Students of Jagannath University (JnU) enforced a 24-hour strike at the university yesterday morning to press further the demand for constructing residential halls for them on the empty land of Dhaka Central Jail, reports UNB. The students had announced the strike from their demonstrations…

The pass rate of Chittagong education board has increased this year and it is 64.60 per cent. The result was published yesterday along with others education boards of the country.   The per cent of pass is 1.11 percentage points higher than that of last year in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)…

Bangladesh Chhatra Union, the student front of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, yesterday demanded arrest of the persons involved in killing of its activist Afsana Ferdous including Tejgaon College unit Bangladesh Chhatra League organising secretary Habibur Rahman Robin, the main suspect. The union…

SYLHET: Police arrested a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) from the campus yesterday for his suspected link to militancy, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified Salman Abedin, a student of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department of the university. SUST Student…

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday said that no elections would be held in the country before the incumbent Awami League-led government ends its tenure.  “Incumbent government has its validity till January 29, 2019. So, where does the question of a middle term election come from?,”…

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday said all public hospitals will prove free medical treatment to police personnel who will be injured while discharging duties, reports BSS.   He made this announcement while addressing a discussion meeting on the occasion of National Mourning…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in overnight raids arrested four Africans and a local from different parts of the capital and Sonargaon of Narayang anj district on charges of fraudulence, reports BSS. The arrestees are-- ringleader of the gang, Denis Okwudiri alias Chief, 40, Agustin Mathew, 36, Marvin,…

RAJSHAHI: Development activists at a round-table discussion here yesterday opined that social responsibility and political will is very much vital to protect child rights, reports BSS. Besides protecting their legitimate rights, the children must be freed from all sorts of violation, repression and…

RANGPUR: Ensuring school-based hygienic sanitation, pure drinking water and better health practice in the backward rural communities would help in building a healthier nation, reports BSS. The opinion came at an advocacy meeting organised by Rangpur unit of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) with…

Huge yaba, phensidyl seized Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in two separate drives arrested two people along with 90,000 pieces of yaba tablet and recovered 6,000 bottles of contraband Indian phensidyl syrup in the in Chittagong early yesterday. Tipped off, a team of RAB conducted a drive in…