Awami League Presidium Member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday expressed government's firm commitment to defeat and eradicate militants and terrorists under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "The militants and terrorists have to be eliminated forever…

The government has taken pragmatic steps to dispose of sacrificial animal wastes properly during the coming Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, reports BSS.Md Abdul Halim, director general of the Governance Innovation Unit (GIU) of the Prime Minister’s Office, told…

The quality of services of intercity trains on different routes across the country has deteriorated with the passage of time as the railway authorities have failed to maintain the standards as promised during their launching, allege passengers, reports UNB. “Bangladesh Railway introduces various…

Police in a drive detained 18 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir from a house in the capital’s Badda area yesterday morning, reports UNB. Tipped off, a team of police launched a drive in the house on road no.8 in the area and picked up 18 Jamaat-Shibir men while…

CHITTAGONG: Detectives in separate drives arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team from different parts of the city and Patiya upazila early yesterday, reports BSS. The arrestees were identified as Farhad, a former student of Chittagong University, Mohammad Imran,…

An acute electricity and water crisis prevailing at the Rangpur Medical College Hospital for the past one month has worsened over the last five days. …

KHULNA: Around 50,000 tonnes of fertilisers are facing damage being kept under the open sky at Roosevelt Jetty in Khulna district for several months for want of space and other reasons.The fertilisers left piled up there are set to lose their effectiveness due to long exposure to rainwater and dusty…

BAU celebrates 56th founding anniversary MYMENSINGH: Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) chalked out an elaborate programme on the campus yesterday to celebrate it’s 56th founding anniversary.  including joyous rally, tree plantation, fish fry release. The daylong programme started at…

SYLHET: Muggers looted Tk6 lakh from a businessman at Gopatila area in Tilagar of the city on Thursday, reports UNB. Locals said Abu Taher, a businessman and a resident of Khadimpara Nipobon Residential, was going to Jail Road area by a motorcycle in the afternoon after withdrawing Tk6lakh from Islampur…

RAJSHAHI: A fire broke out at a jute warehouse at Nauhata in Airport area of Sadar upazila yesterday, reports UNB. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the jute warehouse, owned by Fazal Hossain, around 9am and spread soon. Huge jute, pesticides and maize kept…

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) and also Chancellor of Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Iyad Ameen Madani visited the university campus at Boardbazar in Gzipur yesterday. Vice-Chancellor of IUT Munaz Ahmed Noor welcomed Iyad Ameen and his associates on…