Freedom fighters and their dependents in Barishal city yesterday staged protests forming a human chain and demanded government job quota for them. A human-chain under the banner of Muktijoddha Sangsad Barishal district command and ‘Amra Muktijoddhar Santan’ command held demonstrations in…

The High Court yesterday ordered burial of Hosneara Laizu (Nipa Rani), whose body was kept at Rangpur Medical College Hospital for more than four years for legal complications over her religious conversion, according to Islamic rituals, reports UNB. The HC bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Chowdhury…

Fatema Amin, mother of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, died at a city hospital yesterday noon. She was 92, reports UNB. Fatema who had long been suffering from various old age complications, breathed her last at Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital around 12 noon, said BNP chairpersons media…

Although the number of allegations received for enquiry by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2017 was the highest in 4 years, it came with marked…

Government allocated Tk 200 crore in the current financial year for the development of shoal (char) areas but 10 months down the line no money has been spent, reports UNB. A char development activist claimed this yesterday adding that in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 fiscals as well some Tk 100 crore, meant…

CHATTOGRAM: Chattogram District Administration in the backdrop of heavy shower on Wednesday started eviction of the residents of 62 unauthorised makeshift houses on the hillocks and risky places in the port city, reports BSS. The eviction team also slashed the supply of electricity and water to the…

Bus Owners Association of the district yesterday morning enforced an indefinite bus strike protesting vandalism of a bus at Shapla in Ujirpur upazila.…

CHATTOGRAM: At least 15 dwelling houses were gutted in a fire in Gashiyapara area under Chawkbazar Police Station in the port city early on Wednesday, reports BSS. Jashim Uddin, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence in Chattogram, said the fire originated from an electric short-circuit…

IUB holds Chaitra Sankranti programme To say goodbye to 1424 and welcoming the Bengali new year 1425, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) celebrated ‘Chaitra Sankranti 1424’ through cultural events on its own campus at Bashudhara in the capital yesterday, says a press release. The School…

2 get life for keeping heroin RAJSHAHI: A court here on Wednesday sentenced two persons to life term imprisonment for possessing heroin, reports BSS. The convicts are identified as Mohir Uddin, 37, of Sorlapara village of Tanore Upazila and Rabiul Islam, 35, of Bhatopara village under the same upazila…