BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed yesterday assured that none would be victims of extrajudicial killings, if BNP voted to power. “People are becoming the victims of killings and enforced disappearances as there is no government with accountability. If BNP voted to power, none…

A well-fitted passenger launch, claimed to be the country's ever best in terms of size and comfort, makes its maiden voyage on Saturday night to Barisal…

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) will arrange a 10-day special steamer services from Dhaka- Barisal route on June 30 on occasion of Eid Ul Fitr festival with five vessels. The Eid special service  of BIWTC vessels with regular services will continue till July 10, said Syed…

President Abdul Hamid has urged the Danish entrepreneurs to invest in various potential sectors, including energy, shipbuilding and ICT, in Bangladesh for mutual benefits of the two countries. The president made the call when Danish Ambassador to Bangladesh Hanne Fugl Eskjaer paid a farewell call on…

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Haque yesterday donated Taka one crore personally to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund, reports BSS. "He (Annisul) handed over a cheque for the amount to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Jatiya Sangsad office this noon," PM's…

CHITTAGONG: A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a series of drives fined a private hospital Taka six lakh for not maintaining cleanliness and selling date expired medicines, reports BSS. Executive magistrate of RAB-7 Mohammad Sarwar Alam along with the officials conducted the drives in…

The government yesterday published the merit list for admission to the Polytechnic Institutes in the academic years 2016-17, reports UNB. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid made the disclosure at a press briefing at the Ministry.  Some 6,05,606 students, who passed in this year’s SSC exam…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a chargesheet against four people, including three physicians of Dinajpur Medical College and Hospital, in a graft case. The Commission at its regular meeting yesterday approved the chargesheet against them, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar…

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has proposed Taka 2,083.35 crore budget for 2016-17 financial year (FY17), reports BSS. Out of the total allocation, Tk  948.25cr will come from the city corporation's own source including Tk 480cr from holding taxes. DNCC Mayor Annisul Huq yesterday made…

RAJSHAHI: Political and social commitment has become an urgent need to combat illicit trafficking of drugs along with its trading and abusing to protect people and the young generation in particular, speakers at a post-human-chain discussion here said yesterday, reports BSS. They said 80 per cent of…

CHITTAGONG: A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced a man to 10 years imprisonment for smuggling in gold bars through the city's airport, reports BSS. The court of Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Shah-e-Nur also fined the convict TK 10,000, in default, to suffer three more months…

2 lakh yaba tablets seized Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized two lakh pieces of yaba tablets from a house in Gohira area of Anwara upazila in Chittagong early Sunday. The force sources said on secret information, a team of coast guard, led by Lieutenant Dixson Chowdhury, conducted a raid on a…

AIMS Lab receives innovation grant of Tk 23.5 lakh Advanced Intelligent Multidisciplinary Systems Lab (AIMS) of United International University received an innovation grant of Tk 23.5 lakh from Access to Information (A2I) Programme, Prime Minister's Office to develop Autism Screening Application,…