The Jahangirnagar University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) on Sunday protested the re-appointment of a Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL) leader, who was accused of assaulting a number of teachers during movement to remove former vice-chancellor Prof Anwar Hossain, as an officer at the university.…

4 frauds arrested in capital Detectives arrested four persons from the capital’s Mugda area Sunday afternoon on charges of cheating people identifying them as relatives of top police and government officials. The arrested were identified as Md Ibrahim Khalil alias Faisal, Md Abdul Jalil Shikder,…

Samajtantrik Mahila Forum, a left leaning female organisation, formed a human chain in front of Deputy Commissioner Office in the city yesterday to protest repression, violence and torture against women. The speakers said Yasmin Tragedy Day has been observed on August 24. The day is also being observed…

RANGPUR: Mayor of Rangpur City Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu on Sunday directed for distribution of rice and pulse immediately among the flood-hit people in the city, reports BSS. He passed the direction for the concerned city councilors while visiting hundreds of flood-hit victims in the city who have taken…

RANGPUR: Speakers at a meeting here yesterday stressed providing necessary assistance to inmates in the jails in ensuring their legal rights along with skill development for their proper rehabilitation after release, reports BSS. They put emphasis on providing jobs or creating opportunity for self-employments…

An opinion exchange meeting on “Sharing Experience of Dhaka WASA’s Turn Around Programme with DMA Approach & NRW Reduction” with SAARC countries was held at a hotel in the capital yesterday, says a press release. Presided over by Engnieer Taqsem A Khan, managing director of Dhaka…

RANGPUR: A court here yesterday sentenced a woman to death for murdering her husband more than five years ago in the city, reports BSS. Judge of the Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-1 of Rangpur Md Rokanuzzaman handed down the verdict yesterday afternoon in absence of the convict. The court…

At least two persons were killed in separate road accidents in the capital yesterday, report agencies. A rickshaw puller was killed as a private car rammed his rickshaw at Mirpur section-11 in the capital’s Pallabi area early yesterday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.…

SYLHET: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on  Sunday seized eight petrol bombs, two hand-made bombs and five detonators here. Assistant media officer of RAB-9 Mosharraf Hossain told BSS, "Acting on a tip off, a RAB team conducted a raid in Laldighipar Mahajan Patti area in the city and recovered…

Uncertainty looms over the fate of a sewerage treatment plant of Dhaka Wasa at Dareshkandi as the Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee has recently refused to approve its Chinese contractor's ‘unsolicited offer’ for not having an ‘approved development project proposal (DPP)’,…

Uncertainty looms over the fate of a sewerage treatment plant of Dhaka Wasa at Dareshkandi as the Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee has recently refused to approve its Chinese contractor's ‘unsolicited offer’ for not having an ‘approved development project proposal (DPP)’,…

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment for raping a young girl in a group at Dewanhat in Chandanish upazila of Chittagong in 1997. Rezaual Karim, judge of the Women and Children Repression and Prevention Tribunal -1 handed down the verdict.  The convicts were…

SYLHET: The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) authorities approved Tk 58.72 crore as the annual budget for the fiscal year 2015-16, with a low allocation in the research sector like the previous year. University Finance Director ANM Joynal Abedin on Monday informed the journalist…

CHITTAGONG: The admission process for first-year honours courses under 2015-16 academic session of Chittagong University (CU) will begin from September 7 and continue till September 30, reports BSS. CU deputy registrar (Academic) SM Akbar Hossain, also member secretary of the admission committee, said…

DU online admission process begins The online admission process for the first year honors courses of Dhaka University for the 2015-16 academic sessions began yesterday and will continue till September 10. DU vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the online application process at a press conference…