War crimes accused Ahmed Ali of Netrakona died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) early Thursday. He was 78, reports UNB. Sources at the DMCH said Ahmed who had been suffering from old age complications breathed his last around 12:30am. Ahmed Ali, a resident of Sunaikanda in Purbadhala upazila…

Three persons were killed and two others injured in two separate road accidents on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda area early yesterday. The deceased were identified as Shakhawat Hossain, 25, hailing from Sandwip upazila of Chittagong, Ismail Hossain, 47, and Anowar Hossain, 50, both of them resident…

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal has finalised its report against two war crimes suspects of Shariatpur for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, reports UNB. The accused are Mohammad Solaiman Mollah of Kashipur Muslimpara…

Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations-2014 under Bangladesh Open University (BOU) will begin today, reports BSS. Some 1,34,581 students of first and second year will take part in the examination, a press release of BOU said yesterday. The examinations will be held at 441 centres across the…

A mobile court of Chittagong district administration fined the owners of three medicine shops Tk 80, 000 yesterday for selling date expired medicines, doctor’s sample, unapproved Indian medicine and government medicine. The court, led by Chittagong administrative magistrate and deputy revenue…

SAVAR: Savar municipality mayor Mohammad Refat Ullah, who was placed on a 10-day remand in two cases, was admitted to Dhaka Central Jail Hospital following a court order on Wednesday night, reports UNB. Jail hospital sources said Refat Ullah fell sick when he was being taken to a court from Dhaka central…

SYLHET: A court here yesterday deferred the recoding of testimony of the witnesses to November 4 and 5 in the ex-Finance Minister SAMS Kibria murder case, reports UNB. Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Makbul Ahsan fixed the dates as eight of the 13 accused did not appear before the tribunal yesterday, said…

The British Council organised a certificate award ceremony yesterday to recognise 120 teachers from 12 cadet colleges who have completed a teacher training…

RAJSHAHI: A rural road network project is being implemented with the main thrust of removing physical bottlenecks for improving rural accessibility, upgrading quality and enhancing sustainability of rural transport and market services in the project area, reports BSS. According to Local Government Engineering…

Shykh Seraj, director & head of news of Channel i and development journalist, has won the Gusi Peace Prize for his 'exceptional' media activism…

RAJSHAHI: Truck labourers yesterday confined a traffic sergeant and barricaded highways in the city’s Nawdapara area for two and a half hours for…

Employees of Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) yesterday confined its managing director AKM Fazullah for two and half hours demanding to stop the process of abolition 117 posts of Class-III and Class-IV staffs. The staffs of CWASA confined the managing director (MD) in his room…