order whether it would indict or dismiss the war crimes charges made against detained accused Serajul Huq alias Butcher Seraj and two others of Bagerhat, reports UNB. Closing the hearing...
BNP accused the government Monday of barbarically repressing opposition leaders and activists in a medieval style to keep them away from impending movement, reports UNB. "The current illegal regime which has usurped state power through a voter-less election has increased...
BAGERHAT, Oct 20 (UNB): The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has pressed charges against four people in two cases filed in connection with the bomb attack on Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Helal's election rally in Mollahat Upazila in...
A Dhaka court framed charges Monday against BNP leader MK Anwar in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act for instigating communal forces, reports UNB. Passing the order in the presence of the BNP standing committee member,...
Detective branch of police arrested on Sunday night a man from Baburtola area in the port city in connection with the threat to blow up the district court, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Nasir Mohammad,46, a resident of...
Valiant freedom fighter (FF), close associate of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and president of Bangabandhu Sainik League Bazlur Rahman died early Monday in the capital at the age of 70, report agencies. Family sources said that...
A Liberation War hero prosecution witness (PW) testified Monday against fugitive war crimes accused Engineer A Jabbar, corroborating the evidence of other PWs over the atrocities perpetrated by the accused in collaboration with Pakistan occupation army and its auxiliary force...
BCL men hand over 8 'Shibir men' to police Activists of Sir AF Rhaman Hall unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Sunday midnight handed over eight Dhaka University (DU) students to police suspecting them of being members of Islami Chhatra...
The government will convert all the textbooks from class-I to Class-V of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) into multimedia ones for making those attractive, enjoyable and easily understandable to learners, report agencies. Education Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan said...
FE Report | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated on Monday a former deputy secretary of the Housing and Public Works Ministry in connection with the allegation of causing a loss of Tk 150 million to the government by allocating housing plots to...
FE Report | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
Speakers at a discussion Monday stressed on commencement of Banglabandha-Phulbari-Kakravita trade corridor that would benefit all three countries - Bangladesh, India and Nepal. "Banglabandha land-port has started functioning 10 years ago. But it has not been fully operational due to...
Ophthalmologists at a conference in the city stressed on Monday reaching eye care facilities to rural people as they suffer more than urban ones from various eye problems caused by malnutrition, reports UNB. They said as the marginal poor cannot...
RU Correspondent | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Oct 20: The online registration for 9th Convocation of the Rajshahi University (RU) begins Monday to continue till November 10. The registration fee of Tk.3, 500 is to be submitted via Bkash, a mobile banking service, a press...
KERANIGANJ, Oct 20 (UNB): Police recovered the slaughtered body of a madrasa student from Jela Parishad Market in Kaliganj here in the city on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Raihan, 12, a hifzu student of Talimul Noisha Madrasa....
KHULNA, Oct 20 (BSS): A total of 7,941 candidates will sit for one day admission test scheduled to be held on October 31 against 815 seats of first year honours course for 2014-2015 academic years of Khulna University of Engineering...
Plain-clothes police arrested two suspected killers of Nasir Uddin from the city's Gabtali area on Sunday night and recovered two firearms loaded with six bullets, reports UNB. The arrestees are Babul Bepari alias Bablu, 28, and Md Altaf Hossain, 29....
M Al-Amin, news editor of news portal thereport24.com's English version, died of cardiac arrest at a city hospital early Monday. He was 46, reports UNB. Al-Amin who was undergoing treatment at Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital breathed his last around 5am. His...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 20 (BSS): A businessman was killed and her daughter injured in a road accident in city's Lalkhan Bazar area Monday. The deceased was identified as Azor Ali Titu (40), hailed from city's Double Mooring area while the injured...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 20 (BSS): A youth died after he fell down from a five-storey building in the city's Double Mooring area Monday. The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain (18), hailed from Laksam of Comilla.
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-21 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Oct 20: Chittagong Union of Journalists (CUJ) has formed its TV journalists unit at a meeting Sunday night at Chittagong Press Club. Moinuddin Dulal of 71 TV has been elected the unit chief while Anindya Tito of Gazi TV...
Weather is likely to remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6pm today (Tuesday). Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, Met Office said. Country's highest temperature 33.8 degree Celsius was...
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