RANGPUR: Academicians and media personalities at a seminar yesterday called upon the students of mass communication and journalism to get ready for adapting to the time-befitting mass media at the present global perspectives, reports BSS. "The present mass media around the world is playing a key…

Speakers at a programme in the capital yesterday urged the government to take effective steps to make Dhaka a dust and smoke-free city, reports UNB. They…

RAJSHAHI: A rural road development project is being implemented here for improving rural accessibility, enhancing sustainability of rural transport and market services, reports BSS. Officials said implementation work of the six-year project titled ‘Improvement of Rural Roads, Bridges, Culverts…

RAJSHAHI: With ten more days to appear the Bangla month of Jyestha, commonly known as 'Modhumash', the juicy fruit litchi has started appearing…

A total 2,021 students will be awarded this year under the Muktijoddha (freedom fighters) scholarship schemes of India, reports UNB. Scholarships will be awarded to 400 undergraduate students under the old scheme while 1,621 - 1,000 at undergraduate level and 621 at higher secondary level -- under the…

Kendria Khelaghar Ashar, a national children's organisation, yesterday demanded forming a special tribunal to speedily try the perpetrators of the…

RANGPUR: Dr Wazed Smriti Sangsad (DWSS) has finalised programmes to observe the ninth death anniversary of nuclear scientist and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's husband Dr M A Wazed Miah on May 9, reports BSS. The programme were finalised at a meeting of the organisation held at its temporary office…

The International Day of the Midwife  2018 will be observed in the country today as elsewhere in the world, reports BSS. The day is being observed as a mark of recognition to the contribution of midwives to saving lives of women, adolescent girls and newborns, sometimes under very difficult circumstances,…

A youth was killed when a pick-up van hit him in the capital's Arambagh area early yesterday, reports UNB. Bacchu Mia, sub-inspector of Dhaka Medical College Hospital Police camp, said Shaon, 18, a mineral water supplier, was killed when a chicken-laden pick-up van hit him while crossing a road…

Police  on Thursday recovered body of an unidentified young man from Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital's Shahbagh area, reports UNB. Being informed, a team of Shahbagh police went to Lalan Chattar of Suhrawardy Udyan in the morning and recovered the body which was hanging from a tree. The body…

Cambodian varsity rector meets  DU VC Professor Dr Khy Sovanratana, acting rector of Sihanouk Buddhist University of Cambodia, called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman on Thursday at DU. Prof Dr Sukomal Barua of DU Pali and Buddhist Studies Department and Principal…