Huge festivity is noticed at Dhaka University in the every evening of Ramzan as numerous students, both present and former, arrange iftar parties on the campus to break the daylong fasting together. Besides students, visitors and various organisations, mostly based on different regions of the country,…

A factory to manufacture pre-paid electricity meters has been opened at Bangladesh Diesel Plant (BDP) in Gazipur, reports BSS. State minister for power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, MP, yesterday formally inaugurated the factory at a function with a view to reduce misuse of power and…

The jetty and warehouse labourers called off their work stoppage after a negotiation held yesterday at Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI).    MA Latif MP, CCCI President Mahbubul Alam, vice president of the chamber Syed Jamal Ahmed, AL labour leader Safar Ali, jetty contractor…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-11 in a drive nabbed an alleged drug peddler along with one thousand five hundred and ninety yaba tablets from Jangir area of Rupganj upazila on Saturday noon. The arrested drug peddlers were identified as Md Sohel Rana, 24, son of late Suruj Mia, resident of…

The revenue budget of total Taka 108.80 crore has been approved for Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) for 2015-2016 fiscal year, said a university press release here yesterday, reports BSS. The budget has been approved by the finance committee on June 28 and also in the syndicate…

Bangladesh Railway yesterday (Saturday) formally launched Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) train service on the Chittagong-Nazirhat route. Railway Minister Mujibul Haque inaugurated the DEMU service at Chittagong Railway Station around 11:00 am. Each DEMU train has the capacity to carry around 300…

The tailors in Chittagong city are passing very busy hours ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. Both the owners and workers in the alleys of Khalifapatti, a hub of tailors in the city, are working from dawn to dusk with a very short break every day. The noise of sewing machines echoing through the area of Ghatfarhadbeg…

RAJSHAHI: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing 5720 schemes involving Taka 1765.22 crore in eight districts under Rajshahi division during the current 2015-16 fiscal year, reports BSS. According to the LGED sources, work on 1610 schemes was completed benefiting many people…

KHULNA: Huge number of crowd, especially the lovers of nature, started visiting Khulna divisional tree fair at Jatisangha Shishu Park (United Nation Children Park) in the city. The 15-day long tree fair and tree plantation campaign in Khulna division-2015 begun on June 20 at Jatisangha Shishu Park (United…

SAVAR: The authorities of a garments factory here on Saturday morning sacked 67 of its workers over vandalism and arson attack in the name of movement, reports UNB. The authorities of FCI (BD) Garments Limited in Dhaka Export Processing Zone hanged a notice on the notice board publishing the names and…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong district police recovered the throat slit body of a man from Nazirhat area under Fatikchhari upazila of the districton Friday, reports BSS. The body was identified as Azam Khan Babu, 35, son of Amir Khan, hailed from Shahnagar village under Fatikchhari upazila.

Man killed in rival attack SYLHET: A man was killed in an attack by his rivals over previous enmity at Chotodesh village in Kanaighat upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Tota Mia, 46, a tractor driver and son of late Tajul Ali of the village. Witnesses said Tota Mia and his neighbour Shahidur…

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has completed its laboratory facilities for the patients intending to transplant their organs, reports BSS. "The lab is now ready to provide all kinds of diagnosis facilities for organ transplantation awaiting patients through introducing 'Panel…

Right activists at a convention in Khulna city on Saturday urged the government to stop construction work of Rampal Thermal Power Plant close to Sundarbans and shift the project to safer places in the country for the sake of biodiversity and environment of the world’s largest mangrove forest.…

KHULNA: The Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) authorities have taken tight security measures for the ensuing Eid-ul-Fitr likely to be celebrated across the country on July 19 in 2015, reports BSS. To make the security effective, the police had set up close circuit (CC) cameras at all important places…

A five-day Borsha Fair- 1422 and Handicraft Exhibition will begin in the capital today. Bangladesh Small & Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) is going to organise the event at BSCIC Bhaban, Motijheel, according to a BSCIC press release. BSCIC chairman Ahmed Hossain Khan will formally inaugurate…

SYLHET: The council of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Sylhet city unit was held yesterday on the Central Shaheed Minar premises here, reports BSS. The central committee president of BCL, student wing of ruling Awami League, Baduizzaman Sohag, inaugurated the convention with Sylhet city unit president…

DIU Alumni Assoc holds get-together DIU Alumni Association, an organisation of ex-students of Daffodil International University, organised a get together and Iftar party 2015 on Friday at DIU auditorium, says a press release. Professor Dr M Lutfar Rahman, vice-chancellor, Daffodil International University,…