The government is strengthening further the capacity of the Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG), with adding four new ships to its fleet from Italy, reports BSS. Out of the four new ships, two are arriving in the end of July and the rest two will be here in next December or January 2017, official sources said.…

President Abdul Hamid yesterday cancelled his visit to Chittagong to join a programme marking the 117th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, reports UNB. The president cancelled the tour due to the inclement weather in the morning, according to press wing of the Bangabhaban.  Hamid…

Chittagong: Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor  yesterday said a Nazrul Memorial Centre will be established in the district to preserve the memories of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam  as per the prime minister’s order, reports UNB. He said this while addressing a function held…

The third novel of award-winning author Tahmima Anam ‘The Bones of Grace’, the last of Anam’s trilogy on the Haque family, came out…

The government has appointed AMM Forhad, former joint secretary to the government, as the next Ambassador of Bangladesh to Iraq, reports UNB. In his career, Forhad, a member of the BCS (Administration) cadre, made his mark as an efficient civil servant in different governmental organisations he had…

Family members of Sabira Hossain Moutoshi (21), a model, who allegedly committed suicide at her rented flat in the capital’s Rupnagar area early…

High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited limb fitment camp at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) in the capital yesterday, a special camp that provides disabled people with artificial limbs. Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti…

KHULNA: With the aim to remove water logging problems and to modernize Khulna City, Khulna Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (KWASA) has taken up a project to set up 320 km sewerage line and two water refining project, reports BSS. KWASA will implement the project with the assistance of Asian Development…

CHITTAGONG: Customs authority detained two officials of an exporting agency with nearly 60 kilograms of turtle meat at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport yesterday, reports BSS. The detainees were identified as Ranjit Paul and Ripon Dey, employees of the exporting agency ‘GR Trading’.…

LGRD minister off to Turkey A delegation led by Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain left Dhaka yesterday for Turkey to participate in the three-day conference on “High Level Midterm Review of Istanbul Programme of Action (IPOA) at Antalya…

New project ‘Save our Earth’ launched Eastern University and Rotary Club of Dhaka Royal Started a joint project ‘Save our Earth’. It was inaugurated by Abul Khair Chowdhury, chairman Board of Trustees of Eastern University, and Rotarian Shereen Bon CP of RC Dhaka Royal, says…