Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods, drugs, arms and explosives worth Taka 827,582,000 from the border areas and other places of the country in the month of December, 2019. The seized drugs included 121,1130 pieces of yaba tablets, 38,351 bottles of phensidyl, 8,076 bottles of foreign…

Three people were killed and three others injured in separate road accidenta in Dhaka and at Sujatpur in Chouddagram upazila of Cumilla district yesterday.…

Former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh and immediate-past High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali was laid to eternal rest with state honour yesterday. Muazzem Ali, also a freedom fighter, was given state guard of honour at state guesthouse Padma after his first namaz-e-janaza earlier in the day.…

The authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology are taking all out preparations ahead of its third convocation scheduled for January 8. Its first convocation was held on April 29, 1998 and the second one on December 6, 2007. University sources said 6,750 students have registered for…

Personal Secretary-1 to Prime Minister (PM) Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah has been promoted to secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday. He…

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government has a plan to resolve over five lakh cases in this new-year. “We have planned to settle down more than five lakh cases by setting up judicial programme and man power,” he said. The minister was speaking…

Primary and secondary level students got new textbooks in festive mood in the city and other adjacent districts today, the first day of the new year 2020.…

Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) has distributed blankets among the cold-stricken people.  Voluntary organisation ‘Manobotar Bondhone Rangpur’ organised the function on Tuesday.  In the programme Police Commissioner Md Abdul Alim Mahmud called upon affluent people to stand beside…

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, Gazipur regional office disconnected more than 4,000 metres of illegal gas lines of 150 residential…

Participants at a workshop said people of Bangladesh have the capacity to adapt with different climatic conditions and so, the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) on climate change should include the experience of the locals.  Network on Climate Change in Bangladesh and CDP organised the press conference…

DU introduces online application service for accommodation facilities BSS, Dhaka Dhaka University (DU) authorities on Tuesday introduced online application service for teachers, officers and staff to apply for accommodation. DU Vice-chancellor (VC) Md Akhtaruzzaman on Tuesday day inaugurated the service…

Youth found dead in Buriganga UNB, Keraniganj Police recovered the floating body of an unidentified young man from the Buriganga River in Mandail area here yesterday. Locals spotted the floating body of the youth, aged around 30, and informed police, said Shaker Mohammad Jubayer, officer-in-charge of…