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Six mayoral aspirants submit nomination papers for RCC polls

Six mayoral aspirants submit nomination papers for RCC polls

-- 2018-06-29 11:49:06

A total of 227 aspirants, including six mayoral candidates, have submitted their nomination papers for contesting in the upcoming Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) election. Besides the mayoral candida...

Police recover body of madrasa teacher in Tangail

Police recover body of madrasa teacher in Tangail

-- 2018-06-29 11:31:18

A teacher of a local madrasa was found dead at Deupur village in Kalihati upazila under Tangail region on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Anisur Rahman, 55, an assistant teacher of G...

Myanmar BGP shoots Rohingya child along border

Myanmar BGP shoots Rohingya child along border

-- 2018-06-28 21:47:40

A Rohingya child suffered bullet wounds in firing by Border Guard Police (BGP) in Myanmar along the Tumbru border of Naikkhonchhari upazila in Bandarband on Thursday. The injured is Ansar Ullah, 13,...

Disbursement of dev funds to get quicker

Disbursement of dev funds to get quicker

-- 2018-06-28 21:42:10

The government has amended the guidelines for disbursement and utilisation of budgetary allocations for the development projects aimed at speeding up implementation of Annual Development Programme (AD...

PWD hands over new bldg of Sunamganj District Hospital to Health Dept

PWD hands over new bldg of Sunamganj District Hospital to Health Dept

Our Correspondent 2018-06-28 21:15:50

SYLHET, June 28: The newly-constructed building of the Sunamganj District Hospital was handed over to the Health Department recently. District Civil Surgeon Ashutosh Das said, "We took over the new...

29 people face jail term for embezzling money 33 yrs ago

29 people face jail term for embezzling money 33 yrs ago

-- 2018-06-28 21:06:26

A court on Thursday sentenced 29 people to three years' imprisonment in a case filed for embezzling Tk 5.3 million from Rupali Bank 33 years ago. The convicts, tried in absentia, were also fined the...

One gets life term for rape in Sherpur

One gets life term for rape in Sherpur

-- 2018-06-28 19:09:46

A Sherpur court Thursday sentenced a youth to life term imprisonment for raping a teenage girl after abduction at Akhrapara village in Nalitabari upazila in the district. The court also sentenced Par...

EWG finds irregularities in 46.5pc polling centres

EWG finds irregularities in 46.5pc polling centres

-- 2018-06-28 18:25:51

Election Working Group (EWG), an alliance of election observing bodies, has found irregularities in 46.5 per cent of the polling centres during the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) elections. The EWG...

Liton submits nomination paper for RCC polls

Liton submits nomination paper for RCC polls

-- 2018-06-28 17:56:44

Awami League nominated mayoral candidate AHM Khairuzzaman Liton on Thursday submitted nomination paper for contesting in the upcoming mayoral election of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC). Flanked by a...

BGB detains 19 BD nationals from Kurigram border

BGB detains 19 BD nationals from Kurigram border

-- 2018-06-28 17:02:25

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 19 Bangladeshi nationals, including seven children and six women, from Dharmapur border in Phulbari upazila in Kurigram early Thursday while they were...

‘Chargesheet in Gulshan café attack case in 10 days’

‘Chargesheet in Gulshan café attack case in 10 days’

-- 2018-06-28 17:01:48

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said the chargesheet in Holey Artisan cafe attack case will be submitted within 10 days. The minister came up with the information while talking to reporters at the...

99pc people are now under basic sanitation: Minister

99pc people are now under basic sanitation: Minister

-- 2018-06-28 15:39:54

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said 99 per cent people are now under basic sanitation across the country. Of them, 61 per cent use modern latrines, 28 per cent shared-latrin...

RAB detains three JMB suspects in C’nawabganj

RAB detains three JMB suspects in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-06-28 13:50:27

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) along with some jihadi books from Chatigram of sadar upa...

Four Bangladeshis die in Saudi road crashes

Four Bangladeshis die in Saudi road crashes

-- 2018-06-28 13:28:37

Four Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims died and nine others injured in separate road accidents in Saudi Arabia. The dead are Julhas, 50, Rashed, 65, Abul Bashar, 65, and Rashedul Islam Babu, 55. The injured...

DB police nab couple with yaba, heroin in Dhaka

DB police nab couple with yaba, heroin in Dhaka

-- 2018-06-28 12:23:30

Detective Branch (DB) of police on Wednesday arrested a couple along with contraband yaba tablets and heroin from the capital’s Turag Police Station area. “We arrested a couple Md Joynal,...

