A Chittagong court yesterday placed Nur Mohammad, Chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Limited, on a three-day remand in a case filed in connection with the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong Port on June 8 last year. Metropolitan Magistrate Rahamat Ali passed the order yesterday after hearing the plea of…

A total of 56 billboards were pulled down from different parts of the Chittagong city on Friday night. Five magistrates, four from Chittagong District Administration and one from Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) conducted drive and evicted 40 illegal billboards. On the other hand owners of the billboards…

Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested a passenger along with 1.04 crore Indian rupee at Hazrat International Airport yesterday afternoon, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Asaduzzaman Mirza, 45, hailing from Pirojpur district. Sources at the airport said Asaduzzaman landed at the…

Crisis of tickets at fair price frustrated a large number of cricket fans, who demonstrated outside at Khulna’s Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium (SANS), came to witness T-20 matches between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe as its venue. On the other hand, tickets were found being sold in black market outside the…

Dhaka University (DU) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) launched cleanliness campaign on the DU campus yesterday, reports BSS. The theme of the campaign is ‘our awareness is the strength of change’. DSCC Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon inaugurated the programme as the chief guest with…

Jatiya Chhatra Samaj (JCS), student wing of Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad), former president Syed Mizanur Rahman Himu was found dead in the capital yesterday. Police on Sunday morning recovered his (Himu) body from a plot of the Rupnagar Eastern Housing in Beribad area of the capital.  “After being…

Construction of the three-storied modern building of Khulna Railway Station and a yard at an estimated cost of Tk. 55.99 crore is underway, lawmaker of…

RAJSHAHI: A rural road network project is being implemented with the main thrust of removing physical bottlenecks for improving rural accessibility, upgrading quality and enhancing sustainability of rural transport and market services in the project area, reports BSS. The estimated cost of the six-year…

A total of 17 distinguished personalities were given Justice Syed Mahbub Murshed Award-2015 at a function in a restaurant in the capital on  Saturday night for their outstanding contributions to different fields, reports BSS. National Professor MR Khan received lifetime awards for his valuable…

Amid various programme ‘The Peninsula Chittagong’ a commercial Hotel yesterday celebrated its 11th anniversary. Mushtak Luhar, manager of the hotel, formally inaugurated the anniversary programme at hotel’s conference room. The hotel conducted a blood donation programme with the participation…

Chittagong: A construction worker died after falling from an under-construction building at Bagarbil in Bakolia area of the city yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Sajib, 25. Sajib was critically injured when he fell from the second floor of the under-construction building while…

Six houses gutted in Ctg At least six dwelling houses were gutted in a devastating fire in Patenga Khalpar area under Patenga police station of Chittagong yesterday morning. Fire service sources said the fire originated from a cooking oven around 6.25am quickly engulfed the surrounding houses. Seven…

Seminar on PhD scholarships in Australia University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and Australian Academy of Business Leadership (AABL) jointly organised a seminar on ‘capacity building and opportunity for PhD scholarship in Australia’ on ULAB campus in the capital on Friday, says a press…