RANGPUR: There is no alternative to creating social awareness and comprehensive efforts by all concerned for ensuring pollution-free rivers, which are lifelines for ecology, economy, biodiversity and heritage of the nation, reports BSS. The opinion came at a post-walkathon discussion organised by Begum…

Bagerhat: Acase has been filed against a senior official of Bagerhat district branch of Sonali Bank (SB) Limited on charge of embezzling Tk3.5 crore in the name of loan distribution, reports UNB. Police sources said Sheikh Mahfuzur Rahman, a senior official of the branch, has been made accused in the…

Allegations of improper treatment have been brought against Asian Cardiac and General Hospital at Lalmatia in the capital by relatives of patients after…

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid urged teachers not to take teaching as mere a job, but as a holy mission for building the nation, reports UNB. The minister came up with the call while addressing a function of Shamsul Haq Khan School and College at Matuail in the capital yesterday. The institution…

Four people were killed in separate road accidents in Mymensingh and Noakhali yesterday.  Our Mymensingh correspondent reports: Two passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed and three others injured when their vehicle collided with a speeding bus on Mymensingh-Tangail road in sadar upazila…

The 2015 edition of a 100-member Bangladesh youth delegation programme will visit India from today to till October 11 in an effort to strengthen people-to-people contact between the two countries, reports UNB. The High Commission of India along with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government…

DINAJPUR: Two sisters allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves from a rope at Boaldar village in Hakimpur upazila, reports BSS. The deceased were identified as Amena Khatun, 18, and her younger sister Jasmin Akhter, 14, both are daughters of Aynul Haque, of the same area. Boaldar union parishad…

A suspected robber was killed in mass beating at Kusakhali in Laxmipur sadar upazila early yesterday. He was identified as Nuruddin alias Nura, 35, of Govindapur village of the upazila. Police said a gang of robbers numbering 10 to 12 assembled at Kusakhali at 3am for committing robbery in the area.…

The Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has stepped up security for foreigners in the port city, following the murder of an Italian and a Japanese. Kunio Hoshi, a Japanese, was shot dead in the Mahiganj area of Kawnia upazila yesterday (Saturday), and Cesare Tavella, an Italian, was gunned down in…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to address a press conference today to brief the media about the outcome of her just-concluded US visit, reports UNB. The press conference will be held at Ganabhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister, at 11:30 am. Sheikh Hasina paid an eight-day…

Teachers of government primary schools across the country will observe 4-hour work abstention for four days from today to press home six point demands that includes upgrading of their salary to grade 11 of the new pay scale. The work abstention will begin at 9am and will continue till October 8. The…