Toilet facility on Jahangirnagar University(JU) bears the portrait of neglect for lack of supervision, causing immense suffering to students and visitors those busy in outdoor activities during daytime. Visitors who also come to campus for official and other purposes suffer much due to shortage of public…

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday took the charges against two war crimes suspects of Kishoreganj – Syed Mohammad Hossain and Muhammad Moslem Pradhan – into cognisance for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation in 1971.…

Journalist Azizul Haq died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday night. He was 73, reports UNB. Azizul Haq, who was special correspondent and chief reporter of now defunct The Bangladesh Observer, breathed his last at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases around 10pm, said…

A mobile court fined a cylinder gas company Tk 10 lakh in Chittagong on Wednesday on charges of weight manipulation. Sarwoer Alam, executive magistrate of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), led the drive at a filling station named ‘Total Gas’.   He said  in this filling station the…

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in separate drives detained three suspected drug peddlers along with 86,000 pieces of yaba tablets from the capital and Gazipur district yesterday, reports UNB. The arrestees were identified as Obaidul, 38, Toiab, 25, and Sanjoy, 22. Tipped off, an intelligence…

At least three activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Omargani MES College unit were injured in infighting between vice-president and general sectary groups of the college student council yesterday. The injured were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). The injured were identified…

BARISAL:  A man was killed and 7 others injured in a road accident in Madavpasha area of Barisal district on Wednesday night.. reports agencies. The deceased was Mohammad Hassan, 40, an office assistant of Patuakhali District Education Office. Police said the accident happened when a Banaripara-bound…

Bangladesh Paribesh Andalan (BAPA) will organise a two-daylong conference on coastal and marine environment of Bangladesh from January 8 at the Krishibid Institution of Bangladesh in the capital, says a press release. BAPA is hosting this conference jointly with Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN)…

The dawn-to dusk general strike, called by Jamaat-e-Islami, protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, passed off peacefully yesterday in Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal yesterday without any untoward incidents. There were no…

The Consular Corps in Bangladesh (CCB) on Thursday joined hands with the ‘JAAGO Foundation’, a charitable organisation, to distribute blankets for the needy and destitute people of Bangladesh, reports UNB. The funds, donated by the members of the CCB, comprising members of the Honorary Consuls…

Orientation programme held at EWU East West University (EWU) organised orientation programme on its campus at Aftabnagar, Dhaka yesterday, says a press release. Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq was the chief guest.  MM Shahidul Hassan, vice-chancellor of EWU, inaugurated the orientation…

Six ‘robbers’ held Police in an overnight drive arrested six members of an inter-district gang of robbers from different areas under Kadomtoli police station in the capital. The arrestees were involved in bus-robberies in Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Noakhali routes. Police arrested them while…