The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2015 will begin on February 2. The examinations will begin simultaneously under the country's 10 education boards, including one madrasah board and another technical educational board. The Education Ministry has...
Responding to a media report alleging that 16 high officials, including secretaries, have had fake freedom fighter (FF) certificates, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque Tuesday said the government would investigate the matter and take necessary steps if the...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained three foreign nationals in the city's Moghbazar area for their overstaying in Bangladesh illegally in the early hours of Tuesday. The detained were Jabir Khamis, 32, from Chad, and Jeorge Martin, 35, and...
A cleaning worker of Dhaka South City Corporation was killed as a speeding vehicle ran over him in Gulistan in the city on Tuesday. The dead is Md Joinal, 42, son of Kala Miah of City Colony at Dhaka’s Gabtoli....
A clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) left at least 10 people injured at Dinajpur Medical College on Tuesday. Dinajpur Kotwali Police Station's OC Altaf Hossain said at least 10 students were injured in the clash, in...
Bollywood star Salman Khan's sister Arpita Khan tied the knot with businessman Aayush Sharma on a star-studded Tuesday evening at 5-star Taj Falaknuma hotel in India’s Hyderabad. The celebrations, which kicked off with the ‘baraat’ at 4:30pm, continued until late...
Several MPs came down heavily on the ministers who were absent in Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) on Tuesday and demanded their presence in the House. While reading out a notice on issues of public importance, Jatiya Party MP Fakhrul Imam first...
'Inadequate sanitation in South Asia leads to a number of diseases including diarrhoea. But the most dramatic result of open defecation is the Ebola outbreak in West Africa,' a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said this in a report published...
Police have detained a female student of Rajshahi University (RU) from the house of slain teacher Prof AKM Shafiul Islam. The woman was found inside the sociology department teacher’s locked house in Chouddapai area, adjacent to the university campus, on...
Irani Akhter is an 11th grader at a remote college of Satkhira district. But she is unlike other girls of her age at Sushilgati village. She is a volunteer and, apart from her studies, makes every effort to bring women...
A schoolboy was crushed under the wheels of a bus on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Sadar Upazila of Gopalganj district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Mista Shikdar, 11, a class three student of Chandra Dighalaya Government Primary...
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The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Wednesday, the fourth session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Mystery shrouds the contents of slain Rajshahi University (RU) teacher AKM Shafiul Islam’s mobile phone. His colleagues say the sociology teacher was still holding onto the phone when they rescued him after he was attacked. Political science teacher SM Ekram...
US stocks rose in afternoon trading on Tuesday, lifting the S&P 500 to a record high as healthcare shares extended gains. Actavis Plc, Gilead, Celgene and other biotech names were among the S&P 500's biggest drivers, a day after Allergan...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested an alleged drug trder in Faridpur Railway Station area on Tuesday. RAB-8 sources said, a RAB-8 team, led by Company Commander Md Mojammel Hossain, raided Lakshmipur Railway area near Faridpur Railway Station and arrested...
Police arrested three alleged terrorists from in front of Karonation Government Primary School in Bogra town on Tuesday night. Police also recovered 1 foreign-made pistol, 2 magazines and 2 rounds of bullet from arrestees - Imranur Saki, son of Ramzan...
Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 250 bottles of Phensidyl at Parnaduali village in Magura town on Tuesday. The arrested was identified as Arzina Begum, 30. Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said a police team raided...
The Malaysia-bound trawler detained by Navy warship BNS Durjoy in Bay of Bengal with 625 passengers on board was brought to Chittagong on Tuesday evening. It anchored at Bangladesh Navy’s Ready Response Berth jetty in Patenga near Chittagong sea port...
Bangladesh Navy on Wednesday filed 2 cases with Chittagong’s Patenga Police Station over the seizure of a Myanmar-flagged trawler, which was illegally trafficking 625 people to Malaysia on Monday. Lt Commander Mahbubur Rahman filed the cases against 96 people, said...
A local court in Bogra on Tuesday placed a leader and two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its Azizul Haque College unit president, on a one-day remand in connection with a case filed under...
Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner M Shahabuddin has been admitted to in Singapore hospital with heart complications. ‘The Commissioner has long been suffering from heart disease. He is set to undergo surgery on Thursday at the hospital,’ ACC Public Relations...
A mobile court in Khulna sentenced a schoolteacher to three months' imprisonment for sexually harassing a female student in Khulna city on Tuesday. The teacher was identified as SM Nazrul Islam, 43, librarian of Udayan District Police School. Executive magistrate...
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested five people, including a deputy general manager of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, from different areas of Dhaka city on Tuesday night and early Wednesday. They were detained for their alleged involvement in...
Describing PM’s Adviser HT Imam as the chief Imam of the ruling party, BNP on Tuesday claimed that the Election Commission had arranged farcical polls on January-5 as per his blueprint. ’We’d said about irregularities in an election under a...
An old woman was burnt to death in a fire that erupted in Sandwip Upazila in Chittagong district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Chhaya Rani Shil, a resident of Khantarhat area of the Upazila. Locals said the fire...
Police in an overnight drive on Tuesday arrested 98 people on various charges from five Upazilas of Chapainawabganj district. Al Mamun, additional superintendent of police, said separate teams of police carried out drives in five Upazilas of the district at...
A suspected burglar was killed in a lynch-mob attack while fleeing after stealing goods from a house in Boro Koibarto Khali village in Rajapur Upazila of Jhalakati district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Monir Hossain, 32, son of...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected review petitions filed by two death row prisoners convicted of killing Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader Kazi Aref Ahmed. Anwar Hossain and Rashedul Islam Jhontu were sentenced death for killing Kazi Aref Ahmed 15...
A bumper production of sugarcane is expected at the 8 sub-zones of Rangpur Sugar Mills Limited (RSML) as the sugarcane saplings have grown well in the fields. Around 5,000 farmers of the sub-zones have cultivated sugarcane on 5,370 acres of...
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