The quality of Buriganga water has improved slightly following the relocation of tanneries to Savar from the city's Hazaribagh area and heavy rainfall this year, reports UNB. But experts think a lot more things, including checking other industrial and domestic wastes, need to be done to fully revive…

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq said on Saturday the killing fields and graves of freedom fighters will get an identical design, reports UNB. He said this while addressing the centennial anniversary celebration of Amirabad BC Laha High School at Sonagazi upazila in Feni district as…

Police arrested a ward councillor of Bogra municipality on Saturday evening in a case filed for allegedly beating a policeman and looting his valuables, reports UNB. The arrestee is Ibrahim Hossain, councillor from ward-8 of the municipality and former convener of the municipality unit of Swechchhasebak…

A child was born without the upper part of its skull at the Banshkhali upazila health complex in Chittagong yesterday. Jannatul Naeem (23) gave birth to the girl around 8.35 am. The baby was born through normal delivery and weighed 3.2 kg after the birth. Doctors said the foetus was infected by a virus…

A schoolgirl was allegedly gang raped at Naldanga village in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha on Friday night, reports UNB. The victim, a student of class VII, was admitted to Gaibandha Modern Hospital, said Sadullapur police station officer-in-charge Borhan Uddin. He said when the girl was returning…

A seminar titled 'C ollaboration with Canadian Universities' was held at Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia on Saturday, reports UNB. IU Pharmacy Department organised the seminar at the Applied Sciences and Technology faculty in the morning. IU Vice-chancellor Prof Dr M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari…