Two people, including widow of Faisal Arefin Dipon, yesterday testified before an anti-terror tribunal in the case lodged over murder of the publisher in 2016. Dipon’s wife Dr Rajia Rahman and Aziz Super Market Shop Owners Association office assistant Anwar Hossain testified before the tribunal.…

Bangladeshi celebrities and officials at British High Commission in Dhaka yesterday came out from their busy schedules and played a friendly football match to celebrate the spirit of gender equality and women empowerment through sports. The British High Commission in Dhaka in association with Standard…

Captain Saifur Rahman (Retd.), managing director of NetWorld Group, has been elected president of Gulshan Club Limited for the year 2019-20. He was elected…

Icddr,b in collaboration with the University of Basel, Switzerland, the University of Kentucky, USA has organised a dissemination seminar at its Sasakawa auditorium in Mohakhal of the capital yesterday. The seminar highlighted findings of an innovative treatment method of severe childhood pneumonia…

A union parishad member was killed in a road accident in Boiltali area on Patiya bypass road here yesterday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Quader Kayser,  a  member of Ward No 6 of Shovondandi Union. Witnesses said a speedy of ‘Shyamoli Paribahan’ hit Abdul’s motorbike,…

Police arrested three staff of Shohagh Paribahan on Saturday night for attempting to rape a female student of Chittagong University (CU) on a moving bus. The arrestees were identified as supervisor Abbas Ali, driver Ahasan and his assistant Bhutto. Abul Kalam Azad, officer-in-charge of Chandgaon Police…

Health experts here yesterday called for  mass awareness, especially among the youths to prevent spread of HIV/AIDS in the region. They underscored…

At least 51 AIDS patients have been detected in Khulna division after examining 648 HIV positive patients in last one year since November 2018 experiencing the slight fall in the number of HIV patients . A total of 39 AIDS patients were detected in 2017 and 67 AIDS patients were detected till October,…

Md Mothahar Hossain Khan and Mohammad Mahmud have been elected president and general secretary of the Electronics Safety and Security Association of Bangladesh (ESSAB). The election to the executive committee of the ESSAB, a non-profitable trade association, was held recently with much enthusiasm and…

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni has urged the teachers to give special attention to the children with special needs to flourish their talents to build a prosperous country. “If the physically challenged children were given special attention, they will be able to flourish their latent talents,”…

UIU’s ACBSP accreditation, QS ranking success celebrated Staff Reporter, Dhaka United Group celebrated the achievement of United International University’s (UIU) ACBSP accreditation achievement and success in QS Asia University ranking -2020 at a hotel in the capital recently, says a press…

A shopkeeper was stabbed to death allegedly by his friend at city’s Malda Colony area under Boalia police station on Saturday. The deceased could be identified as Ramjan Ali, 28, son of Abdur Razzaque, a resident in the said area. Nibaran Chandra Barman, OC  of Boalia Police Station, said…

An unidentified tricenarian man was killed as a train collided with a truck on the railway crossing in city’s Karwan Bazar area yesterday. The collision occurred under the flyover in the area at about 3.30 am when a Tongi-bound train hit an errant truck which was trying to cross a rail line by…