National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Bangladesh in partnership with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) will make periodic report on overall situation of the country’s human trafficking. After preparing the report they submit it to the government in February every year, said a group of civil…

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) yesterday to bring Abdullahpur to Kazla road under Closed Circuit Camera Television (CCTV) coverage aimed at decreasing nagging traffic snarl and crimes in the capital. The MoU was signed around 11 am today at DMP Headquarters…

Jatiya Press Club President Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, on behalf of all members, yesterday expressed sincere thanks and gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for promising in her party's election manifesto to construct the proposed 31-storey building of the club if Awami League comes to power…

Traffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in their simultaneous drives on the city streets on Monday filed 3,322 cases against different modes of vehicles for traffic rule violation. It also realised around Taka 20.92 lakh as fine for traffic rule violation, said an official release. Of…

A Turkish national and a pick-up driver were killed in a road crash on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Senbhag in Puthia upazila on Monday night. The deceased were driver Golap Hossain, 26, hailing from Madhupur upazila in Tangail district and Turkish national Abbasi, 40. Mostafizur Rahman, in-charge of Poba…

Police held an elderly person on charges of spreading false and instigating information on social networking sites including facebook from Savar, on the outskirts of the capital. “We arrested one Kazi Kamruzzaman, 63, for spreading false and instigating information on the social networking sites,…

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday signed a deal with JSC Russian Helicopters to buy two helicopters for its Air Wing. According to BGB sources,…

Eight burned as melted iron falls on them in city UNB, Dhaka Eight workers sustained burn injuries as melted iron fell on them at a steel factory in the capital's Shyampur area on Monday evening. The injured are: Afsar, 40, Alamin, 25, Labu, 25, Mannan, 26, Jahangir, 28, Aziz, 35, Shah Alam, 35,…

SEU signs MoU with Chinese college Staff Reporter, Dhaka Southeast University (SEU), Bangladesh and Chongqing City Management College (CCMC), China, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday in order to extend mutual academic cooperation. Under the agreement, SEU students and faculty…