Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said if BNP goes for a movement over the issue of constituting the new Election Commission, AL will face it politically, reports UNB. "Unrealistic proposal won't change anything as there is no scope…

Customs officials seized 1.5 kilogram of gold worth about Taka 75 lakh from stomach of a Malaysia returned passenger at Shahjalal International Airport in the capital, reports BSS. "Fifteen gold bars weighing 1.5kg were seized from the stomach of Zobair Akhter, who was arrested from the Green Channel…

A minor boy was killed after being hit by a battery-run rickshaw at Uttara in the capital on Saturday morning, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Md Russel, 12, son of Md Ismail of Kakongaon village in Kamlakanda upazila of Netrakona district. Sub-inspector Bacchu Miah, in-charge of Dhaka Medical…

Prof Dr Khalequzzaman Matin, a teacher of Lock Haven University in the USA, on Friday underscored the need for taking plans for the haor regions keeping in mind their agriculture, fisheries, livestock, forestation and biodiversity, reports UNB.  Khalequzzaman, also a resident of the haor region…

GAZIPUR: A devotee died at the Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi area on the outskirts of the capital early Saturday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Joynal Abedin, 70, a resident of Kishoreganj district. Sources said Joynal died in the dead of night due to old age complications. The second phase…

Harunur Rashid Khan Monno, an industrialist and BNP chairperson’s adviser, was airlifted to Singapore on Friday evening as he fell sick seriously, reports UNB. Monno was flown to Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital in an air ambulance for better treatment, said a BNP press release. He was admitted…

RAJSHAHI: All the government, non-government and research organisations concerned and other stakeholders should come forward and work together to free the poultry sector from further avian influenza infection, said experts at a workshop here yesterday, reports BSS. They viewed focus should be given…

The 19th annual Education UK Exhibition will take place at the British Council, Dhaka University Campus office at Fuller Road on January 26 and 27, says a press release. Twenty-one globally renowned UK institutions will participate in the biggest UK education exhibition in Bangladesh. Students are encouraged…

Body of youth found in Savar An unidentified young man was found dead near Bypail-Abdullahpur highway in Ashulia Bazar on Saturday noon. The age of the deceased was around 30. Mohsinul Kadir, officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station, said locals spotted the body of the youth at noon and informed…

New chairman, vice chairman of IUB Founding Trust  Trustee Abdul Hai Sarker and Trustee Khondkar Zakaria Mahmud (K Z Mahmud) have been elected as the chairman and vice chairman respectively of the Education, Science, Technology and Cultural Development Trust (ESTCDT) for a two-year term (2017-18),…