A court in the capital yesterday sent national cricketer Arafat Sunny to jail in a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act,…

Police yesterday arrested a woman for forging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's signature in a letter ‘ordering’ enrolment of a female student at Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University. “We have arrested one woman from the Agriculture University for forging the premier's signature,”…

icddr,b's senior scientist Dr K Zaman has been selected member of the World Health Organisation's Polio Research Committee (PRC), reports UNB.…

A journalist of an English daily was injured as a speedy car hit him in the capital’s Karwanbazar area yesterday. He was identified as Mamur Rashid, senior reporter of the Daily Observer. According to the eyewitness, Mamun, also former organising secretary of the Crime Reporters Association of…

Eight newly appointed High Court judges took oath yesterday morning at Supreme Court Judges’ Lounge.  Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha administered the oath, while Supreme Court Registrar General Syed Aminul Islam conducted the oath taking ceremony in presence of judges of both the divisions…

CHITTAGONG: A college girl was killed in a road accident in Komol Munshir Hat area on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway under Patiya upazila of the district yesterday, reports BSS. The victim was identified as Popy Akter, 19, a-2nd-year (Humanities) student of Patiya Government College and daughter…

CHITTAGONG:  Eight people were injured in a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Chittagong University (CU) early yesterday, reports BSS. Ali Ashraf Chowdhury, proctor of CU, said the clash ensued between the supporters of ‘Sixty Nine’ and ‘VX’…

Meat sellers in Dhaka will go for a six-day strike from today protesting what they said ‘widespread extortion at Gabtali cattle market’ as well as harassments. It was announced by the Dhaka Metropolitan Meat Merchant Association yesterday by its advisor and secretary general of Bangladesh…

CHITTAGONG:  A 10-day long book fair, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day-2017, will begin on DC hill and its surrounding areas from February 14, reports BSS. Press and Publicity Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League will inaugurate the fair as chief guest on Tuesday. Hasand Murad…

A local resident of Rajshahi beat up a Rajshahi University (RU) student severely and snatched his laptop yesterday around 4pm.  The incident took place in New Market area. He was indentified as Hridoy, a third year student of philosophy department. Sources said Hridoy caught Mim red handed…

KHULNA: Rice prices have marked a sharp rise in the district due to a fall in import and the ‘monopoly’ of a syndicate of some rice mill owners, reports UNB. Visiting retail markets in the city, the correspondent found coarse rice was selling in between Tk 34-35 per kilogram, up from Tk…

CHITTAGONG: The elections to the Chittagong District Bar Association (CDBA), the country’s second largest professional body, was held here yesterday in a peaceful manner, reports BSS. Election commission sources said nearly 3100 lawyers out of 3,801 exercised their rights of franchise from 9 am…

RAJSHAHI: Some academics at a discussion yesterday highlighted the enormous aspects of expanding science education towards building digital Bangladesh and emphasized the need for itsfurthermore expansion, reports BSS.    They mentioned there is no alternative to building science-based skilled…

The two-day youth conference on climate change began in Barisal city yesterday with a theme ‘Youth Action Youth Mindset, Safer Environment Green Planet’.  Offices of Barisal Divisional Commissioner, Department of Environment (DoE) and UNICEF jointly organised the programme. The programmes…

 Worker killed in road crash A transport worker was killed and 20 garment workers were injured as a bus turned turtle on Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Genda Bus Stand area yesterday morning. The identity of the deceased is yet to be known. Officer-in-charge of Savar Model Police Station SM Kamruzzaman…

EWU holds a seminar on ‘Public Science’ East West University (EWU) organised a seminar titled ‘Public Science’ on EWU campus at Aftabnagar in the capital on Saturday, says press release.  Dr M Zahid Hasan, Professor, Princeton University, USA  and prominent scientists…