A private car skidded off the road and fell into a roadside lake at the base of the flyover on Kuril Biswaroad in the capital yesterday, reports UNB.…

A total of 13 foreign media personalities and intellectuals today called on Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at the oath room of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka yesterday, reports BSS. During the meeting, they discussed various matters including parliamentary practice, trade, financial development,…

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar yesterday said the government is launching awareness campaign at the educational institutions to make the students aware about digital crimes, reports BSS. “Female students are becoming victims as they lack knowledge…

A faction of Pro-Awami League teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday besieged the administrative buildings on the campus to protest the ‘humiliation’ of some teachers by incumbent VC-backed teachers on Tuesday morning. The protesters under the banner of ‘Bangabandhur Adarsha…

Naraynganj : Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three alleged members of banned Islamic outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Bandar Naraynganj on Tuesday night. The identities of the arrestees could not be known immediately, reports UNB. Tipped off, a team of Rab-11 conducted a drive…

One day after arresting two persons along with two lakh contraband yaba tablets from the capital’s Motijheel area, police on Tuesday arrested two more suspected drug peddlers and seized 10,000 pieces of yaba tablets from Kakrail area, reports BSS. “We arrested two drug peddlers along with…

In a mobile court drive, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday fined 32 pedestrians Tk 3,000 for jaywalking at Kakoli crossing of Banani in the city, reports UNB. DMP Executive Magistrate Moshiur Rahman conducted the drive from 11am against those found crossing the road without using footbridge…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a public hearing session here unequivocally called for raising voice against institutional corruption to free the society from the social disease, reports BSS. They mentioned if all the community people forge social resistance and raise their voice against corruption strongly none…

The closing and certificate distribution ceremony of a three day-long training programme on ‘Advanced LINUX System / Network Administration’ was held at UGC auditorium yesterday, says a press release. Bangladesh Research and Education Network of UGC organised the professional training programme…

Lightning strikes kill 3 in Cumilla Three people, including two women, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Debidwar and Daudkandi upazilas of the district on Tuesday. Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Daudkandi Police Station, said Rufia Begum, 60, wife of Siddique Mia of Gouripur…

12 students get RU Dean’s Award Twelve students of Rajshahi University (RU) under Arts Faculty received Dean's Award for their outstanding academic results in examinations in 2016. The award-recipients are: Shima Khatun (Philosophy), Syed Naimur Rahman (History), Irtifa Hassan (English), Manju…