The work on setting up 60 police investigation centres at different parts of the country will be completed by this month aimed at maintaining area-wise law and order and taking up correct and quick crime probe process.  “The construction of 60 investigation centres for police will be completed…

Garment workers yesterday demanded that they be paid by 20th of Ramadan an equal amount of their one month's basic wage as festival bonus for upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, reports UNB. The demand was made from a rally organised by Garment Sramik Trade Union Kendra in Malibagh area in the capital. The RMG…

The results of 209 SSC examinees under the Barisal Education Board (BEB) this year have been changed after re-scrutiny. BEB chairman Prof. M Ziaul Haque said the results of the re-scrutiny have been published this morning and sent to all concerned. The central computer section of the inter-board authority…

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday said that the government and the businesspeople concerned will have to take the responsibility for the country’s shady gold trade, which is mostly conducted with smuggled gold. In a statement, Dr Iftekharuzzaman, Executive Director of the global…

Police arrested a young man from Pallabi area of the capital on Thursday night on charge of violating a minor girl, reports UNB. Police said the arrestee, Md Rasel, 32, reportedly raped one of his distant sisters-in-law at his house at Block-D of Mirpur Section-12 around 10am on June 4. The father of…

Two construction workers died due to inhalation of toxic gas while working in a septic tank at Radha Ballow in Rangpur city yesterday, reports UNB. Gourango, 30, of Panapukur village in Gangachara upazila and Hasan Ali, 28. of Damodarpur Boro Maidan area in the city, fell sick when they entered a septic…

CHITTAGONG: Hawkers in the city's New Market and Riazuddin Bazaar areas have again occupied footpaths ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, much to cause sufferings to pedestrians, reports BSS. Pedestrians alleged that law enforcement agencies do not pay heed to their sufferings caused by severe traffic congestion…

Health experts yesterday suggested destroying all potential mosquito breeding sources as the outbreak of chikungunya disease in the capital has increased sharply this year, reports BSS. “A huge number of chikungunya cases have been reported in Dhaka city this season. The situation has been unchanged…

The amount of aid allocated to education globally has been falling for six years in a row, shows a new Unesco policy paper, reports UNB. The policy paper - Aid to Education is Stagnating and Not Going to Countries Most in Need, is published by Unesco's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report. Total…

RANGPUR:  Rangpur will become a safe city for citizens through preventing all sorts of crimes using closed circuit (CC) cameras at important places and digitised monitoring system round the clock, reports BSS. Mayor of Rangpur Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu disclosed the information while addressing the…

UGC okays Tk 4151.51-crore budget for 37 public universities The University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh yesterday approved the original budget of Taka 4151.51 crore for 37 public universities in the country and Taka 37.30 crore for UGC for 2017-2018 fiscal year, reports BSS. The approval was…

3.5 lakh yaba pills seized in Ctg Police in a drive seized 3.5 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets worth Tk 10 crore from Gahira in Anwara upazila early yesterday, reports UNB. Tipped off, a team of police raided on the house of Abul Kashem around 4:30 am and recovered the Yaba pills, kept in several sacks…

Two were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a pick-up van on Comilla-Brahmanbaria highway early Thursday. Shahjahan Khan, inspector of Mirpur Highway Police outpost of the upazila, said the accident took place around 2 am in the area when a Comilla-bound truck collided head-on with Brahmanbaria-bound…