Police detained three persons and seized 120 gold bars, weighing around 14kg, from the city’s Rubi Gate area under Bayazid police station yesterday. The arrestees were identified as Mohammad Zahir, 32, Zakir Uddin Munna, 28 and driver Mohammad Faruk, 30. Paritosh Gosh, deputy police commissioner …

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested four alleged human traffickers along with 850 passports, 40 fake certificates of seaman and huge fake visas from a recruiting agency in the city’s Motijheel area early Monday, reports UNB. During the drive at the recruiting agency on the…

Over 30 organisations working for rights of farmers and labourers will submit a memorandum to all members of the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) today calling for increased budgetary allocation for essential public services and stopping illicit capital flow and corruption, reports BSS. The memorandum was…

The anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion yesterday seized seventeen king cobras and arrested an alleged gang member of the international smuggling ring from capital’s outskirt Keraniganj area  Talking to The Independent, RAB-2 commander Lt Col SM Masud Rana said getting secret information,…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged member of a fake judicial stamp paper manufacturing and marketing syndicate from Kotwali area of the capital on Monday. Lt Col SM Masud Rana, director of RAB-2, said a  team in a drive arrested a syndicate leader Jashim Uddin, 50,  and seized…

Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has started selling consumer goods at a fixed price through a number of outlets in the city to keep the prices of essential commodities under control during the Ramzan.In Rajshahi division 420 dealers and in the district and city corporation 88 dealers…

Barisal river port has not yet been totally fit for vessel plying during upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr. However, dredging of new shallow water shoals under the river Kirtankhola has been completed. BIWTA sources claimed that this year Eid special services were scheduled during monsoon. Minimum 40,000 passengers…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a workshop in the city on Monday said emphasis should be given on ensuring child-friendly water, sanitation and hygiene arrangements as they need the privileges in their respective institutes for their grooming up, reports BSS. They observed that most of the schoolboys and girls…

The consular section of the US Embassy in Dhaka in collaboration with the Embassy’s EducationUSA student advising centre, will host events titled ‘Student Visa Day’ on June 25 and July 9 in the capital, reports UNB. Over 700 Bangladeshi students who aspire to pursue higher education…

A faction of pro-Awami League teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) continued their demonstration programme demanding resignation of the university’s vice-chancellor Professor Aminul Haque Bhuyan. Source said the teachers under the banner of ‘Mohan Muktijuddher…

Man held with yaba tablets  Police arrested a young man with 1,700 yaba tablets at Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital yesterday morning. The arrestee was identified as Elias Hossain, 22. Rafiqul Islam, sub-inspector of Kamalapur GRP police station, said police challenged Elias, a passenger…

Despite monitoring on markets by the Khulna City Corporation (KCC), ‘sub-standard’ iftar items are being sold in the bazaars of the city and its outskirts since the beginning of the holy Ramzan.  The syndicates of who are involved with selling adulterated food and goods have become…

A certificate distribution ceremony for the students of Trust Technical Training Institute (TTTI), a vocational training institute run by Bangladesh Army, was held on the premises of Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory in Gazipur.  Liberation war minister AKM Mozammel Haque distributed the…

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki yesterday said early marriage to be a major barrier to women empowerment but said efforts were underway to prevent the phenomenon, reports BSS. "Empowerment of women is one of the present government's priorities and early marriage…

The 66th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Awami League was observed in Rangpur city yesterday through various progammes. Leaders and activists of Rangpur district unit of Awami League and its associate bodies chalked out elaborate programmes including hosting of the national and party flag at its…

Eastern University Foundation gets new chairman   Abul Khair Chowdhury, founding member of the Eastern University Foundation and Assistant Governor of Rotary International Bangladesh, has been elected the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Eastern University for 2015-16. …