BCL announces DU hall committee

After a gap of over five years, Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday announced the list of its presidents and secretaries for the 18 Dhaka University (DU) halls.
2 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Munia’s death: PBI takes 7th date as probe yet to end

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked PBI to submit -- by February 22 -- the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka’s Gulshan.
2 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Torturing, Bullying Student: Three BCL members suspended from hall

Three members of Chhatra League’s Bijoy Ekattor hall unit of Dhaka University (DU) were suspended from the hall for six months over torturing and bullying a student at the hall seven days ago.
2 February 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Bid to lift sanctions’: Govt spending public money to protect image

BNP yesterday raised questions about the government allegedly spending public money to lift US-imposed sanctions.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Govt requests EC to probe BNP’s lobbyist expenses

The government has requested the Election Commission to probe whether BNP had shown the expenditure of appointing lobbyist firms abroad in their annual financial report.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Carrying Phensidyl a punishable offence: SC

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict which in 2003 ruled that carrying and possessing Phensidyl is not a punishable offence.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Rajshahi Wasa triples water tariff

Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority has tripled water tariff from yesterday. Rajshahi Wasa announced it through notices on its website and newspapers last month.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

CEC should apologise

Thirty-seven eminent personalities yesterday called upon CEC KM Nurul Huda to make a public apology if he fails to prove allegation of irregularities against Shujan Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar within a week.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

272 women, girls faced violence in Jan

A total of 272 women and girls faced violence in the first month of this year, said a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Right back at it

Occupied footpaths have been a longstanding problem for commuters and pedestrians of Savar Bazar Bus Stand area.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Barishal airport: Barely holding it together

Landing aircrafts at Barishal Airport has become a risky endeavour. This is due to the dilapidated condition of its runway as well as other structures, a high-level investigation team of the civil aviation ministry found.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Still stuck in a Bureaucratic Tangle

The proposal to appoint psychologists for deradicalisation programme remains stuck in a bureaucratic tangle.
1 February 2022, 18:00 PM

BR’s poor show yet again

In August 2011, the government took up a Tk 1,946 crore project to procure 70 Metre Gauge (MG) locomotives to mitigate the growing crisis of rail engines and expanding the services of Bangladesh Railway.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Sust students thank PM

The protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday for bearing all medical expenses of those who were injured in police attack and became sick in hunger strike.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Torture, abuse, separation: Story of domesticating elephants

People of greater Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts regions are familiar with domesticated elephants being used to pull trees down the hills, in circuses and at various social events.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM

38 days of fresh air in 6 years

Residents of the capital have inhaled clean air for only 38 days in the last six years, found a study, highlighting the gravity of the air pollution that over two crore people of the city are exposed to every day.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Embracing menopause with a positive attitude

Menopause a turbulent time for women. Hormone levels drop quickly, which causes period to slow to a stop, and some other symptoms set in. But one must consider that menopause is a natural part of life.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Woman becomes voter for 2nd time, sued

A woman in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila has been sued for becoming a voter for the second time using a fake name and age.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Trucker held over death of van-puller

Rab on Wednesday detained the driver of a truck  from Chandgaon area of port city, after a van-puller was killed by his truck in the capital’s Bailey Road area on January 24.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM

PUST dept chair ‘assaulted’, barred from hiring board

A department chairman of Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) was allegedly assaulted, as he was trying to enter a teacher recruitment board of his own department yesterday morning.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM