SYLHET: Licenses of three contractors of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) have been cancelled on charge of assaulting an engineer of the department. Chief Engineer of Roads and Highways Department Ibne Alam Hasan has ordered to cancel the licenses of the three contractors. All the pending works…

Four people were killed in separate road accidents in the capital’s Turag, Ramna and Kadamtoli areas yesterday, reports UNB. Two unidentified young men were killed while 2 to 3 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck near East-West Medical College Hospital on Abdullahpur-Ashulia…

The Workers' Party of Bangladesh, a component of the ruling Grand Alliance government, in a meeting of its Politburo, yesterday, called upon the government to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami and continue the government's non-communal democratic politics and end all undesirable militant activities. It…

A total of 200 voluntary blood donors were honoured by Quantum Foundation yesterday with crests, medals and certificates, reports BSS. The contributors, who donated blood at least 10 or 25 times, were honoured at the function at National Press Club where eminent economist and distinguished fellow at…

At least 12 cloth stores were gutted as a fire that broke out at Mirpur Jhut Patti at Block C in the capital’s Pallabi area on Thursday night, reports UNB. Officer-in-charge of Pallabi Police Station Badal Fakir said the fire originated from a cloth store in the area around 12pm and soon engulfed…

A weeklong  Anti Drug Debate Festival is set to begin on January 18 in the capital aiming to make anti-drug campaign popular creating mass awareness on its harmful effect, reports BSS. Debate for Democracy and Department of Narcotics Control will organize the debate festival, a press release said…

The cultural organisations in Khulna divisional city have long been facing problems due to inadequate number of spacious auditoriums with modern facilities, where are considered as an important cultural centre. Khulna is a riverine industrial and port city where there are over 15 lakh people living…

RANGPUR: A newly built mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been inaugurated at DC’s moor in the city on Thursday.…

Warm clothes sellers are passing busy time in the city as cold weather has been prevailing in the northern region for the last few days. Due to cold wave and chill weather, sale of winter clothes has increased, both in the different posh markets and roadside shops of the city. Rich people are going…

A three-day Digital Innovation Fair-2016 will begin on the premises of Khulna Collectorate Bhaban in the city from Sunday Khulna district administration with the help of Access to Information (A2I) project of the Prime-Minister Office will organise the fair. State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock…

Police arrested a leader of Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal (JCD) from Kumar Para area of the city on early yesterday on charge of his alleged involvement in sabotage activists. The arrestee was as Shakil Murshed, former joint organising secretary of district JCD unit. Police said a team of Kotwali police arrested…

The final airport emergency exercise will be held at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here at 3pm on January 12, reports BSS. Director of the airport Wing Commander Mohammad Zakir Hossain said all preparations have been completed to hold the exercise and entire security measures have been further…

Bangladesh Coast Guard seized about 4,000 kg banned polythene from a cargo ship on the Buriganga River in Pangaon port of Fatullah in Naryanganj district early yesterday, reports UNB. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Pagla station of the coast guard conducted the drive at around 6 am and recovered…

Two-day job fair begins at RUET RAJSHAHI: Offering an opportunity to students to secure employment, a two-day job fair began for the first time in Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) camps today, a RUET press release here said. RUET's Office of the Students Welfare and RUET…