Police recovered the body of a youth from Arenda Bazaar area under Lohagara upazila of the district this morning, reports BSS from Narail. The deceased was identified as Ajgar Sheikh, 23, son of Saukat Sheikh of Saratala village in Sadar upazila. Being informed, a police team from Lohagara Thana rushed…

A woman was killed as she fell from a battery-run auto-rickshaw in the city’ Mohamma-dpur area yesterday, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Sokhina Begum, 45, wife of late Babul. She had been residing in Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital. Sources at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital…

A man was found dead at Baduarchar in Sadar upazila yesterday noon, reports UNB from Narsingdi. Being informed by locals, police recovered the body of Emdadul Haq alias Ebad Ullah, 32, a supporter of a member candidate and son of Kenu Munshi, from a field at noon and sent it to Sadar Hospital morgue…

Awami League presidium member and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP’s dream for an army-backed civilian government would never be translated into a reality, reports BSS. “BNP hadn’t taken any lesson from the 1/11 government.....whatever might be…

Election Commission (EC) is prepared to hold polls in nine municipalities across the country today. A total of 27 mayoral candidates will contest the polls in the nine municipalities. Of them, 21 are nominated by various political parties while six are independent candidates. A total of 316 candidates…

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government will distribute pre-primary textbook of five ethnic minorities in their mother tongues and teaching manual for the teacher for the first time in the country. He also said that the government would provide 36,03,18,979 textbooks free…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested two land officers from the capital in a graft case, reports UNB. ACC deputy assistant director Md Nasim Uddin arrested assistant officer Mafizul Islam and deputy assistant officer Md Abdul Malek of Ruhitpur Land Office (Keraniganj, Dhaka), ACC…

Dhaka and Moscow have concluded negotiations for $11.385 billion Russian credit for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), reports UNB. A high-powered delegation, headed by Science and Technology Minister Yaefesh Osman which visited the Moscow last week, held the negotiations during two-day talks on May…