A mobile court yesterday sentenced an employee of Dhaka University to two years’ jail for sexually harassing a female student of the university’s Sufia Kamal hall on Sunday night. He was identified as Mohammad Ali, an employee of DU Fazlul Haque Hall and also worked at the Sufia Kamal hall…

Police arrested a youth on charges of violating a minor girl in Khilgaon thana area in the capital early yesterday. The arrestee was Rubel alias Dibba Rubel, 35, son of Abdul Barek, police said. “Rubel with the help of two others raped the 11-year-old girl in their rented house in Pashchim Nandipara…

RANGPUR: Police arrested three local leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday on charges of hurling petrol bombs, killing innocent people and conducting subversive activities, police sources said, reports BSS. Of them, police arrested Jamaat leaders Abul Hossain, 42, and Shahadat Hossain, 50. Officer-in-Charge…

A case was filed against a drug addict with Keraniganj Model Police Station on Sunday night for allegedly killing his father, reports UNB. Alifa Begum, wife of deceased Md Mamtaz Uddin, filed the case with the police station against her son Md Tamij Uddin Tomu, 25, said sub inspector Saiduzzaman. Mamtaz…

The 44th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Krishak League (BKL), an associate body of the ruling Awami League, will be observed in the city as elsewhere across the country today, reports BSS. On this day in 1972, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman floated Bangladesh Krishak League…

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday expressed deep shock at the loss of lives due to recent devastating earthquake in Ecuador that claimed at least 77 lives so far, reports BSS. "I am deeply saddened to learn about the tragic loss of at least 77 lives and injury to a few hundred due to the…

Hundreds of people in Barisal suffered as owners and workers of buses began an indefinite strike yesterday halting passenger travel on seven routes. Sufferings…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a view-sharing meeting yesterday held out the view that forging greater unity among the working journalists is imperative for their…

RAJSHAHI: Ensuring social justice and improvement of living condition of ethnic minority communities in the country’s northwest region are vital for their overall welfare, reports BSS. The ethnic people were always deprived of land rights, food, healthcare, education and cultural facilities, so…

Two shops gutted in Ctg At least two shops were gutted in a fire at south Kattoli area under Pahartali thana in the city at 1.45 am Sunday night. Fire service sources said the fire originated from cooking oven from one of the shop at south Kattoli area under Pahartali thana 1.45 am and it quickly engulfed…

New Zealand varsity professor meets DU VC Dr David Simmons, professor of Tourism of Lincoln University in New Zealand, paid a courtesy call on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique at his office yesterday. Assistant Professor of DU Tourism and Hospitality Management Department Muhammad…