Experts have called for creating awareness against illegal migration in areas that are prone to human trafficking. They also underscored the need for strict vigilance against human trafficking gangs to check the menace. Talking to The Independent yesterday, Prof. Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, a leading researcher…

Seven teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) were assaulted allegedly by leaders and activists of the university unit of Bangladesh…

The 16 community radios of the country, which were introduced in 2011 for mass communication, are in dire straits because of acute funds constraint. Also, electricity problems and a dearth of technical experts have affected them badly.   Despite the provision for the formation of a trustee fund…

Patients visiting medical college hospitals across the country are suffering immensely as intern doctors are abstaining from work demanding an allowance of Tk 25,000 from the existing Tk. 9,000. Patients and their relatives alleged that doctors no longer visit them in the morning. They said the number…

A High Court (HC) bench yesterday rejected a writ petition filed challenging the legality of section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. On the other hand, another bench of the HC started the hearing on an another writ petition filed over the same section. The HC bench comprising…

Electricity supply to the southern part of Chittagong was stopped after a fire broke out at Shikalbaha thermal power plant in Patia at around 3:30pm yesterday.…

Distraught at the assault on some teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) allegedly by BCL boys, popular science fiction writer Prof M Zafar Iqbal yesterday said teachers should hang themselves now, reports UNB from Sylhet. “People had joined the Liberation War in 1971…