Garment workers yesterday submitted a memorandum to Food Minister Quamrul Islam demanding introduction of monthly food rationing system along with government subsidy for them to cope with the price hike of essentials, reports UNB. A seven-member delegation of workers’ representatives submitted…

A Freedom Fighter, who went through brutal torture in the hands of Razakars in Jessore, yesterday testified as the sixth prosecution witness (PW) in a war crimes case against former Jamaat lawmaker Mawlana Sakhawat Hossain and his eight cohorts, reports BSS. The other eight accused are Billal Hossain,…

Muggers shot a trader and looted 100 bhoris of gold ornaments, worth about Tk 50 lakh, from him in Dinbondhu lane area of the city on Tuesday night. The injured was named Md Mirazul Haque, owner of Haque jewelers, at Girja Moholla of the city. Victim Miraz said after closing his shop, he was going home…

The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday morning sent two alleged Razakars from Baralekha upazila in Moulvibazar district to jail as the police produced them before the court, reports BSS. Abdul Mannan alias Monai Miah, 64, and Abdul Aziz alias Abul 63, were arrested on Tuesday within hours of issuing…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate seven officials of National Housing Authority (NHA) in connection with an irregularity of plot distribution, reports UNB The national anti-graft agency yesetrday sent a notice to the NHA chairman asking them to be present at the ACC head office on…

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials seized a container of foreign-brand cigarette, worth over Tk7.25 crore, at Chittagong port yesterday. CIID sources said a total 28,800 mini cartons of cigarettes, which were carried in 20 feet container, imported from United Arab Emirates…

SYLHET:  A journalist was injured as a group of miscreants carried out an attack on the office of a locally published newspaper at Sobhanighat in the city on Tuesday night, reports UNB. The injured journalist was identified as Masrur Rasel, staff reporter of the ‘Dainik Pravat Bela’.…

Journalists from different national and local print and electronic media of Khulna city yesterday demanded reinvestigation into all murders of journalists,…

A four-day ‘Jibanananda Utsav’ ended at Ashwini Kumar Hall in the city on Tuesday night. The programme was arranged to observe 117th birth anniversary of the great Bengali Poet Jibanananda Das. Barisal district administration organised the festival at Ashwini Kumar Hall and Poet Jibanananda…

RAJSHAHI: The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) will construct 20 secondary transfer centres in the metropolis aiming at removing and managing the household wastes and garbage in a modern and hygienic manner, reports BSS. Earlier, 14 of the centres were established in the city. The corporation is setting…

SYLHET: A fire broke out at Sylhet circuit house building yesetrday morning, reports UNB. Joynal Abedin, deputy commissioner of Sylhet district, said the fire originated from a short circuit around 11am and soon engulfed the rooms number 201 and 202. Being informed, fire fighting units rushed in and…

RAJSHAHI: Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 248 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup at Deoanpara in the city on Tuesday night, reports UNB. Humaon Kabir, officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station, said acting on secret information that a contingent of contraband Phensidyl syrup was…

A 15-day long international submarine fest festival-2106 began at Peninsula Hotel in Chittagong on Tuesday. Musician Ayub Bachchu inaugurated the International Submarine Fest Festival while Zohair Taher Ali, director finance of Bangladesh Steel Re-rolling Mills (BSRM), Mostafa Tahsin, Managing Director…

Abu Mohammad Motahhar Staff reporter Abu Mohammad Motahhar, former headmaster of Dhanbari Primary School, Kazibari in Tangail, died of old age complications at his daughter’s residence in the capital around 3:30pm on Tuesday. He was 93. He was buried at the family graveyard around 10am yesterday…