DHAKA: North Bengal’s local representatives Wednesday lamented that the region kept lagging behind in development socially, economically and educationally being neglected since Bangladesh’s independence like the then East Pakistan. The disappointments were vented at a seminar on

DHAKA: Veteran politician and former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan breathed his last on Tuesday midnight.Duty doctor at Square Hospital declared him dead at 12:01 on Tuesday night.The first Janaza for Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, also former LGRD minister, was held Wednesday at

Dhaka: Amid a tug-of-war over MPO distributions, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid wrote to Prime Minister’s education adviser Dr. Alauddin Ahmed requesting him to finalize the list of the Monthly Payment Order for non-government academic institutions within a week.PS to the

Dhaka: Around 20 shops burnt down in a devastating fire at Jhutpotti in city's Mirpur-10 area on Tuesday midnight, in a quick recurrence of+ nighttime blaze in such ghettos. There were no reports of casualty in the late-night blaze.Witnesses said the fire originated 00:40am in a shop

Dhaka: Cyclonic storm ‘Laila’ is likely to intensify further over the Bay of Bengal and move in a northwesterly direction to hit the coastal range of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in southern India, according to Met forecast.   In its latest warning on Wednesday morning the Dhaka

Dhaka: A shop at the Eastern Plaza shopping-maul in city’s Hatirpul area was burnt in a Wednesday morning fire, before the market opened for the day. The fire incident took place at shop no. 15/10, level-2, of Eastern Plaza around 7:00 am, official sources said.“On information, three

Dhaka: A ruling-party leader of city’s Mohammadpur area has been sued simultaneously by three leaders of its student wing for allegedly giving them death threat for not acting to his behest.          The leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League filed general diaries with three

Dhaka: A Dhaka Court Wednesday ordered the Criminal Investigation Department cops to submit by June 30 the probe report in a case on the carnage committed by border guards at Bangladesh Rifles Pilkhana headquarters in February last year.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque set

Bandarban: Scores of indigenous people Wednesday laid a siege to roads and waterways in the upcountry Thanchi upazila to press their demand for appointing “permanent residents” and freedom fighters to the posts of assistant teacher in government primary schools. The tribal people

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Tuesday declared the government would pursue ‘zero’ tolerance against the tide of eve teasing as the problem bred a serious social menace across the country in recent times.He reiterated the need for waging mass campaigns as a social

Dhaka: The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Tuesday urged the government to make the Anti-Corruption Commission independent, neutral and effective in carrying out combat against a reported pervasive spread of corruption, which earned Bangladesh bad name in the recent past. In

Chittagong: A surprise choice of mayoral candidate from outside the party fold generated simmering discontent within the opposition BNP as local leaders lamented that the man had ruled the roost in the port city while they were in peril after the 1/11 political episode.        

Dhaka: In a rebuff to critics, Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun Tuesday categorically said political identities are not taken into consideration in accepting any sensational murder case. She made the comment after the 67th meeting of the  ‘monitoring cell for sensational murder

Dhaka: Muggers fatally stabbed a man walking on the sidewalk of the road in Kalapani area under Mirpur Thana in the city on Monday night and he succumbed to his injuries Tuesday.    The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahim, 26, son of Mohammad Israil.Witnesses said Rahim was walking

DHAKA: South Korea will support joint ventures between Petrobangla and Korean Consortium in Bangladesh’s vital energy sector, especially, coal mining and coal-fired power production. Dhaka and Seoul reached a consensus in this regard and signed a nine-point joint communiqué Tuesday

DHAKA: Defying a recommendation of the technical committee of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) for grounding an aircraft of the GMG Airlines, the private airliner is operating flights with its faulty MD-80 carrier.  The technical committee of the CAAB in April

Chittagong: Mayor Mohiuddin’s call for managing internal conflicts in the ruling Awami League’s local chapter ahead of the upcoming Chittagong City Corporation polls pears to have fallen on deaf eras of his party colleagues, as many of them should be reluctant to give him a fourth

DHAKA: Troops deployed to support two government projects on machine-readable passport and visa preparation will return Wednesday to their barracks, an ISPR announcement said.  The army men were supporting the civil administration in running the projects titled ‘Machine Readable

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday fixed October 22 for hearing on the defamation suit filed by prime minister’s energy adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi against acting editor of Daily Amar Desh and former energy adviser Mahmudur Rahman.Judge Ali Hossain of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

Dhaka: Cigarette and tobacco products silently kill 57 thousand people while cripple some 3-4 lakh others annually in the country, anti-tobacco campaigners said Tuesday, fixing a latest social malaise, stalking, emerging as the most heinous hazard. They observed drug users create stalking