BARISAL: Huge government medicines were found floating in a pond of the staff quarters of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) yesterday morning, reports UNB Residents of the quarters said they found the medicines, with the expiry date of some being 2018 and some 2019, floating in the pond…

Two people were killed as a pickup overturned in Khilkhet area of the capital yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased were Babul Hossain, 24, and Abul Kalam. Babul's uncle Jasim said the Mirpur-bound pickup from Narsingdi, turned turtle on the 300-foot road after hitting the road divider as its driver…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a public gathering here have resolved that cordial relations between police and public in general can be vital means of freeing the society from all sorts of crimes like militancy, fundamentalism, terror-attacks and drugs-abusing, reports BSS. They viewed all-out support from the…

KHULNA:  Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will sell four essential commodities sugar, edible oil, lentil and gram at 15 open points in the city from May 15, reports BSS. A total of 5 trucks to be deployed at 15 points in the city to sell these 4 essential items through designated dealers,…

Police held a young man along with a foreign-made 'firearm' from the Basabo area  of the capital on Wednesday night, reports UNB Police said they held Wahedul Islam, 21, around 11:15am along with a revolver and 14 bullets following a report posted on the official website of Dhaka Metropolitan…

RAJSHAHI: More than 700 teachers of government primary  schools at a human-chain here on Thursday put forward a seven-point demand for removing their existing disparities in the national pay scale, reports BSS. They demanded re-fixing the pay scale of headmaster and assistant teachers  to…

The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, was observed across the country on Thursday night with due religious fervour. Staff reporter adds from Barisal: BCC Mayor Ahsan Habib Kamal visited different mosques of the city on the night and attended the munajat and prayer session at Fazar…

3-day scientific confce begins at NSU tomorrow North South University, (NSU) Bangladesh for the first time ever is organising a major scientific conference of the South East Asia titled ‘International Conference on Genomics, Nanotech and Bioengineering-2017 (ICGNB-2017)’. The three-day conference…