Awami League presidium member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday congratulated BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for not cutting cake on the National Mourning Day in the name of observance of her false birthday, reports BSS. "Good sense has prevailed upon you at long…

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed yesterday between Public Libraries Department and British Council for turning all libraries, under Public Library, into digital.  Director General of Public Libraries Department Ashish Kumar Sarkar and Country Director of British Council Barbara Wickham…

The country is to recall today the 11th anniversary of the countrywide simultaneous bomb attacks carried out by Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which is said to have staged the July 1 terrorist attack at Dhaka's Holey Artisan restaurant, reports BSS.  Two people were killed and few…

The 10th death anniversary of one of the major poets of modern Bengali poetry Shamsur Rahman will be observed today in a befitting manner.  Different…

SYLHET: A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) died after falling off from a fountain in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong district on Monday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Animesh Dey, 28, son of Niranjan Dey of Fatikchhari upazila of Chittagong district.…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday arrested an administrative officer of Economic Relations Division of  the Finance Ministry from Dinajpur in a graft case, reports UNB. ACC deputy assistant director Md Kamruzzaman of its Dinajpur zila office arrested administrative officer Shaharul…

KHULNA:  Detective Branch Police (DB) of KMP arrested a man with Taka 1.5 lakh counterfeit notes during a drive from Labonchara area in the city Monday night, reports BSS. Assistant Commissioner of DB of KMP Kamrul Islam said based on secret information police arrested Md. Ekramul, 34, son of Yakub…

Bus operators will start selling advance  tickets for home goers of different routes of northern districts on August 26 on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, reports UNB. “The decision was taken from a meeting of Bangladesh Bus-Trucks  Owners Association in its office at Gabtoli. However,…

An anti-terrorism art exhibition will begin in the capital on Friday commemorating the 41st martyrdom anniversary of architect of Independence and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports BSS. Gallery Cosmos is organising the special group art exhibition of contemporary artists…

Members of customs intelligence and Armed Police Battalion (APBn) early yesterday arrested a youth with 600 cartons of foreign cigarettes worth about Taka 25 lakh from Canopy-2 area of Hazrat Shahjalal ® International Airport. Tanjina Akhter, assistant police super (ASP) of ABPn, confirmed the news…

Barisal City Corporation (BCC) will place a high ‘ambitious’ budget amounting about Tk 415 crore for the 2016-17 today.  BCC mayor, however, assured that the corporation would not impose any fresh taxes on the city dwellers. Amount of BCC budget will be crossed Tk. 450 crore related…

RAJSHAHI: Department of Social Forestry (DSF) has distributed 1000 saplings of different fruit trees among the people at free of cost in the city yesterday, reports BSS. The DSF officials arranged the daylong distribution programme in observance of the National Mourning Day and 41st Martyrdom anniversary…

Four activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, a student organisation of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, were arrested with four crude bombs, two sharp weapons and huge amount of anti-government leaflets from a residence in Bashugaon area of Gazipur city on Sunday.  They were placed before a press…

Youth Development Department will give a credit of Taka 30 crore to the 7,886 trained youths across the country for making them self-reliant, reports BSS. Youth Development Department on Monday handed over cheques to the trained youths at the department’s conference room in the city as part of…

CHITTAGONG:  Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four men for their alleged involvement in snatching from city's Agrabad commercial area under Doublemooring on Monday night, reports BSS. The arrested were identified as Mohammad Siraj Mia, 30, Mohammad Manik, 32, Mohammad Amin,…

Security to be beefed up at hospitals  The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday decided to beef up security at all public and private hospitals and a guideline would be issued soon in this regard, said an official handout. An instruction would also be made asking the authorities…

DU team champion in global case contest  A team of Dhaka University has been awarded the championship award (Don Dewar award) in global case competition named 'International Convention on Student Quality Control Circle' (ICSQCC), says a press release. The convention was held in Mauritius…