SYLHET: Three people were killed and five others injured when a bus collided with a microbus on Sylhet-Dhaka highway at Lalabazar in Dakkhin Surma Upazila on Wednesday morning, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Mahin Ahmed, Jesmin Begum and Sujon Mia of Narayanganj. The accident took place…

River police arrested four alleged robbers along with two sharp weapons from Farashganj area on the Buriganga riverbank in Keraniganj upazila on the outskirts of the capital early Wednesday, reports UNB. The arrestees are: identified as Shahjahan, 55, Mashiur Rahman, 50, Atiar Rahman, 42 and Rahim,…

Various political, socio-cultural, volunteer organisations and educational institutions in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna and Barisal cities observed the Martyred Intellectuals Day yesterday paying rich tribute to the martyrs. In Rajshahi, marking the day, people demanded completion of the trial process…

Intern doctors at Rangpur Medical College Hospital went on an indefinite strike from Tuesday after a clash between two groups of interns on the campus. Police and eyewitnesses said two groups of intern doctors led by between Mahfuzul Haque Raqib and Farhan locked into a clash on Monday (December 12)…

BARISAL: Five brick clines were fined Taka 5.40 lakh on charges of polluting the environment and for running the brick fields without license at Bakerganj upazila of the district on Monday, a press release said on Tuesday, reports BSS Executive magistrates Mahamuda Akhter and M Rejaul Karim with the…

GAZIPUR: Four warehouses of jhut (garment scraps), a mini garments factory, some slum houses and shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Bank Field area in Tongi of the city early Tuesday, reports BSS Fire service sources said the fire broke out from an auto rickshaw garage of the area at about 3 am…

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in an overnight raid on Tuesday arrested 12 members of the Ogyan and Malam Party (doping gangs) from different areas in the capital, reports BSS Police said they used to snatch money and valuables making people unconscious, said a DMP media release.…

RAJSHAHI: During an anti-smuggling drive, members of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) seized huge sex-stimulating tablets from Char Mazar Diar frontier area under Paba Upazila of the district yesterday, BGB sources said, reports BSS.  On a tip-off, a patrol team of the paramilitary force conducted…

Effective English Development Programme (EEDP), a professional business consultancy, completed a month long “Business Professional Communication Corporate Training” for Paragon Group, a local corporate giant on Saturday, says a press release.  Ms. Reshma Mohsen (Chairperson- EEDP) and…

Speaker for educating people on parliamentary democracy Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad and Chairperson of Executive Committee of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has said the people across the world should be educated on practicing parliamentary democracy. "Commonwealth…

Seminar with historian Prof Richard held at IUB The Department of Social Sciences & Humanities of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a seminar at its campus at Bashundhara in the capital on Monday, says a press release. Prof Richard Eaton delivered an in-depth and research-based…