Professor Dr Harun-Ur-Rashid, an eminent nephrologist of the country and the founder of Bangladesh Kidney Foundation, has been nominated for International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Pioneer Award-2017 from the South Asian region, reports BSS. The ISN, the leading organisation of nephrologists of 152…

The High Court on Monday fined a man Tk 1 lakh over his son's marriage with a Rohingya girl, who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, defying a government ban, reports UNB. A two-member HC bench comprising Justice Moinul Islam Chawdhury and Justice JBM Hasan passed the order dismissing a writ petition…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court order that granted bail to three owners of Apan Jewellers in three money laundering cases, reports UNB. The five-member bench of acting Chief Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah passed the order after rejecting the petition filed by the…

State Minister of Information, Tarana Halim, emphasized on improving the quality of Bangladesh Television (BTV) in a meeting with its senior officials on Monday at her Secretariat office, reports BSS. She urged upon all to work in unison for the quality improvement. Tarana stressed on quick digitalisation…

BNP and its associate bodies have chalked a weeklong programmes to observe the 82nd birth anniversary of its founder Ziaur Rahman in a befitting manner, reports UNB. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programmes at a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan central…

Hasanuzzaman Khan, former associate editor of the New Nation, and also a permanent member of the National Press Club, died on Sunday night. He was 69,…

A total of 130 examiners, who check the answer script and evaluate those during the SSC examination under Barisal Education Board (BEB), were suspended recently for their negligence in the examination process. It is alleged that some SSC examinees applied for re-examining their answer sheets after the…

President Abdul Hamid on Sunday urged all, including the ruling and opposition parties, to play their proper and effective role together in Parliament in fulfilling the aspirations of people. "I urge everyone, including both the treasury and opposition benches, to play a proper and effective role…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a review meeting here today said the victims of human trafficking need integrated support to lessen their plights and vulnerabilities with proper rehabilitation in society, reports BSS. They mentioned that the human trafficking victims are subjected to repression and oppression…

Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) will move to the court if the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) fails to respond to its call to cancel its order of electricity tariff hike in next 10 days, reports UNB. “We urge the BERC to cancel its tariff order or reduce the tariff within…

CHITTAGONG: At least 16 dwelling houses were gutted in a devastating fire in city's Miakhan Nagar area under Bakalia thana yesterday morning, reports BSS. Fire Service and Civil Defence official said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a dwelling house in the area around 11.10…

SYLHET: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-9) in a drive arrested three people with huge explosive materials from Suraighat area under Kanaighat upazila of the district on Sunday evening, a RAB official said on Sunday, reports BSS. The arrested men were identified as Ibrahim, 40, M Ashique, 19,…

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday seized 600 kilograms (kg) of banned polythene bags from a store in Riazuddin Bazar area of the city. On information, a team of DoE, led by its director Md Fokhor Uddin, along with police personnel of Kotwali police station conducted the drive at a store…

A fire broke out in a shoe factory at Nazirabazar in the capital on Monday afternoon. Four units of fire fighters were working to douse the flame, said Mostafizur Rahman, duty-officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence, reports UNB. The fire broke out in the factory located on the 2nd floor of a four-storey…

4th convocation of IU held Kushtia: President Abdul Hamid on Sunday laid emphasis on greater exercise of freethinking and cultural activities at universities to check militancy, intolerance and other negative acts. "The nation has been observing with deep concern that the negative activities like…