The workers of an apparel factory located in Bangladesh Tea Board area under city's Bayezid police station yesterday took to the streets and put on a barricade demanding payment of salary arrears. The vehicular movement on Bayezid Bostami Road was suspended for half an hour due to the blockade by…

Ganatantrik Bam Morcha here yesterday announced a road march from October 16-18 with their 12-point demands, including saving the Sundarbans, reports UNB. Prior to the road-march programme, the alliance of the left-leaning parties will arrange a national convention in the capital. Ganatantrik Bam Morcha…

A woman was strangled allegedly by her husband at Sirirchala village of Gazipur sadar upazila over a trifling matter on Friday night. The victim was identified as Falani Akter Arzu, 18, daughter of late Sharafat Ullah in Sataish area of Tongi. She was wife of Joinal Abedin, of Moodibari village of Barmi…

The government is set to award contracts soon among local bidders to build some 520 flats in the city for the middle-income group people, reports UNB. According to official sources, the National Housing Authority (NHA) under the Ministry of Housing and Public Works has initiated the move to construct…

The city's imitation ornament sellers are doing brisk business ahead of the Eid-ul-fitr. The shop owners said their best selling period is last ten days of Ramzan, when female consumers buy fancy ornaments matching with their dresses. People of all classes are going to ornament markets like Shaheb…

The fourth anniversary of Mirsarai road crash, which had claimed 45 lives, was observed in Mirsarai upazila in Chittagong yesterday. In memory of the deceased, Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain MP placed floral wreaths in the monument ‘Abeg’ (Emotion), adjacent…

RAJSHAHI: More than 6,500 youths, most of them are women, from poor and extreme poor communities, have become self-reliant and contribute to the society in Rajshahi city immensely, reports BSS. They are now either rendering their services as fulltime workers or apprentices on various trades and vocations…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong Customs, Excise and VAT commissionerate on Friday brought out a colourful rally in the city to mark the National Value Added Tax (VAT) Day and VAT Week- 2015. Chittagong Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate brought out the rally from city's Agrabad area around 9 am with…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong Highway police in a drive arrested three drug traders with 6,800 pieces of contraband yaba tablets from Salimpur area on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway under Sitakunda upazila of the district early yesterday, reports BSS. Ashikur Rahman, highway police sergeant, said the yaba tablets…

Father ‘kills’ minor son RAJSHAHI: A father has reportedly killed his minor son by pressing a pillow on him in Darshanpara village under Paba Upazila of the district early yesterday morning, police sources said. The deceased was identified as Adnan Hossain, 6. Police arrested his father…

State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chando yesterday stressed the need for bringing rural people under the family planning programme for birth control and building up a prosperous country. He laid emphasis on adopting permanent and long-term family planning method. Narayan urged…

Unidentified miscreants stabbed two Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders of JU unit on Friday evening. The injured were identified as Rasel Miah Swadhin, a student of archeology dept under 37 Batch and also the vice-president of JU unit BCL and Sanwar Hossain of geological science dept. of 38 Batch…

BARISAL: Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) will start a 14-day special steamer services on Tuesday (July 14) in the capital with seven vessels to deal with the rush of passengers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, reports UNB. The Eid special service of BIWTC vessels with regular services will…

RAJSHAHI: Passing out parade and oath-taking ceremony of the 46th batch of recruit Jail Guards was held at Jail Training Academy in the city yesterday amid festivity, reports BSS. Senior Secretary to the Home Ministry Dr Mozammel Haque Khan attended and addressed the ceremony as the chief guest while…