Three Dhaka court yesterday ordered to send former BNP lawmaker Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papiya to jail after rejecting her bail pleas in nine cases in connection with violence, vandalism and vehicle torching during BNP led blockade demanding to step down of the government. Earlier, the BNP leader surrendered…

Visiting Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen yesterday laid emphasis on adopting a ‘permanent and natural’ solution to water-logging problems in Bangladesh, reports UNB. During a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at…

The intern doctors of Chittagong Medical College and Hospital yesterday called off their work stoppage programme after the authorities concerned assured them of fulfilling their 3-point demand. The three demands were handing out exemplary punishment to the accused attendant of the patient, ensuring…

High Commissioners designate of Ghana, Malta and Uganda and ambassador designate of Croatia to Bangladesh separately presented their credentials to President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban yesterday. The all non-resident envoys are - Samuel Panyin Yalley of Ghana, John Joseph Aquilina of Malta, Elizabeth…

The residents of the city will start getting the benefit of development projects by the next six months, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq said yesterday. “We have begun working with a list to solve the civic problems in the DNCC area. We have already formed 16 committees at…

KHULNA: Police have pressed charges against 49 Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists, including Khulna city unit Jamaat secretary Advocate Jahangir Hossain Helal, in a case filed for firing, blasting crude bombs and petrol bombs on Nirala police camp in the city, reports UNB. Kazi Mostaque Ahmed, sub-inspector…

A court of Chittagong granted bail to Aslam Chowdhury, convenor of North District Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday. Metropolitan Magistrate Nowrin Akhter Kakon granted the bail yesterday. After five months imprisonment the BNP leader came out from jail on bail on Monday evening at this time…

Students of 2009-10 academic session of Anthropology department of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) staged a sit in programme and put the class room under lock demanding to publish final results. The sit in programme started at 8am and continued till 12:30 pm on Tuesday. Later they…

Activists of different political parties and cultural organisations in Chittagong, Barisal, Khulna  and Rangpur cities yesterday brought out jubilant processions as the Supreme Court (SC) Appellate bench upheld the death sentence to Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid for his crimes against…

103 held in special drives CHITTAGONG: Police in overnight special drives arrested 103 people, including seven activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from different areas of the district on Monday night. Mohammad Naimul Hasan, additional superintendent of police (SB)…

SYLHET: Transport Workers Union went on an indefinite strike in the district yesterday morning demanding an end to extortion and harassment by police, reports UNB. The decision to enforce the strike came from a meeting organised by Zila Sarak Paribahan Sramik Union, Truck O Covered Van Sramik Union…

Rangpur district unit of Samajtantrik Chatra Front, a left-leaning student body, and Bangladesh Nari Mukti Kendra jointly submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister through District Administration Rangpur, demanding speeding up trials of sexual assault cases on women. Additional Deputy Commissioner ATM…

At least five persons including, four workers were killed and eight others injured in separate road accidents in Sylhet, Gazipur and Chittagong yesterday morning, report agencies. In Sylhet, two workers were killed when a sand-laden truck plunged into a road side ditch as its driver lost control over…

Khulna Working Journalist Unity, a platform of local journalists, yesterday organised a token hunger strike demanding trial in veteran journalist Humayun Kabir Balu murder case. The programme started at 10am and ended at 5pm. Different organisations joined the programme expressing their solidarity with…

Workers of the state-owned Alim Jute Mills Limited yesterday brought out a procession carrying sticks from the mill gate at Atra industrial area under Khanjahan thana in the city protesting the government move to privatise the mill. They marched through Khulna-Jessore highway of Atra industrial area…

Gono Bishwabidyalay holds seminar The Department of Microbiology of Gono Bishwabidyalay organised a seminar titled ‘symbiotic fungi and bacteria in arthropod vectors as tool for disease control’ at its seminar room at Savar yesterday, says a press release. Sara Epis, researcher and teacher,…

Chittagong City Corporation and Bangladesh Railway (East Zone) in separate drives pulled down nine more billboards, three gates and thirty holding signs from city’s Gani Bakery to Probortak  and Kadamtali to Railway polo ground areas yesterday. The CCC pulled down four billboards, three gates…

SYLHET: Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali yesterday announced a grant of Taka 9.99 crore to set up a nursing institute here, reports UNB. He made the announcement at an exchange of opinion meeting after visiting Sylhet Diabetic Hospital vertical extension work. The minister said all cooperation…

RAJSHAHI: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, MP, urged the Ansar and VDP members to discharge their duties with utmost courage, professional skill, neutrality, transparency and accountability, reports BSS. He also urged them to remain alert as the anti-democratic and communal forces…