Rangpur – Teachers and employees of Begum Rokeya University continued their movement confining their vice-chancellor Prof Dr Nurun Nabi at his office and staging a fast-unto-death demanding salary hike and regularization of their jobs for the second day.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed eight Islami Chhatra Shibira activists on a one-day remand each in a case filed for alleged vandalizing vehicle and explosion of cock-tail.
Commerce Minister GM Quader said Wednesday in Parliament that hartal, blockade and other negative political programmes cast adverse impact on the country’s trade and investment.
A bill, ‘Islamic Arabic University Bill 2013’, went through Parliament on Wednesday, aiming to modernise madrasah education.
A woman was raped by the caretaker of Terokahada upazila chairman Sarfuddin Bachchu at his quarters on Tuesday night.
Bangladesh has welcomed the agreement on the framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons reached between the United States and the Russian Federation on September 14 in Geneva.
Of the two bourses, the key share index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) experienced a nominal loss while that of the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) registered gain on Wednesday.
Commerce Minister Golam Mohammad Kader on Wednesday informed Parliament that the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) needs to have 20-25 percent market share for its market intervention in case of any artificial crisis.
Communications Ministry has proposed to increase the contract value of the Padma Bridge project’s independent checking engineer (ICE) by Tk 2.0275 crore.
Dhaka – An auto-rickshaw driver was killed and 10 persons including two cops were injured in sporadic violence throughout the country on Wednesday, the first day of 48-hour Jamaat-e-Islami sponsored hartal.
Opposition BNP on Wednesday sharply reacted to the Prime Minister’s remarks that the next general election will be held at any cost, and the opposition leader cannot foil it, saying that it is her audacity and disrespect to people’s power.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suggested opposition chairperson Khaleda Zia to pay a visit to an eye doctor.
The new mayors of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) and Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) took the charge of their corporations on Wednesday, over three months after they had been elected.
Police are investigating an assault on a Bangladeshi government minister at the studio of a Bengali news channel in East London in what officials are calling a “terror attack”.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has inspected the Indo-Bangla border in the state’s Dhubri sector to take stock of the border-related issues.
The RCMP has charged a former senior executive of SNC-Lavalin and two influential Bangladeshi businessmen and lobbyists with bribery related to the Montreal-based engineering giant’s failed bid to oversee the building of the $3-billion Padma Bridge in Bangladesh.
Scientists of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) here said 71 varieties of different crops including rice and legumes developed by them have been contributing a lot to the country’s agriculture.
The extent of losses of human lives during earthquake could be reduced substantially through creating awareness about the natural calamity among students and adopting early preparedness, speakers said on Sunday.
Water level of the Brahmaputra and the Ghagot, two major rivers of Gaibandha, crossed danger mark on Sunday night inundating the river basin and char areas.
Speakers at separate discussions have said the government has been working relentlessly to achieve cent percent literacy to free the country from illiteracy by 2014 in the process of building an educated nation.
Flood situation in Chapainawabganj has marked a slight improvement while the lowlying areas of the district still remain under flood water.
Two labourers went missing as a boat capsized in the Jamuna River near Moti Shaheb Ghat in the town on Monday.
A man was killed as a truck knocked down his bicycle at Parulia Bazar in Kaliganj upazila on Sunday evening.
Police recovered strangulated body of a boy from near Chapa Jhuri Bridge in Nakla upazila early Monday, two days after he had been kidnapped by a gang from Narayanganj district for ransom.
A young man reportedly committed suicide at Ahmedpur in Gabtali upazila early Sunday.
A farmer died from electrocution at Belnagar village in Sadar upazila on Sunday. The victim was identified as Aiyub Hossain, 55, a resident of the village.
62 killed in Kurigram frontier alone There is nothing new in the brutal killing of Felani Khatun by Indian border guards. Such violence along the Bangladesh-India border is routine and arbitrary.
Police arrested an alleged robber leader along with arms and bullets at Nakol village in Sreepur upazila early Monday.
Two local leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami were injured in an attack by Juba League (JL) men at Narayanpur village in Sharsha upazila on Sunday night.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) early Monday arrested 46 people from Sadipur border in Sharsha upazila foiling their attempt to enter Bangladesh from India illegally.