CHITTAGONG: The port city of Chittagong yesterday recalled the horrifying August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital, expecting intensified trial process to expose the culprits to justice, reports BSS. Different political parties, social and cultural organisations arranged…

President Abdul Hamid yesterday asked the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to take programmes to create public awareness against militancy and terrorism that hamper rights of the people, reports BSS. President Abdul Hamid said this when an eight-member delegation of NHRC, led by its newly appointed…

Rejecting the autopsy report of Afsana, left student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra Union yesterday demanded a fresh post-mortem to find out the real…

Dr Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari, professor of English department and Dr Selim Toha, Professor of Law and Muslim Jurisprudence department of Islamic University…

The online admission process for the first year honours courses of Dhaka University (DU) for 2016-17 academic sessions begins today and will continue till September 7. DU Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique will inaugurate the admission process at 10am at central admission office of the university…

Speakers at a workshop in the capital yesterday stressed the need for institutionalising disaster management in the school curriculum, to build a country that is truly disaster-resilient, reports UNB. They said a school emergency response guideline for all the primary schools can help cope with climate…

CHITTAGONG: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) commissioner Dr Nasir Uddin Ahmed yesterday asserted that all corrupt officials would be brought to book in order to remove corruption from the country, reports BSS. He said the ACC is working for the welfare of the people and it is acting in all departments…

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced man to seven years imprisonment in a case filed for smuggling gold bars through Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport in 2008.   The court of senior special session judge Md Shah Nur handed down the verdict. The court also fined the convict Tk…

Train hits vehicle; 3 traders killed Three cattle traders were killed as a Dhaka-bound Rangpur Express Intercity Train hit a cow-laden vehicle, locally known as “Votvoti", at Manaspar Kuthirpara point in Rangpur on Saturday night, police said. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kawnia Thana Abdul…

Scholarship awarding ceremony at ULAB University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) awarded scholarships to its highest-achieving students of Spring-2015, Fall-2015, Summer-2015 and Spring-2016 semesters on its Dhanmondi campus in the capital recently, says a press release. Dr Mohammed Farashuddin, chairperson,…