A student visa consultancy firm has allegedly swindled a number of students out of a large amount of money in the name of sending them abroad for study and jobs. According to a complaint lodged with Airport Police Station by one of the victims, identified as Sadikur Rahman, Triangle Overseas Study Solutions…

Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday held a rally to observe International Youth Day in the capital with a two-day youth festival to mobilise them in the fight against corruption taking a vow to stand up against it. Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated…

The online admission process for the first year honours courses in Dhaka University for 2015-16 academic sessions will begin on August 24 and will continue till September 10, 2015, a DU press release said. The decision was taken in an academic meeting headed by DU Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) sealed off a food factory in Bangshal area of the capital yesterday for manufacturing food items in an unhygienic condition. Lt Col SM Masud Rana, director of RAB-2, said on information, a team of RAB, led by RAB-2 Deputy Director Didarul Alam raided at Fahad Food Product…

Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested four alleged robbers along with firearms and ammunition from Sobujbagh area of the capital on Tuesday night. The arrested were Abdur Razzak alias Pagla Razzak, Shahidul Islam, Shoriful Islam and Raju Dash. Deputy Police Commissioner Muntasirul Islam,…

Police in their anti-drug drives arrested 37 alleged drug dealers from the capital in 24 hours till 6am on Wednesday, reports UNB. Besides, law enforcers arrested three robbers along with four sharp weapons from Motijheel area during the period. Sources at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Headquarters…

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, also the Chairperson of Common-wealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Executive Committee, on Monday left here for Nairobi, Kenya to attend a conference, reports UNB. She will attend the CPA Africa Region Conference being held on August 9 to 15 in Nairobi, said a…

Rajshahi: More than 35,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the city, reports BSS. Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2,350 tube-wells installed in the slum areas besides different other…

Participants in a discussion meeting in the city yesterday streesed the need for implementing a legal framework to ensure safety net of children and their basic rights. They observed that Bangladesh has a series of laws related to compulsory mass education and combating human trafficking. They noted…

RANGPUR: Speakers at a meeting have stressed for strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) in public places to save thousands of nonsmokers from indirect smoking and human lives, reports BSS. They put special emphasis on creating public awareness about harms of using smoking and nonsmoking…

SYLHET: A college student was stabbed to death allegedly by some of his friends on Madan Mohan College campus in the city yesterday afternoon. The victim was Abdul Alim, 19, a class XII student of the college. He was a resident of Shilam village in the Dakshin Surma upazila. Police said Alim had an…

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive detained two persons with counterfeit notes worth Tk 62, 000 in Bakalia area of the city on Tuesday. The arrestees were Mizanur Rahman, 24, and Md Quadir, 29. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB nabbed Mizan and Quadir from Hotel Zaman in Bahadderhat…

BARISAL: Detective Branch of police in separate drives arrested two people with a local-made pipe gun and 55 yaba tablets from Rari Mohol and South Alekanda area of the city on Tuesday night. The arrestees were identified as M Mojuibul Haque Monju, 37 and M Al-Amin, 25, dwellers of the same city. Sources…

Dhaka Nouth City Corporation (DNCC) has arranged an exhibition of rare artworks on the occasion of the 40th death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of the Bangali nation. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to attend the programme as the chief guest at the South Plaza of…

Gazipur, August 12: A girl who had been abducted from Joydebpur in Gazipur on August 3 was rescued from Kalshi Bazar in capital on Monday.  The victim was identified as Reshma Akter Moni,16. A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-1) rescued her from a room of a house owned by one Motlab Miah of…

SYLHET: The indefinite transport strike, which was enforced by the Sylhet Inter-district Bus Owners’ Association on Wednesday morning protesting the killing of a bus driver, eased on Wednesday afternoon, reports UNB. The union enforced the strike across the district from Wednesday morning, but…

Academic council of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) on Wednesday suspended all academic activities of the 2nd year in the face of students’ movement for withdrawal of new ‘credit system’ of examinations. The decision was taken after the students declined to…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong Awami League has completed all preparations for holding ‘Chittagonian traditional Mezban’ at Tungipara of Gopalgonj district on the occasion of 39th martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, reports BSS. Former Chittagong City…

RAJSHAHI: Various political and socio-cultural organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the National Mourning Day and 40th anniversary of martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, reports BSS. The programmes include hoisting of national flag…

Gour Gobinda made NSU acting VC Gour Gobinda Goswami, treasurer of  North South University (NSU), has been given the charge of  the Vice-Chancellor by the Board of Trustees of  NSU, effective from Tuesday as per the clause 31 (6) of the Private University Act 2010. Meanwhile, on health…