TV reporter sent to jail for 'torturing wife'

A Dhaka court yesterday sent senior reporter of ATN News Atiqur Rahman Khan to jail in a case filed for torturing his wife.
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Sammilita Sangskritik Jote protests murders of bloggers, children

Sammilita Sangskritik Jote held a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital yesterday protesting murders of children and bloggers
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM

People must know about RTI Act for optimum use

Benefits of the Right to Information Act need to be highlighted to ensure its optimum use by citizens, said speakers at the country's
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Death under tiger statue: People demand justice (video)

Angered over the tragic death of a man under a tiger statue at Karwan Bazar of Dhaka yesterday, people demanded justice.
22 August 2015, 10:06 AM

REMEMBERING YASMIN

A 14-year-old girl got on the wrong bus on her way to Dinajpur from Dhaka. Upon realising her mistake, she stepped out of the bus, and was looking for another way home, when a police van stopped in front of her.
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Nilphamari train derailment halts communications for six hours

Rail communications on Parbotipur-Chilahati route in Nilphamari remained snapped for six hours as the locomotive of a Rajshahi-bound
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM

India extends Taslima Nasreen's visa by a year

Author Taslima Nasreen's Indian visa was extended yesterday for another year, effective from July 23, following an intervention of Home
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Bull fattening going on in Rajshahi ahead of Eid

In addition to Monira Begum, more than 11,500 rural people most of them women in Rajshahi region are now passing their busiest
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Ctg transport strike called off after leader's rescue

Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation called off its indefinite strike as transport worker leader Nurul Islam was rescued from
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM

7.64 lakh painkillers seized

Rapid Action Battalion seized 7,64,100 painkillers from a pharmaceutical factory in Barisal city early yesterday.
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Rain worsens flooding in Kurigram

Incessant rains and the water rolling down hills have inundated about five hundred shoals and low-lying areas of all nine upazilas of
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Mass hysteria sends fifteen schoolgirls to Barisal hospital

At least 15 schoolgirls of Durgapasa High School in Chanpasa village of Barisal were admitted to Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Transport workers go on strike in all Ctg districts

Chittagong regional committee of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Shramik Federation enforced an indefinite strike in the five districts of
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Catherine Masud urges chief justice to expedite trials

Catherine Masud, widow of renowned filmmaker Tareque Masud, yesterday urged the chief justice to take measures to expedite trial
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Tourism industry turned into threat for Adivasis

The tourism industry has appeared more as a threat to indigenous peoples' cultural integrity and to their right to the land and forest
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Probir still not feeling safe

Senior journalist Probir Sikdar is still apprehensive of moving freely.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Ctg students protest VAT on private university tuition fees

Students of eight private universities of Chittagong yesterday protested the government's decision to impose 7.5 percent VAT on their
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Assault on journos: EC seeks withdrawal of deputy director

The Election Commission urges the government to withdraw its deputy director who beat up two journalists at his office.
20 August 2015, 09:19 AM

The way they get hearing hamstrung

If you observe their activities, you would hardly believe that they are taking part in a court hearing.
19 August 2015, 18:00 PM

'I was mentally tortured'

Some top cops in Faridpur threatened journalist Probir Sikdar, who lost a leg in an attack in 2001, that they would make sure that he lose the other leg, he told a court yesterday.
18 August 2015, 18:00 PM