The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have temporarily suspended its seven students for their involvement in ragging to the fresher students on the campus. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of JU syndicate that was held yesterday where JU Vice-chancellor Professor Farzana Islam…

The Barishal City Corporation (BCC) has started drives to demolish risky buildings that have violated their approved plans in the city. Under this drive, the BCC started knocking down two top floors of a 11-storied building under construction on Line Road on Saturday for violating the approved plan.…

The High Court (HC) yesterday sentenced a staff of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) to 11-year imprisonment in a graft case lodged over destroying or hiding 57 official files. A High Court division bench comprising Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam passed the order, accepting…

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken time-fitting steps for managing and disposing clinical wastes hygienically to protect environment from pollution and contamination. To this end, the RCC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Prism Bangladesh Foundation (PBF), a non-government development…

A housewife sustained burn injuries as some unidentified miscreants hurled acid on her at Gobindapur village in Laksam upazila on Friday night. Victim Hasina Akhter Panna, 45, wife of Ahasan Kabir of the village, was admitted to the Burn Unit of Comilla Medical College Hospital on Saturday morning.…

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun left Dhaka yesterday for Thailand to join the high level meeting. The three-day ninth regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific is jointly being organised by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Thailand, Ministry of Environment of Japan and United Nations…

Health experts at a launching function here have said world standard health services are available at Rangpur city now to reach healthcare services at lower costs to the people doorsteps.  “The country’s government and non-government health care organizations are gradually using sophisticated…

The district administration at a preparatory meeting here yesterday finalised programmes to celebrate the Independence and National Day- 2019 with huge enthusiasm and festivity in the city on March 26 next. Deputy Commissioner Enamul Habib presided over the meeting held at his conference room. Freedom…

Discussion marking Int’l Women’s Day held UNB, Dhaka A discussion on 'The Ideals of Hazrat Fatema Zahra and the Duties of Present Women of the World' was held on Friday at the auditorium 71 of Daffodil International University (DIU). On the occasion of the birthday of Hazrat Fatema…