The authorities of Islamic University suspended four university students on Sunday. Among them three for fraudulence to the first year honors courses under 2015-16 academic session and one for assaulting an official, campus sources said. The decision was taken from university security committee in a…

The Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), government of India, offered scholarships to meritorious Bangladeshi nationals under the three scholarship schemes for the academic session 2016-17 to pursue various courses in India at the Under Graduate, Post Graduate and PhD level, except in Medicine,…

A court yesterday placed three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a five-day remand each. Magistrate Raihanul Islam of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate  court passed the order when DB inspector Azizul Haque produced them before the court seeking…

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki yesterday said the present government has taken pragmatic steps so that no child in Bangladesh would be deprived of getting educational facilities, reports BSS. "The government is working sincerely to ensure education for all as…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has cleared a councilor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) of graft allegations, reports UNB. The Commission gave a clean chit to DNCC councilor (Ward No-6) M Rajjab Hossain through an official notification, issued recently by ACC secretary Abu M Mustafa Kamal,…

Police and officials of Narcotic Control Department (NCD) in separate drives arrested 63 people and seized 11,700 pieces of contraband yaba tablets in the city yesterday. On information, NCD officials arrested four persons and seized 11,000 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession, after searching…

RANGPUR: The four-day admission tests for the first year honours courses of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) for the 2015-16 academic sessions began from yesterday, reports BSS. Vice-chancellor of BRUR AKM Nurun Nabi visited the examination halls on the campus. On the first day, admission tests…

BNP leader arrested in Savar Police arrested a BNP leader from his residence at Bank Colony in Savar municipality area on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Advocate Nazim Uddin, law affairs secretary of Savar municipality BNP. Family members of Nazim alleged that police arrested him without…

KHULNA: Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor said here yesterday that cultural promotion was a prerequisite to create conscious opinion of the masses…

NARAYANGANJ: Traffic congestion on city thoroughfares has turned acute nowadays, causing immense sufferings to commuters on a daily basis, reports UNB. Local residents have blamed the negligence of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) and Traffic Department for the unabated traffic congestion in the city.…

Speakers at an inaugural session of a three-day Right to Information Fair-2015 yesterday underscored the need for changing the tendency of hiding facts as well as the mindset of the government officials for effective implementation of the Right to Information Act (RTI) 2009. Expressing their concern…

Ekushey Padak winner language veteran and journalist Tofazzal Hossain died of old age complications at his Shyamoli residence on Saturday noon. He was 80, reports BSS. Tofazzal, an associate member of National Press Club, is the father of Tariq Sujat, director of daily Bhorer Kagoj and Desh TV and general…

RUET gets 2 new departments RAJSHAHI: Two new more departments were opened in Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) to meet the demands of present time. The new departments are-- Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Chemical and Food Process Engineering (CFPE), a RUET press…

Khulna’s handicraft industry is beset with problems, with over 100 handicraft shops, mostly run by women entrepreneurs, struggling to survive owing to lack of capital, marketing facilities and due patronage by the government departments concerned. Each handicraft shop specialises in block printed…

KHULNA: Two people were killed and three others injured when a Kushtia-bound passenger bus collided head-on with an easy bike here yesterday, reports BSS. Maruf Ahmed, officer-in-charge (OC) of Daulatpur Police Station said the accident took place at around 1.30 pm in rail gate area under Daulatpur…

A Modernised water supply system was inaugurated at Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur yesterday. HT Imam, Political adviser to Prime Minister, inaugurated the system as the chief guest while senior secretary of home affairs ministry Dr Mozammel Haque Khan, Inspector General of Prison Brigadier General…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a training workshop here yesterday viewed that Annual Confidential Report (ACR) must be authentic for the benefits of both employees and their respective institutions, reports BSS. They mentioned ACR is very important so the officers who are responsible for giving it to their subordinates…