The authority of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has started repairing the damaged roads of the city to make those fit for vehicular movement before…

A faction of pro-Awami League teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday besieged the vice-chancellor's office and staged a sit-in protesting ‘assault’ on their colleagues on April 18. As part of their pre-announced programme, around 50 teachers under the banner of ‘Bangabandhur…

Students of Jagannath University have been demonstrating by boycotting their classes and examinations for the second consecutive day protesting at the…

Sommilito Muktijoddha Projonmo, a pro-freedom fighter group, on Thursday held a demonstration at Shahbagh area in the city pressing home its six-point…

A case was filed accusing six persons including Adnan Mirza over the murder of schoolgirl Tasfia Amin in Chittagong on Wednesday.  Tasfia's father Mohammad Amin filed the case with Patenga Police Station on Thursday noon. Md Zahedul Islam, assistant commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police…

RAJSHAHI: Full approval and implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) can be the vital means of freeing the women from all sorts of violence and disparities, reports BSS. The view was expressed at a divisional workshop by hosts of discussants…

A schoolboy was hacked to death by two youths at Joar Sahara in the capital on Wednesday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Jihad, 17, son of Alamgir Hossain, hailing from Kotalipara upazila of Gopalganj district. He appeared at this year’s SSC examination from Kalachadpur High…

CHATTOGRAM: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a teenage boy in Sitakunda upazila on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in question paper leak and for cheating examinees making exam results, reports UNB. The arrestee is Arif Hossain Shawon, 18, son of Nizam Uddin of Ghoramara Juramtal…

Savar:  Two workers died and another fell sick after inhaling toxic gas at a tannery unit of Savar Tannery Industrial Estate here on Wednesday afternoon, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Mahbubur Rahman, 50, and Hasan Ali, 24. Police said the three workers of Prince Leather Industries…

CHATTOGRAM:  A Chattogram court yesterday awarded six persons to life term imprisonment for killing a shopkeeper at Sarafbhata village under Rangunia upazila of the district 14 years back, reports BSS. The Second Additional District and Sessions Judge Nure Alam pronounced the verdict convicting…

EWU welcomes fresher’s in summer semester The orientation programmes of the newly admitted students for Summer Semester 2018 were held in different academic departments of East West University (EWU) campus at Aftabnagar in the capital yesterday, says a press release. Nearly 1200 students were…

Cop killed in Rajshahi road crash A police constable was killed and another injured when a truck hit them at Sishutala in Charghat of Rajshahi early Thursday. Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Charghat Police Station, said the accident took place around 2 am when a truck hit constable Khademul Islam…