Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday laid emphasis on turning Dhaka into a ‘cleaner and eye-catching’ city maintaining international standards through joint efforts, reports UNB. He made the remark while addressing a ‘clean city campaign’ on the Foreign Ministry premises.…

Shougat Nazbin Khan, a young education advocate from Bangladesh, who was earlier denied UK visa twice, finally got the visa yesetrday morning, reports UNB. Nazbin has made her place among the Commonwealth Youth Awards winners from Asia region but her joining the prestigious event had turned uncertain…

A daylong ‘Basanta Utsab’, spring festival, was held at Dhaka University's Mall Chattar with spectacular presentation of traditional music,…

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said a drive to demolish illegal roadside and highway structures will start across the country today, reports UNB. He said this while talking reporters during inspection of the activities of an ongoing BRTA-led mobile court in the capital’s…

Ex Cadets Forum (ECF), a platform of former students of country’s twelve cadet colleges, are conducting an extra ordinary programme of distributing  used toys to the under-privileged children across the country from the last year. Talking to The Independent, Fida Haq, chief of the social…

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered to re-investigate by judicial magistrate into the alleged sexual assault of a woman by five policemen, including former Officer in-Charge of Jatrabari Police Station, Aboni Shankar Kar. Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal -2 Judge Shafiul Azam passed the…

Customs Intelligence seized 22,400 pieces of Security Digital (SD) memory cards worth about Taka one crore at Hazrat Shahjalal ® International Airport yesterday morning, reports BSS. Director General (DG) of Airport Customs Dr Mainul Islam confirmed it saying, “The cards have been brought…

A two-day long 'Digital Innovation Fair-2016' began at Rajshahi College playground in the city yesterday morning. District Administration organised…

Around 30 per cent of total stalls in the Khulna International Trade Fair-2016 (KITF-16) are yet to get ready for showcasing products even after its formal opening on March 6 at Khulna Circuit House ground in the city. Participants attributed the main reasons of being late in preparing their stalls…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a meeting in the city observed that the slum poor and extreme poor families need more health and nutritional supports for bringing them out from the vicious circle of malnutrition, reports BSS. They viewed time has come to substantial reduction of uterine physical and mental disabilities…

GAZIPUR: An unidentified man was killed and 10 others were injured as a human hauler plunged into a roadside ditch on the Kaliakoir bypass in Goalbachhan area of Kaliakoir upazila, reports UNB. Quoting witnesses, police said the accident took place in the area around 7am as the human hauler plunged…

JU philosophy alumni reunion tomorrow The alumni association of the philosophy department of Jahangirnagar University is set to stage its reunion on the campus on March 18, a press release of the association said. It requested former students of the department to contact convenor of the reunion Ashish…

Body of girl recovered The body of young girl was recovered from Kirtonkhola River in Dapdapia Ferri Ghat area of Barisal city on Monday evening. She was identified as Akhi Akter, a third year student of Barisal Nursing Institute. Police recovered the body and sent it to the morgue for autopsy. Police…