Category: Metro

Participants of a three-day long training workshop and seminar of teachers in Barisal on Sunday stressed on reality and moral values based teaching for quality education.

Dhaka – The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated former State Minister for Housing and Public Works Alamgir Kabir on graft charges.

A Dhaka court on Tuesday recorded the confessional statement of housewife Naurin Jahan Nadi, 25, in a case filed for repressing her domestic help Aduri.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 2,415 kilograms of Hilsa fish worth Tk13 lakh from a truck at Bankal Bridge in Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday morning.

Gunmen stormed into the house of a businessman in the city’s Mirpur area on Saturday afternoon and gunned him down.  

Speakers at a seminar in the city yesterday underscored the need for greater cooperation between Bangladesh. The seminar was organized by the Nawab Salimullah Academy to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

An Indian national was returned to the authorities of that country by the Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday after completion of his jail term in the district jail for intrusion.

Twelve Bangladeshi boys returned home on Monday night after languishing for two years in an Indian jail.

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday detained an alleged fraud who was demanding money from a businessman, claiming she is an ACC official.  

A devastating fire gutted 58 tin-shed houses near Rony Market in the city’s Kamrangirchar area on Saturday afternoon.  

Two construction workers were killed as a crane collapsed while bringing down embroidery machines from a  multi-storied building in the city’s Sutrapur area early Friday.

Train communications of the capital with Chittagong and Sylhet remained suspended from Thursday evening as the locomotive of an express train went out of order at Dewpara in Kaliganj upazila.  

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.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) took away 34 cattle from Bangladesh territory in Tentulia upazila on Sunday.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi citizen from Benipur border in Jibannagar upazila early Tuesday.

62 killed in Kurigram frontier alone .There is nothing new in the brutal killing of Felani Khatun by Indian border guards.

Sushashoner Jonno Procharavizan (SUPRO), a civil society network, on Sunday demanded the government allocate 6 percent of GDP to the education sector to improve the quality of education.  

A grand rally of garment workers will be held at city’s Suhrawardy Udyan on September 21 demanding fair wages for them and revival of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP).  

DHAKA: The Asia Foundation Bangladesh observed International Literacy Day 2013 by organising a book donation event and children’s book fair on Saturday at the Rayer Bazar Playground, Sadek Khan Road, Rayer Bazar, featuring 15 exhibitors from local children’s book publishing…

A Bangladeshi young man was injured as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire on him on Molani border in Haripur upazila of the district on Friday night.

Armed muggers shot an official of private mobile phone operator, Banglalink, to death and snatched Tk 2.5 lakh from him at Tongi here on Thursday.  

A youth who was under custody of Shahjahanpur thana police died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Thursday morning.  

Bangladesh Army, which led the rescue operations at the site of Rana Plaza collapse in Savar, has said 261 people have remained untraced.

Corporal Tajerul Islam Taj, 35, was found unconscious under Khilkhet flyover on Thursday night, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman told journalists.

The written tests for admission to first year honours courses of Dhaka University for the session 2013-2014 will begin on November 1 instead of October 11 as the university authorities changed the schedule on Thursday evening.

The scarcity of land for setting up new substations is impeding a move of Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd (Desco) to improve the power supply system in the city two posh areas — Gulshan and Banani.

WorldFish through USAID funded Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia in Bangladesh (CSISA-BD) project distributed improved Tilapia (From 60 Families of 14 generation) germplasm to the hatcheries as an initiative taken by the WorldFish for improving production of quality fish…

Agartala: The India-Bangladesh joint border conference began here Thursday to settle various disputes along the border shared by the two neighbours, officials here said.

BNP Chairperson and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia on Wednesday expressed profound shock at the death former Chief Justice Kemaluddin Hossain.