The fifth biennial conference of Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), a voluntary initiative to increase maritime cooperation among navies of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean region, will begin on January 10 in the capital, reports BSS. President Abdul Hamid will inaugurate the four-day conference…

Terming the media the mirror of society, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday urged journalists to file reports on those incidents which have the news value, reports UNB.  “Many incidents happen around us every day, but all of them are not news worthy. So, the media professionals…

A Dhaka court yesterday placed five leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami on a ten days remand each in two separate cases filed with Rampura Police Station. Those remanded are Gias Uddin, 55, Lutfur Rahman, Shahadatur Rahman Sohel, 43, Aminur Rahman, 57, and Osman Gani, 41. After hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Session…

Though one week has been passed of bomb attack on Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat mosque in Bagmara, police is yet to identify the young man who died in the blast. Nisharul Arif, SP of Rajshahi informed the media that police could not find anything like mobile phone, wallet, letter or ID card from the body…

Tahmina Akher Tamu, 18, daughter of Ahmed Miji, a vegetable vendor, needs urgent bypass surgery as she has been suffering from heart related ailment for…

A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) mobile court in the port city yesterday fined three hospitals Tk 12,60,000  for using date- expired re-agents, selling…

JU confers PhD degree SAVAR: Md. Mansur Ali was awarded PhD egree from Jahangirnagar University (JU) under Physics department, press release said yesterday. The 130th Syndicate meeting of the university with Vice-chancellor Professor Dr Farzana Islam in the chair awarded the degree for his (Mansur)…

The government will enforce a combined special drive by local administrations and law enforcers from today against illegal use of fishing nets, reports BSS. At the primary stage, a 15-day drive will be conducted covering all the islands, river-beds and estuaries of three costal districts-Bhola, Patuakhali…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a post-rally discussion here opined that political and social commitment has become an urgent need to combat illicit smuggling of drugs along with its trading and abusing to protect people and the young generation in particular, reports BSS. They said 80 per cent of the drug addicts…

Cable service worker short at   A worker of a cable service provider sustained bullet injuries as miscreants shot at him at Pirerbagh in Mirpur of the capital on Saturday night. The victim was Nur M Bijoy, 22, a resident of Bashbari in Bancharampur upazila of Brahmanbaria district. Bijoy used to…