Man rapes minor girl in Savar

Man rapes minor girl in Savar

-- 2018-06-28 12:19:12

A minor girl was reportedly violated by a pervert man for nearly two months at Dagarmora in Savar municipality area. Enamul Haq, sub-inspector of Savar Model Police Station, said Milon, a tiles worke...

Schoolgirl dies as elephant goes on a rampage

Schoolgirl dies as elephant goes on a rampage

-- 2018-06-28 11:37:52

A minor girl was trampled to death by a rampaging elephant at Khutakhali area in Chakaria upazila on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Nur Jannat, 11, daughter of Bahadur Haque of S...

Worker dies of electrocution in Panchagarh

Worker dies of electrocution in Panchagarh

-- 2018-06-28 11:26:41

A construction worker was killed after being electrocuted at Shahbahan in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh district on Wednesday. Quoting witnesses, Zahurul Islam, officer-in-charge of Tetulia Model Po...

Publisher murder suspect dies in ‘gunfight’

Publisher murder suspect dies in ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-06-28 11:08:23

A key suspect in the murder of publisher Shahjahan Bachchu has died in an alleged shootout with police in Munshiganj’s Sirajdikhan upazila. Law-enforcement agencies arrested 34-year-old Abdur R...

'BD needs $82.5b investment in energy sector by 2041'

'BD needs $82.5b investment in energy sector by 2041'

-- 2018-06-27 20:48:11

State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid has said Bangladesh needs $82.5 billion investment by 2041 for its potential power and energy sector. "The investment can come from both public and pr...

DMP files 3,205 cases over traffic rule violation

DMP files 3,205 cases over traffic rule violation

-- 2018-06-27 20:43:07

The Traffic Department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) filed 3205 cases and realised Tk 2.3 million in fine during its drives against traffic rules violators in the capital on Wednesday. Besides,...

Life expectancy at birth rises to 72 yrs

Life expectancy at birth rises to 72 yrs

-- 2018-06-27 20:38:11

Life expectancy at birth in the country increased to 72 years for both male and female in 2017 from 71.6 years in 2016. According to a survey report titled ‘Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2...

UGC okays Tk 46.43 billion for 40 public universities

UGC okays Tk 46.43 billion for 40 public universities

-- 2018-06-27 20:25:55

University Grants Commission (UGC) has approved Tk 46.43 billion budgets for 40 public universities in the country. The 151th Full Commission meeting of University Grants Commission (UGC) presided by...

‘Party registration rules contradictory’

‘Party registration rules contradictory’

-- 2018-06-27 20:13:55

Leaders of Ganasanghati Andolan on Wednesday alleged that the rules and regulations set by the Election Commission (EC) for the registration of new political party contradictory to the constitutional...

Banks to remain open on Saturday

Banks to remain open on Saturday

-- 2018-06-27 19:29:59

Branches concerned of all scheduled banks will remain open on Saturday (June 30), the last day of fiscal year 2017-18, to provide cheque, chalan, pay-order or demand draft services to clients for paym...

BNP leader Mizanur on two-day remand

BNP leader Mizanur on two-day remand

-- 2018-06-27 19:13:29

A court in Dhaka has granted a two-day remand to interrogate BNP leader Mizanur Rahman, who was arrested on charges of conspiring to make the Gazipur city polls controversial. Dhaka Metropolitan Magi...

Country’s power generation capacity reaches 18,353MW: PM

Country’s power generation capacity reaches 18,353MW: PM

-- 2018-06-27 19:06:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said now the country’s power generation capacity is 18,353MW including the captive power. She said the government has undertaken programme to purchase...

Concert for Rohingyas held in NY

Concert for Rohingyas held in NY

-- 2018-06-27 18:48:30

UN Chamber Music Society of the UN staff recreation council held a concert at Baruch Performing Art Centre in Manhattan, New York recently to mobilise funds for the Rohingyas living in Bangladesh. Br...

63 Rohingyas infected with HIV: Nasim

63 Rohingyas infected with HIV: Nasim

-- 2018-06-27 18:44:06

Sixty-three of the Rohingya people who took shelter in Bangladesh are HIV-infected patients. Health Minister Mohammed Nasim made the disclosure at Parliament on Wednesday. "Now there're 4,662 HIV-in...

Govt, UN start registering Rohingya refugees

Govt, UN start registering Rohingya refugees

-- 2018-06-27 18:24:49

The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have started formally registering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar, a move that officials say w...