Poverty main reason for dropout : Study

Around 80.3 per cent families cannot afford educational expenses after the primary level, resulting in a high rate of dropout due to poverty, a study…

President for more investment in edn

KHULNA: President Abdul Hamid yesterday underscored the need for more investment in education sector for improving its quality, reports UNB. “Although the rate of education has been increased, its quality is yet to reach the expected level. So, the investment in the sector has to be raised,”…

Four �fraudsters� held in capital

Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday night arrested four members of an organized fraud group who were cheating people in the name of providing jobs from Uttara area in the capital. The arrested were identified as Md Humayun Kabir alias Halim, 58, Syed Maruf Hasan, 66, Md Shahabuddin, 49, and Jamal Sheikh,…

Container impounded for �false declaration�

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) yesterday impounded a container of Global Business House in Chittagong Port for allegedly importing fabrics under false declaration. The 40 feet long container was imported from China declaring it to be containing ‘fabrics’; however, …

Testimony recording deferred again

A Sylhet court on Wednesday deferred the recoding of testimonies of the witnesses in the ex-Finance Minister SAMS Kibria murder case. Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Mokbul Ahsan deferred the recording of the testimonies because only five accused, out of 14, appeared before the court on the day because…

Cigarettes worth Tk 1crore seized

Customs officials seized 15,600 contraband cigarettes worth around Tk one crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday morning, reports UNB. Tipped off, a team of customs intelligence officials conducted a drive at the freight section of the airport and recovered the smuggled…

57 held in Ctg

Chittagong: Police in special drives arrested 57 people, including eight Jamaat-Shibir activists from different upazilas of the district on Tuesday, reports BSS. Mohammad Naimul Hasan, additional superintendent of Police (Special Branch) of Chittagong district, said the arrestees include eight were…

Traffic congestion intensifies in Khulna

Traffic jam on important roads in Khulna has become acute causing immense sufferings to the people in the city. It has been difficult for people to reach…

Bangladesh-India border confce held

RAJSHAHI: A Bangladesh-India DC-DM Joint Conference was held here yesterday discussing ways and means on how to bolster border relation besides stopping firearms smuggling and drug trafficking, reports BSS. Both the sides reached in consensus to all 10 agendas came up for discussion during the three-hour…

11 BNP-Jamaat men sent to jail on surrender

Eleven leaders and activists of the Agailjhara upazila units of the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami and their front organisations were sent to jail on Tuesday noon after they surrendered before a court in a violence case. Judge Md Anwarul Haque of the District and Sessions Judge’s Court sent them to jail…

Two held with phensidyl

Detective Branch (DB) of Barisal Metropolitan Police arrested two alleged drugs peddlers and seized 317 bottles of phensidyl from Rupatoli area of the…

Three bodies recovered in Gazipur

GAZIPUR: Police recovered the bodies of three people, including a schoolboy, in the district on Tuesday, reports UNB. Of them, the bodies of a schoolboy and an unidentified young woman were recovered from Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital and that of a man from Rayed Bazar area on the…

Candidates, guardians block road in Rangpur

Candidates and their guardians put up barricade on the Station Road in front of Rangpur Press Club yesterday for one hour protesting realisation of additional…

Int�l Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women observed

In association with Manusher Jonno Foundation, members of Karmajibi Nari observed ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women’ in Paba upazila of the district. To mark the day they arranged a colourful rally in front of Damkura Union Parishad…

Mechanical engineering confce begins today

The Third International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy will begin from today at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology. The four-day-long conference will end on November 29. The keynote speakers of the conference are Prof Henrik Kofoed Nielsen, University…

News in brief

Amu leaves for Vienna Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu left Dhaka yesterday for Vienna in Austria to attend the sixth ministerial conference of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The two-day conference will start today. It will adopt a work plan for inclusive and sustainable industrial development…

Campus corner

Nat’l Undergraduate Math Olympiad tomorrow SAVAR: The 7th National Undergraduate Mathematics Olympiad 2015 for honours level students will be held at Mathematics department of Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Friday. Bangladesh Mathematics Society (BMS) and Jahangirnagar University will organise…