Police in a drive seized 50- maund of jatka (small hilsa fish) from Poura Asram area under Ramgati upazila of the district yesterday. Police also arrested three persons and produced them before a mobile court yesterday noon, reports BSS from Lakshmipur. The court fined the trio Taka 5,000 each. On a…

Three BRAC University students have paved the way for Bangladesh’s first footprint in space by developing its first nano-satellite. The low-cost satellite was designed and developed by BRAC University students Abdulla Hil Kafi, Maisun Ibn Monowar and Raihana Shams Islam Antara. The Kyushu Institute…

Free and fair polls are not only about the polling day, rather they are the result of a process creating space for parties to compete, media to report impartially and citizens to exercise their freedom of conscience, US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat told The Independent yesterday. She also stressed…