Tk119 crore annual budget of Jahangirnagar University (JU) for the fiscal year 2015-16 was passed on Saturday with deficit of Tk516.5 lakh, in presence of its Senate members. The budget was approved at the 34th Senate meeting held the at university’s Senate Bhaban with Vice Chancellor Prof Dr…

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday announced a total of Taka 240.62 crore budget for 2015-16 fiscal, with the major share of the amount going for its hospital services and the rests for its academic purposes, reports UNB. BSMMU Treasurer Professor Dr M Zulfiqar Rahman Khan…

Police yesterday raided the Narayanganj house of Rafiur Rabbi, father of slain Tanvir Mohammad Twaki, in connection with a cheque fraud case, in which he was convicted. Rabbi was earlier sentenced by a court to one year’s imprisonment and also fined Tk2.10 crore in the cheque fraud case. The court…

Road Transport and Bridges Minister, also in charge of the Post and Telecommunications and ICT Ministry in Parliament, Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government is turning 8,500 post offices into e-centres for reaching information and communication technology service to the rural people, reports…

Barisal City Corporation (BCC) authorities have served a notice to the owners to remove mobile phone towers from 137 high-rise buildings in the city recently. In the notice, the authorities ordered to remove the towers from the buildings; otherwise pay the exact amount of tax fixed in this regard. Ranjit…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at an advocacy meeting here yesterday unequivocally called for eliminating existing disparities against the ethnic communities besides ensuring their fundamental rights, reports BSS. They mentioned that the ethnic people are not the isolated communities in the country. So, their rights…

RANGPUR: Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu on Thursday announced the annual development budget of over Taka 645.05 crore without increasing taxes for the next 2015-2016 fiscal, reports BSS. The city mayor announced the budget at an open ceremony at city corporation…

Khulna City Corporation (KCC) mayor Md Moniruzzaman Moni on Saturday morning visited several wholesale and retail markets of Khulna city to witness himself price situation in the markets during holy month of Ramzan. Team members of the committee visited KDA New market adjacent kitchen market, KCC run…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested seven muggers during a drive near Jamiutul Falah Mosque west gate of city's Lalkhan Bazar area early Friday, reports BSS. Police recovered five knives, a mobile phone set and Tk one thousand from their possession. The arrestees were identified…

Schoolgirl killed in roof collapse KHULNA: A schoolgirl was killed when a roof of a two-storey building collapsed on her at Ahsan Ahmed Road under Kotwali thana in the city on Saturday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Abida Arabi Sarafi, 15, a class VIII student of Iqbalnagar Girls School…

Intermittent rainfall accompanied by squally wind has created panic among thousands of people of three coastal districts-- Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira--of the south-western region of the country. These people living in the coastal belts fear disasters like cyclonic storm and tidal surge and extensive…

The journalists of different national and local print and electronic media of Khulna city on Saturday demanded reinvestigation into murders of journalists, including the murder of renowned journalist Humayun Kabir Balu, a former president of Khulna Press Club. Balu was awarded Ekushey Padak posthumously…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong district police arrested an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami with firearms from Mirzarkill area under Satkania upazila early Friday, reports BSS. The arrestee was identified as Imtiaj Hossain Manik, 40, son of late Idris Ahmed Chowdhury, hailing from Mirzarkill village under Satkania…

Blue panel gets new body at JnU A 19-member executive committee of pro-Awami League teachers’ group ‘Blue Panel’ at Jagannath University was elected for a one-year term with management studies department Professor AKM Moniruzzaman as the president and chemistry department Associate…