The district administration pulled down around 50 illegal structures on both sides of the Karnaphuli River yesterday, the fifth day of the ongoing drive. With this, a total of 200 illegal establishments were demolished and 10 acres of land were reclaimed in the five days, said sources at the Deputy…

Although Jaha Alam won back his freedom this week following an intervention by the High Court,the miscarriage of justice in the case does not end only with the 3 years of his life, that too in its prime, that no power on earth can give back to him. In the time that Alam spent behind bars, arrested in…

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained four drug dealers from the airport area in the capital. Acting on a tip-off, a RAB special operation team arrested them late at night on Thursday. Twenty thousand yaba pills were found in their possession. The detainees are Shahriar Parvez, Jahangir, Netal…

Children and grandchildren of freedom fighters (FFs) yesterday blocked Shahbagh intersection in the city to realise their six-point demand, including reinstatement of 30 percent quota facilities for them in government jobs. Over 200 protesters under the banner of 'Muktijoddhar Santan and Projonmo'…

The government is set to embark on a multidimensional plan to modernise villages with urban amenities and present rural folk a dazzle of urbanisation in view of the country’s urban areas continuing to absorb explosive population growth. Dwelling on the plan to turn villages into towns, LGRD and…

India will impart training on 1,800 civil servants of Bangladesh at the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG), an institute under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DAR&PG), over the next six years. An agreement to this effect was signed between the countries following…

An activist of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma)) was gunned down by miscreants in front of a hotel in Panchhari upazila on Thursday evening. The victim was identified as Rony Tripura, 32, son of Manindra Lal Tripura of the upazila. Dulal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Panchhari…