The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday set December 5 to pass its order on a plea of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for bail in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. A six-member apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after holding hearing on…

Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday said manmade pollution, contamination, and natural disasters pose challenges to sustainable maritime development.…

Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport detained a man along with 6.60 kg gold early yesterday. Sources at the airport said Mohammed Murshed Hossain landed at the airport by a flight Qatar Airways at 3 am. Assistant Commissioner (customs ) Sajjad Husain said when Murshed was about…

A total of six different kinds of shop and a madrasa were gutted in a fire that broke out at Boirag village under Anwara upazila of the district in the early yesterday. Jashim Uddin, Deputy Assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the fire originated from a cooking oven at a shop in…

A mobile court of the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) yesterday evicted 80 illegal establishments in Burmapara steelmill bazar of North Patenga in Chattogram. The mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Afia Akhter conducted the eviction drive, accompanied by law enforcing members and the local counselor…

Speakers at a programme here yesterday laid emphasis on taking strengthened initiative to sensitise grassroots people in implementing the Smoking and…

Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested five alleged drug traders, including a woman, with 10,000 pieces of contraband yaba tablets in two separate drives from the capital’s Uttarkhan and Jatrabari areas in the early hours of Wednesday. The arrestees are- Md Nurul Islam alias Dipu,…

With the association of Marie Stopes Bangladesh, a national level dialogue was held at a convention centre in Gulshan in the capital yesterday, according to a press release.  RMG is a leading sector where family planning is an important and the government has already trained around 275 RMG factories,…

Experts at a meeting here yesterday stressed for providing nutritious meals among school children to reduce the dropout rate. They made the remark while addressing a view exchange meeting on “National School Meals Policy -2019” held at a hotel in the city. Mayor of Khulna City Corporation…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-13) seized 60-kilograms of hemp and arrested two alleged drug traders from Nabdiganj point on the Rangpur-Kurigram highway yesterday morning. “An operational team of RAB-13, Rangpur battalion headquarters on suspicion searched a truck and seized the hemp from the possessions…

Arts and Social Sciences unit admission test of 7 DU-affiliated colleges today BSS, Dhaka Seven affiliated colleges of Dhaka University (DU) will hold the admission test (Arts and Social Sciences unit) for honours courses for 2019-20 session today. The examination will be held from 10am to 11am, said…

‘Nabanna Utsab’ celebrated BSS, Khulna ‘Nabanna Utsab’, a Bengali festival of harvesting new crops, was celebrated in Khulna on Wednesday amid festivity and fervour among the rural people. Celebration of this festival of bringing new crops home has been celebrated in this region…