The BNP yesterday invited Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and its General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam to its sixth national council scheduled to for March 19. A four-member delegation led by Abul Khayer Bhuiyan, social welfare secretary of BNP, went to the AL chief’s Dhanmondi office and…

Some 55 teachers of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) have resigned from 67 administrative posts protesting the physical assault on the university proctor allegedly by its registrar, reports UNB. They submitted their resignation letters to the VC around 5pm yesterday, said SAU Teachers’ Association…

Ex-cadets Forum (ECF), a platform of former students of cadet colleges, launched a campaign yesterday to collect used toys that will be distributed among under privileged children across the country. Presided over by Fida Haque, chief of the social responsibility team of the ECF, celebrities participated…

Five men were arrested Tuesday night over gang-raping two women and beating up their two male companions in Barisal city.   Of the five, four are mini-bus drivers and one is a supervisor of the local passenger service Seba Paribahan. They have been remanded in judicial custody. The complainant,…

The World Economic Forum has nominated State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak as the Young Global Leader 2016, reports BSS. The forum has announced the name of Zunaid Ahmed Palak and other most distinguished leaders under the age of 40 at their website this evening, an official release said…

When kidney diseases have emerged as common health problem, leading kidney specialists at a discussion yesterday warned that dehydration caused by diarrhoea and vomiting may lead to acute kidney failure, reports BSS. As children frequently are affected by diarrhoea or vomiting, they are more vulnerable…

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday said Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) needs at least 100 dredgers to dredge the country’s rivers to maintain their navigability, reports UNB. “The BIWTA has only 21 dredgers. A process is underway to procure 20 more dredgers,”…

Young people continue to be chronically ‘under-represented’ in world’s parliaments, a new IPU report has found at a time when the global youth population has been the largest in history, reports UNB. Youth participation in national parliaments 2016, launched on Wednesday during the…

President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged the Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission to timely complete the recruitment process of judges to the vacant posts and thus help ease the judicial backlog, reports UNB. The president said this when Judicial Service Commission delegation, led by its chairman Justice…

Comilla: A court yesterday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 2000, reports UNB. The condemned convict, Sadek Mia, son of Malu Mia of Chandina upazila, was tried in absentia. According to the prosecution, Rokeya Begum was hacked to death by her husband Sadek Mia over…

 BARGUNA:  Police in a raid arrested a man with 100 pieces of yaba tablets from a shop at Potkakhali village under Sadar upazila, reports BSS. The arrestee was identified as Dulal Hawladar, 48, son of late Emtaj Uddin Hawladar of Full Dhalua village of the upazila.

A mobile court fined two fish traders Tk 5, 000 each for selling jatka (hilsa fry) at Shivalaya upazila yesterday. Upazila administration led by Executive Officer AKM Galiv Khan conducted a drive at Aricha Ghat yesterday morning and arrested Uzzal Hossain, 40, and nayan Hossain, 35,  along with…