A minor girl was raped allegedly by a juice vendor at Matuail of Jatrabari in the capital on Friday, family members said yesterday. According to the family members of the victim, their neighbour Habibur Rahman, 30, a juice vendor, took her to his residence offering juice on Friday noon. As my daughter…

Even as the Barisal Divisional Museum gets inaugurated today – June 8, 2015, seven years after the project was supposed to get completed at DC Office Road of the city, some basic necessities are still missing. The museum, which is scheduled to be inaugurated at the hands of Cultural Affairs Minister…

Customs officials arrested a man along with 442 pieces of viagra, 350gm gold, 18 Samsung Galaxy phone sets, five cartons of cigarettes and four kg molasses from Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday, reports  UNB. The arrestee was identified as Mohammad Munna, hailing from Chittagong.…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong district police in special drives arrested 102 people, including two activists of Jamaat-Shibir, from different upazilas of the district from Saturday night to Sunday morning, reports BSS. Naimul Hasan, additional superintendent of police (Special Branch) of Chittagong district…

RAJSHAHI: Specialists and medical practitioners at a seminar said mass awareness as well as preventive measures is very vital to cut the existing rate of childhood patients suffering from asthma and death caused by the disease, reports BSS. "Out of 250 deaths, one dies in asthma, which is more…

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday handed over a cheque to the family members of ABM Zobaidul Haque who was killed while discharging his duty as the assistant presiding officer during the national election on January 5 last year. The minister handed over the cheque of Tk 2.52 lakh to Zobaidul’s…

Body recovered in capital Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from Gulshan area of the capital yesterday. Gulshan Police said, “A body of a beggar was recovered in front of Delta Building in Gulshan in the capital. The identity of the man was not found immediately.”  “The…

Seasonal fruit mango is helping uplift of the economy of Rajshahi region largely. Not only the local mango market, but also all other businesses related to the fruit has changed the economy of the northern region. It is learnt, two big haats of mango, one at Baneshwar Bazar in Rajshahi and another at…

Research programme launched at DU A ‘participatory research and ownership with technology, information and change (PROTIC)’ programme was inaugurated at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday. The research was held under the joint auspices of Disaster…

The power supply of the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) has been restored completely from yesterday 6pm after four days, said CMCH sources. All the services of the hospital became usual, said Brigadier General Dr Khondaker Shaidul Gani, director of CMCH. “A 2000 KVA Transformer has…

The government has taken initiative to impart quality IT and cyber security training to about 2,500 officers of ministries, departments and directorates to improve public sector efficiency and security of government services, officials said, reports BSS. They said the World Bank financed ‘Leveraging…

CHITTAGONG: The historic six-point day was observed here yesterday with a renewed call for completing the trial of the rest of the war criminals and Bangabandhu's unfinished tasks to materialise his dreams, reports BSS. The father of the nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujbur Rahman, on this day in 1966…