DHAKA: State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Captain (retd.) Mujibur Rahman Fakir said his ministry would appoint 80,000 additional manpower at different health units in order to ensure health services for all.Of them, 13,500 would be recruited for community clinics, 30,000 as

DHAKA: Health condition of eminent politician and former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, suffering from lung cancer, was deteriorated on Thursday morning.“Mannan’s physical condition was slightly deteriorated,” chief of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital Dr.

DHAKA: Madrasah Board kept its record as its students showed highest pass rate of 86.55 in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations for 2010. A total of 63,864 students came out successfully out of total 73,790 appeared in the Alim Examinations under the Madrasah Board. Of them, a

DHAKA: Government authorities Thursday kicked off an orchestrated drive to chase aged vehicles off Dhaka’s streets trying to ease a nagging traffic jam and mitigate people’s plight.As planned, magistrates in mobile courts began spot check of transport health to whistle off 20-year-old

DHAKA: A fire broke out in city’s Kazipara area early Thursday from a cracked gas pipeline. Fire brigade source told banglanews24.com.bd that the fire initiated at a five- story building flat in Kazipara nearly 4am Thursday. The flame soon spread over some adjacent flats. Local people

DHAKA: Mahanayak of Bangladeshi film industry actor Bulbul Ahmed passed away at about 11:30 Wednesday night. He died at the age of 70.  Bulbul was taken to Square Hospital Wednesday night as he had chest pain, family sources said. The duty-doctors declared him dead at the hospital.  His

RAJSHAHI: A youth was chopped to death over land feuds on Wednesday night in Rajshahi city, police said.The victim was Sumon, from Chotobon village area.Boalia Model thana OC Jasim Uddin said that at around 8:30 pm, a local named Akthar Hossain called the victim to his chamber following a

DHAKA: The kotoali Thana is taking preparation to present Hasan Imam, son of arrested Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman, Hasan Jamil, son of arrested Quader Mollah and his two son in law Jahirul Islam and Mohibulla before the court for a 7-day remand.Ataur Rahman, operation officer (SI) of

DHAKA: The much-talked-about meeting of the National Productivity Council (NPC) took place Wednesday with the presence of only two government secretaries out of nine—and ended up without transacting any productive business. The meeting was held after a dead pause for five years that saw

DHAKA: The whereabouts of opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia during the BDR mutiny is under probe, said Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, in a latest significant development on the country’s baroque political front. “The probe findings will be

DHAKA: British Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan MP Wednesday said the trial of war crimes committed during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 should be conducted upholding the rule of law, as the government kick-started the prosecution process.He noted

DHAKA: Ramna thana OC Shibli Noman and SI Altaf Hossain along with five others were Wednesday sued on a murder charge in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, amid a row over ‘custodial deaths’.  Nasima Akhter Shubho, a resident of 327/A, Maghbazar, filed the case with the CMM

DHAKA: The whereabouts of opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia during the BDR mutiny is under probe, said Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, in a latest significant development on the country’s baroque political front. “The probe findings will be

DHAKA: Ministry of Communication, Bangladesh Road Transportation Authority (BRTA) and Traffic Division of DMP are going to start a drive to exile illegal and old vehicles from Thursday to reduce traffic jams and frequent road accidents in the city. The drive will continue until August 31

 DHAKA: Health condition of eminent politician and former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan remained unchanged on Wednesday, doctors said. Bhuiyan has been on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital for a week. ICU chief of the hospital Dr Mirza Nazim

Dhaka: A Bangladesh Rifles junior officer died on Wednesday morning after a fatal fall in a bathroom of the BDR Headquarters at Pilkhana in the city, police said.The deceased was Naik Hiron Mia, 57, hailed from Sonapur village in Sadar thana of Feni district. New Market thana Duty Officer

  CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation (BRTF) has called for a 36-hour transport strike in the district from July 18. The BRTF sponsored the strike announced from a press conference to press home their 15-point demand including reclaiming its Fatikchhari branch

NARAYANGANJ: Two persons were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Araihazar upazila Wednesday.Police and eyewitnesses said the Dhaka-bound microbus collided head on with the goods-laden truck at Purinda at

DHAKA: The government is going to formulate ‘Health Policy-2010’ soon that will ensure access to health services for all, Health Minister AFM Ruhul Haque announced Wednesday. Addressing a meeting of the National Review Committee on Health Policy 2010 at the ministry, the minister said

DHAKA: Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 15. The chairmen of the Education Boards will hand over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at 9:30 am led by the Education Minister. The Education Ministry will