Blacksmiths in Rajshahi are now busy catering to the huge demand for knives, machetes and choppers on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha. The blacksmiths in the city said that finding a butcher on the first two days of Eid is a very difficult task and, so, people prefer to sacrifice animals themselves to follow…

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan has asked the passengers not to board overloaded vessels during journey for Eid-ul-Azah celebration as BIWTA has placed into operation sufficient number of vessels on all the river routes as part of special services. The minister gave the assurance on Friday noon while…

Police recovered the body of a marketing officer of the daily Banik Barta, which was kept hidden inside a suitcase, from a building at Namapara in the capital yesterday, reports UNB. Police arrested a suspected killer, identified as Faisal alias Paddy, and also detained three more people -- Rakib, Raihan…

Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested two persons in possession of 21 gold bars, weighing 2.1 kilograms, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital early yesterday, reports UNB. The arrestees were Md Abu Yusuf Bhuiyan,31, and Masud Miah,38. APBn Assistant Superin-tendent of Police…

RAJSHAHI: Three members of a family were killed and another injured as a truck hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Khorkhori bypass area in city yesterday,…

A newly developed scorecard by an international group, including icddr,b, has showed that Bangladesh performs poorly in reducing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), reports UNB. The Lancet on Friday published findings of the new scorecard, measuring the performance of 23 countries, including Bangladesh,…

RAJSHAHI: Around 19,000 slum and extreme poor families were brought under health and nutritional support programme aiming at bringing them out from the vicious circle of malnutrition in the city, reports BSS. The three-year scheme is being implemented since October, 2012 at a cost of around Taka 40.12…

NARAYANGANJ: Awami League backed panel ‘Sammilita Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad, won 13 post including president and general secretary in the annual general election of Narayanganj District Bar Association held on Thursday. Among the seventeen posts, BNP backed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikkya Parishad…

CHITTAGONG:  Police in overnight special drives arrested 120 people, including two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, from different upazilas of the Chittagong district yesterday, reports BSS. The law enforcers also seized 71 litres of liquor and 2500 yaba tablets during the night-long drives. Mohammad…

SYLHET: A tribunal here on Thursday convicted three people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for violating a housewife in 2010, reports UNB. The convicts were Jahur Ali,48, Koisar Miah,32 and Sadek Miah,30. Among them, Sadek Miah was tried in absentia. The court also fined them Tk 10,000…

Aminur Rahman, former chief trainer of Bangladesh Scouts, died of cardiac arrest at his residence at Uttara in the capital on Thursday, says a press release. He was 66. His first namaz-e-janaza was held on Bangladesh Scouts, National Head-quarters premises at Kakrail in the capital. Abul Kalam Azad,…