A Rajshahi Court sent two students of Rajshahi Universityto jail on Friday noon. They were caught and handed over to police by the leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Thursday for sharing Middle East-based extremists group Islamic States’ posts on their facebook timeline.…

The phenomenon that witnesses children to be glued to digital devices appeared to have emerged as a severe health threat with experts of late preferring…

KHULNA: Police in separate drives arrested seven war crimes suspects from their houses in Khulna early Friday. The arrestees are Abdur Rahim, Shamsur Rahman, Zahan Ali Biswas, Karim Sheikh, Abu Bakkar, Shahjahan and Raushan Ali.  They hail from different parts of Khoinna, Gollamari and Banai areaa…

Officials of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) seized 750 grams cocaine from a parcel at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday, reports UNB. Assistant Director (Dhaka North) of the DNC Khorshed Alam said Director (OPS) of the DNC received information from the…

Heavy rain submerged many streets of the city yesterday, leaving the normal life in disarray. The low-lying areas of the city went under knee-deep water…

Leo Club of Dhaka Gandaria in association with Novo Nordisk on Friday provided a one-year education cost of 11 intellectually challenged children of SWID Bangladesh School situated at Eskaton, reports UNB. Each student received Tk 8,000. Lions Club of Dhaka supported Leo Club to distribute the money…

A five-day international workshop on "Emerging Roles of Producers' Association and Farmers' Cooperatives" will be held at a hotel in the capital for increasing productivity in industry and agriculture sectors in the Asia-Pacific regional countries, reports BSS. Senior secretary of…

The 13th death anniversary of veteran freedom fighter, labour leader and teacher Ahsanullah Master, MP, will be observed on May 7, reports BSS. Various programmes have been chalked out at different places including Dhaka and Gazipur to mark the day.  Wreaths will be placed on his grave at his village…

Huge foreign cigarettes seized  Customs intelligence arrested a Kuwait returned passenger along with 255 cartons of illegal foreign cigarettes of different brands worth about Taka 15.50 lakh from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital early yesterday. “We arrested one Mohammad…

Inter-university students’ conference and cultural contest  The Department of English at ULAB organised its 3rd Inter-University Students’ Conference and Cultural Competition on Friday to commemorate the 200th death anniversary of British novelist Jane Austen at ULAB auditorium,…