A local Juba League leader was stabbed to death and five others were injured allegedly by rival groups at Taherpur municipality under Bagmara upazila in Rajshahi on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Chanchal Chandra, 42, Vice President of Juba League, Taherpur unit and son of Naren…

A woman tea stall owner was beaten up and assaulted allegedly by a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday as she asked to pay due of her shop. The incident took place at noon in front of Mir Mosharraf Hossain Hall (MMH) of the university. The accused Bangladesh…

The son-in-law of Fisheries and Livestock Minister Narayan Chandra Chanda sustained bullet as some unidentified miscreants attacked his residence in Bakshipara area of the city on Friday night. The injured Probash Chandra Datta, 50, also deputy general manager of Bangladesh Bank’s Khulna Branch,…

Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) is going to replace its 3 contingents consisting of 358 members, including 10 female officers at United Nations Peacekeeping Mission deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). Presently 3 BAF contingents in DR Congo will be replaced by new  contingents, said…

Police arrested a youth on charges of spreading rumor using facebook to create instability among different public organisations from the city’s Mirpur area on Friday.   “We arrested one Md Fahim Mahmud Hossain alias Shishir, 30, for spreading false, baseless, and attacking information…

Two people were crushed to death by a train in the city's Kuril area yesterday. The deceased were identified as Atiqur Rahman Chowdhury, 43, son of Abdur Rob Chowdhury of Dhania in the capital, and Ishak Miah, 25, hailing from Araihazar in Narayanganj district. Sub-inspector Rezaul Islam of Airport…

Health experts and development activists here yesterday unanimously called for mass awareness, especially among the youths to prevent spread of HIV/AIDS in the region. They underscored for creating mass awareness about diseases like AIDS, health rules during sexual contacts, developing religious ethics…

Health Engineering Department (HED) implemented 16 development schemes involving around Taka 46.68 crore in Rajshahi district in last around ten years. Meer Abdul Hannan, Executive Engineer of HED, here said implementation works of five other projects are progressing fast with an estimated cost of around…

Seminar on commonwealth scholarships at DU today BSS, Dhaka A seminar titled ‘Applying for Commonwealth Scholarships’ will be held at Dhaka University (DU) today. Commonwealth Commission in United Kingdom and British Council, Dhaka is organising the seminar at Physics Seminar Room of Mukarram…

A seminar titled ‘Applying for Commonwealth Scholarships’ will be held at Dhaka University (DU) today. Commonwealth Commission in United Kingdom and British Council, Dhaka is organising the seminar at Physics Seminar Room of Mukarram Hussain Khundker Biggan Bhaban on the campus. DU Science…

Three of a family burnt in gas cylinder blast UNB, Savar Three members of a family sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder explosion in Ashulia yesterday. The injured were garment workers Akram Hossain, his wife Lovely Akhter and their eight-year old son Ashiqur Rahman, hailing from Madhukhali in…