Six officials of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) including students affairs advisor Prof Dr Md Zahirul Haque Khandoker and proctor Prof Dr Md Harun-ur-Rashid on Sunday resigned from their posts as a part of their protest against Vice-Chancellor’s alleged involvement in sexual…
A schoolboy was killed and two others injured in a road accident on the Rupsha Khan Jahan Ali Bridge of the city on Monday morning.
A trial court has ordered death sentence for seven accused for the murder of Swechhasebak League leader Manir Uddin Manu. In its verdict on Monday, Dhaka’s Fourth Speedy Trial Tribunal found eight people guilty of the 2006 murder in the…
Police recovered the floating body of Railways Minister Md Mazibul Hoque’s elder brother from Dhanmondi Lake in the city on Sunday morning. Family members said the deceased, ABM Abdul Latif, also a former additional secretary, went out of their Dhanmondi…
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight escaped a serious accident following ignition of fire in the plane’s cockpit on Saturday night. The flight BG085 of Boeing 777-300 which took off from Singapore and was scheduled to land at the Shahjalal Airport…
Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) and Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu inaugurated road carpeting works at a ceremony at Kamal Kachhna area in the city on Friday afternoon.
The government has distributed 100 bundle CI sheet and Taka three lakh among the 100 river eroded and poor families of Sadar upazila of the district on Friday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested 21 people including eight women and three children while going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Friday night.
A drug addict youth was rescued from a container while it was being unloaded at Mongla port on Thursday night.
The man suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings A320 plane in the French Alps required treatment for depression, German media say. Regular assessments were recommended in Andreas Lubitz’s official notes after a serious episode some years ago. The Barcelona-Duesseldorf plane…
A woman was killed and seven others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Mymensing highway at Salna on Thursday morning.
Shooter Samedur Rahman alias Mithu Biswas, the younger brother of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, was released early Thursday, hours after he was picked up by people masquerading as detectives.
By Sally Hayden A search and rescue operation is continuing in the French Alps, as officials attempt to understand exactly what caused Tuesday’s plane crash tragedy that is thought to have killed 150 people. An Airbus A320 aircraft crashed in…
In accordance with national population census, the total population of Gaibandha district is 23,79,255 — 11, 69, 127 males and 12, 10, 128 females-, BBS sources said here on Tuesday.
The 27th meeting of Town Level Coordination Committee (TLCC) of Faridpur pourashava was held yesterday at Ambica Memorial Hall.
Some 45 poor and distressed women were imparted skill development training for improving their living and livelihood training through income-generating activities.
Daring dacoity was committed in 2 houses in the village Garibpur under Chitalmari Upazila in the district on Friday at night, according to a report received here.
A young man died at Jessore Medical College Hospital on Saturday night after he was wounded critically in a road mishap at Bakulia under Kaligonj upazila in Jhenidah.
Four people, who sustained burn injuries in separate petrol bomb attacks in Magura and Chandpur districts, died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Sunday. Sources at Dhaka Medical College Hospital said three people, who suffered…
An Awami League leader was injured as miscreants hurled crude bombs at the ruling party’s office on the KDA Avenue of the city on Saturday night, the 75th day of the non-stop nationwide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Most of the growers have become happy over expected yield of lentil as they cultivated high yielding varieties of the cereal crop in the region including the vast barind tract this year.
Six people were killed in a road accident in Bakey More area on the Mymensingh-Tangail Highway under Muktagacha upazila of the district this morning. The deceased were identified as Alal Uddin, 40, Samir Ali, 35, of Rampur village, Akbar Ali,…
Two people were killed in separate incidents in Pagla and Jalkuri areas of the city on Saturday.
Construction work of much awaited Fire Service and Civil Defense Station (FSCDS) has begun at Shaghata upazila headquarters in the district on Friday amid much enthusiasm to the locals.
Mayor of Rangpur City and valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu launched construction works of a drainage system in Gomostapara area in the city this afternoon.
In terms of the existing social and family structure, maximum five percent parents, particularly the mothers, share the adolescence related changed issues with their teenage sons and daughters that lead slash negative physical, emotional and social consequences for young people.
Speakers here at a workshop here have stressed for ensuring time- befitting quality education for building an enlightened society, ideal and dignified nation to make Independence meaningful for every citizen.
Members of the country’s biggest volunteer organisation of Ansar-VDP have been accelerating national development for building a middle income Bangladesh, speakers said here on Thursday afternoon.
Due to favourable weather potato production in the district has exceeded the production target in the current Robi season.
The farmers have cultivated Boro in 2.5 percent more land in the district this season then the target fixed by the Department of Agriculture Extension.