Rajshahi University Teachers Association (RUTA) has announced a work abstention for today protesting the speech of Finance Minister AMA Muhith over the 8th national pay scale, reports UNB. On December 23, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said there is no scope to change the newly announced national pay scale.…

The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), was observed in the country on Friday with due religious solemnity, reports UNB.  On this day in 570, the 12th of Rabiul Awal of the Hijri calendar, Muhammad (pbuh) was born in Makkah of Saudi Arabia with…

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee has demanded that a new law be enacted to prevent any derogatory comment against the War of Liberation. The committee demanded the law with retrospective effect against derogatory remarks on Liberation War, Bangabandhu and struggle for Independence to punish the…

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said there is no alternative to technical education for the implementation of government’s ‘Vision 2021’, reports BSS. “Efforts are going on to increase students’ access to technical education to 20 per cent by 2020 and 30…

Sylhet: President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged cadet college students, both the present and the former ones, to utilise their knowledge, merit and competence for the country’s development, reports UNB.“Those who got the chance to study in cadet colleges, I think, are very lucky because many…

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday urged the students to attain skills in information technology (IT) to sustain in the global competition and achieve the goal of 21st century, reports BSS. “Students should be more skilled in information technology to compete globally, achieve the challenge…

The sluggish trend in private investment, declining growth in revenue collection and underperformance in external sector have caused an inertia on the growth in gross domestic product (GDP), observes an independent multidisciplinary think tank, reports UNB.Unnayan Onneshan in its half yearly assessment…

Movement of all modes of transport from Sirajganj town to Hatikumrul has remained suspended since Thursday night as two trucks fell into a ditch breaking a bailey bridge near Kuthirchar area in Kam­arkhanda  upazila of the district. The accident took place at 11.00pm when the bailey bridge…

Benapole: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh rescued 27people while they were being trafficked to India through Sadipur border point yesterday morning, reports UNB. Subedar Ayub Ali, of BGB 26 battalion, said being tipped off that some people were being trafficked to India through the border point,…

Three persons were killed in separate accidents yesterday. Our Jhenidah correspondent reports: Umme Tayeba Ankhi, 10, a schoolgirl and daughter of Aminur Rahman of Gabla village, was killed and three others were injured as a microbus hit them at Gabla in Shailkupa upazila yesterday morning.  OC…

RAJSHAHI: Experts and researchers at a seminar observed that cyber crimes are increasing alarmingly in the country with rapid rise of internet users at both individual and institutional levels and they unequivocally called for adequate preventive measures to avert any fearful consequence. They said…

Three persons were arrested yesterday in connection with alleged murder of a woman after a gang-rape in Iswarganj upazila early yesterday. The arrestees are Jibon Miah, 28, Aladin, 20, and Milon Miah, 22, of Teluari village in the upazila. Police earlier recovered the body of Moyna Begum, 20, from a…