Website to help public servants spell correct Bangla launched

The public administration ministry has launched a website to help government officials and employees spell Bangla words correctly as
19 April 2016

Obituary

Syed Kamal Uddin Ahmed, an advocate, died of cencer, in Sylhet Nurjahan Clinic in the city yesterday morning. He was 70.
19 April 2016

Road crashes kill five including 9-year-old

Five people, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed and another was injured in road accidents in five districts yesterday.
19 April 2016

Rab rescues abducted man

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have rescued an abducted man and arrested five abductors in a raid at an under-construction building in the capital's Mahakhali Niketan area on Monday.
19 April 2016

Businessman found dead in a Dhaka hotel

Police recover the body of a businessman from a residential hotel in Tejgaon area of Dhaka.
19 April 2016

Cop shot in Dhaka

Sub-Inspector of Detective Branch of Police is shot by miscreants when he was raiding in Tatnibazar area of Dhaka to nab criminals.
19 April 2016

Gazipur city mayor Mannan suspended, again

Gazipur city’s mayor MA Mannan has been suspended again, days after the Supreme Court validated his position in respect to implication in a case.
19 April 2016

JnU students vandalise vehicles

Students of Jagannath University (JnU) vandalise at least seven vehicles including buses in front of the campus in old Dhaka.
19 April 2016

EC commissioners should quit, Shujan demands

Reflecting on the “poor performance" during the recent union parishad elections, a civil society platform has demanded that Election Commissioners “should quit” immediately.
19 April 2016

Baby killed at Uttar Khan, mother under scanner

A one-and-a-half-year old boy has been stabbed to death at Uttar Khan in Dhaka. Police are primarily suspecting the mother to be the killer.
19 April 2016

5 ‘kidnappers’ held from Mohakhali, 1 rescued

Law enforcers claim to have detained five kidnappers from Dhaka’s Mohakhali area. One victim is said to have been rescued from their grasp.
19 April 2016

UK, Belgium, Sri Lanka get new envoys

Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union Ismat Jahan will replace High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Md Abdul Hannan
18 April 2016

Khaleda files two pleas with HC challenging trial court order

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed two petitions with the High Court challenging a lower court order that rejected her two applications in connection with Zia Charitable Trust corruption case on Sunday.
18 April 2016

Mobile lab to test ETP waste of Dhaka garment factories

A mobile testing laboratory for waste water and sludge generated by effluent treatment plants in the readymade garment (RMG) factories was inaugurated in the capital yesterday, aiming to help reduce pollution.
18 April 2016

50 tonnes of Hilsa fry seized in Ctg

A mobile court of the Chittagong district administration seized around 50 tonnes of Hilsa fry and detained 15 fishermen from a vessel in the Karnaphuli river yesterday.
18 April 2016

DNCC opens two new public toilets

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday opened two modern public toilets at Tejgaon Satrasta T&T Gate and Hazi Moron Ali Road to ensure healthcare of the city dwellers.
18 April 2016

UN experts stress humane approach to drug control

Ahead of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS), a group of United Nations human rights experts have called upon states to use the occasion to integrate their human rights obligations in the international drug control regime.
18 April 2016

Goyeshwar slams BNP for not observing Ilias' disappearance anniversary

BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy yesterday strongly criticised the party's high-ups for not holding any programme marking the fourth anniversary of disappearance of its leader M Ilias Ali, and for urging the government to trace him out.
18 April 2016

ASK worried over Shafik Rehman's arrest

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday expressed deep concern over the arrest and remand of senior journalist Shafik Rehman.
18 April 2016

Youth found dead in Ctg

A youth was found dead in his room in Bakalia area of Chittagong city yesterday morning.
18 April 2016