Every year five thousand to seven thousand women are dying during child birth, whose main cause is caesarian sections, the death rate comes to 16 per day. This was observed by experts who joined a seminar on pain free birth at a hospital in the capital yesterday as part of its programme on the issue.…

CHATTOGRAM: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested five alleged drug traders with 80,000 pieces of yaba tablets from different area in the city and district yesterday, reports BSS. The arrestees are Abir Hossain, 25, Sabbir, 22, Mohammad Tanjil, 19, Helal Uddin, 23, and…

CHATTOGRAM: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested five alleged drug traders with 80,000 pieces of yaba tablets from different area in the city and district yesterday, reports BSS. The arrestees are Abir Hossain, 25, Sabbir, 22, Mohammad Tanjil, 19, Helal Uddin, 23, and…

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday fixed today for delivering its judgment in a case filed against five men from Patuakhali for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, reports UNB. A three-member bench of the tribunal headed by Justice Md…

Two schoolboys drowned while taking bath in the Ramna Lake in the capital yesterday afternoon, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Adnan, 15, and Mahfuz, 15, students of Willes Little Flower School and College. The two students drowned while taking bath in the lake around 3:45 pm, said Sub-inspector…

Officials of the Election Commission (EC) on Saturday started enquiring about alleged irregularities at 30 polling centres during the Barishal City Corporation election on July 30. The enquiry was held at the Regional Election Office in the Kashipur area of Barishal city. The EC officials recorded statements…

Rangpur city unit Jatiya Party and Jatiya Chhatra Samaj, a pro-Jatiya Party student organisation, blockaded Station Road at Zahaj Company inter-section…

A court in Gazipur yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in South Auchpara area of Tongi in Gazipur. The convicted was identified as Anisur Rahman, son of Ansar Ali of North Krishnapur village in Dinajpur district. The Judge of Gazipur district and session judge court AKM Anamul Haque…

SYLHET: A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was killed and two activists injured in a factional clash in Kumarpara area of the city on Saturday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Foyjur Rahman Raju, 26, son of Fazar Ali of Shahpur village in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar…

RANGPUR: Educationists and environmental activists at a function have stressed massive tree plantation to create an eco-friendly green nature for bringing ecological equilibrium, reports BSS. They came up with the opinion at the function arranged for plantation of tree saplings on Rangpur Government…

Gazipur: Police recovered the body of an eight-year-old boy from Gozaribon in Hotapara area in Gazipur on Saturday night three days after he was kidnapped, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Sajim Hossain, son of Selim Mia of the area. Sub-inspector Saiful Islam of Hotapara Police Outpost said…

IU economics dept gets new chairman KUSHTIA: Dr Abu Raihan, Professor of Economics department of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia, has been appointed as the new chairman of the department on Saturday. IU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari appointed Dr Abu Raihan to the post for…

Mentally challenged youth burnt to death in Ctg fire A mentally challenged youth was burnt to death and 36 shanties were gutted when fire broke out yesterday at a slum of Khandakerpara of Chandgaon area in Chattogram. The deceased was identified as Robiul Hossain, 30, hailed from Rangpur district. The…