Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has congratulated newly appointed chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Iqbal Mahmood and Commissioner AFM Aminul Islam on assumption of their respective posts, reports UNB. In a statement Friday, TIB executive director Dr Iftekharuzzaman said the…

Many children are now growing up on different footpaths in Bangladesh, particularly in the capital, without any care-attention. Many of them don't have parents and home. There are initiatives for rehabilitation of the street children. But those are not enough for rehabilitation of 11 lakh street…

National High School Programming Competition of Dhaka city chapter began at Dhaka University Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) yesterday, reports BSS. State Minister for Information and Communi-cation Technology Affairs Zunaid Ahmed Palak inaugurated competition. Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin…

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested two alleged arms traders along with a foreign pistol from the capital’s Kalyanpur area yesterday, reports UNB. The arrestees are Md Nur Islam, 32, and Md Jahangir Alam, 27. Tipped off, a Rab-2 team conducted a drive at Deen Kindergarten crossing around…

A Customs Preventive Team seized six pieces of gold bars, weighing 2.5 kilograms, from a plane at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Thursday midnight, reports UNB. Tipped off, that several gold bars remained concealed in the plane of ‘Regent Airways’ coming from Singapore…

After two month stay, a court here on Thursday recorded the testimonies of two more witnesses in the former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case. The court also fixed March 16 for the nest recording of testimonies. Sylhet Speedy Trial Tribunal judge Mokbul Ahsan recorded the testimonies of two…

Representatives of different medicine companies enter doctors’ chambers at the state-run Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) during the outdoor hours despite the government restriction hampering health services to patients. Apart from imposing ban on the medical representatives’ entry…

RANGPUR: Members of District Protibondhi Legal Aid Committee (DPLAC) at a discussion have called for extending legal assistance to the physically challenged people for ensuring justice as well as human rights for them, reports BSS. The DPLAC, Rangdhanu Zila Protibondhi Adhikar Sangstha (RZPAS) and Prottyasha…

RANGPUR:  Efficient community-based emergency post natural disaster response management systems can substantially reduce the extent of losses of lives and property from natural disasters like earthquake, reports BSS. The opinion came at a discussion jointly organised by Rangpur City Corporation…

KHULNA:  Bangladesh Beter is set to complete construction of Bangabandhu Complex at its regional office compound in this southwestern city by the yearend, nearly two decades after the project was launched, officials said yesterday, reports BSS. They said the complex was being developed on 16,000…

SYLHET: A court here on Thursday sent a man and his two sons to jail in a case filed over killing a housewife in 2015, reports UNB. Judge Kudrat-e-Khuda of Sylhet Judicial Magistrate Cognizance Court-6 gave an order to send Abdul Mannan and his two sons Suaibor Rahman and Selim Ahmed to jail after rejecting…

A rickshaw-van puller was killed and two others were injured in a road accident at Mostormore intersection in Harintana thana on Khulna -Mongla highway yesterday. The accident took place at around 10.0am when a Khulna-bound passenger bus knocked the rickshaw van from behind. The van puller Masum Gazi,…

Robbers looted Tk. 1.5 lakh from a house in Dakkhin Banasri Project area of the capital on Tuesday night. Sources said the robbery took place at the house of Md Ashraful Islam Khan, a Senior IT Officer (In-charge) at a Solar Energy-based company in the capital. He went with his family outside Dhaka…

UGC Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan has been honoured with 'MTC Global Rooshikumar Pandya Life Time Achievement Award-2016' by MTC-Global, India for his outstanding contribution to education especially tertiary level and enlightening the minds of thousands people in Bangladesh, reports BSS.…

Lithuanian minister calls on DU VC Sarunas Birutis, Minister of Culture, Lithuania, called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique at his office, on Thursday, reports BSS. The Minister was accompanied by Lithuania Ambassador Laimonas Talat-Kelpsa, Ambassador's spouse Alina…