The capital’s waterlogging problem cannot be resolved unless the citizens make conscious efforts to keep the city clean, said Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Annisul Haque yesterday. He was monitoring the newly added 'jet and sucker' machine, which has been imported from Germany…

Newly elected city mayor AJM Nasir Uddin, nearly three months after being elected, formally took over charge of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) yesterday. Being the third elected mayor of Chittagong City Corporation, AJM Nasir took over charge from the acting mayor Mohammad Hossain. The elections…

The Barisal City Corporation (BCC) today proposed a Tk 423.22-crore budget for the 2015–16 fiscal year without imposing fresh taxes or increasing previous tax rates. The revised budget of the 2014–15 fiscal year was worth Tk 147.48 crore. The budget announced today is a Tk 276-crore deficit…

Around 180 tonnes of waste that lies uncollected on Khulna city streets every day due to poor monitoring and logistic supports and negligence of the field-level corporation workers and officials exposes the residents to greater health risks and environmental hazards. Conservancy Officer of Khulna City…

RANGPUR: There is no alternative way to increase agricultural production under adverse impacts of climate change to ensure food security, reports BSS. Agriculture Secretary Shyamol Kanti Ghosh said this while addressing the officials, scientists, researchers and experts of different agriculture related…

RANGPUR: Police arrested four alleged members of a gang of inter-district robbers with firearms and ammunition from Paglapeer on the Rangpur-Dinajpur Highway under Sadar upazila on Staturday night, reports BSS. Police sources said that the arrested robbers are Sadekul Islam Sada, 28, Belal Hossain,…

GAZIPUR: A court here on Sunday sentenced a man to death for killing his colleague in Gazipur in 2011. AKM Enamul Haque, the district and session judge of Gazipur, passed the verdict against Mohammed Abdul Halim, 26, a worker of ‘Hanif Spinning Mill’ in Mouchak area under Kaliakoir upazila…

Worker’s body recovered  BARISAL: Police recovered a body from an electrical equipment repairing shop in the city on Saturday.  The victim was identified as Rezaul Karim, 20, a staff of Seven-Star AC and Electronics Service Centre in C & B Road area of the city. Shakhawat Hossain,…

Movement of all types of vessel on 11 internal river routes of Barisal has been suspended for the ongoing inclement weather. It also asked to hoist cautionary signal no 2. Earlier the authorities ordered to stop plying of small size of launches with less than 65 feet length due to cloudy weather. But…

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki yesterday said the existing laws would have to be updated to stop repression and violence against children, reports BSS. "Incidents of child repression in the last few days remind us that we could not create an environment for children…

RAJSHAHI: Narrating various nutritional aspects of native fish species, experts and others concerned put emphasis on adoption of time-fitting measures to protect those especially the small indigenous ones from further depletion, reports BSS. They mentioned that the small fishes enriched with high nutrition…

KHULNA: Speakers at the law and order meeting yesterday asked for taking action against reckless driving on the highways to avoid accidents claiming lives, reports BSS. They also stressed the need for operating regular mobile courts on the highways and important streets in the city and immediate ban…

Police arrested four alleged robbers from Rampura area in the capital yesterday. Talking to The Independent, Inspector Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Rampura police station said getting secret information, a team of Rampura police raided at East Rampura area in the capital  early yesterday…

Gazipur city unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, a student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, demanded immediate release of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor MA Mannan and its central president Razib Ahsan. They raised the demand at a demonstration programme in the city yesterday. Earlier, they…

A seven-member executive committee of Barisal Reporters Unity (BRU) was elected for 2015-16 on Saturday. Anisur Rahman Swapan, Kamrul Ahsan and Masuk Kamal have been elected as president, general secretary and finance secretary respectively of the committee. Kamal Masudur Rahman, election commissioner,…