Category: Nation

Speakers in a function on Monday urged the candidates and their workers to abide by the electoral code of conducts in 4th upazila elections properly to ensure a peaceful atmosphere during the pre and post election period.

There are some 2 75,964 posts remain vacant with different ministries and departments of public administration. State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadek on Sunday disclosed this in Parliament while replying to a question from ruling party lawmaker Ebnamul…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) destroyed seized smuggled narcotic substances worth Tk26 lakh by crushing them under bulldozer in the district town on Thursday.

Saudi Police on Monday arrested 11 Bangladesh workers for gambling in Taif and recovered a sum of 21,388 Saudi Riyal from their possession as part of its ongoing drive against the crime. “The workers were caught red-handed while they were…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 10 people on charge of entering Bangladesh illegally at Kulia road in Debhata upazila on Monday morning. The arrested are Nityananda Roy, 25, Sarjit Kabiraj, 18, Sanjit Mallick, 29, Pradip Roy, 30, Prokash…

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued 72 Bangladeshis from a trawler near St Martin’s Island in Teknaf Upazila of Cox’s Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia. They were rescued from the trawler some five kilometers off St Martin’s…

Expatriates Welfare & Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain said here yesterday that the Banglaees feel their existence as a separate entity in our National Anthem composed by poet Rabindranath Tagore.

President Abdul Hamid on Thursday asked the country’s universities — both the public and private ones — to play a supportive role like social welfare organisations apart from providing quality education keeping the country’s interest above everything. “Education must not…

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has published the schedule for the written tests of the compulsory subjects of the 34th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations. As in last year, this year, too, the PSC has decided to hold two tests…

Speakers at a meeting in Rangpur have underscored the need for taking stringent actions for preventing corruption through launching social movement involving common people to build a corruption-free Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) on Wednesday submitted its annual report-2013 to President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban. The report was handed over to the President when a 14-member delegation of PSC, led by its chairman Ekram Ahmed, called on him…

Speakers at a project introductory discussion have underscored the need for bringing all the grassroots poor, distressed and other needy litigants under legal aid so that they can get fair justice.

A man allegedly committed suicide by taking poison over a family feud at Bhekutia village in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.

A third policeman has been suspended over Sunday’s ambush by masked gunmen on a prison van before they freed three convicted Jam’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants. Gazipur SP Md Abdul Baten said Habilder Major Ayub Ali of Gazipur Police Lines…

Speakers at an annual press briefing in Rajshahi today said more local governance related media reporting is very important for making the local government institutions strengthened and vibrant.

Four people, including a union parishad chairman, were bullet injured in a gun and bomb attack by some miscreants at Bahadurpur in Benapole town last night. The injured were identified as Lakhkhanpur Union Parishad chairman and union unit Awami League…

The panel backed by pro-Awami League and -left-leaning parties swept the Rajshahi University Teachers’ Association (Ruta) polls held on Monday. The Yellow Panel of the progressive teachers bagged all the posts of Ruta 15-member executive committee. Teacher of Geology and…

At least 15 students of a school were injured as a picnic bus plunged into a ditch at Kashempur in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district on Saturday. Witnesses said the bus carrying 37 students of Bagharpara Pilot High School of…

State minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said stern action will be taken against those who are involved in vandalising  Shaheed Minars in various places across the country before and after the Language Martyrs Day.

A total of 1,01,000 people will perform hajj from Bangladesh this year. Of them, 10,000 pilgrims will perform hajj under government management while the rest under private management, Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) president Md Ibrahim Bahar informed this…

Unidentified miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a police vehicle at Zero Point at Satmatha in the district town on Thursday evening. Faizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the miscreants tossed the petrol bomb at the vehicle around…

Customs department officials seized over 21-kg of gold in two separate incidents at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital last night. Customs and police sources said a security guard of Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB), Saiful Islam, was arrested…

Unidentified miscreants vandalised a Shaheed Minar on the compound of Mahendrapur High School in Kurmarkhali upazila early Friday, a day after damaging another Shaheed Minar in the same upazila.

Former Bangladesh Bank Governor Mohammad Farashuddin will enjoy the status of a judge of the Appellate Division as head of the Pay and Services Commission. A government circular stated that he had been appointed on a six-month contract.

The ruling Awami League has expelled its three local leaders for contesting the upazila polls in Sharsha, Jhikargachha and Bagharpara of Jessore district going against the party decision and also seven other leaders for supporting them.

Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday formally handed over the prestigious Ekushey Padak to fifteen eminent citizens at a ceremony at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital. These distinguished persons have been selected for the Ekushey Padak 2014…

A Dhaka court on Tuesday recorded the depositions of an elder brother of slain Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed in the case filed in connection with the murder. Abdullah Al Mamun brother of the victim testified before the Fourth Speedy…

Police arrested one person for his alleged attempt to kidnap a student of Rajshahi University (RU) on Monday noon.

Gold trader Mridul Chowdhury has been found alive in Comilla district, six days after he was kidnapped from Chittagong on Feb 11. “We came to know about it from his family,” said SI Md Kamruzzaman of Chittagong’s Kotwali Police Station.…