CHITTAGONG: District administration yesterday started its monitoring at different kitchen markets here to keep prices of essential commodities stable, reports BSS. On the first day, the monitoring teams visited different kitchen markets, including city's Kazir Dwery and Reazauddin Bazaar. Six monitoring…

The Parliament Secretariat Commission yesterday approved an estimated Tk 314.91 crore budget for Parliament to spend for its development and non-development expenditures for the next fiscal year (2017-18), reports UNB. The approval was given at the 28th meeting of the Commission held at the Jatiya Sangsad…

Police arrested 26 students of Barisal Polytechnic Institute yesterday afternoon for allegedly torturing a student on the campus.  Md Asaduzaman, assistant commissioner of Barisal model kotwali thana, said they were informed that a group of students detained Deep Kumar Saha, a seven semester student…

Law Commission on Wednesday submitted its Annual Report-2016 to President Abdul Hamid, reports UNB. A Commission delegation, led by its Chairman Justice ABM Khairul Haque, submitted the report to the president at Bangabhaban. During the meeting, the delegation apprised the President of the Commission’s…

GAZIPUR: More than 50 employees of a garment factory fell sick due to scorching heat at Konabari in the city, reports UNB. Inspector Mobarak Hossain of Konabari Police Camp said the employees of 'Islam Garment' fell sick due to the hot weather in the morning. Later, they were admitted to local…

A student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was allegedly beaten up by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of JU unit leaders over a trifling matter on Tuesday night.  The injured student was identified as Obaidullah Al Galib, a masters’ student of Economics department and resident of Shaheed…

A court on Wednesday granted permanent bail to Monirul Haque Sakku, the newly elected mayor of Comilla City Corporation (CCC), in a graft case filed by Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), reports UNB. Dhaka Senior Special Judge M Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order after Sakku's lawyer M Sanaullah…

KHULNA: Students of around 400 government primary schools in the district have been continuing their classes with traditional blackboard as multimedia class couldn't be launched for lack of necessary equipment, especially laptop, reports UNB. There are 1,138 government primary schools in Khulna…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a discussion here have underscored the need for more pro- active scientific and industrial research for benefiting the nation and its people, reports BSS. The speakers opined that all the industrial research and findings of those should be linked to the private entrepreneurs for…

KHULNA: Speakers at an advocacy meeting here yesterday stressed the need for developing environment-friendly sanitation and supplying safe water to ensure sound health for mass people, reports BSS. “Natural supply of safe water and taking effective measures for protecting safe water and hygiene…

NSU celebrates silver jubilee North South University (NSU) organised a 3-day programme titled ‘Celebrating Excellence in Higher Education’ to celebrate its silver jubilee from Monday, says a press release. The first session of the opening ceremony began with a rally, a human formation of…

Man ‘kills wife’ in Sylhet A woman was killed allegedly by her husband over a family feud at Mandaruka village in Sylhet yesterday morning. The victim was identified as Masheda Begum, 35, wife of Jitu Miah, a resident of the same area. Quoting the locals, Officer-in-Charge of Biswanath Thana…