A tribunal in the capital yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing a woman and her domestic help in the city’s Jatrabari area in 2015, reports UNB. The condemned convicts are Mohammad Sayeed Hawlader, brother of the deceased’s domestic help Kalpana Akhter, and his friend Mohammad…

Chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Iqbal Mahmood on Tuesday said the discretionary power of public officials is the key reason behind corruption in public services, reports UNB.  “So, the discretionary power of government officials should be curtailed to check corruption,”…

The High Court yesterday directed the director general of the Department of Immigration and Passport to give in seven days a Machine Readable Passport (MRP) to BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. After concluding hearing on a petition filed by Rizvi, the HC bench comprising Justice…

The construction of Jhilmil Housing Project, which was undertaken by 1997, would be completed by 2017, said Chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkho (RAJUK) M Bazlul Karim Chaudhury, reports BSS. Talking to BSS, he said, the land and infrastructural development including roads, culverts in and around…

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways Ministry on Tuesday recommended installing luggage scanners at important railway stations, including Dhaka and Chittagong, reports UNB. The committee made the recommendation in its 27th meeting held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with its chairman ABM Fazle…

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday urged people to raise their voice against the proposed coal-based Rampal power plant, reports UNB. The left-leaning party came up with call at a street rally at Paltan intersection in the morning. CPB leaders Ruhin Hossain Prince, Musleah Uddin, Jahid Hossain…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday caught a land official in Chittagong red-handed while taking bribe, reports UNB. A seven-member ACC team, led by its deputy director Mosharraf Hossain Mrida, arrested office assistant of Assistant Commissioner’s (Land) office (Agrabad circle) Sanjib…

SYLHET: A Nepali student of a private medical college in the city has been missing for the last 13 days, reports UNB. The missing student was identified as Sawgat Gewali, 26, a student of North East Medical College in the city. Medical College sources said that Sawgat used to live in a room of ‘Rupsha’…

NARAYANGANJ: Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Simrail area in Sddhirganj upazila early Yesterday, reports UNB. Identities of the arrestees could not be confirmed yet. A team of Rab-11 conducted a drive in the area…

Prabir Das Gupta, a former photojournalist of the Daily Sangbad and the Daily Janakantha, passed away at a hospital in the USA on Monday. He was 57, reports UNB. Gupta who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA, breathe his last around 6:30am, said a Jatiya Press Club press release on Tuesday. …

Agitated students of Barisal BM  College yesterday blocked a road in front of the college for an hour demanding to resume construction work of a…

University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan yesterday urged the Australian government to provide scholarships for Bangladeshi university teachers especially young scholars for their professional skills development, says a press release.  He also observed that more academic…

Chief of Army Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq has said that Bangladesh Army has received appreciation from the world for its role to combat…

Judicial conference on climate from Feb 25  Bangladesh is all set to host “South Asian Judicial Conference on Environment and Climate Change” on February 25, 26, 2017, with Chief Justices from different countries including India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan and Nepal…

BU entry tests results published  BARISAL: The Barisal University authorities have published the results of admission tests for the first year honours course for 2016-17 academic session with 23 per cent pass rate. Prof SM Imamul Huq, vice-chancellor of BU, at a press conference at BU conference…