The Chittagong University (CU) student who was found dead in a flat on Wednesday night had been killed due to an ‘extramarital affair’.  Police said the deceased’s girlfreind and her husband might have been involved in the incident. On Wednesday night, Bayezidd police recovered…

KHULNA: The Khulna Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Kwasa) is constructing a water treatment plant in the city's Mujgunni area involving Tk 20 crore, aiming to sell bottled water among people at low price, reports UNB. The construction work of the plant that started in 2016 on 14 kathas of land…

Detectives in a drive arrested the ex-husband of slain female banker Arifunnesa from Dhanbari in Tangail district yesterday in connection with the murder…

Popular film actress and director Arifa Parvin Moushumi, better known by her stage name Moushumi, first appeared in the film ‘Keyamat Theke Keyamat’…

A fire broke out at a plywood factory in Rafat Tower at Karwabazar, adjacent to the TCB Bhavan in the capital yesterday afternoon. A fire service source told The Independent that the fire broke out at ‘Sakhawat Timbers’ that made plywood there around 4.30pm yesterday. On information, seven…

A thin and shaky boy attired in a dirty old shirt along with his friend was taking ganja (marijuana) in Fairmgate area of the capital Dhaka on Thursday night, reports BSS. A youth with long unkempt hair was looking at the boy aged between nine and 10 with a deep attention. The youth intercepted the…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a post-rally discussion yesterday unequivocally called for a concerted effort to bring all the undetected tuberculosis patients under proper treatment for building a TB free society, reports BSS. They said TB is no more a killer disease as early detection, proper and timely diagnosis…

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) is going to implement a Tk 340 crore project aiming to well decorate and development the whole campus and its education and research, reports BSS. Under the mega project, three academic buildings with an administrative building, institute…

RAJSHAHI: One hundred and five drug peddlers of Shahmukhdum area in the city have returned to normal life with a promise of not getting involved in the heinous act again, reports BSS. On the occasion, they were rehabilitated with rickshaw-van, sewing machines and cash money. In this connection, Rajshahi…

3 DU students get Prof Habiba Khatun Scholarship Three meritorious students of the Department of Islamic History and Culture at Dhaka University (DU) on Thursday received "Professor Dr Habiba Khatun Scholarship" for their academic results in BA Honors Examinations. The scholarship recipients…

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong Metropolitan Police in a drive arrested an arms trader with a single barrel gun and four round of cartridge from city's Fisherighat area on Thursday. The arrested person was identified as Jewel Nath, 28, a CNG-run three wheeler driver of the port city. Based on secret information,…

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) on Thursday removed several unauthorised business establishments from the residential area in Uttara in the capital, reports UNB. A Rajuk mobile court team, led by Rajuk Executive Magistrate Md Nasir Uddin, also fined a private and a hospital Tk 2 lakh for running…