The Unnayan Onneshan (UO), an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, has put emphasis on adoption of new strategies aimed at expanding country’s productive capacities that enhance utilization of available resources through efficient entrepreneurial capabilities and increased production linkages,…

Cox’s Bazar: Three people were killed as a pickup truck carrying a consignment of Yaba tablets, cashed off by criminals, slammed into a roadside wall at Chhoto Enani on the Teknaf-Cox’s Bazar Marine Drive Road in Ukhiya upazila yesterday morning, reports UNB. One of the deceased was identified…

Though people have got a long vacation to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with their families, there is little for the hoteliers in the country’s biggest tourism spots—Cox’s Bazar and Kuakata—to cheer about, reports UNB. In most cases, the holidaymakers prefer spending time with their…

A mother was accused of setting her baby boy on fire throwing him into a wood-fired oven resulting in the death of the boy in Bhairab upazila in Kishoreganj district yesterday. The victim is two-and-a-half-year Yamin Mia, son of farmer Mubarak Mia of Chandpur village under Shimulkandi union in the upazila.…

Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a platform that advocates good governance, yesterday demanded to make arrangement for direct voting system in the Zila Parishad elections instead of present electoral college system of voting. “We appreciate the government for the initiatives of holding the…

Five people, including four of a family, were killed and 20 others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka- Bangabandhu Bridge highway in Kandila area of Sadar upazila yesterday afternoon. Three of the deceased were identified as Birbala, Anjana and Jagadish Pramanik, hailed from Bogra…