'Textbook Festival Day 2016' has been celebrated in all the academic institutions at primary and secondary levels including madrashas in the metropolitan…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three alleged drug peddlers along with 16,650 yaba tablets from Chawkbazar area in the capital early yesterday. The arrestees were Mostak Ahmed, 32, Masi Alam, 47 and Md Wahid,40. RAB-2 Commanding Officer Lt Col Mohiuddin Ahmed said on information, a team of RAB-2…

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested three alleged snatchers from Jatrabari area in the capital on Thursday. They also seized a garments product loaded covered van, one knife, one cutter and two hammer from their possession. Deputy Police Commissioner (Media and Public Relations)…

Savar: Police in a drive rescued a young girl, who had been reportedly abducted by a young man on December 25, from a house at Majidpur in Hemayetpur early yesterday, reports UNB. Police said  Saidur Rahman, a young man in the area, picked up the  girl forcibly and took her to a house in Majidpur…

Makeshift markets on two sides of several important roads of Khulna city disrupt easy traffic movement causing immense suffering of the people. Besides,…

Begum Rokeya University gets new registrar RANGPUR: Muhammad Ibrahim Kabeer has joined as new Registrar of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR). Kabeer joined his new post by submitting his joining letter to Vice-chancellor of the university AKM Nurun Nabi on Wednesday afternoon, a press release…

Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu yesterday said militancy, terrorism and corruption would have to be eliminated to ensure green and sustainable development in the country, reports BSS. "Bangladesh will have to be taken forward on its own course. There is no room for militancy here," he…

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken necessary initiatives of expediting its online civic services through the best uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), reports BSS. The city corporation took the measures with the main thrust of bringing dynamism in its service- delivery…

KHULNA: With a view to implement vision-2021 by the government to encourage government and non government organisations, the three day-long digital innovation fair-2016 will begin in Khulna on January 10 to 12, reports BSS. The fair will hold at the collectorate building premises by the Khulna district…

SAVAR: Reunion of the history department of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was held on the campus yesterday amid festivity and fanfare. Marking the function the students and teachers of the department brought out a colorful rally from the department premises which terminated at the central Shaheed Minar…