The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to introduce a hotline 106 to lodge complaints against corruption over phones from home and abroad aimed at fighting the menace effectively. "The commission will introduce the hotline 106 at the quickest possible time," public relations officer of…

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will carry out an eviction drive to recover the Nandipara Trimohoni canal in the capital on February 6, reports UNB. Besides, the DSCC also plans to conduct eviction drives on both sides of Beribadh (embankment) on Babubazar to Rayerbazaar Sikder Medical College to…

A case was filed in Chittagong yesterday under section 57 of Information and Technology Act over derogatory comments on Road  Transport  and Bridges Minister Obaidul Qader and Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid in facebook. Md Iqbal, a local Awami League leader of the city’s EPZ area,…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested an official of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) in a graft case, reports UNB. An ACC team of its Rangpur zila office, led by its assistant director Mohammad Zakaria, arrested accountant of BRDB's Lalmonirhat office AKM Jahidul Alam…

GAZIPUR: A court yesterday sentenced four persons to suffer life term imprisonment for killing their brother in Ranchandrapur area of the district in 2004, reports BSS. Additional session judge court-2 Judge M Iqbal Hossain pronounced the judgment.  According to the court sources, the convicted…

Owners association of Truck- Mini Truck and Lorry went on strike form indefinite period from and to southern region from yesterday morning demanding 12…

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) will conserve the existing social, cultural and archeological heritages in the city, reports BSS. To this end, the city corporation will develop and promote necessary infrastructures. It has formulated a project titled "Sustainable Development of the city…

RAJSHAHI: By dint of implementation of a project, many villagers, including inhabitants of the high Barind tract, are getting safe drinking water for the last couple of years, reports BSS. The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has been supplying arsenic-free drinking to people in some…

2-day music festival begins at DU today  A two-day music festival will begin at Teacher Student Centre on Dhaka University (DU) campus today.  DU Music Department will organise the festival while Vice-Chancellor of the university Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique will inaugurate the function…

3 Jamaat-Shibir men arrested Police arrested three Jamaat leaders from Jagua area of the city on Sunday night. Acting on a tip off police raided the area at 10pm and arrested the three.  Shah Md Awlad Hosen, officer in charge of Barisal Kotwali Model Police Station, said that 10 of the Jamaat-Shibir…