Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the Generation Breakthrough Project is a positive initiative to prevent gender-based violence and improve the reproductive health of the children and adolescent, reports BSS. "The government has taken many initiatives like generation breakthrough to ensure…

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Anisul Haque yesterday said women's holiday markets would be set up in every ward of the corporation in phases. The DNCC is committed to rehabilitate the women entrepreneurs, he said while inaugurating a women's holiday market in city's Mohakhali…

Residents of Uttara, Dhaka’s northern suburb, are set to experience improved power supply as the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) will replace Desco’s 1.6 km high voltage 132 kV grid line to the area, reports UNB. Officials said the Dhaka Electricity Supply Company, or Desco, the…

Six more councilors of Comilla City Corporation yesterday took oath of office at LGRD and Cooperatives ministry in the capital, reports BSS. LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain administrated the oath of office to the newly elected councilors. Of them, four are in general seats…

State Minister for Land Saifuzzaman Chowdhury on Thursday said transformation of traditional land management into complete automation and digitalisation can increase the standard of land related services as well as ensure public security, reports UNB.   The state minister made the remark while…

Rejecting the bail prayers of BNP joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu, a court on Thursday sent him to jail in connection with several cases filed against him for instigating violence in 2015, reports UNB. Metropolitan Magistrate Court yesterday afternoon passed the order after Bulu surrendered…

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) in a drive demolished some illegal structures from the capital's Dhanmondi area yesterday, reports UNB. A mobile court of Rajuk Zone-5, led by executive magistrate M Nasiruddin, conducted the drive at Jafrabad in Dhanmondi and removed some illegal structures…

SYLHET: A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who was found in a critically-injured state, succumbed to a mysterious death on Wednesday morning, reports UNB. Officer-in-Charge of Sylhet Railway Police Station Jahangir Hossain said locals recovered the body of Mostrain Razzak…

The authorities of Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur said two of its giraffes had died yesterday.  Acting manager of the park Mohammed Shahabuddin said these two giraffes of the park, about 6-year-old, became sick on Tuesday night suddenly.  After that, the park authorities called experts…

An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit was allegedly beaten up by his rival group on the campus yesterday over previous enmity.  The victim was identified as Syam Mohammed Arafat Hossain, a second year student of physics department and BCL activist…

CHITTAGONG: A special court here today sentenced two men to life-term imprisonment for killing a man over previous enmity in city's Patherghata area in 1999, reports BSS. Chittagong Divisional Special Judge-1 Mir Ruhul Amin pronounced the verdict convicting Ariful Karim and Saifuddin for killing…

Iranian ambassador calls on DU VC Iranian Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Abbas Vaezi Dehnavi yesterday paid a courtesy call on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique at the latter's office on the campus.  DU Persian Language and Literature Department Chairman Prof Abdus…

Beheaded body found  Police recovered the beheaded body of a man early Thursday from Khilgaon area of the capital. The identity of the deceased was not available immediately.Officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station Kazi Naimul Islam said around 2am they recovered the body inside a plastic bag…