A Chittagong court yesterday sent RMG businessman, Enamul Haque, on two-day remand under the Anti-Terrorism Act in a case filed at the Hathazari police station. Senior Judicial Magistrate, Mahamudul Hasan, passed the order when the Rapid Action Battalion-7 produced him in the court, seeking five-day…

A tribunal in the capital yesterday sentenced a young man to death and three others to different jail terms for killing a Brac Bank official in 2011, reports UNB. The condemned convict Abdul Majid Dalim, 34, son of Kiamuddin of Purba Balikha village in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka, was fined Tk 20,000,…

CHITTAGONG: Police in a drive arrested 22 leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, a student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, from a coaching centre in Patiya upazila of the district yesterday, reports BSS. Acting on a tip-off, police conducted a raid at the Shibir-run ‘Probaha Coaching…

A guardian of a patient was assaulted allegedly by the class IV employees of Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) yesterday noon when he refused to pay Tk two hundred as extortion. It is learnt Abdul Majid of Baliagram under Atwari Upazila in Panchagarh district came to RMCH yesterday to admit his…

The students of private universities staged demonstration for the third consecutive days for withdrawing 7.5 per cent VAT on the tuition fees. The vehicular…

KHULNA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) leader with firearm and ammunition on Saturday, reports BSS. The arrested was Arif Sarder, 29, an active member of Janajuddha (ML) faction of banned Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP). He is trading illegal firearms…

RAJSHAHI: Large-scale promotion of the livestock sector is very important to remove the existing protein deficiency alongside ensuring food security, livestock experts and dairy and poultry farmers said, reports BSS. The unemployment problem in the region especially in its rural areas could be reduced…

The British Council launched the third phase of ‘connecting classrooms’ in Bangladesh at a programme at British Council Fuller Road office…

NARAYANGANJ: AKM Salim Osman MP handed over two ambulances to 300-beds Khanpur Modern Hospital in a simple ceremony on hospital premises on Sunday, reports BSS. President of Narayanganj District Health Service Managing Committee and MP of Narayanganj-5 constituency AKM Salim Osman handed over the ambulances…

Woman ‘commits suicide’  A septuagenarian woman of an ethnic minority community allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a tree at Bangpur in Rajshahi on Sunday. The deceased was Rabon Murmo, 75, wife of late Gonesh Murmo, a resident of the village.Sub-Inspector of Godagari…

KUET admission processes begins Oct 1 KHULNA: The online registration for undergraduate admission for the first year BSc Engineering and Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (BURP) courses under academic session 2015-16 of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) will begin from October…

The Chittagong Metropolitan Police authorities vowed to go tough on any unauthorised cattle market in the city during Eid-ul-Azha. The CMP high-ups said that they would not brook any public suffering triggered by unauthorised cattle market on the busy thoroughfares of the city. This time a total of…

GAZIPUR: Police in a drive arrested two persons along with 50 kilograms of hemp from Haidarabad area of the city on Sunday night. The arrestees were Mohammed Siraz Khan, 40 and a covered van driver Ashraful Islam, 32. Mahfuzur Rahman, inspector (Investigation) of Joydebpur police station, said on information,…

GAZIPUR: A visiting Kuwait military delegation yesterday expressed interest to hire more skilled and technical personnel from Bangladesh armed forces.…

The participants in a discussion on the “Role of media in climate change adaptation” yesterday urged the journalists to play their roles for creating mass awareness for adopting fresh plan to fight the adverse impact of climate change. They blamed rich countries for prevailing global climatic…