The High Court today asked Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner to produce two children arrested over a murder, before it on January 29, reports UNB. "A High Court division bench comprising Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah passed the order, asking DMP boss to…

The Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has been working to stop internal corruption aimed at ensuring transparency, accountability and dynamism among the officials and staff of the body, reports BSS. It has formed a committee titled Internal Anti-Corruption Committee headed by its chairman in accordance…

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki yesterday said the incidence of child marriage will reduce to a large extend by 2021 when Bangladesh will become a middle-income country, reports BSS. "If the current trend of development continues, Bangladesh will become a middle…

Mayor of the London Borough of Brent, Councillor Parvez Ahmed made a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in the capital yesterday afternoon. During the meeting, the visiting mayor apprised the president of the activities of his council, president's Press Secretary Joynal Abedin…

Journalist organisations will stage rallies throughout the country on Wednesday to press home their demand for constituting the 9th wage board. As part of central programme, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) will stage a rally in front of National Press Club at 11am on January 18, said…

BNP and its associate bodies have chalked out various programmes to observe the 81st birth anniversary of its founder Ziaur Rahman on Thursday, reports UNB. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesetrday announced the programmes at a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan central…

RAJSHAHI: The three-day "Digital Innovation Fair 2017" ended on Rajshahi College playground in the city on Saturday evening with a call to make people aware about e-services to engage them in the digital activities. In collaboration with ICT ministry and Access to Information (A2I) project…

KHULNA: Journalists and other socio-cultural and political organisations here yesterday observed the 13th death anniversary of eminent journalists Manik Saha with demand for capital punishment of his killers, reports BSS. "We did not satisfied about verdict of Journalist Manik Saha murder case…

Fire kills septuagenarian woman A septuagenarian woman was burned to death and three people were injured as a fire broke out at a house at Koyamajampur village in Durgapur upazila early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Labanya Prova, 70, wife of late Niranjan Kumar Mandal of the village. Sub-inspector…

Seminar on Tomorrow’s Economy held at EWU The Department of Economics and the Bangladesh Youth Economist Association jointly organised a seminar on ‘Tomorrow’s Economy: Bangladesh Perspective’ at East West University (EWU) at Aftabnagar in the capital on Saturday, says a press…