SYLHET: Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, MP, yesterday said the people of the country are in favour of development and they will reject the corrupt politicians during polls, reports BSS. “The people of Khulna and Gazipur cities rejected the corrupt politicians in city…

Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzanman Noor yesterday said elected student unions should exist in the universities to run the cultural and co-curricular…

RAJSHAHI: Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal, MP, yesterday said Shahmukhdum Airport in Rajshahi will be an international one in future in aspects of the gradually mounting demand, reports BSS. “We have already started implementing necessary infrastructure development works…

RAJSHAHI: Many women have got the chance of attaining self-reliance together with employing their near and dear ones in income- generating activities through operating boutique houses in the city and its outskirts. Talking to BSS here, some of them termed the venture as an effective means of women empowerment…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said setting up of 72,219 tubewells are underway to ensure safe drinking water in rural areas across the country, reports BSS. “We have installed 42,451 tubewells for ensuring supplying of safe drinking water at rural areas across the country,” she…

SYLHET: A case has been filed against three people for their alleged attempt to rape two sisters at Chatal Baroduari village in Sadar upazila, reports UNB. Victim's mother filed the case with Sadar Police Station on Monday. The accused are Shamim Ahmed, son of late Monu Miah, Zahed Miah, son of…

CUMILLA: A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a widow in Daudkandi upazila in 2001, reports UNB. Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 Sheikh Hafizur Rahman pronounced the verdict. The convict, Kabir Hossain, of Gopalpur village of the…

A two-day ‘Indian Education Fair’ will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BCC) in the capital on Friday. SS Exhibition and Media Privet Limited (SEMPL), India, is organizing the fair in association with Shamannay Bangladesh and GEE Bangladesh, SEMPL Director Manish Dhanda…

CHATTOGRAM: A mobile court here yesterday fined two restaurants Taka 15 thousand for selling adulterated food items in city’s KC Dey road area, reports UNB. Executive Magistrate Ronzon Chandra Dey conducted the drives comprising Chattogram Metropolitan Police, BSTI officials and fined the owners…

Ensuring quality of higher edn stressed RANGPUR: Vice-chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) Prof Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah yesterday  called for ensuring quality of higher education to the greater national interest. He said this while inaugurating office of BRUR unit of the Institutional…