DHAKA: The striking physiotherapy students called off their hunger strike after getting government assurance that a physiotherapy college would be set up within 14 days.Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque on Tuesday evening visited the fasting students at Central Shaheed Minar and assured

DHAKA: Road communications snapped on 10 internal routes of Barisal as the district Bus Owners’ Association Tuesday went on an indefinite strike on Tuesday morning, putting commuters into endless sufferings. Bus strike was enforced in protest against the launch of a bus service in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday urged the Danish government to invest in Bangladesh’s gas-exploration sector, as the country is in urgent need of striking additional amounts of the fuel.She made the call while Denmark’s outgoing Ambassador Einar H Jensen paid a farewell

BANDARBAN: Journalist Abul Bashar Nayan Tuesday secured bail in an arms case filed against him with a local court.Bandarban District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Kawser granted the bail upon a bond of Tk 20,000.The court fixed July 26 as the next date of hearing. Police arrested Nayan in

DHAKA: The International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB), a private forum, Tuesday made a 10-point suggestion for upgrading city governance through granting autonomy to the city corporations and for the development of private sector.Its leaders put forward the recommendations at an

DHAKA : Four people were killed and seven injured in lightning strikes in Madaripur and Sirajganj districts Tuesday as an inclement weather continued to persist over the country.In Madaripur, a father and his daughter were killed in lightning strikes in Umedpur union in Shibchar

DHAKA: Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Shafiq Ahmed said Tuesday that everything would be supplied on demand from members of the panel of lawyers and investigation agency for holding trial of war criminals and violators of human rights in 1971.While talking

Jamalpur: A portion of Pathorshi-Kulkandi flood-control dam collapsed Tuesday under the pressure of gushing water of the rain-fed Jamuna River, submerging some 20 villages in Islampur upazila.Incessant rain and onrush of hill water from across the border for last few days deteriorated the

DHAKA: State Minister for Land Mustafizur Rahman Tuesday stressed the need for formulating an up-to-date Land Acquisition and Resettlement Policy to ensure realistic compensation in rehabilitating land-acquisition victims.  “The existing Land Acquisition Ordinance has weaknesses in

SIRAJGANJ: Country’s east-west road communications crossing over Bangabandhu Bridge across the Jamuna halted for two hours as lightning struck down its computerized traffic-operation systems at both ends on Tuesday morning, officials said.They said the close-circuit cameras and

SIRAJGANJ: Lightening strikes killed two people at Choyra village in Ullapara upazila on Tuesday morning, as inclement weather continued to persist over the country.The deceased were identified as Barat Ali, 25, of Choyra village and Tojam Uddin, 27, of Baniahor village, in the

DHAKA: A disabled girl was allegedly raped at a rickshaw garage in Meradia area of the capital. Khilgaon police said, “As she is a physically handicapped girl, the exact time and date of the incident were not clear. But the incident might have taken place Saturday or Sunday.” Owner of

DHAKA: Home Minister advocate Sahara Khatun visited the policemen wounded during Sunday’s hartal at city’s Rajarbag police hospital on Tuesday noon. The police personnel received wounds while performing their duties during the down-to-dusk hartal enforced by the main opposition BNP on

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday issued arrest warrants against Jamaat-e-Islami’s four top leaders, including its Amir Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, in a case filed against them for allegedly hurting religious sentiments.The other accused are Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad

DHAKA: Bangladesh has been elected member of the UN Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for a second time.Twelve countries, out of 21 in the race, were elected members of the CEDAW Committee to the 2011-14 term in the elections held in the UN

CHUADANGA: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people alongwith seven bottles of snake venom, worth about Tk 1 crore, from Damurhuda border area in the district Monday night. Acting on a tip off, members of the elite force went to the house of one Ghani Mia at Aramdanga

CHITTAGONG: A truck rammed into a CNG-run baby-taxi in the city’s Dampara area early Tuesday, leaving a police sub-inspector dead and two constables injured.The deceased was SI Mohammad Ferdous Ahmed, 32, hailed from Laksam upazlia in Comilla district.Injured constables Mohammad

DHAKA: A three-wheeler driver was killed following police baton charge Monday night at capital`s Noyatola area.   Ramna Police said they arrested CNG-run three-wheeler driver Babor Ali alias Babu, 40, Monday night from Noyatola.     “When he was brought to the Ramna police

DHAKA: A three-wheeler driver was killed following police baton charge Monday night at capital’s Noyatola area.Ramna Police said they arrested CNG-run three-wheeler driver Babor Ali alias Babu, 40, Monday night from Noyatola.  “When he was brought to the Ramna police station, he

DHAKA: The retirement age of government employees extends from 57 to 60 years as Parliament Monday passed a law for enactment to this effect.Labour and Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain placed the Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Bill 2010 providing for extension of the