Police in Durgapur on Thursday arrested two union parishad (UP) members for torturing two boys in Rajshahi’s Durgapur upazila. The duo have been identified as Abdul Motaleb and Abdul Latif Mirza, both members of the Jhaluka union parishad in Durgapur upazila. They have been accused of torturing…

Zainul Abedin, a Urdu speaking senior journalist and one of the 1952 Bengali Language Movement veterans, was buried at Intellectual Martyrs graveyard at Mirpur in the capital yesterday afternoon, reports BSS. The octogenarian journalist, also a famous Bengali and Urdu movie script writer, was laid to…

CHITTAGONG: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate a water treatment plant with a daily production capacity of nine-crore liters water in Chittagong on Sunday, reports BSS. The Prime Minister will open the 'Sheikh Hasina Water Treatment Plant' project at a function to be held…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized an abandoned luxury car with no legal ownership and false documents at Golapbagh in the capital on Thursday. Talking to The Independent yesterday, RAB-3 Commanding Officer (CO) Lt Col Tuhin Md Masud confirmed the matter. “We are investigating whether the luxury…

The Varendra Research Museum houses some of the most fascinating ancient artefacts of the Indian sub-continent. It is the first museum of the country…

RAJSHAHI: Administrative officials and development activists at a post-rally discussion yesterday mentioned dissemination of science-based information can be an effective means of substantially reducing loss of lives and property caused by the natural disasters, reports BSS. They viewed there is no…

The Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) is one of the most prominent universities of Bangladesh. It’s playing an important role in creating intellectuals for Bangladesh. The RUET provides educational and related facilities to give students the ability to plan, administer and…

The prosecution has pressed formal charges against five alleged war criminals from Gaibandha in cases for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, reports UNB. The prosecution submitted the chargesheets to the registrar's office of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Thursday…

8th Biochemistry Olympiad at DU today Dhaka University (DU) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department will stage 8th Biochemistry Olympiad today. Registration form and syllabus are available at http://www.biochemolympiad.org/, a press release said. For details, one will have to communicate at the…

3 pharmacies fined in Sylhet SYLHET: A mobile court of the Sylhet district administration on Thursday fined three pharmacies Taka 30,000 for selling unapproved medicine in Dakshin Surma upazila of the district. The convicted pharmacies are The Foysal Medical, Zerin Pharma and Medicine Corner in Chandipur…