The Cabinet yesterday approved the draft of the 'Rajshahi Development Authority Bill, 2016' aiming to give a firm legal shape to the existing ordinance and help planned development of  Rajshahi city, reports UNB. The approval came from the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Jatiya…

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday framed three specific charges against four people for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity conducted during the 1971 Liberation War in Sudharampur upazila of Noakhali district, reports UNB. The three-member panel of the tribunal, headed…

The administration has decided to disconnect all the illegal electricity and gas lines at hills and to stop activities of all kinds of Non-government Organisation (NGO) services. The decision has been taken in a meeting of Hill Management Committee yesterday held at Chittagong Divisional Commissioner’s…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interrogated two former directors of Agrani Bank Limited in connection with a Tk 270 crore loan scam. ACC deputy director Benzir Ahmad interrogated former directors of the bank Ranjit Kumar Chakrawarty and Manjurul Haque Lavlu at the Commission’s…

A mobile court yesterday jailed four brokers to different terms and fined them Tk4 lakh, who were held at Shah Amanat International Airport during sending people to Greece via Turkey fraudulently on Sunday night. Executive Magistrate of Chittagong district administration Tahmilur Rahman led the mobile…

The waiting list of selected students for admission to different government and private colleges will be published on June 24, reports UNB. Inter-education board coordination subcommittee chairman Mahbubur Rahman said some 1,301,099 students applied for admission through online and SMS this year. The…

More than half of the nearly 30,000 auto-rickshaws plying on the roads of Rajshahi are not registered. Moreover, a syndicate active in the city is allowing…

A three-member probe committee has been formed yesterday over the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) factional clashes at Chittagong Government College on Saturday and Sunday. The committee, headed by Dr Ferdous Ara Begum, head of department of Bangla, has been asked to submit the report within three days.…

ASI killed in road crash An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police was killed as a truck hit his motorbike at Sutrapur Boardghor on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Kalikoir upazila on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Taiyubur Rahman, an assistant sub-inspector of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station…

DU THM dept alumni assoc hosts iftar party The newly formed convening committee of Dhaka University Tourism & Hospitality Management Alumni Association (DUTHMAA) hosted its first iftar party at the department on the campus on Saturday evening. Dr Saker Ahmed, chairman of the Tourism and Hospitality…